Unique Natural Values of the Military Training Area Záhories

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Milota Kustrová
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Military Training ◽  
National Interest ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
Animal Communities ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Area

The article presents the results of natural science research on plant and animal communities in the military training area Záhorie. Nineteen habitats of Community Interest and six habitats of National Interest have been recorded in the area. The paper underlines the importance of the existing military training areas and military activities for biodiversity conservation, and also notes the need to implement measures to rescue valuable habitats.

scholarly journals Military Training Areas as Semi Commons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginevra Balletto ◽  
Alessandra Milesi ◽  
Nicolò Fenu ◽  
Giuseppe Borruso ◽  
Luigi Mundula
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Release Process ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
The Status ◽  
Combined Action ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military

The military areas in Sardinia are around 234 km2, which constitutes 59.97% of the national surface affected by military easements. This situation is due to its geographic centrality in the Mediterranean. This contribution evaluates the performance of the Local Coastline Plan (LCP) and the Site Management Plan of Community Interest (SCI) in conditions of military constraint. The case study is the Municipality of Villaputzu where an important coastal military easement and the use of the coast for recreational tourism purposes coexist together through specific planning, a consequence of institutional agreements between the Municipal Administration of Villaputzu and the Ministry of Defense. The evaluation of the congruence of the specific objectives of the LCP and the SCI shows how their combined action favors the environmental enhancement of Sardinia, contributing to the formation of ecosystem services, even in particular conditions arising from military easements. These are sites that pass from the status of "anti-commons" to "semi-commons". In fact, the military release process in Sardinia, together with the promiscuous military and civil use, activates unique governance policies of their kind that find a significant field of application in Sardinia to guarantee a sustainable renewal of economic development of the ‘semi-commons’ awaiting to become ‘commons’

scholarly journals Military Training Areas as Semicommons: The Territorial Valorization of Quirra (Sardinia) from Easements to Ecosystem Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginevra Balletto ◽  
Alessandra Milesi ◽  
Nicolò Fenu ◽  
Giuseppe Borruso ◽  
Luigi Mundula
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Release Process ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
Combined Action ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military

The paper addresses the issue of the concurrent use of coastal areas for military training and civil activities, namely tourism. In the paper, starting from the consideration of publicly owned assets as ‘semi-commons’, we propose a method based on the comparison of planning instruments related to the different uses, and try to model them in a grid, where different weights and degrees of evaluation can be considered, in order to promote, rather than blocking, possible activities, compatible with concurrent use. The military areas in Sardinia (region and island, Italy) are around 234 km2, which constitutes 60% of the national surface affected by military easements. This situation is due to its geographic position, considered centrality in the Mediterranean for strategic reasons. This contribution evaluates the performance of the Local Coastline Plan (LCP) and the Site management plan of Community Interest (SCI) in conditions of military constraint. The case study is the municipality of Villaputzu South Sardinia, Italy), where an important coastal military easement and the use of the coast for recreational tourism purposes coexist together through specific planning, a consequence of institutional agreements between the Municipal Administration of Villaputzu and the Ministry of Defense. The idea is considering the concurrent possible land uses guaranteed by the different planning instruments, instead of focusing, as it is generally the rule, on the sum of constraints provided by the laws. The local coastline plan has been identified as the ideal planning tool, which addresses the co-existence of apparently opposite land uses and interests, as those expressed by the local municipal planning and those expressed by the military. An evaluation of the congruence of the specific objectives of the LCP and SCI shows how their combined action favors the environmental enhancement of Sardinia, contributing to the formation of ecosystem services, even in particular conditions arising from military easements. These are sites that evolve from ‘anticommons’ to ‘semicommons’. In fact, the military release process in Sardinia, together with the promiscuous military and civil use, activates unique governance policies of their kind that find a significant field of application in Sardinia to guarantee sustainable renewal of economic development of the ‘semi-commons’ awaiting to become ‘commons’.

Die Bundeswehr und die Belgischen Streitkräfte in Deutschland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Springer
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Peak Phase ◽  
East West

This study is dedicated to the regional history of the East-West conflict on the basis of the relationship between the Germany military and the Belgian armed forces stationed in Germany. The central question it addresses is which factors were largely responsible for the interdependence between actors and institutions of both armies. In addition to analysing the limited time of the peak phase of Belgian military deployment in the Federal Republic 1946–1990, the book concentrates regionally on the military training areas of Vogelsang in the Eifel and the Wahner Heide near Cologne as military contact zones. For this purpose, the author evaluates unpublished archival sources at the local level for the first time.

scholarly journals More bang for your buck: Managing the military training and environmental values of military training areas

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 100053
Author(s):  
Rick Zentelis ◽  
Paul Hubbard ◽  
David Lindenmayer ◽  
Dale Roberts ◽  
Stephen Dovers
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals The Military Training Area Ralsko and the Army

Geografie ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-330
Author(s):  
Aleš Komár
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Military Training ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Area ◽  
Landscape Protection

The article in its introduction deals with the problem of the former Military Training Area at Ralsko in the Czech Republic and its recent changes - the nature and landscape protection under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence and military administrations in the MTA, and deals with the consequences of the withdrawal of corps and discusses the damage caused by military training to the nature, soil and groundwater. In the conclusion the article evaluates the topical aspects of the area reutilisation.

scholarly journals The Military Training Area Ralsko and the Army

Geografie ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Aleš Komár
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Military Training ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Area ◽  
Landscape Protection

The article in its introduction deals with the problem of the former Military Training Area at Ralsko in the Czech Republic and its recent changes - the nature and landscape protection under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence and military administrations in the MTA, and deals with the consequences of the withdrawal of corps and discusses the damage caused by military training to the nature, soil and groundwater. In the conclusion the article evaluates the topical aspects ofthe area re-utilisation.

scholarly journals Digital Terrain Model of the Second Military Survey – Part of the Military Training Area Brdy

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 346-353
Author(s):  
Martina Vichrová ◽  
Václav Čada
Keyword(s):  
Military Training ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Ground Model ◽  
Terrain Model ◽  
Digital Terrain ◽  
Second Military Survey ◽  
Geodetic Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Area

The Second Military Survey in the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was performed between 1806 and 1869. The territory of Bohemia was surveyed from1842 to 1852 and Moravia and Silesia from 1836 to 1840. After detailed study of the Lehmann´s theory of displaying the topographic landforms using hachure’s, it was detected that the hachure’s in the maps of the Second Military Survey were created by means of the modified Lehmann´s scale. The representation of landforms in maps of the Second Military Survey was accomplished by spot heights represented mostly by points of geodetic control. The aim of this contribution is to propose and describe the methodology of creating the digital terrain model (DTM) from the Second Military Survey hypsometry and to analyse its accuracy. A part of the map sheet (W_II_11) of the Second Military Survey, representing the long-standing military training area Brdy, was chosen as a model area. The resulting DTM was compared with the recent reference digital ground model – DMR ZABAGED®. The conformity of terrain relief forms and elevation accuracy of the DTM derived from the Second Military Survey hypsometry were also investigated.

scholarly journals Delineating Conservation Areas for Cohabiting Species: An Example of Vernal Pond Conservation From Fort Stewart in Georgia, United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yicheng Wang ◽  
Hayri Önal ◽  
Sahan T. M. Dissanayake
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Gopher Tortoise ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
The Military

Military installations are valuable in global biodiversity conservation as they secure representative ecosystems from land conversion and protect many threatened or endangered species. Selecting suitable areas for biodiversity conservation within military installations is a challenging problem as this must not impede military training activities. The issue gets more complicated when considering multiple cohabiting species in a metacommunity with species dependency. In this paper, we present an example for the conservation of two cohabiting species, Gopher Tortoise (GT) and Gopher Frog (GF), located within the boundaries of a military installation, Fort Stewart, Georgia, United States. The GF depends on both locations of GT habitat (burrows) and ephemeral vernal ponds (for breeding). We develop a model that identifies the cost-efficient areas for the conservation of these two species while taking into account the dependency of GF on GT burrows. The model selects a specified number of conservation areas for the two species, where each GF conservation area covers an adequate number of vernal ponds for the GFs to accommodate their reproduction, and each GT conservation area provides adequate habitat quality to sustain a viable GT population. The model also requires each GF site to be located close to GT sites so that the GFs could find refuge after they leave the water. We use the total distance of selected sites to the main roads in the military installation as a proxy for the conservation cost. We achieve contiguity of each conservation area by selecting sites that are adjacent to a central site of the conservation area to ensure undisrupted travel for both the GFs and the GTs. Using the model, we generated alternative configurations of conservation areas that could be considered by the land managers of Fort Stewart. Our methods are general and can be applied to other reserve site selection and land management problems with cohabiting interrelated species.

Return of the Local Democracy to the Territory of the Military Training Areas (Case Study the Czech Republic)

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
Petr Klusáček ◽  
Stanislav Martinát ◽  
Tomáš Krejčí ◽  
Josef Kunc ◽  
Jan Hercik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Military Training ◽  
General Level ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Intermunicipal Cooperation ◽  
Military Training Areas ◽  
The Military

The return of the local democracy to the military training areas raises a number of complex challenges even under the conditions of a democratic state. In the municipalities that were established in the Czech Republic on 1 January 2016 by a separation from the territory of the military training areas, a nondemocratic paternalist system has dominated for many decades at the local level, which in some cases was deepened by a presence of the foreign Soviet army. While other municipalities in the post-communist period after 1989 have undergone a complex development and have gradually responded to new challenges (e.g., the use of subsidy titles, intermunicipal cooperation), and, in the case of the settlements in the territory of the military training area districts, nondemocratic local paternalism was preserved until the end of 2015. In the first phase of their term, the elected representatives of the local government primarily focused on securing the basic functions of the municipality (issues of housing and basic amenities of the village—school facilities, shops), saving local sights as remnants of historical memory, and developing cooperation within different networks of actors on a general level (e.g., issues of tourism development, environmental protection).

scholarly journals Environmental Problems of redevelopment and revitalization of the former military training area Ralsko

Geografie ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Zbyněk Ryšlavý
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
World War ◽  
Environmental Damages ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Training Area

The former military area Ralsko was created after the World War II on the territory formerly populated by Germans. The area was poor with negligible industry only. It was intended to serve as a training ground for cooperation between infantry troops and various armored vehicles in varied landscapes. Soviet Army used the area since 1968. As a result, the military use of Ralsko became more intensive and some areas were used beyond the possible limits. As there were great numbers of soldiers and hazardous materials were handled without care, serious environmental damages occurred. Much money has been spent by the Czechoslovak/Czech state in order to reduce contamination and to treat environmental impacts. The former military area should be revitalized carefully so that our descendants would find this area pleasant and enjoying.

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