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A two year ongoing project (2015–2017) Valorizing the Montenegrin Katuns through sustainable development of agriculture and tourism – KATUN is innovative because of its multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach of all the aspects of the katuns (temporary centre of traditional summer livestock rearing lasting for centuries in the Montenegrin society). The main idea of this project, being implemented by the interdisciplinary research team, is to create a knowledge base for the multipurpose use of the Montenegrin mountain resources, by combining the traditional agriculture with boosting tourism activities and protecting the cultural heritage. Katuns as nuclei of traditional agriculture in mountain areas face many challenges. This uniqueness of Montenegro has to be preserved and revitalized via new opportunities in tourism and other complementary activities (handcraft, trade, culture, services). Dealing with mountain cultural heritage the first step was creating a pertaining database and mapping and GPS positioning of the katuns, and objects of cultural-historical importance in research area, inventorying of the katuns, determining their condition, origin and characteristics and documenting current condition (photo, video, graphic and textual) of the katuns.
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This research was supported in the program Higher Education and Research for Innovation and Competitiveness by the Ministry of Science of Montenegro and financing the project Valorizing the Montenegrin Katuns through sustainable development of agriculture and tourism – KATUN (KATUN-INVO HERIC No 01-646). We are thankful to our colleagues Ivan Laković, Tatjana Koprivica, Senka Babović-Raspopović and Aleksandra Kapetanović who helped us collecting the data and provided expertise that greatly assisted the research. All photos and graphic material are made by team members. All the data in this paper are published with consent of the Project Coordinator, prof. Milan Marković.
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Pelcer–Vujačić, O., Kovačević, S. (2016). A GIS Database of Montenegrin Katuns (Kuči Mountain and Durmitor). In: Ioannides, M., et al. Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10059. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48974-2_9
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