May 27, 2009 - First group meeting WG 01

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• date: May 27, 2009
• notestaker: Slavica Cepic
• moderators: Sabrina Meichsner and Kathrin Drünkler
• participants: Radmila Mircetic, Lilita Lazdāne, Oana Baloi, Marius Dobre, Catalina Olariu, Nisreen Ajlouni

Presentation of Case Studies (Tour de Table)

Every group presented its case study and what they intend to do.

1. Slavica Cepic, Radmila Mircetic and Dragana Romic: Golija - Studenica, Serbia.

• Development of eco tourism in Biosphere Reserve
• sustainable ecotourism
• link nature, culture and community.

for more information on this case study: Golija-Studenica

2. Lilita Lazdāne, Jūlija Artemjeva, Madara Bērziņa and Ieva Lukša: Kemeri National Park, Latvia.

• Landscape development
• management in tourism
• participation of people
• wetlands, dunes, meadows are landscape elements
• unique landscape and diversity.

for more information on this case study: Landscape development in Kemeri National Park

3. Oana Baloi: Salvati Rosia Montana, Romania.

• Mining area
• geology and architecture are treasures
• mining area will destroy all the heritage, settlements, cultural monuments
• rural landscape should be protected
• search for other ways of development of the area that wouldn` t deteriote the environment.

for more information on this case study: Rosia Montana

4. Marius Dobre and Catalina Olariu: The land of Buzau, Romania.

• Geopark
• protected area
• the idea is to work on strategies of harmonious development of the area (infrastructure, tourism, nature protection).

for more information on this case study: The Land of Buzau

5. Nisreen Ajlouni: Cultural Landscape Conservation in Hebron, Palestine.

• Ecotourism and cultural landscape conservation.

for more information on this case study: Cultural Landscape Conservation in Hebron

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Finding cross-cutting themes

Then participants put cards with the core themes they would like to cope with in their case studies.

Core themes (suggested)

The core themes are clustered in groups:

• CONSERVATION (of cultural landscape)
• MANAGEMENT (related to tourism, infrastructure, etc.),
• PARTICIPATION (of local communities).

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