National regulatory model of biodiversity policy - GREECE
Series: Scale sensitivity and scale effectiveness of governance in biodiversity conservation
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sofia, Bulgaria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9789546427304
Copyright date: This work is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
First sentence: Greece is characterized as a biodiversity «hot spot» region by the European Environment Agency (EEA), with more that 1.500 endemic species and more than 70% habitat loss in his-torical times (EEA, 2007) hosting a notable biodiversity, while its flora and diversity in certain animal groups (e.g. birds, reptiles, terrestrial mollusks, isopods) is amongst the highest in Europe and the Mediterranean (e.g. Legakis et al., 2006; Strid and Tan, 1997; Strid, 2006)1. However, several human activities negatively affecting nature conservation in Greece have been recorded
Description: This report has been produced as a part of SCALES WP4 (deliverable D4.2 including five national policy reports and a summary) from 2009 to 2011.
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