TY - JOUR
T1 - La Campana-Peñuelas biosphere reserve in Central Chile
T2 - Threats and challenges in a peri-urban transition zone
AU - Salazar, Alejandro
AU - Moreira-Muñoz, Andrés
AU - del Río, Camilo
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - UNESCO biosphere reserves are territories especially suited as laboratories for sustainability. They form a network of more than 600 units worldwide, intended to be key sites for harmonization of the nature-culture interface in the wide diversity of ecosystems existing on Earth. This mission is especially challenging in territories with high levels of land transformation and urbanization. The La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve (BR) is one of these units: located in one of the world's conservation priority ecosystems, the Central Chilean Mediterranean ecoregion, it is at the same time one of the globally highly threatened spaces since the biota in this territory coexist with the most densely populated Chilean regions. This report deals with the main threats and land-use changes currently happening in the transition zone of La Campana-Peñuelas BR, which pose several challenges for the unit as an effective model of sustainability on a regional scale.
AB - UNESCO biosphere reserves are territories especially suited as laboratories for sustainability. They form a network of more than 600 units worldwide, intended to be key sites for harmonization of the nature-culture interface in the wide diversity of ecosystems existing on Earth. This mission is especially challenging in territories with high levels of land transformation and urbanization. The La Campana-Peñuelas Biosphere Reserve (BR) is one of these units: located in one of the world's conservation priority ecosystems, the Central Chilean Mediterranean ecoregion, it is at the same time one of the globally highly threatened spaces since the biota in this territory coexist with the most densely populated Chilean regions. This report deals with the main threats and land-use changes currently happening in the transition zone of La Campana-Peñuelas BR, which pose several challenges for the unit as an effective model of sustainability on a regional scale.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Environmental threats
KW - Priority conservation sites
KW - Regional planning
KW - Sustainability science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84921748552&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1553/eco.mont-7-1s66
DO - 10.1553/eco.mont-7-1s66
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921748552
SN - 2073-106X
VL - 7
SP - 66
EP - 71
JO - Eco.mont
JF - Eco.mont
IS - 1
ER -
