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The role of natural resources in sustainable rural livelihoods in the western Balkans. The distribution and flow of costs and benefits
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Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania
Albania
Center for Rural Research
Norway
KORA
Switzerland
Short description of project
This project aims to explore the past, present and future uses of natural resources in the rural communities of the western Balkans with the objective of exploring their future potential as a foundation for achieving sustainable rural development. The project will mainly focus on the mountain villages in the three country border region of Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo, with a contrasting sample of Croatian villages included to examine the impact of EU-approximation. We shall examine the way in which agriculture, forestry, wildlife, livestock grazing and rural- / eco-tourism play a part in rural life, focusing both on the material/economic and the socio/cultural importance of the activities. The role of institutional factors and norms as obstacles or facilitators of sustainable use will be given particular focus. The results will be placed within the context of the changing national policy frameworks as the region achieves ever greater integration into European political structures with particular focus on potential conflicts between different policy instruments from different sectors and incompatibilities between multiple uses. In addition, building local capacity in applied social science research and regional cooperation between research groups will be important benefits, as well as continuing existing cooperations between Norway and regional partners.
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The project’s focus is explicitly on exploring issues related to sustainable economic development – in our case by looking at rural communities’ past, present, and potential use of local natural resources. These are the resources that have the greatest potential for being sustainable used seeing as they are based on biological production systems (grazing, hunting, other non-timber forest products) and non-consumptive use (eco and rural tourism). As well as exploring rural people’s use, and perceptions of potential use, we will directly explore their experience of institutional aspects that facilitate or inhibit their activities. Issues such as scale will be central – i.e. what is the spatial distribution of costs and benefits within the present legal and institutional structures. This will be supported by a comparative summary of the existing formal and informal regulations governing resource access. Corruption and illegal activity will be included in these explorations.
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