EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 6.2.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
disciplines, like biology, hydrology, land use sciences or planning, but it has to be
harmonized with each other, and significant gaps have to be filled.
The project focuses on Investigation areas (AI) in the western Ukraine (Capathians).
However, adjacent areas in Slovakia (Poloniny NP; EU status) will be targeted by close
scientific co-operation, as well as areas in Germany. Doing so, a transect over Europe is
spanned out, reaching from areas being under EU policies since more than 30 years, over an
area being only part of the EU very recently, to the adjacent model areas in the Ukraine.
While in Germany an aggregation of experience is in the foreground, in the Ukraine new
approaches on basis of research data are needed. Poloniny NP / Slovakia lies in between,
and research is there needed as well as new political and planning concepts.
KEY ISSUES
Sustainable development
Ecosystem services and functions
KEY QUESTIONS
How can ESS/ESF be analysed on regional level?
Which interactions and feedback mechanisms exist between different ecosystem services
(ESS) and between them and substantial land use systems?
Which trade-offs and synergy effects of ESS and ecosystems functions (ESF) exist between
different spatial and temporal scale levels?
Which monetary or non-monetary evaluation schemes are suitable to allow to quantify ESS
and ESF (ecosystem functions) to incorporate such value into market mechanisms?
Which socio-economic frame conditions and which mechanisms/instruments allow the
integration of ESF/ESS into decisions on land use?
INVESTIGATION AREAS
Country Name Location
Germany AR BR Rhoen, Central Germany
Bavarian part
AR BR Swabian Southern Germany
Alb
Slovakia AR Poloniny NP Eastern SK
Ukraine AI Carpathian BR Western UA
AI Carpathian NP Western UA
TRANSFER TO PRACTISE
Is done by two independent approaches:
1. Management plans
2. Interreg IV A and ENPI projects
2