stakeholders needs different services and should be involved at different stages of
the adaption process. Hence, it is essential to tailor recommendations to the needs of
the different stakeholders and make their roles in the process explicit.
In organising professional and effective stakeholder involvement special qualifications and competences are required. External expertise and support from mediators may help to organise the participation process and to overcome deadlocked
conflicts. The process of stakeholder involvement is time-consuming and should be
started early in the adaptation process.
10.6.6 Working Step: Development of Monitoring Concept
Effective management requires permanent control and evaluation of implemented
measures and their impacts. Sustainable resource allocation is only possible if
management effectiveness is frequently monitored. Monitoring concepts have to
cover indicators for the evaluation of management effectiveness but also indicators
to track status changes in important natural resources like species, habitats, biotic
and abiotic conditions. Status indicators should be standardised on regional and
national levels to allow tracking of changes across a wider region. Developing a
monitoring concept should include a concept for data management and for data
exchange and storage, in order that monitoring data can be used and evaluated by
different scientific or conservation institutions and at local, regional or national
levels. Systematic monitoring is the basis for the identification of local effects of
climate change, but it is also essential for the obligatory review and revision of
management practices in the concept of Adaptive Management.
All monitoring activities should be coordinated with regional and national institutions and monitoring tasks should be shared according to the resources and
competences of the institutions involved. Protected areas cannot carry out complete
climate change monitoring on their own. External support and delegation of monitoring tasks is essential. Monitoring directed and implemented by protected area staff
should focus on measuring effectiveness and impact of management activities.
10.6.7 Working Step: Definition of Adapted Management
Strategies and Measures
Management activities that are adapted to climate change are based on management
strategies and measures aiming to obtain a favourable conservation status under
current climatic conditions. Experience from HABIT-CHANGE shows that most
current management measures are expected to be effective even under changing
climate, but they have to be supported by additional measures or slightly modified
(for example by changing the intensity, frequency or timing of measures). The most
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the adaption process. Hence, it is essential to tailor recommendations to the needs of
the different stakeholders and make their roles in the process explicit.
In organising professional and effective stakeholder involvement special qualifications and competences are required. External expertise and support from mediators may help to organise the participation process and to overcome deadlocked
conflicts. The process of stakeholder involvement is time-consuming and should be
started early in the adaptation process.
10.6.6 Working Step: Development of Monitoring Concept
Effective management requires permanent control and evaluation of implemented
measures and their impacts. Sustainable resource allocation is only possible if
management effectiveness is frequently monitored. Monitoring concepts have to
cover indicators for the evaluation of management effectiveness but also indicators
to track status changes in important natural resources like species, habitats, biotic
and abiotic conditions. Status indicators should be standardised on regional and
national levels to allow tracking of changes across a wider region. Developing a
monitoring concept should include a concept for data management and for data
exchange and storage, in order that monitoring data can be used and evaluated by
different scientific or conservation institutions and at local, regional or national
levels. Systematic monitoring is the basis for the identification of local effects of
climate change, but it is also essential for the obligatory review and revision of
management practices in the concept of Adaptive Management.
All monitoring activities should be coordinated with regional and national institutions and monitoring tasks should be shared according to the resources and
competences of the institutions involved. Protected areas cannot carry out complete
climate change monitoring on their own. External support and delegation of monitoring tasks is essential. Monitoring directed and implemented by protected area staff
should focus on measuring effectiveness and impact of management activities.
10.6.7 Working Step: Definition of Adapted Management
Strategies and Measures
Management activities that are adapted to climate change are based on management
strategies and measures aiming to obtain a favourable conservation status under
current climatic conditions. Experience from HABIT-CHANGE shows that most
current management measures are expected to be effective even under changing
climate, but they have to be supported by additional measures or slightly modified
(for example by changing the intensity, frequency or timing of measures). The most
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