Parks, Policies and People : Nature Conservation Governance in Post-Socialist EU Countries

This thesis explores key challenges and opportunities for nature conservation policy and practices at the local level in a context of postsocialist legacies and Europeanization to further understand the ongoing governance changes in Central Eastern Europe. Multi-level governance, Europeanization, and post-socialist studies are used as theoretical vehicles for the analysis of four transboundary national parks: Pieninsky national parks (NP) in both Poland and Slovakia and Bieszczady NP [Poland] an