Stakeholders’ Perceptions Concerning Greek Protected Areas Governance

Sustainability

Dimitra Syrou¹  Iosif Botetzagias¹ 

[1] Department of the Environment, University of the Aegean, 81100 Mytilini, Greece;

关键词: protected areas;    governance assessment;    Q-methodology;    stakeholders;    perceptions;    Greece;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su14063389

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, we are interested in assessing the Greek protected areas’ (PAs) operation, and in particular, to what extent the stakeholders engaged in their management consider that the “good environmental governance” criteria are met. Through the use of Q-methodology, we find that, despite the very different circumstances of each PA, the stakeholders’ views cluster around four distinctive main perspectives (or factors). Furthermore, we find that stakeholders do not consider, overall, that the Greek PAs management strongly meets any of the “good environmental governance” criteria, with particularly poor assessments on crucial governance aspects such as a shared vision guiding the PA management, the rule of law, and the effectiveness/efficiency of the procedures, which suggests that the environmental governance of Greek PAs is suboptimal at least.

【 授权许可】

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