Benetti Stefania, Langemeyer Johannes
Department of Methods and Models for Economy, Territory and Finance (MEMOTEF), University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Ecosyst People (Abingdon). 2021 Jul 21;17(1):411-431. doi: 10.1080/26395916.2021.1946155. eCollection 2021.
Protected areas are key instruments for conserving biodiversity and landscapes. Yet, conservation initiatives are still often struggling to accommodate people's needs, provoking conflicts, and lacking support from local communities. Our study combines environmental justice and ecosystem services approaches to provide a critical understanding of trade-offs between people's interests and conservation goals in the case study of (Italy). Applying a qualitative content analysis of different materials and using a survey of local residents, we focus on three main objectives: analysing the implementation of the ecosystem services framework in policy documents and exploring how different people value benefits from nature; investigating the decision-making process in terms of participation, information and communication strategies; and identifying how conservation policies generated different allocations of benefits, burdens and inequalities among social groups. The integrated approach applied in our study highlights ways to systematically uncover perceived injustices and identifies potential conflict lines. In the long run, this approach might help to increase the public acceptance of protected areas by fostering sustainability also in its often-overlooked social dimension.
保护区是保护生物多样性和景观的关键手段。然而，保护举措仍常常难以满足人们的需求，引发冲突，且缺乏当地社区的支持。我们的研究结合了环境正义和生态系统服务方法，以便在（意大利）的案例研究中，深入理解人们的利益与保护目标之间的权衡。通过对不同材料进行定性内容分析并对当地居民进行调查，我们关注三个主要目标：分析生态系统服务框架在政策文件中的实施情况，并探讨不同人群如何看待来自自然的益处；从参与、信息和沟通策略方面调查决策过程；以及确定保护政策如何在社会群体之间产生不同的利益、负担和不平等分配。我们研究中采用的综合方法突出了系统揭示感知到的不公正现象的方法，并确定了潜在的冲突点。从长远来看，这种方法可能有助于通过在常常被忽视的社会层面促进可持续性，来提高公众对保护区的接受度。
