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Díaz Pineda, Francisco

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Francisco
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Díaz Pineda
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/74396
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Biológicas
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Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución
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Ecología
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    Seguimiento del cambio global
    (Boletin electrónico EUROPARC España, 2017) Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Schmitz, María Fe; Acosta Gallo, Beatriz; Díaz, Pablo; Ruiz Labourdette, Diego
    La Conferencia de París sobre el Clima (COP-21; 2015) ha sido la más importante de las celebradas sobre el tema desde que, hace más de medio siglo, se diera la voz de alarma a cerca del “Cambio Climático Antropogénico”. Esa importancia se debe a la información que ha llegado a acumularse actualmente y al compromiso lógico de los gobiernos de casi todo el mundo sobre un cambio probablemente inevitable, pero que reclama medidas urgentes para mitigar sus efectos y, paralelamente, adaptar a él otra más reciente y rápida transformación, la socioeconómica –el “Cambio Socioeconómico”. Los cambios denunciados como ‘crisis ambiental’ desde los años 60 se perciben hoy como un acelerado y preocupante “Cambio Global”, que implica una modificación seria de la dinámica de las masas fluidas del Planeta (cambio climático) y una veloz transformación de las relaciones de las sociedades humanas entre sí y con el ambiente biofísico (cambio socioeconómico).
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    People and nature in the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands): socio-ecological relationships under climate change
    (Environmental Conservation, 2017) Schmitz García, María Fe; Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Díaz, Pablo; Gaspar García de Matos, Daniela; Díaz Pineda, Francisco
    This paper analyses the interdependence between environment and society in terms of socio-ecological webs, in which human and biophysical systems are linked. A quantitative model, based on canonical correlation analysis applied in Fuerteventura Island (Canary Archipelago), detected indicators of human– landscape relationships and predicted potential shifts based on simulated environmental changes. In the last few decades, the landscape of Fuerteventura Island has changed: natural components and cultural agrarian uses have decreased, while the population has increased due to immigration, mainly from mainland Spain and other European countries. The island shows a transition from a coupled local socio-ecosystem to one based on the interaction between environment and coastal tourism that decouples native inhabitants from the landscape and traditional land-use practices. As vulnerability and adaptation to climate change represent critical sets of potential interactions in Canary Islands, a model and a map of the socioecological system under four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios show rural decoupling through ‘deagrarianization’ and ‘deruralization’, as well as stronger links to the tourism system.
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    Rural tourism: crossroads between nature, socio-ecological decoupling and urban sprawl
    (WIT Transactions on Ecology and The Environment, 2018) Arnaitz Schmitz, Cecilia; Santos, Luis; Herrero Jaúregui, Cristina; Díaz, Pablo; Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Schmitz García, María Fe
    The development of cultural tourism has turned traditional rural landscapes, characterized by their great natural and cultural values, into focus of tourism attraction, causing important changes in the socioeconomic structure of the regions containing them. The enhancement of this tourism highlights the need to design and implement a sustainable management that guarantees the maintenance and conservation of the landscape and the economic development of local populations. This study, localised in the Lozoya Valley (Guadarrama Mountains, Central Spain), analyses the socio-ecological situation of its municipalities and visitors in two different times. The analysis of its temporal evolution has allowed us to notice a marked socio-ecological decoupling characterized by urban sprawl, loss of traditional landuses and practices and the rurality of local society. At the same time, a decrease is detected in the rural landscape valuation by visitors, increasing their preferences for naturalness. The conducted study is a novel contribution applicable to the conservative management of the landscape and the development of sustainable tourism for nature and society.
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    Modelling of socio-ecological connectivity. The rural-urban network in the surroundings of Madrid (Central Spain)
    (Urban ecosystems, 2018) Arnaiz Schmitz, Cecilia; Díaz, Pablo; Ruiz-Labourdette, Diego; Herrero Jáuregui, Cristina; Molina, Mercedes; Montes, Carlos; Díaz Pineda, Francisco; Schmitz García, Maria Fe
    As most of Europe’s metropolitan landscapes grow, a change is occurring in their surrounding rural environment. The consequences thereof mainly involve losses of traditional land uses and changes in the socioecomic structures of the local population. The lack of coupling ‘urban society-countryside’ can be considered to constitute a driving force of this process. The present paper focuses upon the rural-urban network around the metropolis of Madrid (Central Spain). We developed a quantitative model to explain the socio-ecological rural-urban linkages, taking into account the influence of the metropolis in the network of neighbouring municipalities. The results show a rural landscape gradient ranging from silvo-pastoral to agricultural land uses and maintaining different interactions with the local socioeconomy. Urban-rural polarisation of the territory and accessibility to the metropolis are the main factors influencing the landscape dynamics. Territorial cohesion among municipalities and connectivity with the metropolis are factors determining the socio-ecological structure. The agricultural area presents good social cohesion, but a weak connection with the City. The silvo-pastoral landscape, on the contrary, maintains prominent links with the metropolis, but a non-significant interconnection between the small towns. The model tested constitutes a useful tool for analysing socio-ecological connectivity and for quantifying, designing and promoting territorial cohesion policies.