UPRAVLJANJE KULTURNIM RESURSIMA KRŠKIH KRAJOLIKA
MANAGING THE CULTURAL RESOURCES OF KARST LANDSCAPES

Summary/Abstract: Making use of recent changes in understanding heritage and the tenets of its protection, the paper attempts to define the fundamental assets that are worth protecting and adequate development management. In karstic cultural landscapes, clear spatial and building values are characteristic of dry stone walls, structures of historical economic landscapes which over time earned a reputation as typical landscape and identity features. In managing dry stone walls, architecture must follow the process values of economy, history, and the abiotic and biotic conditioning of the human environment. Their most successful forms of protection also enhance the pre-conditons for survival and the development process, which is why economic initiatives for sustainable and environmentally responsible agriculture are of major significance alongside the evaluation and recording of cultural landscapes. Determining national regulations based on a wide spectrum of measures tailors the success of managing integrated European cultivated landscapes among which organically evolved dry stone wall landscapes occupy a prominent place. In these conditions, the karst with its varieties and breeds of domesticated plants and animals, is an important testimony to the adaptive potential of life and its effects on space.

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