Biosphere Reserves Institute

The aim of the project is the development and improvement of methods for the collection, processing and distribution of information on the status of biodiversity in protected areas and of methods for measuring, evaluating and predicting the status and strength of the influence of socio-economic factors on biodiversity.

The HNEE work package focusses on social science issues and monitoring methods. It is planned to carry out research on selected nature experience offers and their perception by visitors in large protected areas of the Pomerania Euroregion. These will be compared with the existing strategies of the protected area administrations. The aim is to determine the extent to which visitors "take away" what the protected area administrations want to convey. In addition, quantitative data on visitor numbers to the specific nature experience offers will be included.

Measures

• Development of a set of monitoring procedures for protected areas that take into account the above-mentioned elements
• Development of a new monitoring method on intentions, perceptions and learning effects against the background of representative nature experience offers of the protected areas, supplemented by visitor counts.
• Public relations work, information and awareness raising for the topic
• Creation of a handbook for the practical implementation and utilisation of the results in the protected areas.

Funding information

The project "MoPa - Monitoring for protected areas with a special focus on biodiversity and sustainable development of the areas" (INT0100028) is funded by the INTERREG VI A programme Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Brandenburg/Polska in the specific objective P2_2.7 - P2_2.7 "Nature conservation and biodiversity".

Further information can be found (in German only) on the universitys' project page.

Photo: N. Ebert (HNEE)

Photo: N. Ebert (HNEE)

Photo: N. Ebert (HNEE)