Vulnerability of Rural Communities to Change in an Ecosystem Service Provision: Surface water supply. A Case Study in the Northern Andes, Colombia
Autor: | Clara Villegas-Palacio, Lina Berrouet, Verónica Botero |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Adaptive capacity
business.industry Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management 0211 other engineering and technologies Vulnerability Water supply 021107 urban & regional planning Forestry Land-use planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Ecosystem services Geography Socio-ecological system business Social vulnerability 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation |
Zdroj: | Land Use Policy. 97:104737 |
ISSN: | 0264-8377 |
Popis: | The understanding of how socio-ecological systems respond to environmental change is an essential issue in land use planning processes. Vulnerability analyses in the context of socio-ecological systems are a useful tool to this end. The study of social vulnerability seeks to analyze how the characteristics of beneficiaries of ecosystem services and their relation to the ecosystems, determine their sensitivity and their capacity to adapt to changes in the provision of said services. In this paper, we evaluate the social vulnerability of rural communities in the face of changes in the levels of the provision of surface water in the Riogrande basin, which is located in the Northern Andes in Colombia. Social vulnerability is evaluated based on two components. First, the initial, inherent vulnerability, which depends on parameters such as current level and the change in the level of benefits, types of needs met by the ecosystem service analyzed, and the capacity for substitution. The second component is the final, inherent vulnerability that considers the beneficiary’s adaptive capacity determined by individual and institutional characteristics. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews and site-level surveys, as well as the use of available existing data for the area of study. The results show that beneficiaries of the ecosystem service which was analyzed have a low vulnerability to changes in the levels of water supply given their high substitution capacities and medium-high adaptive capacity. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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