CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Sdykova, Aida Muratovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Compatibility of Selected Natural Protected Areas of Kazakhstan with the Requirements of the World Heritage Convention for the Nominated Sites |
| Summary | In 1994 Kazakhstan ratified the World Heritage Convention concerning the protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage (hereinafter – the Convention). Thereby, the state confirmed its eagerness towards implementation of new international standards of environment protection as a necessary condition for inclusion into the World Heritage (hereinafter – either WH or World Heritage) List of properties forming part of cultural and natural heritage. Today Kazakhstan has ten reserves with a total area of 1,165,552 hectares and 9 national parks with a total area of 1,456,597 hectares, and theoretically each of them can be a part of the natural heritage of the world (Babakhanova 2005). However no one site has been nominated since 1994. Preparation of the territories for nomination and further inscription into the WH List usually requires both time and changes in the traditional system of environment protection. Nowadays, there are some results from the activity of the international experts in the region and local specialists, which, however, resulted in non-nomination of the sites. Therefore, in this work it is aimed to determine the level of compatibility of the national protected territories to the World Heritage requirements by analyzing the current state of the environmental protection of these territories, including the most important aspects of legal protection, conservation management and biodiversity value. The research has no purpose to discuss if the WH nomination is good for Kazakhstan or not: the WH nomination is rather a certain criterion, which is to be reached by the state after the ratification of the Convention. The research is devoted to specially protected territories only, which correspond to IUCN Categories I and II, as the most highly protected and suitable for nomination sites. The work also includes the common overview of the national protected territories from the point of view of their potential value as the WH natural sites. The main tasks of the research are as follows: - to analyze the requirements of the World Heritage Convention - to consider the nominated territories from the main aspects, such as legal, scientific, natural and managerial - to compare the legal protection and management of the sites with those required by WH - to make a conclusion on the base of the comparative analysis - to give recommendations |
| Supervisor | Mnatsakanyan, Ruben Artemovich |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/e05sda01.pdf |
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