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Geoscientific Educative Centre as a potential sustainable communities building model – positive cooperation example of Lika-Senj County (CRO) and Una-Sana County (BIH)

One of the main goals of the contemporary concept of integral sustainability is to accomplish self- sustainability of local communities and the area in which those communities abide. This includes environment protection but also a sustainable usage of renewable resources and local community’s quality of life. This paper will give an overview of the possibilities to achieve integral sustainability of local communities in Lika-Senj County in Croatia and Una-Sana County in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which could be done through an inter-border project named Geoscientific Educative Centre. An integration of economy and employment of the local people in an inter-border area is the project's basic object, whereas the emphasis is on fostering development when it comes to agriculture and tourism. This could be done by valorisation of the scientific research of Dinaric region, with the emphasis on sustainable development of the protected areas. The sustainability of the protected areas has the crucial role due to natural sights which are placed in the area that is the object of this project ; these are Cave Park Grabovača in Croatia and Una National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Education of the local people, their mutual cooperation and cohesion, so as the cooperation of the main institutions are very important for the local community’s sustainable development. Thus, by making efforts in cooperation and social cohesion, the project will make a contribution when it comes to strengthening the social capital, one of the basis in the implementation of the concept of sustainable development. Carrying out this project in future and building an infrastructure within Geoscientific Educative Centre will emphasize an importance of historical and cultural heritage and the natural beauties and sights throughout achievements of the modern technology. The main hypothesis within this work is the following: local communities which live near the protected areas must be ensured with the basic preconditions for their own sustainable development and sustainability of the natural environment. One of those preconditions are educative centres which will serve as a link between the local community, institutions and the economic sector, whereas the overall goal will be the raise of the life quality of the local people and the protection of the natural environment

Geoscientific Educative Centre; local communities; sustainable development; technology; protected areas

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