Relationships between coastal urbanization and ecosystems in Spain

Andrés, María de; Barragán, Juan Manuel; Sanabria, Javier García

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.05.004

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“…Land development pressure on the coast was clear and generally greater than inland, underpinning previous claims in Spain (de Andrés et al, ; Jiménez, ; Jiménez et al, ; Pons & Rullán, ) and abroad (Burak, Dogan, & Gazioglu, ; Creel, ; Iglesias‐Campos, Meiner, Bowen, & Onwona Ansong, ; Zhang & Song, ). It was similarly intense in 1‐ and 5‐km buffers around PAs, both inland and on the coast, although land development buffer values on the coast nearly doubled those inland.…”

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“…Residential, industrial, and infrastructural development along the 1990s and, especially, early 2000s has expanded the Countries' artificial areas hugely, with widespread impact on territorial sustainability and wildlife (García-Ayllón, 2015;Jiménez, 2012;Torres, Jaeger, & Alonso, 2016). Actually, LULC changes towards rural abandonment, agricultural intensification and land development, especially along the coast, are the main pressures leading to biodiversity loss in Spain (Custodio et al, 2016;de Andrés, Barragán, & García Sanabria, 2017;Montes et al, 2011;Rey Benayas, Martins, Nicolau, & Schulz, 2007).…”

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Effect of protected areas in reducing land development across geographic and climate conditions of a rapidly developing country, Spain

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Protected areas (PAs) aim at safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services in the long term. Despite the remarkable growth in area covered by PAs in recent years, biodiversity trends continue to worsen as a result of serious global pressures such as habitat destruction and degradation. One main cause of habitat destruction and degradation is land development that implies the replacement of natural land uses–land covers (LULCs) with artificial ones. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of four PA networks at preventing land development in Spain, a biodiversity‐rich country that has experienced recent rapid environmental transformations, using two models of increased validity: an original model and a biophysically enhanced model. We applied a before–after control–impact (BACI) design whereby absolute artificial area increase (AAI) and relative artificial area increase (RAI) were compared across PA categories (nature reserves [NRs], nature parks [NPs], Sites of Community Importance [SCIs], and Special Protection Areas [SPAs]), study zones (coastal and inland), and climates (Atlantic and Mediterranean) using CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data and two control zones: 1‐ and 5‐km buffers around protected polygons. NRs prevented land development, whereas other categories reduced it moderately to very substantially in the assessed period. AAI was especially intense in inland SPAs and NPs. NRs and NPs were the most effective PA categories inland, whereas NRs and SPAs were the most effective ones on the coast. Land development was greater on the Spanish coast than inland inside and outside PAs, especially around Macaronesian and Mediterranean PAs. Atlantic PAs experienced similar or greater land development values than surrounding areas. Our results are intended to guide future conservation efforts in Spain, chiefly on its heavily pressured coastal environment.

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“…Es muy importante para el caso estudiado tener en cuenta el contexto general. La situación observada en la Bahía de Cádiz coincide, con las lógicas variaciones, con lo que sucede en muchas zonas costeras del mundo, del Mediterráneo y de España (Barragán & De Andrés, 2015;De Andrés et al, 2017;García-Nieto et al, 2018). Las bahías y los estuarios se han convertido en sistemas socio-ecológicos de extrema complejidad.…”

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“…La localización geográfica de este proceso es también una información interesante: el 46 % de las CAC se encuentran en cuerpos cerrados o semicerrados de agua marina (bahías, golfos, ensenadas o lagunas costeras). En España la situación es bastante parecida (de Andrés et al, 2017).…”

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La gestión de los sistemas socio-ecológicos de la Bahía de Cádiz: ¿nuevas políticas públicas con viejos instrumentos?

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La Bahía de Cádiz es un ámbito geográfico que alberga cinco sistemas socio-ecológicos bien diferenciados. La hipótesis de trabajo asume el importante papel que las políticas públicas han tenido en los cambios de los sistemas socio-ecológicos de la Bahía de Cádiz. Los objetivos del artículo pretenden demostrar, por un lado, que el modelo de desarrollo ha tenido como consecuencia la pérdida de servicios ecosistémicos. Por otro, se intentará demostrar que los instrumentos de gestión pública no son eficientes para proteger y conservar estos sistemas socio-ecológicos. Los cambios en estos sistemas socio-ecológicos han sido muy significativos en los últimos 60 años. Esto es fácilmente visible desde un punto de vista territorial. Una primera evaluación de los principales servicios ecosistémicos, así como su incidencia en el bienestar humano, describe un proceso (DPSIWR) de insostenibilidad. En la segunda parte de la investigación se han analizado con detenimiento 15 instrumentos diferentes de gestión pública, desarrollados entre 2004 y 2018. Estos instrumentos se interpretan como las respuestas que ofrecen las políticas públicas a los problemas de la Bahía de Cádiz. Después, los 15 casos elegidos se han contrastado en forma de 18 preguntas. Todo parece indicar serias dificultades para implementar nuevas políticas con antiguos criterios.

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“…A large amount of ecological and agricultural land has been converted to residential and industrial land. These large changes in regional ecological patterns [9][10][11] may lead to a series of ecological and environmental problems, such as coastal erosion [12], wetland loss [13], deterioration of offshore water quality [14], etc. How to quantify the anthropogenic interference in coastal zones under the influence of rapid urbanisation is an important question to answer for coastal scientific governance and sustainable development [8,15].…”

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Dynamic Evaluation of the Impact of Human Interference during Rapid Urbanisation of Coastal Zones: A Case Study of Shenzhen

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Coastal ecosystems undergoing rapid urbanisation have characteristics of both natural and artificial ecosystems. How we evaluate the dynamic impact of human activities on coastal ecosystems is important for coastal zone management and development. In this study, we first developed a method to extract both the natural and artificial features of coastal land cover, and classified the coastal landscapes impacted by human activities from an ecological service perspective. We then constructed an ecological interference index for classification to evaluate the impact of coastal human interference on both artificial and natural ecosystems during rapid urbanisation. Lastly, we verified our method by applying it to the coastal zone in Shenzhen, China. Our results show that this method can describe the effects of human activities on coastal zones in more detail. The distribution of human activity was mainly associated with the geomorphology of the coastal zone. Changes in human interference were seen strongly in proximity to both the landward and coastal boundaries of the study area, in close correlation with the public’s increasing conscience for ecological environment protection.

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Relationships between coastal urbanization and ecosystems in Spain

Cited by 56 publications

References 12 publications

Effect of protected areas in reducing land development across geographic and climate conditions of a rapidly developing country, Spain

Effect of protected areas in reducing land development across geographic and climate conditions of a rapidly developing country, Spain

La gestión de los sistemas socio-ecológicos de la Bahía de Cádiz: ¿nuevas políticas públicas con viejos instrumentos?

Dynamic Evaluation of the Impact of Human Interference during Rapid Urbanisation of Coastal Zones: A Case Study of Shenzhen

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