Lietuvos Respublikos saugomų teritorijų valdymas

Abstract

Very often the natural landscape is being ruined, changed, cultured or even a new cultured landscape is being created because of human activity. Therefore, less and less areas are left where natural processes take place. With such a situation, it is necessary to preserve areas rich in objects valuable for science and culture. Protected areas are areas where land and (or) water areas have defined clear boundaries and which have accepted scientific, ecological, cultural and other values and when special protection and use regime (order) is established by legal acts. One of the main tasks of the environment protection management is to strengthen the administrative abilities of the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania, the State Service of Protected Areas and the Head Offices of Protected Areas to implement the nature protection policy and directions with reference to EU directions and international conventions. The object of the research. Protected areas within the Republic of Lithuania. The subject of the research. Management peculiarities, management system, positive and negative management characteristics, problems and the ways of their solution of the protected areas within the Republic of Lithuania. The hypothesis of the research. It is important to create such management system, which should preserve the territorial complexes and objects of nature and culture heritage, biological variety of the landscape. The balance of the landscape and the balanced recreation and use of natural resources should be ensured and the conditions for the cognitive tourism, scientific researches and monitoring should be created. The aim of the research. To carry out the analysis of the management of the protected areas within the Republic of Lithuania. Tasks to be solved are as follows: 1. To analyse the present situation and importance of the protected areas, ecosystems and biological variety; 2. To analyse functions and the system of the institutions of the Lithuanian protected areas; 3. To evaluate positive and negative characteristics of the management of the protected areas; 4. To present suggestions for the optimisation of the management of protected areas. Research methods. Analytical, statistical, logical analysis and graphic depiction methods were used for the research. The data gathered while the research work is presented in the text, tables, figures. Tables and figures are presented in order to show the dynamics of functional dependence as well as the character of the change of absolute and relative values of the process.