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| Pàgina inicial > Articles > Articles publicats > Coastal marine habitats deterioration according to users' perception : |
| Data: | 2024 |
| Resum: | Assessing how different users of a Marine Protected Area perceive environmental changes can contribute to design management strategies. We assess how locals and tourists perceive environmental changes in the Cap de Creus protected area (NW Mediterranean, Spain). To identify locally perceived changes, we first conducted semi-structured interviews with locals (n = 38). Reported environmental changes were then used to construct a survey applied to locals and tourists (n = 427). In semi-structured interviews, environmental changes were the least reported changes compared to economic and social changes; reports of negative environmental changes dominated over reports of positive environmental changes. Overall, all survey participants reported a decline of the health status of the local environment, with locals displaying higher levels of agreement with statements referring to coastal environmental deterioration than tourists. The predominance of responses reporting economic versus environmental changes can be explained by the recent radical transformation of the area towards tourism. Reports of coastal marine area deterioration are in line with available instrumental data. Higher levels of agreement with statements referring to environmental deterioration among locals than among tourists highlight the importance of people's connection with nature to assess change. Considering that Cap de Creus has been protected for more than two decades, our findings raise concerns regarding its ongoing deterioration and underscore the importance of monitoring the effectiveness of marine protection to modulate management strategies. |
| Ajuts: | Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad MDM-2015-0552-16-3 Agencia Estatal de Investigación BES-2016-077644 Agencia Estatal de Investigación CTM2016-79547-R Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación CEX2019-000940-M Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1588 European Commission 771056 |
| Nota: | Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB |
| Nota: | Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2019-000940-M |
| Drets: | Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. |
| Llengua: | Anglès |
| Document: | Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Matèria: | Environmental change ; Local knowledge ; Marine ecosystem ; Mediterranean Sea ; Perceptions of change ; Tourism |
| Publicat a: | Regional environmental change, Vol. 24 (October2024) , art. 155, ISSN 1436-378X |
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