Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania

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• 作者：Jan Knorn^a ; ^{jan.knorn@geo.hu-berlin.de} ; Tobias Kuemmerle^a ; Volker C. Radeloff^b ; ^{radeloff@wisc.edu} ; Alina Szabo^c ; ^{alina_eva@yahoo.co.uk} ; Marcel Mindrescu^d ; ^{marcel.mindrescu@gmail.com} ; William S. Keeton^e ; ^{wkeeton@uvm.edu} ; Ioan Abrudan^f ; ^{abrudan@unitbv.ro} ; Patrick Griffiths^a ; ^{patrick.griffiths@geo.hu-berlin.de} ; Vladimir Gancz^g ; ^{vlad.gancz@icas.ro} ; Patrick Hostert^a ; ^{patrick.hostert@geo.hu-berlin.de}
• 关键词：Protected area ; Effectiveness ; Collapse of socialism ; Forest restitution ; Illegal logging ; Deforestation ; Remote sensing ; Landsat ; Central and Eastern Europe ; Romania
• 刊名：Biological Conservation
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：13_00063207
• 类别：env
• 出版时间：February, 2012
• 卷：146
• 期：1
• 页码：204-212
• 文件大小：1787 K

摘要

The effectiveness of protected areas can diminish during times of pronounced socio-economic and institutional change. Our goals were to assess the effectiveness of Romanian protected areas at stemming unsanctioned logging, and to assess post-socialist logging in their surrounding landscapes, during a time of massive socio-economic and institutional change. Our results suggest that forest cover remained fairly stable shortly before and after 1990, but forest disturbance rates increased sharply in two waves after 1995 and 2005. We found substantial disturbances inside protected areas, even within core reserve areas. Moreover, disturbances in the matrix surrounding protected areas were even lower than inside protected area boundaries. We suggest that these rates are largely the result of high logging rates, triggered by rapid ownership and institutional changes. These trends compromise the goals of Romania鈥檚 protected area network, lead to an increasing loss of forest habitat, and more isolated and more fragmented protected areas. The effectiveness of Romania鈥檚 protected area network in terms of its ability to safeguard biodiversity is therefore most likely decreasing.