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Nature Conservation 3/2013 — 9. 8. 2013 — Nature and Landscape Management — Print article in pdf
Pešout P. & Štěrba P.: Standards in Nature and Landscape Management
Standards in nature and landscape management are a recommendation setting parameters of outputs and technical description for the individual measures commonly implemented in the field during nature and landscape management incl. used material and product characters and definitions of terms.
In the Czech Republic, they are a new tool which should contribute to improvement in activities carried out, to ensure comparability of the outputs of such activities and to streamlining terms used in communication among designers, suppliers, customers/buyers, authorities, technical/expert bodies and state/public administration authorities. At present, six thematic series of standards, in which the individual standards are in more details elaborated, have been proposed. They are as follows: A – Arboritical Standards; B – Water in the Landscape; C – Territorial System of Ecological Stability (of the Landscape) and Landscape Elements; D – Selected Terrestrial Habitat Management; E – Species Protection Special Measures; F – Infrastructure for Visitors. In total, there are more than 50 individual standards. Developing the standards started in 2010 and will be continuing up to at least the end of 2015. At the same time, standards are supposed to be continuously updated, using feedbacks from practice, use and experience having been raised meantime. Developing the standards has six basic fixed stages: (i) Starting the development of a standard; (ii) Development of the standards content; (iii) Comments by experts; (iv) Reviewing the standard; (v) Approval of the standard; (vi) Publishing the standard. In the future, the seventh phase will be updating the standard. Although the authors team consists only 3–10 members from different bodies, the whole process of developing a standard is an open platform: a wide range of specialists can be involving, commenting the standards, particularly at the stage (iiii) or providing their experience and lessons learnt from the field.