A proposal of resilience indicators for Monfragüe National Park

• Autor(a) principal: Velarde, Jacinto Garrido
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Aliseda, Julián Mora
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/29041
• topic: Environmental Sustainability, Natural Spaces, Resilience Indicators

Natural spaces represent environmental systems with a double function, both social and ecological, where environmental sustainability conditions can be assessed. One of the most important features of the socio-ecological systems is called resilience, which is related to the magnitude of the forces or pressures that a system can absorb remaining in a stable state and thus being able to self-organize and improve their ability to learn and adapt. The main objective of this study is to design and propose a resilience indicator system for Monfragüe National Park, in response to the need for a set of enough data to monitoring the short, medium and long term persistence of protected area against changes or environmental impacts, social and economic environment of the Park. We expect that, by laying down the objectives, it will be possible for the relevant authorities to adopt strategies of sustainable management. The resilience indicators systems proposed in this study for Monfragüe National Park, could be recommended for subsequent application of resilience indicators in other National Parks.