Social participation in sustainable forest management processes. Case study
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[1] Universidad de Valladolid
Universidad de Valladolid
Valladolid, España
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- Localización: XI young researchers meeting on conservation and sustainable use of forest systems / coord. por Elena Hidalgo Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Dorado Reyes, Ainhoa Iñiguez Soto, Diego A. Damián Carrión, Samuel Gato Martín, Guillermo Jové Alcalde, Raúl Arcadio Fernández González, 2017, ISBN 978-84-617-9574-1, pág. 56
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Cerrato´s Region, located in the southeast of the province of Palencia (Castilla y León, Spain), occupies an area of 171.080 ha, which forestry area represents 23,74 % of the total, whithin more than the 84% of the forestry area. In this region, Holm oak (Quercus ilex) and Gall oak (Quercus faginea) forests, represent more than the 58% of the tree-covered area. From the socio-economic point of view, it is an eminently rural zone, characterized by a severe decline and a demographic aging and a low population density. Nowadays the service and the construction are the main activities sectors in this area, and the agrarian activity is becoming less important. In this context, the main goal of this research is to design a sustainable forest management strategy for the Holm and Gall oak forest of this region. In order to achieve this goal, a social participation process has been carried out, constituted by a representative group of agents related to the forest sector of the area. From the methodological point of view, qualitative (deep interview and close question) and quantitative methods (Analytic Hierarchy Process –AHP-) have been used. The results have allowed us to raised proposals to implement a sustainable strategy based on agro-sylvo-pastoral model to benefit the management of the different resources of the region taking account the population´s priorities. This management model expects to generate both direct benefit, as a higher income and employment in the forestry sector or the consolidation of the importance of theforest as an protective element of the environment, and indirect benefits that will have consequences in the local population and the society in general, such as development of participatory forest management models, dynamism to rural areas, and new work opportunities in related sectors, setting the population and achieving the well-being of society.
