@misc{10481/105565, year = {2022}, month = {7}, url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/105565}, abstract = {Reconciling nature conservation and cultural ecosystem services (CES) has become fundamental to manage mountain protected areas. The timely monitoring of CES opportunities at large scales is therefore a pressing need. We combined social media data and Earth observations (EO) into a multi model inference framework to assess CES opportunities in two contrasting mountain Biosphere Reserves in Southern Europe: Peneda-Gerês (Portugal) and Sierra Nevada (Spain). EO indicators expressing people’s accessibility to leisure elements and landscape visual-sensory characteristics appear to be effective candidates for the monitoring of attributes underlying CES. Our findings recognise EO as complementary tools to socio-cultural approaches for the evaluation of CES, aiding stakeholders in their management decisions focused on the resilience and sustainability of mountain protected areas.}, organization = {AS Vaz was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain) through the 2018 Juan de la Cierva-Formación program [contract reference FJC2018-038131-I] and by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology through Stimulus of Scientific Employment, Individual Support (reference 2020.01175.CEECIND/CP1601/CT0009). AS Cardoso was supported by FCT through a PhD Research Grant (reference 2021.05426.BD). CCarvalho-Santos was supported by the “Contrato-Programa” UIDP/04050/2020 funded by national funds through the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. AS Vaz, D Alcaraz-Segura and R Moreno-Llorca acknowledge support from the EarthCul Project (reference PID2020-118041GB-I00), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. This chapter contributes to the GEO BON research on ecosystem services.}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, keywords = {Cultural ecosystem services}, keywords = {Protected areas}, keywords = {Recreation and tourism}, keywords = {Satellite remote sensing}, keywords = {Social media}, title = {Earth Observations of Human-Nature Interactions from a Cultural Ecosystem Service Perspective}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01980-7_8}, author = {Vaz, Ana Sofía and Moreno-Llorca, Ricardo and Carvalho-Santos, Cláudia and Cardoso, Ana Sofía and Honrado, João and Cabello, Javier and Alcaraz Segura, Domingo}, }