Climate change and protection: Recent experiences within planning of the area of cultural and natural heritage

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to provide an insight into the current legal and other regulatory frameworks that introduces problems of climate change into planning practice of natural and cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the situation in the Republic of Serbia. Further, an overview of the selected case studies of natural and cultural heritage from the UNESCO World Heritage List for which were done studies of the impacts of climate change is included. The results indicate that the legal frameworks as well as actual practice are promoting the development of the ecological networks (the network of areas NATURA 2000) and landscape protection. This applies also to the planning practice in Serbia, where the planning of ecological corridors, habitat networking and other measures, provide responses to climate change. One of the conclusions of this paper is pointing out the necessity of increasing the level of protection of natural and cultural heritage within preserving the authenticity and improving flexibility or adaptability to climate change.

Rad ima za cilj da pruži uvid u aktuelne zakonske i druge regulativne okvire, kojima se problematika klimatskih promena uvodi u praksu planiranja prirodnog i kulturnog nasleđa, sa posebnim osvrtom na stanje u Republici Srbiji. Uporedo sa ovim, dat je i osvrt na primere prirodnog i kulturnog nasleđa sa UNESKO Liste svetskog nasleđa za koje su rađene studije uticaja klimatskih promena i predviđene mere zaštite. Rezultati ukazuju da se u zakonskim okvirima, kao i u aktuelnoj praksi, promoviše razvoj ekoloških mreža (mreža prostora NATURA 2000) i zaštita predela. To se odnosi i na praksu planiranja u Srbiji, gde se planiranjem ekoloških koridora, umrežavanjem staništa i drugim merama daju odgovori na klimatske promene. Jedan od zaključaka rada je ukazivanje na neophodnost povećanja stepena zaštite prirodnog i kulturnog nasleđa uz očuvanje autentičnosti i unapređenje adaptibilnosti ili prilagodljivosti na klimatske promene.