Sociocultural valuation of ecosystem services in protected areas: A study applied to Southeast Spain
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24136/oc.2023.037
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24136/oc.2023.037
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López Felices, Belén; Schoenemann ., Marina Alejandra; Román Sánchez, Isabel María; Aznar Sánchez, José ÁngelFecha
2023-12-30Resumen
Research background: Protected areas (PAs) play a fundamental role in the maintenance of ecosystem processes and in the flow of ecosystem services (ESs) they provide. However, the management of PAs is complex due to the existence of different stakeholders with disparate and, often, opposed preferences and valuations. The sociocultural assessment of ESs contributes to optimizing the management of scarce resources based on the preferences of the different stakeholders, taking into account the economic, environmental and social dimensions of the analysed area.
Purpose of the article: In this work, a sociocultural assessment of the ESs provided by a PA in southeast Spain is carried out. The objective is to identify which the various ESs provided by this PA are and to establish their degree of importance for all the stakeholders involved.
Methods: For this, different complementary methodologies have been used in successive phases, both qualitative and quantitative. Specifically, a lit...
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policy support, protected area, natural resources management, behavioural economics, stakeholders, sustainable development