Elbakidze, Marine and Angelstam, Per
(2007).
Implementing sustainable forest management in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains: the role of traditional village systems.
Forest ecology and management. 249
:1-2
, 28-38
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Abstract
Maintenance of socio-cultural values and biodiversity at local and regional levels are new impor-tant additional criteria for the implementation of sustainable forest management. Ukraine’s forest sector is in transition from planned socialist to market economy. We evaluated the role of the tradi-tional village system, which was successful for centuries for achieving both common economic as well as these new dimensions of sustainable forest management in Ukraine’s Carpathian Moun-tains.We used the Skole district as a case study that represents one of the most forested areas in Ukraine, and an integral part of Boiko people’s ethnographic area. The village is a traditional so-cial–ecological system defined by the traditional land use of pre-industrial cultural landscapes, and a spatial structure with land use zones satisfying different needs. Using documents on regional en-vironmental history, analysis of socio-economic statistics, and interviews with local land users, we evaluated the extent to which the traditional village system supports socio-cultural dimensions of sustainable forest management. Our review of environmental history indicates that after different phases of cultural landscape development during several 100 years, the traditional village system is still a basic unit of the Skole district’s forest landscapes. However, data and interviews show that the traditional village system is endangered. Making use of the total economic value of forest land-scape resources, including wood and non-wood products and services based on cultural values and biodiversity, is an urgent task. Support of traditional village socio-cultural functions and land use systems including fields, wooded grasslands and forests should be milestones in a regional program of sustainable forest management. Traditional village system zoning and land use systems would be good indicators of sustainable forest landscapes.
Authors/Creators: | Elbakidze, Marine and Angelstam, Per |
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Title: | Implementing sustainable forest management in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains: the role of traditional village systems |
Series Name/Journal: | Forest ecology and management |
Year of publishing : | 2007 |
Volume: | 249 |
Number: | 1-2 |
Page range: | 28-38 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0378-1127 |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Journal article |
Refereed: | Yes |
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed |
Version: | Accepted version |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 5 Social Sciences > 507 Social and Economic Geography > Human Geography (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 6 Humanities > 605 Other Humanities > Cultural Studies |
Keywords: | forest and woodland landscape, social and cultural sustainability, rural development, traditional land use, cultural landscape, forest policy |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-273 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-273 |
ID Code: | 8460 |
Department: | (S) |
External funders: | Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs minnesfond and Swedish Institute |
Deposited By: | Marine Elbakidze |
Deposited On: | 23 Nov 2011 07:52 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2014 10:48 |
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