TRANSNATURE

TRANSNATURE studies the transboundary governance of biodiversity, with a particular attention to the following issues: 1) the extent to which transboundary conservation areas involve different types of managing authorities and stakeholders; 2) the extent to which the stratification of different governance mechanisms in the same natural areas, such as World Heritage sites, European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs), national management authorities, subnational authorities and indigenous and community conserved areas, trigger processes that strengthen biodiversity conservation, as well as the presence of cooperation and conflict resoution mechanisms; and 3) the extent to which transboundary conservation areas contribute to stop ecological degradation by improving the prevention of both cross-border pollution and transnational wildlife crime in the EU. It will do so by comparing results of desk research and interviews in five case studies: (1) ZASNET EGTC and transboundary biosphere reserve Meseta Ibérica (Spain/Portugal); (2) Julian Alps: Prealpi Giulie and Triglav parks (Italy/Slovenia); (3) the Scheldt Estuary (Netherlands/Belgium); (4) Baltic to Barents (Finland/Sweden/Norway).