Protected Landscapes in Spain: Reasons for Protection and Sustainability of Conservation Management
| Autor: | Cecilia Arnaiz-Schmitz, Manuel Rodrigo de la O Cabrera, María F. Schmitz, Nicolas Marine, David Escudero, Cristina Herrero-Jáuregui |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural identity
Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Biodiversity TJ807-830 Landscape conservation 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Standard of living TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Naturalness rurality loss GE1-350 spatial-temporal patterns landscape structure Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Cultural landscape intensity of change management effectiveness spatial heterogeneity 021107 urban & regional planning Ecología inside and outside protected areas Environmental sciences Geography Sustainability Rural population IUCN’s Category V |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 17 E-Prints Complutense. Archivo Institucional de la UCM instname Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 6913, p 6913 (2020) E-Prints Complutense: Archivo Institucional de la UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su12176913 |
| Popis: | Landscape conservation efforts in many European countries focus on cultural landscapes, which are part of the cultural identity of people, have a great heritage significance, improve the living standards of local populations and provide valuable cultural biodiversity. However, despite a wide arrange of protective measures, the management of preserved areas is seldom effective for the protection of cultural landscapes. Through a multi-approach analysis, we characterise the main heritage attributes of 17 Protected Landscapes in Spain and assess their management effectiveness by quantifying the evolution of the spatial pattern inside and outside protected landscapes. Our method has proven useful to quantitatively describe the spatial-temporal patterns of change of the protected and unprotected landscapes studied. We highlight the following results: (i) the concepts of uniqueness and naturalness are not appropriate to preserve cultural landscapes (ii) the land protection approach currently adopted is not useful for the protection of cultural landscapes, particularly of the most rural ones (iii) the landscapes studied with greater rural features can be considered as &ldquo paper parks&rdquo We recommend that different protection measures focused on the needs and desires of the rural population are taken into account in order to protect cultural landscapes that are shaped by traditional rural activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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