Is the Spanish Population Pro-Conservation or Pro-Utilitarian towards Threatened Flora? Social Analysis on theWillingness to Protect Biodiversity
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Biodiversity conservation Adaptive management Flora
Date
2024-06-01Referencia bibliográfica
Algarra, J.A. & Ramos Lorente, M.M. & Cariñanos, P. Land 2024, 13, 785. [https://doi.org/10.3390/land13060785]
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C-EXP-167-UGR23 funded by Consejería de Universidad, Investigación e Innovación and by the ERDF Andalusian Program 2021–2027Résumé
Conserving biodiversity in the context of global change is a challenge for the sustainability
of life as we know it. Scientific protection work, particularly for flora, often lacks interdisciplinary
approaches that consider human dynamics. The main objective is to evaluate the level of commitment
of Spanish society toward the conservation of biodiversity in general and vascular flora in particular.
As a secondary objective, it aims to contribute to the transfer between management and the general
population. Methodologically, the survey has been used to estimate the willingness to protect
threatened flora. The surveyed population is structured on the basis of its commitment to biodiversity
conservation into: pro-conservation or pro-utilitarian group. The results are conclusive and indicate
a high commitment of the Spanish society to conservation in aspects such as fees or legislative
limitations on owners. It also reveals a deficiency in the transfer of the efforts made, from management,
to society. It can be concluded that the survey, as a tool, allows us to know the starting social reality,
detect weaknesses and deficiencies that allow management to be adapted to that reality, replicate
work longitudinally to know the evolution of the measures and, indirectly, bring reality closer, of
conservation to the people surveyed (science transfer).