Analysis of the social perception of ecosystem services on a peri-urban communal forest from northwestern Spain: a social-ecological approach

  1. Rodríguez-Morales López, Beatriz
Dirixida por:
  1. Emilio Rafael Díaz Varela Director
  2. José V. Roces Diaz Director

Universidade de defensa: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Fecha de defensa: 29 de xullo de 2020

Tribunal:
  1. Marina García Llorente Presidente/a
  2. Mar Pérez Fra Secretaria
  3. Mario Torralba Viorreta Vogal
Departamento:
  1. Departamento de Producción Vexetal e Proxectos de Enxeñaría

Tipo: Tese

Resumo

This PhD Thesis analyses the social perception of the ecosystem services provided by the peri-urban Xalo communal forests (NW Spain) by using a multidisciplinary socio-cultural approach with a gender perspective. It contains three original research works that develop an increasing gradient of stakeholder participationfrom observation, through consultation to engagement. The results obtained underline the critical importance of the non-material benefits that communal forests provide to society. This research demonstrates that the socio-cultural assessment of the actual demand for ecosystem services provides key information to local communities and political actors in the context of reinvention that many communal forest communities are heading nowadays.