People and nature in the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands): socio-ecological relationships under climate change
| Autor: | Cecilia Arnaiz-Schmitz, Daniela Gaspar Garcia de Matos, María F. Schmitz, Francisco Díaz Pineda, Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui, P. Díaz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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education.field_of_study
geography geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Population Vulnerability Biosphere Climate change 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Pollution Agrarian society Archipelago Mainland education Tourism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Conservation. 45:20-29 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4387 0376-8929 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0376892917000169 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYThis paper analyses the interdependence between environment and society in terms of socio-ecological webs, in which human and biophysical systems are linked. A quantitative model, based on canonical correlation analysis applied in Fuerteventura Island (Canary Archipelago), detected indicators of human–landscape relationships and predicted potential shifts based on simulated environmental changes. In the last few decades, the landscape of Fuerteventura Island has changed: natural components and cultural agrarian uses have decreased, while the population has increased due to immigration, mainly from mainland Spain and other European countries. The island shows a transition from a coupled local socio-ecosystem to one based on the interaction between environment and coastal tourism that decouples native inhabitants from the landscape and traditional land-use practices. As vulnerability and adaptation to climate change represent critical sets of potential interactions in Canary Islands, a model and a map of the socio-ecological system under four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios show rural decoupling through ‘deagrarianization’ and ‘deruralization’, as well as stronger links to the tourism system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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