RT Journal Article
T1 Recreational and Nature-Based Tourism as a Cultural Ecosystem Service. Assessment and Mapping in a Rural-Urban Gradient of Central Spain
A1 Arnaiz-Schmitz, Cecilia
A1 Herrero-Jáuregui, Cristina
A1 Schmitz García, María Fe
AB Land management focused from the social-ecological perspective of ecosystem services should consider cultural services in decision-making processes. Nature-based tourism offers a great potential for landscape conservation, local development and the well-being of human populations. However, the subjectivity of recreational ecosystem services has meant a clear impediment to assessing and mapping them. In this study, an integrated numerical spatial method is developed, which quantifies the supply and demand of recreational ecosystem services and allows mapping their spatial correspondence along a rural-urban gradient. The procedure also allows quantifying the influence of the landscape structure and the presence of protected areas on the degree of coupling between supply of recreational ecosystem services and demand for outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism and reveals that protected areas are hotspots of recreational ecosystem services. The results obtained highlight the usefulness of the methodological procedure developed as a tool for sustainable land planning and management from an integrative social-ecological approach.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-445X
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-30
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8179
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8179
LA eng
NO Comunidad de Madrid / FEDER
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025