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| Booth, Josephine E; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; Sheffield Hallam University; Josephine.booth@shu.ac.uk; Gaston, Kevin J; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; k.j.gaston@sheffield.ac.uk; Armsworth, Paul R; Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield; University of Tennessee; p.armsworth@utk.edu. |
| Public support for protected areas depends, in part, upon clear demonstrations of the importance of the ecosystem services provided by these areas. However, only a limited number of studies have examined the value of protected areas in providing these services, and even less work has assessed how equitably these benefits are distributed across society. We used on-site surveys to characterize people who derived recreational benefit from a set of areas in the United Kingdom that were originally protected for their conservation value. We found that an unrepresentative subset of society enjoyed this benefit. Site visitor populations were biased towards older people and men, and minority groups were starkly underrepresented, comprising only 1% of overall... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Protected areas; Recreation; Recreational benefits; Sites of Special Scientific Interest; SSSI; Social inclusion; Surveys. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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