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

• Autores: Beatriz Rodríguez-Morales López
• Directores de la Tesis: Emilio Rafael Díaz Varela (dir. tes.), José V. Roces Diaz (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2020
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Marina García Llorente (presid.), Mar Pérez Fra (secret.), Mario Torralba Viorreta (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería para el Desarrollo Rural y Civil por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Materias:
  • Ciencias agrarias
    • Ciencia forestal
      • Ordenación de montes
  • Sociología
    • Cambio y desarrollo social
      • Desarrollo socio-económico
    • Sociología de los asentamientos humanos
      • Sociología ecológica
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
• Resumen

  • 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.