Co-creation of economic value in peri-urban protected areas: Insights from nature conservation and nature-based recreation

IF 6.5 1区经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Habitat International Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103462

José A. Albaladejo-García, Federico Martínez-Carrasco Pleite, José M. Martínez-Paz

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Abstract

The co-creation has proven to be an effective approach for enhancing the quality of decisions through a process of deliberation and collaborative management for protected areas. This approach has the potential to bridge the knowledge gap that often exists between the stakeholders, academic and administrative realms. This work proposes to use a co-creation process to determine the economic value of peri-urban protected areas, one of the most outstanding natural areas where the most drastic land-use changes tend to occur. The growing demand for conserving and visiting peri-urban natural protected areas is leading decision-makers to improve their knowledge of the socioeconomic values of these spaces. To this end, the Sierra Espuña Regional Park (SE-Spain) is employed as a case study to enable the implementation of a three-step process, whereby the social demand for nature conservation and nature-based recreation, and the key challenges and potentials of this peri-urban protected area are identified. The methodology employed was based on a contingent valuation survey and the travel cost method, in addition to a focus group where a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis was conducted. The results demonstrated the usefulness of the co-creation process to improve the knowledge of: the social preference for nature conservation, with a total economic value of 11,301,112 €/year; the recreational activities in nature, with a benefit of 4,921,840 €/year; and the main challenges and potentials of peri-urban areas, highlighting the bureaucracy to carry out the actions and the demand for ecotourism-related services. It therefore justifies the suitability of applying this type of collaborative approach between the academic, stakeholders and decision-makers realms as a preliminary step towards the formulation of more sustainable management measures for the achievement of urban social well-being.

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城市周边保护区经济价值的共同创造：来自自然保护和自然休闲的见解

共同创造已被证明是通过审议和保护区协作管理过程来提高决策质量的有效方法。这种方法有可能弥合利益相关者、学术和行政领域之间经常存在的知识差距。这项工作建议使用共同创造过程来确定城郊保护区的经济价值，城郊保护区是最突出的自然区域之一，土地利用变化最剧烈。保护和参观城市周边自然保护区的需求日益增长，这促使决策者提高他们对这些空间的社会经济价值的认识。为此，塞拉Espuña区域公园（SE-Spain）被作为一个案例研究，以实现一个三步走的过程，通过这个过程，社会对自然保护和基于自然的娱乐的需求，以及这个城郊保护区的主要挑战和潜力被确定。所采用的方法是基于或有估值调查和旅行成本方法，此外还有一个焦点小组，其中进行了SWOT（优势、劣势、机会和威胁）分析。结果表明，共同创造过程对提高自然保护的社会偏好知识的有用性，总经济价值为11,301,112欧元/年；自然休闲活动，收益4,921,840欧元/年；并对城郊地区面临的主要挑战和潜力进行了分析，重点介绍了官僚主义对生态旅游相关服务的实施行动和需求。因此，有理由在学术界、利益攸关者和决策者领域之间采用这种合作办法，作为为实现城市社会福利制订更可持续的管理措施的初步步骤。

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Habitat International Multiple-

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10.50

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10.30%

发文量

151

审稿时长

38 days

期刊介绍： Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions.