History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape

dc.contributor.authorBarthel, Stephanen_US
dc.contributor.authorColding, Johanen_US
dc.contributor.authorElmqvist, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.authorFolke, Carlen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-31T14:52:26Z
dc.date.available2009-07-31T14:52:26Z
dc.date.issued2005en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-09-04en_US
dc.date.submitted2008-09-04en_US
dc.description.abstract"Urban green spaces provide socially valuable ecosystem services. Through an historical analysis of the development of the National Urban Park (NUP) of Stockholm, we illustrate how the coevolutionary process of humans and nature has resulted in the high level of biological diversity and associated recreational services found in the park. The ecological values of the area are generated in the cultural landscape. External pressures resulting in urban sprawl in the Stockholm metropolitan region increasingly challenge the capacity of the NUP to continue to generate valuable ecosystem services. Setting aside protected areas, without accounting for the role of human stewardship of the cultural landscape, will most likely fail. In a social inventory of the area, we identify 69 local user and interest groups currently involved in the NUP area. Of these, 25 are local stewardship associations that have a direct role in managing habitats within the park that sustain such services as recreational landscapes, seed dispersal, and pollination. We propose that incentives should be created to widen the current biodiversity management paradigm, and actively engage local stewardship associations in adaptive co-management processes of the park and surrounding green spaces."en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournalEcology and Societyen_US
dc.identifier.citationmonthDecemberen_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber2en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume10en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/2665
dc.subjectecosystemsen_US
dc.subjectlocal participatory managementen_US
dc.subjectresilienceen_US
dc.subjecturbanizationen_US
dc.subject.sectorSocial Organizationen_US
dc.subject.sectorUrban Commonsen_US
dc.titleHistory and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscapeen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.type.publishedpublisheden_US

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