Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot

Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés; Río, Camilo del; Leguia-Cruz, Marcelo; Mansilla-Quiñones, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2023.103060

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“…In turn, this has created significant age imbalances, changes in economic occupations of peasant vocation for the development of extractive activities and areas with high aging and masculinity rates [17][18][19][20]. Rural counterurbanization dynamics have occurred in the framework of these territorial restructuring processes, causing abrupt land use changes due to urban expansion into rural areas and the replacement of traditional peasant logics with new forms of urbanization [21,22]. However, they have been incapable of counteracting the sustained demographic decline in areas with a trend toward depopulation.…”

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Rural Shrinkage: Depopulation and Land Grabbing in Chilean Patagonia

Mansilla-Quiñones,

Uribe-Sierra

2023

Land

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One current global problem is the shrinkage of rural areas, which is expected to become an increasingly recurrent dynamic caused by the transformations in land uses and forms of habitation of the contemporary era. Patagonia is a suitable case study to understand the processes and challenges exposed by rural shrinkage, which not only addresses population loss but also the causes and consequences that transform rural territories. Its remote geographical location and climate conditions make it a complex place for human settlement. The objective is to describe the relationship between the agrarian structure and rural population decline in Chilean Patagonia. Taking a mixed methodological approach that combines the geohistorical review of settlement processes and the use of statistical procedures with census data, the presence of significant inequalities in the distribution of land and the accumulation of areas in large properties is discussed. The loss of rural population was identified, which may be driven by unequal access to land favoring concentration for extractive activities such as large-scale sheep farming, hydrocarbons and biofuels production. This prompts the exodus of young people to urban centers in search of work and education because land grabbing limits economic options, and rural depopulation reduces service coverage without timely responses from political institutions. This has caused the rural shrinkage in territories with demographic imbalances, with high aging and masculinization rates that hinder the repopulation of these areas, which have historically suffered from underpopulation. In conclusion, population strategies in these areas based on extractivism and a strict land ownership regime have not facilitated permanent human settlement but have instead complicated it more.

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Rural Shrinkage: Depopulation and Land Grabbing in Chilean Patagonia

Mansilla-Quiñones,

Uribe-Sierra

2023

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Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile

Anríquez,

Calabrese,

Foster

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Enhancing participatory governance in biosphere reserves through co-creation of transdisciplinary and intergenerational knowledge

Leguia-Cruz,

Cerda,

Ortiz-Cubillos

et al. 2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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In the context of the current global climate and biodiversity crisis, urgent action is needed to improve participatory and co-productive governance in territories under sustainability directives, such as biosphere reserves. These territories comprise a global network with the potential to apply and replicate sustainability actions, improve livelihoods, and boost climate change resilience while reducing impacts on the environment and the biodiversity in all continents. In the biosphere reserves network’s 50 years of existence, progress and setbacks have been reported in different regions around the world, and there is an urgent need to envision alternative futures. In this contribution, we describe the results and reflections of our ‘Open Academy’ that enhanced the participatory governance in La Campana–Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve in Central Chile. We crossed the traditional assessment with the principles of transdisciplinary and intergenerational knowledge co-creation. The results show that the traditional performance assessment shows a generally poor performance and reveals the weaknesses of the governance system of the reserve’s management. The extraction of water by mining and agroindustry, uncontrolled urbanization, wildfires, weak social participation, and low integration of indigenous communities are crucial issues for the performance of biosphere reserves. On the other hand, these territories have the potential as models toward post-extractive economies. Enhancing participatory governance, biosphere reserves shall serve as a) agents for configuring the future as an eco-social pact with the territory; b) pilot test areas for alternative futures; and c) places to promote the social collective as a conscious agent of the future.

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Spatial dynamics in the urban-rural-natural interface within a social-ecological hotspot

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

Rural Shrinkage: Depopulation and Land Grabbing in Chilean Patagonia

Rural Shrinkage: Depopulation and Land Grabbing in Chilean Patagonia

Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile

Enhancing participatory governance in biosphere reserves through co-creation of transdisciplinary and intergenerational knowledge

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