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They demonstrate how this wilderness discourse functions as a barrier against including cultural heritage conservation aspects and local stakeholders in management, as wilderness-influenced objectives are defining protected areas as environments "untouched" by humans. Additionally, management plans of PAs are too often dependent on administrative boundaries and political legislation, and not on social-ecological relationships, biophysical processes, and ecosystem services fluxes, which reduces their effectiveness in protecting landscapes based on social-ecological interactions [[1], [11]]. Land conservation policies have frequently been defensive, and management plans have often neglected or even restricted traditional rural activities, forgetting the local population, which has contributed to the high conservation values recognized in cultural landscapes [[9]]. However, not all conservation policymaking processes consider the value of cultural landscapes, which makes their preservation even more difficult. [Extracted from the article] |
