People and nature in the Fuerteventura Biosphere Reserve (Canary Islands): Socio-ecological relationships under climate change. Schmitz, M., Arnaiz-Schmitz, C., Herrero-Jáuregui, C., DÍaz, P., Matos, D., & Pineda, F. Environmental Conservation, 45(1):20–29, 2018.
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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. Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2017.
@article{schmitz_people_2018,
	title = {People and nature in the {Fuerteventura} {Biosphere} {Reserve} ({Canary} {Islands}): {Socio}-ecological relationships under climate change},
	volume = {45},
	issn = {03768929},
	url = {https://www2.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85015796202&doi=10.1017%2fS0376892917000169&partnerID=40&md5=46e1660244e39935c29089dfbd8c9e55},
	doi = {10.1017/S0376892917000169},
	abstract = {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. Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2017.},
	language = {English},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Environmental Conservation},
	author = {Schmitz, M.F. and Arnaiz-Schmitz, C. and Herrero-Jáuregui, C. and DÍaz, P. and Matos, D.G.G. and Pineda, F.D.},
	year = {2018},
	keywords = {Canary Islands, Climate change, Climate models, Ecology, Forestry, Fuerteventura, IPCC scenarios, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Land use, Landforms, Las Palmas, Local populations, Socio-ecological, Socio-ecological systems, Spain, adaptive management, climate change, correspondence analysis, deagrarianization, deruralization, environmental change, human activity, humans in nature, local participation, nature-society relations, protected area, tourism, tourism system, vulnerability},
	pages = {20--29}
}

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