Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Volume 45, Issue 1, Pages 20-29Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892917000169
Keywords
coupled socio-ecological systems; deagrarianization; deruralization; humans in nature; IPCC scenarios; local populations; socio-ecological webs; tourism system
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- Fuerteventura Cabildo (European Social Fund - Madrid Government) [314/2006-228/2008]
- CULTURESCAPES (European Social Fund - Madrid Government) [H2015/HUH-3383]
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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 socio-ecological 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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