A twenty year GIS-based assessment of environmental sustainability of land use changes in and around protected areas of a fast developing country: Spain

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, David; Martínez‐Vega, Javier; Echavarría, Pilar

doi:10.1016/j.jag.2018.08.006

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“…The trends followed by agricultural area were similar in both countries (net loss of total area) but this conceals, nevertheless, two opposing trends: agricultural extensification, and eventual abandonment, has affected many inland, remote or mountainous regions, like the ones dominated by dehesa/montado systems [22,23]. In contrast, an expansion and intensification of agricultural activity has taken place in the main river basins and coastal municipalities, often associated with greenhouse crops [24,25]. Finally, urban expansion has been rather important in both countries, showing urbanization rates higher than most other European countries as a consequence of relatively late (within the European context) internal migration from rural to urban areas, and to the expansion of mass tourism and real estate speculation [15,26,27].…”

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Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Nogueira

Rico

2019

Land

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This work analyzes the determinants associated with main land use/cover changes in the Iberian Peninsula during the 1990–2012 period using a decision tree model. Our main objective is to identify broad-scale patterns that associate the characteristics of geographic areas with the dominant land use/cover change process based on CORINE Land Cover (Coordination of Information on the Environment) and defined in a previously published work. Biophysical, structural and socioeconomic variables were considered as potentially explanatory of the dominant change process at municipal scale. The resulting model allowed identification of a common pattern in Portugal and Spain (urbanization being highly associated to areas already densely populated in the previous period), but also some diverging ones. In particular, dominant trends in Portuguese territory appear to be highly determined by wildfire occurrence. In contrast, Spanish municipalities showed more diverse patterns, usually associated to biophysical determinants like average forest productivity or average terrain slope.

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Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Nogueira

Rico

2019

Land

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“…Reporting guidelines, such as GRI, and accountability approaches can serve as an input for elaborating an adequate SP measurement system for internal decision-making. SP reporting addresses how the performance assessed can be used to elaborate disclosure and communicate performance [64][65][66][67].…”

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Sustainability Reporting and Performance Measurement Systems: How do Small- and Medium-Sized Benefit Corporations Manage Integration?

Nigri

Baldo

2018

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Benefit Corporations and B Corps represent alternative models of enterprise, often referred to as “hybrid companies” that bridge the for-profit and not-for-profit models. Italy is the first country outside the USA to pass Benefit Corporation legislation and introduce the Società Benefit. A large number of Italian Benefit Corporations are small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs), since SMEs are widespread within the entrepreneurial fabric and have great relevance in the Italian socio-economic context. A key issue in the emerging debate on small- and medium-sized Benefit Corporations concerns how these companies—with limited reach and considerable financial and human resource constraints—can effectively absorb their added social responsibility. In particular, such firms need to manage their dual mission, integrate social and environmental goals in their business model, and incorporate accountability mechanisms, all while scaling up and garnering the necessary resources to be economically competitive. Starting from these premises, this paper focuses on the performance measurement and reporting systems that are adopted by SMEs that are also Benefit Corporations, and investigates whether benefit impact assessment indicators integrate into an overall sustainability performance management system. To achieve this goal, an exploratory case-based analysis on seven small- and medium-sized Italian-certified Benefit Corporations is presented.

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“…Other processes of change such as urban sprawl, coastalisation, the expansion of irrigated crop systems, afforestation and depopulation [88] have an impact on the environmental sustainability of PAs and their surroundings [29,77]. In the Doñana NP, for example, the intensification of farming has caused the loss of ecosystem services [89].…”

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“…One approach to the analysis of environmental sustainability in vulnerable territories such as NPs is load capacity, which traditionally refers to the maximum number of visitors the space can receive without damage to the environment or to the tourism-recreational experience itself [28]. Another refers to changes in land use-land cover (LULC) inside and around PAs [29].…”

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Proposal of a System for Assessment of the Sustainability of Municipalities (Sasmu) Included in the Spanish Network of National Parks and Their Surroundings

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It is usually considered that Protected Areas (PAs) are an efficient tool for policies to conserve biodiversity. However, there is evidence that some pressures and threats arise from processes taking place both inside them and in their surroundings territories—habitat loss, changes in land use, fragmentation of natural ecosystems. In this paper, we aim to test the hypothesis that municipalities located in the Socioeconomic Influence Zones (SIZs) of the fifteen National Parks (NPs) in Spain are more sustainable than those in their surroundings or, conversely, that the municipalities of their surroundings are more unsustainable. To measure their sustainability, we propose a system for assessment using fifteen indicators selected by experts. The methodology is based on the normalization of the data of each indicator, comparing them with a desirable target value defined in terms of sector policies and strategies. We then aggregate the indicators for each group in three indices that cover the classic dimensions of sustainability—environmental, economic and social. On a network scale, the results show that municipalities inside the SIZs are 1.594 points more sustainable environmentally, 0.108 economically and 0.068 socially than those of their surroundings. A system for assessment of the sustainability of municipalities (SASMU) may be a useful tool for NP managers, and for local and regional administrations, when setting priorities for policies, projects and compensation for regulatory restrictions related to NPs.

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A twenty year GIS-based assessment of environmental sustainability of land use changes in and around protected areas of a fast developing country: Spain

Cited by 26 publications

References 50 publications

Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Determinants of Land Use/Cover Change in the Iberian Peninsula (1990–2012) at Municipal Level

Sustainability Reporting and Performance Measurement Systems: How do Small- and Medium-Sized Benefit Corporations Manage Integration?

Proposal of a System for Assessment of the Sustainability of Municipalities (Sasmu) Included in the Spanish Network of National Parks and Their Surroundings

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