RT Journal Article
T1 Effects of Legal Designation and Management of a Multiple-Use Protected Area on Local Sustainability
A1 Rodriguez Rodriguez, David
A1 López Pardo, Iván
AB The designation of protected areas (PAs) entails environmental, social, and economiceffects to local stakeholders through access restriction to natural resources. We used a mixedmethods research framework that combines time series analysis and stakeholder surveys toelicit objective and subjective effects of legal and managerial designation of Sierra Cabrera-BedarNatura 2000 site on local sustainability in south-eastern Spain. Firstly, 47 environmental, social,and economic variables for which official time series data were available were assessed usinga multiple-paired-Before-After-Control-Impact research design, where 'Impacts” were: (1) legaldesignation of Sierra Cabrera-Bedar as a Site of Community Importance (SCI); and (2) managementimplementation of the site as an Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The two municipalities havingmost of their territories in Sierra Cabrera-Bedar SCI/SAC were selected as ‘Cases", whereas twosimilar municipalities outside the PA were chosen as ‘Controls". Additionally, 13 local organisationspertaining to 11 socioeconomic guilds from case municipalities were surveyed on their perceivedeffects of the designation Sierra Cabrera-Bedar as an SAC on 28 social and economic variables.The effects of legal and managerial protection of the site on local sustainability were unclearalthough greater SAC sustainability is suggested, even though limited time series availability forthe SAC period increases uncertainty. Local organisations perceived mostly limited and negativesocioeconomic effects from SAC designation. Disagreement between statistical and perceptual resultssuggests use of time series analyses for accurate assessment of socioeconomic effects of PAs in Spain.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2018
FD 2018-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34329
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/34329
LA eng
NO D.R.-R. was funded for this study by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivenessin the framework of the SOSTPARK project (CSO2014-54611-JIN).
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