ABOUT ECOLOGICAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The idea of ecological network is a present view of the nature protection science and practice on "technology" of nature conservation. It starts and bases on the conception of biocentric-network landscape-territorial structure. The ecological network is a key element of practical introduction of an ecological paradigm of nature management. It can be formed as conservation of a natural carcass of the territory. On the national, regional and local levels "nucleuses" of eco-network are the nature protected areas of local importance that provide with a structural organization of the national, regional and local schemes of the ecological network. The structural elements of the eco-network are the territories that differ with functions. The key, connecting, buffer and restorative territories belong to the structural elements of the eco-networks. When practically introducing the idea of the eco-network some problems appear, first of all management one. The peculiarities of eco-network management, it should be noted, are first of all that we deal with objects of high complexity, which are the natural complexes (landscapes) that make it up. This predetermines the necessity to take into account the complex course of the processes of landscape self-organization, the open nature of these ecosystems, their functioning, dynamics, etc. Complicated and undecided task is to establish a mechanism of eco-network management, which is a theoretical construction for the present time. The problem of the eco-network management can be considered in two aspects: functional and structural. The author analyses the possibilities of solution of this issue and proposes the scheme and some aspects of carrying out management process at forming, restoration and use of ecological network.