The conservation against development paradigm in protected areas: Valuation of ecosystem services in the Doñana social-ecological system (southwestern Spain)
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In: Ecological Economics, Vol. 70, No. 8, 15.06.2011, p. 1481-1491.
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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
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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 -