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Majella National Park, Abruzzo, Italy
7th – 20th September, 2008
Mission
To go deeper into the basic managing aspects concerning Nature conservation and protected areas, with special regard to the deep environmental and socio-economic changes presently taking place in the World. To facilitate the sharing of experiences and the formation of and international network of “Park managers”.
To whom it is addressed
The seminar will be two weeks long, open to 25 participants at most, and addressed preferably to those people, provided with academic degree or equivalent educational qualification, already involved in the management of protected areas, who want to go deeper into the issues and problems of the daily management of a protected area. The participants will be selected on the basis of the provenance and of the technical and professional skills, in order to grant the participation, as much as possible, to the highest number of different Countries. The official languages of the seminar will be Italian and English.
Programme
- History and development of Nature Conservation in the world
- International strategies for Nature Conservation
- Conservation, Biodiversity and Protected Areas
- Management of animal and vegetal biodiversity in situ and ex situ
- Management of agricultural biodiversity
- Urban and ecological planning tools (Park Plan)
- Socio-economic and territorial planning
- Management of historic and archaeological sites
- Acquisition and management of the financial resources
- Brand of the Park and self-financing
- Negotiation and participation
- Agreements, pacts, Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
- Benefits and promotion
- Sustainable Tourism Development Strategy, PAN Parks
- Infrastructures and facilities for visitors and visitor management.
Study cases
- Forest and biodiversity management in situ and ex situ
- Management of the Large Carnivores populations: bear and wolf
- Management of the Ungulates populations: Chamois, Red Deer, Roe Deer, Wild Boar
- Preservations and restoration of the historical and archaeological sites
- Environmental and landscape restoration
- Reintroductions, alien species, restocking.
General information
Participation fee: 1.000,00 euro.
The price includes:
- Lessons, training aid and assistance;
- Accommodation in double/triple rooms. Single rooms are available with an extra fee; Meals;
- Social events;
- Transfer from and to the Rome Fiumicino airport (dates to be established);
- Transfers during the seminar; A certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the seminar.
Technical-Scientific Committee
Prof. Bartolomeo Schirone - Department of Technologies, Engineering, Sciences of the Environment and Forests University of Tuscia
Prof. Sandro Lovari - Section of Behavioural Ecology, Ethology and Wildlife Management—Dep. of Environmental Sciences University of Siena
Dr. Nicola Cimini - Director of Majella National Park
Dr. Giorgio Boscagli - Biologist, researcher
Dr. Franco Mari - Zoologist
Teaching Staff
The lessons will be held by Teachers from the Universities of La Tuscia, Molise, and Siena. Informative speeches by Giorgio Boscagli, Dario Febbo, Matteo Fusilli, Zoltan Kun, Annabella Pace, Gabriella Reggiani, Fabio Renzi, Antonio Sorgi, Vlado Vancura, Teodoro Andrisano, Simone Angelucci, Antonio Antonucci, Lorenzo Ciampa, Marco Di Santo, Elena Liberatoscioli, Giuseppe Marcantonio, Caterina Terribile, Massimo Tudini.
Info and Registrations:
Organization office: Dr. Elena Liberatoscioli Majella National Park - Operational headquarters - Palazzo Nanni - 67030 Campo di Giove (Aq, Italy) - Tel. +39 0864 40851 - Fax +39 0864 4085350 - Website: http://www.parcomajella.it - E-mail: info@parcomajella.it
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Saturday 19th April 2008
Ex Convento delle Clarisse Congress Center, Caramanico Terme (PE)
The Symposium should be considered as a meeting of technicians and researchers, working in this field, and it has the purpose to compare the more recent experiences matured on the analysis of the phenomenon of carnivores predations and on the management of the carnivores/human activities conflict, in different national and international study areas.
Efficient management strategies require coded assessment procedures and objective, unbiased data about the analysis of damages and about the status of carnivores populations: from the comparison of experiences, even if very different from one another, about conservation strategies on protected carnivores and about the management of carnivores/livestock conflict, the Symposium could be a valid occasion of sharing technical elements on which corrected political, administrative and legal principles can be founded.
Therefore, direct interventions of politicians or managers have not been planned in the framework of the Symposium, but we will rather try to find shared technical solutions which can later be exported to the political and institutional world.
Further information may be requested to:
Scientific Secretariat: Dott. Simone Angelucci - Tel. +39.348.6729632 - E-mail: simone.angelucci@parcomajella.it
Ente Parco Nazionale della Majella - Ufficio Monitoraggio e Gestione Biodiversità: Tel. +39.0864.40851 – Fax +39.0864.4085350
Organizing Secretariat: Soc. Coop. Majambiente - Tel. +39.085.922343 – +39.334.6668012 - www.majambiente.it - www.casadellupo.it - E-mail: majambiente@tin.it
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Members of the Steering Group during the 1° international meeting
(ph. A. Di Lorenzo)
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 Born inside an European initiative called GRISI (Geomatic Regional Information Society Initiative), in which Abruzzi Region participates, the GISST subproject final intention, whose acronym means "WebGIS for Sustainable Tourism", is to supply visitors, who are planning to spend their holiday or a day-off enjoying with nature and culture, with a mean for browsing touristic information looking effective and modern thanks to online maps. In this way touristic information will be accessible by everyone who has an internet connection and can use a common internet browser, technologies which nowadays have a very large diffusion. The entire system will be realized integrating all existing geographical data interesting for visitors, held by GISST partners, in one single geo-database. The subproject, whose total economic value is 114 thousand euros, proposed and lead by Majella National Park, was co-financed with Interreg III C South Zone funds. GISST is one of the five project selected inside GRISI between all the European proposals received. Another important objective, is to create a co-operation network between the partners, Majella (Italy), the Regional Tourism Committee of the Midi-Pyrénées (France) and the Bértiz Natural Park (Navarre – Spain), for the diffusion and use of new technologies supporting the management of sustainable tourism.
Just in one year of activity, 2007, the subproject has achieved the following results:
- a website entirely dedicated to the subproject available at www.gisst.eu
- partners' tourist and base cartographical data collecting and geotag
- a metadata catalog, ISO19115 standard and INSPIRE compliant, available through the GRISI geoportal implemented by Abruzzi Region
- a geoportal available at www.parcomajella.it/mappe and www.gisst.eu, implemented with standard technologies WMS compliant, which supplies online tourist maps both Park’s and his partners’ ones and other geographical services coming soon, for example the downloading of some GPS data
- development and supplying of WMS services.
Besides, there were successfully organized 2 international meetings in the Majella National Park with the attendance of all the partners and other interested subjects, the first in May and the other in October; it was an important opportunity for learning and sharing experiences. At the training day in Caramanico Terme during the first meeting, Simone Di Zio (University “G. D’Annunzio” Pescara – Faculty of Management Science) and Maurizio Fea (Remote Sensing specialist who worked for decades at ESA - European Space Agency) were involved as teachers, and for the Majella the GIS specialists Elena Liberatoscioli and Alessio Di Lorenzo. 4000 copies of a promotional brochure were printed and distributed, other than a poster and a booklet about GISST and geomatics. But more: GISST was promoted also through national and international websites and it was introduced in various conferences and thematic events as an example of geomatics applied to the knowledge and the promotion of the territory. Besides there were involved other universities (degree course of SIT – IUAV in Venice and the Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg in Germany) thanks to the stage and the final work of their students who worked on data collecting and in the development of a demo of the final WebGIS product.
The creation of a geoportal that provides thematic cartographies, which are consultable online, responds very well to the requirements of the three GISST partners, for their common characteristics and for the technology they have chosen and have been using for some time. In fact, for their morphological nature, it foresees great distances between traditional information point, distance that we can overcome thanks to information technologies. In the particular case of the Maiella National Park, which is the proponent and leader of the subproject, these requirements represent the Company's natural evolution of the territorial information system which is organized in hundreds of informative layers that are useful support instruments for all its activities. The subproject gives also the opportunity to test GIS open source solutions which will return to the partners all the advantages linked to this kind of softwares.
Learn more on www.gisst.eu
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