Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy
Protected areas are key instruments for conserving biodiversity and landscapes. Yet, conservation initiatives are still often struggling to accommodate people’s needs, provoking conflicts, and lacking support from local communities. Our study combines environmental justice and ecosystem services app...
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description | Protected areas are key instruments for conserving biodiversity and landscapes. Yet, conservation initiatives are still often struggling to accommodate people’s needs, provoking conflicts, and lacking support from local communities. Our study combines environmental justice and ecosystem services approaches to provide a critical understanding of trade-offs between people’s interests and conservation goals in the case study of Circeo National Park (Italy). Applying a qualitative content analysis of different materials and using a survey of local residents, we focus on three main objectives: analysing the implementation of the ecosystem services framework in policy documents and exploring how different people value benefits from nature; investigating the decision-making process in terms of participation, information and communication strategies; and identifying how conservation policies generated different allocations of benefits, burdens and inequalities among social groups. The integrated approach applied in our study highlights ways to systematically uncover perceived injustices and identifies potential conflict lines. In the long run, this approach might help to increase the public acceptance of protected areas by fostering sustainability also in its often-overlooked social dimension. |
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spelling | pubmed-83152102021-08-09 Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy Benetti, Stefania Langemeyer, Johannes Ecosyst People (Abingdon) Research Paper Protected areas are key instruments for conserving biodiversity and landscapes. Yet, conservation initiatives are still often struggling to accommodate people’s needs, provoking conflicts, and lacking support from local communities. Our study combines environmental justice and ecosystem services approaches to provide a critical understanding of trade-offs between people’s interests and conservation goals in the case study of Circeo National Park (Italy). Applying a qualitative content analysis of different materials and using a survey of local residents, we focus on three main objectives: analysing the implementation of the ecosystem services framework in policy documents and exploring how different people value benefits from nature; investigating the decision-making process in terms of participation, information and communication strategies; and identifying how conservation policies generated different allocations of benefits, burdens and inequalities among social groups. The integrated approach applied in our study highlights ways to systematically uncover perceived injustices and identifies potential conflict lines. In the long run, this approach might help to increase the public acceptance of protected areas by fostering sustainability also in its often-overlooked social dimension. Taylor & Francis 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8315210/ /pubmed/34382004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1946155 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Benetti, Stefania Langemeyer, Johannes Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title | Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title_full | Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title_fullStr | Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title_short | Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy |
title_sort | ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of circeo national park, italy |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8315210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34382004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1946155 |
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