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Sattler C, Rommel J, Chen C, García-Llorente M, Gutiérrez-Briceño I, Prager K, Reyes MF, Schröter B, Schulze C, van Bussel LG, Loft L, Matzdorf B, Kelemen E. Participatory research in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Adjusting your methodological toolkits. One Earth 2022; 5:62-73. [PMID: 35098107 PMCID: PMC8779601 DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Solving grand environmental societal challenges calls for transdisciplinary and participatory methods in social-ecological research. These methods enable co-designing the research, co-producing the results, and co-creating the impacts together with concerned stakeholders. COVID-19 has had serious impacts on the choice of research methods, but reflections on recent experiences of "moving online" are still rare. In this perspective, we focus on the challenge of adjusting different participatory methods to online formats used in five transdisciplinary social-ecological research projects. The key added value of our research is the lessons learned from a comparison of the pros and cons of adjusting a broader set of methods to online formats. We conclude that combining the adjusted online approaches with well-established face-to-face formats into more inclusive hybrid approaches can enrich and diversify the pool of available methods for postpandemic research. Furthermore, a more diverse group of participants can be engaged in the research process.
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- Claudia Sattler
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Economics, Uppsala, Sweden,Corresponding author
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Department of Ecology, Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Madrid, Spain
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- Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Department of Ecology, Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Madrid, Spain
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- University of Aberdeen (ABDN), School of Geosciences, Department of Geography and Environment, Aberdeen, UK
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- Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Environmental Systems Analysis, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany,Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Lund, Sweden
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Environmental Systems Analysis, Wageningen, the Netherlands
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany
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- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Working Group on Governance of Ecosystem Services, Müncheberg, Germany,Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH), Institute for Environmental Planning, Hanover, Germany
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- Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG), Budapest, Hungary
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González-García A, Palomo I, González JA, García-Díez V, García-Llorente M, Montes C. Biodiversity and ecosystem services mapping: Can it reconcile urban and protected area planning? Sci Total Environ 2022; 803:150048. [PMID: 34500265 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Land-use changes, especially urbanization, have largely impacted the capacity of ecosystems to deliver ecosystem services (ES) on which human wellbeing depends. The current sectorial landscape and territorial planning approaches that separately address protected areas and urban areas have proven ineffective in conserving biodiversity. To address this important challenge, integrated territorial planning has been claimed to be able to better reconcile interests between nature conservation and urban planning, and ES supply and demand mapping may be a useful tool for such purposes. In this study, we quantitatively mapped biodiversity and the supply and demand of eight ES along an urban-rural gradient in the region of Madrid (Spain). Then, we clustered the municipalities in this gradient into four groups based on their common biodiversity and ES supply and demand characteristics. Additionally, we reviewed the urban plans from these municipalities and the management plans of three protected areas, analysed the references to ES in the plans, and searched for potential conflicts between urban and protected area planning aims. We found that municipalities with highly coupled ES supply and demand are in high altitude areas, coinciding with protected areas, while in urban areas, the ES demand exceeds the supply. Municipalities exhibiting a high demand for regulating ES usually include them in their plans, while municipalities with a high supply of regulating ES do not. Given the several conflicts between protected areas and urban planning that we detected, we discuss the utility of mapping biodiversity and ES supply and demand beyond administrative boundaries to overcome the challenge of integrating spatial planning approaches, especially in the context of urban-rural gradients and megacities. We also explore the utility of these methods for coordinating urban planning tools to achieve integrated territorial planning.
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- Alberto González-García
- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, 28049 Madrid, Spain.
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-Université Grenoble Alpes-Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Grenoble, France; Basque Centre for Climate Change, Scientific Campus of the University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, 28049 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, c. Darwin 2, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, 28049 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, c. Darwin 2, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C. Darwin, 2, Edificio de Biología, 28049 Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, c. Darwin 2, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Martín-López B, Felipe-Lucia MR, Bennett EM, Norström A, Peterson G, Plieninger T, Hicks CC, Turkelboom F, García-Llorente M, Jacobs S, Lavorel S, Locatelli B. A novel telecoupling framework to assess social relations across spatial scales for ecosystem services research. J Environ Manage 2019; 241:251-263. [PMID: 31005726 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.04.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2018] [Revised: 03/08/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Access to ecosystem services and influence on their management are structured by social relations among actors, which often occur across spatial scales. Such cross-scale social relations can be analysed through a telecoupling framework as decisions taken at local scales are often shaped by actors at larger scales. Analyzing these cross-scale relations is critical to create effective and equitable strategies to manage ecosystem services. Here, we develop an analytical framework -i.e. the 'cross-scale influence-dependence framework'- to facilitate the analysis of power asymmetries and the distribution of ecosystem services among the beneficiaries. We illustrate the suitability of this framework through its retrospective application across four case studies, in which we characterize the level of dependence of multiple actors on a particular set of ecosystem services, and their influence on decision-making regarding these services across three spatial scales. The 'cross-scale influence-dependence framework' can improve our understanding of distributional and procedural equity and thus support the development of policies for sustainable management of ecosystem services.
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- Berta Martín-López
- Faculty of Sustainability, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany.
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany; Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Social-Ecological Interactions in Agricultural Systems, University of Kassel and University of Göttingen, Germany
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK
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- Research Group Nature and Society, Research Institute of Nature and Forest Research (INBO), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Applied Research and Agricultural Extension, Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development (IMIDRA), Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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- Research Group Nature and Society, Research Institute of Nature and Forest Research (INBO), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France
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- Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Lima, Peru
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García-Llorente M, Rubio-Olivar R, Gutierrez-Briceño I. Farming for Life Quality and Sustainability: A Literature Review of Green Care Research Trends in Europe. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2018; 15:ijerph15061282. [PMID: 29914199 PMCID: PMC6025610 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15061282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 06/06/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Green care is an innovative approach that combines simultaneously caring for people and caring for land through three elements that have not been previously connected: (1) multifunctional agriculture and recognition of the plurality of agricultural system values; (2) social services and health care; and (3) the possibility of strengthening the farming sector and local communities. The current research provides a comprehensive overview of green care in Europe as a scientific discipline through a literature review (n = 98 studies). According to our results, the Netherlands, the UK, Norway and Sweden followed by Italy have led the scientific studies published in English. Green care research comprises a wide range of perspectives and frameworks (social farming, care farming, nature-based solutions, etc.) with differences in their specificities. Green care studies have mainly focused on measuring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. Studies that evaluate its relevance in socio-economic and environmental terms are still limited. According to our results, the most common users studied were people suffering from psychological and mental ill health, while the most common activities were horticulture, animal husbandry and gardening. Finally, we discuss the potential of green care to reconnect people with nature and to diversify the farming sector providing new public services associated with the relational values society obtains from the contact with agricultural systems.
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- Marina García-Llorente
- Department of Applied Research and Agricultural Extension, Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development (IMIDRA), Finca Experimental ''El Encín''Ctra N-II, Km 38, Madrid 28800, Spain.
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Edificio de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin 2, Madrid 28049, Spain.
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Edificio de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/Darwin 2, Madrid 28049, Spain.
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Hevia V, Martín-López B, Palomo S, García-Llorente M, de Bello F, González JA. Trait-based approaches to analyze links between the drivers of change and ecosystem services: Synthesizing existing evidence and future challenges. Ecol Evol 2017; 7:831-844. [PMID: 28168020 PMCID: PMC5288245 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Revised: 11/15/2016] [Accepted: 11/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Understanding the responses of biodiversity to drivers of change and the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem properties and ecosystem services is a key challenge in the context of global environmental change. We performed a systematic review and meta‐analysis of the scientific literature linking direct drivers of change and ecosystem services via functional traits of three taxonomic groups (vegetation, invertebrates, and vertebrates) to: (1) uncover trends and research biases in this field; and (2) synthesize existing empirical evidence. Our results show the existence of important biases in published studies related to ecosystem types, taxonomic groups, direct drivers of change, ecosystem services, geographical range, and the spatial scale of analysis. We found multiple evidence of links between drivers and services mediated by functional traits, particularly between land‐use changes and regulating services in vegetation and invertebrates. Seventy‐five functional traits were recorded in our sample. However, few of these functional traits were repeatedly found to be associated with both the species responses to direct drivers of change (response traits) and the species effects on the provision of ecosystem services (effect traits). Our results highlight the existence of potential “key functional traits,” understood as those that have the capacity to influence the provision of multiple ecosystem services, while responding to specific drivers of change, across a variety of systems and organisms. Identifying “key functional traits” would help to develop robust indicator systems to monitor changes in biodiversity and their effects on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services supply.
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- Violeta Hevia
- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory Department of Ecology Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Faculty of Sustainability Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research Leuphana University of Lüneburg Lüneburg Germany
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory Department of Ecology Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory Department of Ecology Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain; Applied Research and Agricultural Extension Department Madrid Institute for Rural, Agricultural and Food Research and Development (IMIDRA) Alcalá De Henares Madrid Spain
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- Institute of Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Trebon Czech Republic
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- Social-ecological Systems Laboratory Department of Ecology Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Madrid Spain
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Santos-Martín F, Martín-López B, García-Llorente M, Aguado M, Benayas J, Montes C. Unraveling the relationships between ecosystems and human wellbeing in Spain. PLoS One 2013; 8:e73249. [PMID: 24039894 PMCID: PMC3764230 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2013] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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National ecosystem assessments provide evidence on the status and trends of biodiversity, ecosystem conditions, and the delivery of ecosystem services to society. I this study, we analyze the complex relationships established between ecosystems and human systems in Spain through the combination of Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response framework and structural equation models. Firstly, to operationalize the framework, we selected 53 national scale indicators that provide accurate, long-term information on each of the components. Secondly, structural equation models were performed to understand the relationships among the components of the framework. Trend indicators have shown an overall progressive biodiversity loss, trade-offs between provisioning and cultural services associated with urban areas vs. regulating and cultural services associated with rural areas, a decoupling effect between material and non-material dimensions of human wellbeing, a rapid growing trend of conservation responses in recent years and a constant growing linear trend of direct or indirect drivers of change. Results also show that all the components analyzed in the model are strongly related. On one hand, the model shows that biodiversity erosion negatively affect the supply of regulating services, while it is positively related with the increase of provisioning service delivery. On the other hand, the most important relationship found in the model is the effect of pressures on biodiversity loss, indicating that response options for conserving nature cannot counteract the effect of the drivers of change. These results suggest that there is an insufficient institutional response to address the underlying causes (indirect drivers of change) of biodiversity loos in Spain. We conclude that more structural changes are required in the Spanish institutional framework to reach 2020 biodiversity conservation international targets.
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- Fernando Santos-Martín
- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Sociology and the Environment Research Area, Social Analysis Department, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Martín-López B, Iniesta-Arandia I, García-Llorente M, Palomo I, Casado-Arzuaga I, Amo DGD, Gómez-Baggethun E, Oteros-Rozas E, Palacios-Agundez I, Willaarts B, González JA, Santos-Martín F, Onaindia M, López-Santiago C, Montes C. Uncovering ecosystem service bundles through social preferences. PLoS One 2012; 7:e38970. [PMID: 22720006 PMCID: PMC3377692 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 579] [Impact Index Per Article: 48.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2012] [Accepted: 05/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ecosystem service assessments have increasingly been used to support environmental management policies, mainly based on biophysical and economic indicators. However, few studies have coped with the social-cultural dimension of ecosystem services, despite being considered a research priority. We examined how ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs emerge from diverging social preferences toward ecosystem services delivered by various types of ecosystems in Spain. We conducted 3,379 direct face-to-face questionnaires in eight different case study sites from 2007 to 2011. Overall, 90.5% of the sampled population recognized the ecosystem’s capacity to deliver services. Formal studies, environmental behavior, and gender variables influenced the probability of people recognizing the ecosystem’s capacity to provide services. The ecosystem services most frequently perceived by people were regulating services; of those, air purification held the greatest importance. However, statistical analysis showed that socio-cultural factors and the conservation management strategy of ecosystems (i.e., National Park, Natural Park, or a non-protected area) have an effect on social preferences toward ecosystem services. Ecosystem service trade-offs and bundles were identified by analyzing social preferences through multivariate analysis (redundancy analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis). We found a clear trade-off among provisioning services (and recreational hunting) versus regulating services and almost all cultural services. We identified three ecosystem service bundles associated with the conservation management strategy and the rural-urban gradient. We conclude that socio-cultural preferences toward ecosystem services can serve as a tool to identify relevant services for people, the factors underlying these social preferences, and emerging ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs.
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- Berta Martín-López
- Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Department of Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
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García-Llorente M, Martín-López B, Nunes PALD, González JA, Alcorlo P, Montes C. Analyzing the social factors that influence willingness to pay for invasive alien species management under two different strategies: eradication and prevention. Environ Manage 2011; 48:418-35. [PMID: 21404075 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9646-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2010] [Accepted: 02/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Biological invasions occur worldwide, and have been the object of ecological and socio-economic research for decades. However, the manner in which different stakeholder groups identify the problems associated with invasive species and confront invasive species management under different policies remains poorly understood. In this study, we conducted an econometric analysis of the social factors influencing willingness to pay for invasive alien species management under two different regimes: eradication and prevention in the Doñana Natural Protected Area (SW Spain). Controlling for the participation of local residents, tourists and conservationists, email and face-to-face questionnaires were conducted. Results indicated that respondents were more willing to pay for eradication than prevention; and public support for invasive alien species management was influenced by an individual's knowledge and perception of invasive alien species, active interest in nature, and socio-demographic attributes. We concluded that invasive alien species management research should confront the challenges to engage stakeholders and accept any tradeoffs necessary to modify different conservation policies to ensure effective management is implemented. Finally, our willingness to pay estimates suggest the Department of Environment of Andalusian Government has suitable social support to meet the budgetary expenditures required for invasive alien species plans and adequate resources to justify an increase in the invasive alien species management budget.
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- Marina García-Llorente
- Department of Ecology, Social-Ecological Systems Laboratory, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C-201, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
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