Large-scale protected areas as instruments for transborder cooperation? Irottko-Geschriebenstein Nature Park - a case study

Az Irottko-Geschriebenstein Naturpark esettanulmanyon keresztul - amely az osztrak-magyar hataron terul el - megvalaszoljuk, hogy a hataron atnyulo vedett teruletek milyen mertekben alkalmasak regionalis fejlesztesre. A cikk elejen a vedett teruletek koncepcioit es lehetseges megkozeliteseit mutatjuk be a hataron atnyulo osszefuggesben. Nemzetkozi osszehasonlitasban is elemezzuk a hataron atnyulo vedett teruletek fejlodestortenetet, valamint kulonleges helyzetuket a Vasfuggony "kelet- nyugati" hatara menten. Az Irottko-Geschriebenstein Naturpark peldajan a regionalis kormanyzas szemleletebol elemezzuk a hataron atnyulo kooperacio lehetosegeit es korlatait, az Europai Teruleti Egyuttmukodes keretei kozott tamogatott projektben. Megemlitjuk, hogy a hataron atnyulo egyuttmukodes tartalmi osszefuggeseben - mint peldaul a turizmusban - sok egysege jott letre az egyuttmukodesnek. Szinten fontos a kommunikacios es kooperacios felteteleket erositeni a ketoldalu, hataron atnyulo egyuttmukodesben. Az EU-s programok burokraciaja, valamint egyes sikeres modellek kiterjeszthetosegenek hianya a regionalis fejlesztesben es egyuttmukodesben tovabbra is akadalyokat jelent.//Transboundary Protected Areas can offer a bunch of opportunities for regional development in border regions. The border areas of the case study which is nalysed in this paper have gradually come to be considered as spaces relatively open to at least some sort of new forms of use. The Austro-Hungarian border region of Irottk0-Geschriebenstein, the easternmost transboundary segment of the Alpine area, represents such a potential space that has been designated for rapprochement in the context of regional policies of the European Union. The analysis in this article is mainly about a discussion of expectations and claims that those kinds of protected areas tend to prompt in the region. The further analysis of the case study Irottko-Geschriebenstein Nature Park is based on discussions around this topic held at the international level and complemented by a commentary on the results of a project carried out in this nature park within the framework of EU-regional policies. The case of this Transborder Protected Area at the interface of two contrary political systems serves to illustrate the following points: Firstly, how cross border cooperation and regional development progress in the context of regional governance as the policy principle. Secondly, which prerequisites need to be met in order to manage cooperat