Hi Aleksandra,

You may find useful the IUCN "Guidelines for applying protected area management categories including IUCN WCPA best practice guidance on recognising protected areas and assigning management categories and governance types".

You can freely download it from:

https://portals.iucn.org/library/efiles/documents/PAG-021.pdf

”to compare the greek nature protection system to the European one”

well, the Greek system is also an European one...

P.S. or by ”European one” do You mean something else... (like - let's say - Western European one)?

Of course I know that the greek one is also an european :) but f.ex. in Poland not all areas we established as a national park are in the same category in IUCN meaning. And me and my student were wondering how f.ex. one can use the category - if I remember properly - "protected forest" for the needs of tourism and what that area exactly means for nature protection system in Greece. Thanks Kostas, we will check this guidelines :) Maybe You know some more detailed source of information about Yout nature protection system?

hi Aleksandra,

You may try:

http://www.greeklawdigest.gr/topics/environment/item/95-natural-environment

http://www.greeklawdigest.gr/topics/environment

and my colleagues publications like:

Tsiafouli, M. A., Apostolopoulou, E., Mazaris, A. D., Kallimanis, A. S., Drakou, E. G., & Pantis, J. D. (2013). Human Activities in Natura 2000 Sites: A Highly Diversified Conservation Network. Environmental management, 1-9.

Tsianou, M. A., Mazaris, A. D., Kallimanis, A. S., Deligioridi, P. S. K., Apostolopoulou, E., & Pantis, J. D. (2013). Identifying the criteria underlying the political decision for the prioritization of the Greek Natura 2000 conservation network. Biological Conservation, 166, 103-110.

Mazaris, A. D., Papanikolaou, A. D., Barbet-Massin, M., Kallimanis, A. S., Jiguet, F., Schmeller, D. S., & Pantis, J. D. (2013). Evaluating the Connectivity of a Protected Areas' Network under the Prism of Global Change: The Efficiency of the European Natura 2000 Network for Four Birds of Prey. PloS one, 8(3), e59640.