TY - JOUR

T1 - The conservation against development paradigm in protected areas

T2 - Valuation of ecosystem services in the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain)

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - García-Llorente, Marina

AU - Palomo, Ignacio

AU - Montes, Carlos

PY - 2011/6/15

Y1 - 2011/6/15

N2 - The ecosystems of the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain) provide numerous ecosystem services to society. We valued the most important ecosystem services through a market-based approach, revealed-preference and stated-preference methods to assess the conservation effectiveness of the Doñana Protected Area, with consideration of existing human activities in surrounding lands. We also analysed the spatial distribution of the ecosystem services beneficiaries and the scale of their related markets. We found a clear trade-off between the local and global market values of ecosystem services because landscape management outside of the Doñana Protected Area promotes the provision of ecosystem services associated with international markets. Our results suggest that a conservation against development model occurs in the Doñana social-ecological system, in which land use intensification takes place outside of the Protected Area borders as a result of promoting marketed ecosystem services, while biodiversity conservation is the main activity inside the Protected Area. We conclude that protected areas should be part of a larger-scale, adaptive landscape management strategy in which conservation planning should be the focal element in coordinating sectoral policies in the context of social-ecological systems.

AB - The ecosystems of the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain) provide numerous ecosystem services to society. We valued the most important ecosystem services through a market-based approach, revealed-preference and stated-preference methods to assess the conservation effectiveness of the Doñana Protected Area, with consideration of existing human activities in surrounding lands. We also analysed the spatial distribution of the ecosystem services beneficiaries and the scale of their related markets. We found a clear trade-off between the local and global market values of ecosystem services because landscape management outside of the Doñana Protected Area promotes the provision of ecosystem services associated with international markets. Our results suggest that a conservation against development model occurs in the Doñana social-ecological system, in which land use intensification takes place outside of the Protected Area borders as a result of promoting marketed ecosystem services, while biodiversity conservation is the main activity inside the Protected Area. We conclude that protected areas should be part of a larger-scale, adaptive landscape management strategy in which conservation planning should be the focal element in coordinating sectoral policies in the context of social-ecological systems.

KW - Beneficiaries

KW - Conservation planning

KW - Ecosystem services

KW - Protected areas

KW - Spatial scales

KW - Trade-offs

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79956128409&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.009

DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.009

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:79956128409

VL - 70

SP - 1481

EP - 1491

JO - Ecological Economics

JF - Ecological Economics

SN - 0921-8009

IS - 8

ER -