Journal
AMBIO
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 578-587Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-016-0857-7
Keywords
Argentina; GIS; Matanza-Riachuelo watershed; Priority sites; Restoration beneficiaries; Spatial multi-criteria analysis
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- National Agency for Science and Technology of Argentina [PICT-2009-0125]
- Maimonides University
- National Agency for Science and Technology of Argentina (PME grants)
- National Agency for Science and Technology of Argentina (PFDT scholarship)
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In the present context of global change and search for sustainability, we detected a gap between restoration and society: local communities are usually only considered as threats or disturbances when planning for restoration. To bridge this gap, we propose a landscape design framework for planning riparian rehabilitation in an urban-rural gradient. A spatial multi-criteria analysis was used to assess the priority of riversides by considering two rehabilitation objectives simultaneously-socio-environmental and ecological-and two sets of criteria were designed according to these objectives. The assessment made it possible to identify 17 priority sites for riparian rehabilitation that were associated with different conditions along the gradient. The double goal setting enabled a dual consideration of citizens, both as beneficiaries and potential impacts to rehabilitation, and the criteria selected incorporated the multi-dimensional nature of the environment. This approach can potentially be adapted and implemented in any other anthropic-natural interface throughout the world.
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