Identifying socio-ecological networks in rural-urban gradients: Diagnosis of a changing cultural landscape
| Autor: | Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui, Carlos Montes, Francisco Díaz Pineda, María F. Schmitz, Cecilia Arnaiz-Schmitz, J. Gutiérrez-Angonese |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Rural Population
Conservation of Natural Resources Environmental Engineering 0211 other engineering and technologies Social Welfare 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Socio ecological Rurality Urban planning Humans Environmental Chemistry Cities Set (psychology) Waste Management and Disposal Socioeconomic status Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Ecology business.industry Cultural landscape Environmental resource management 021107 urban & regional planning Land-use planning Pollution Geography Socioeconomic Factors Spain business |
| Zdroj: | Science of The Total Environment. 612:625-635 |
| ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.215 |
| Popis: | Socio-ecological systems maintain reciprocal interactions between biophysical and socioeconomic structures. As a result of these interactions key essential services for society emerge. Urban expansion is a direct driver of land change and cause serious shifts in socio-ecological relationships and the associated lifestyles. The framework of rural-urban gradients has proved to be a powerful tool for ecological research about urban influences on ecosystems and on sociological issues related to social welfare. However, to date there has not been an attempt to achieve a classification of municipalities in rural-urban gradients based on socio-ecological interactions. In this paper, we developed a methodological approach that allows identifying and classifying a set of socio-ecological network configurations in the Region of Madrid, a highly dynamic cultural landscape considered one of the European hotspots in urban development. According to their socio-ecological links, the integrated model detects four groups of municipalities, ordered along a rural-urban gradient, characterized by their degree of biophysical and socioeconomic coupling and different indicators of landscape structure and social welfare. We propose the developed model as a useful tool to improve environmental management schemes and land planning from a socio-ecological perspective, especially in territories subject to intense urban transformations and loss of rurality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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