Cultural Ecosystem Services in Protected Areas: a literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Sancho Pivoto, Altair
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Raimundo, Sidnei, Lima, Raphaella, Alves, Alexandre Fonseca
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Cultura e Turismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.uesc.br/index.php/cultur/article/view/3270

The ecosystem services express the multiple benefits provided by the ecosystems to society. In the specific case of cultural services, the emphasis is on the role of nature in generating non-material benefits, such as leisure, recreation, tourism, spirituality, health, environmental education. Despite its relevance, this theme is not sufficiently studied by academia and there are knowledge gaps that need to be closed to understand better how people recognize and interact with nature. The Cultural Ecosystem Services (SEC being the original acronym, in Portuguese) carry great subjectivity, be it for the diversity of people's perception and the intangibility of green areas, especially legally protected ones. Inspired by this scenario, this study aims to recognize the state of the art in researches about cultural ecosystem services. One focus is the approaches adopted, the typology of green areas studied, and the representation of protected areas in the context of such researches. The investigation methods used are also of importance, as well as the chronological distribution of publications and existing gaps or breakthroughs in the area. This investigation involved a bibliometric study using national and international databases about cultural ecosystem services, through accessing articles from Brazil and abroad, published from 2006 on. The results show that studies on SEC are still incipient, especially concerning protected areas. One of the justifications for this scenario is the difficulty to assess and appraise such services since they are related to the contact and perception of each individual with the natural environment, one's desires, motivations, and recreational benefits, such as leisure, aesthetic and spiritual.