Percepción social hacia los servicios ecosistémicos en zonas bajo restauración de paisajes en el cantón Zamora, provincia de Zamora Chinchipe

Ecosystem services are direct and indirect benefits that people receive from ecosystems; however, their provision is strongly threatened by anthropogenic activities. In this context, forest landscape restoration is an appropriate strategy to recover ecosystem services in degraded and deforested areas. From the exhaustive literature review conducted for this study, it became evident that in Ecuador there is limited information on the benefits provided by ecosystem services to communities adjacent to restoration areas. There is also a lack of information on the socioeconomic aspects that facilitate or limit the participation of people in restoration projects. The present study was developed with the objective of knowing the level of social perception towards ecosystem services and to identify the socioeconomic aspects that facilitate or limit the implementation of restoration actions at the farm level. This research was carried out in the province of Zamora Chinchipe, in the rural communities of Timbara parish, Zamora canton. Ninety-three surveys were administered to farm owners, collecting sociodemographic information, productive activities, restoration and conservation projects, and ecosystem services. The level of social perception of 12 ecosystem services was evaluated. A logit model was used to identify the socioeconomic aspects that facilitate or limit participation in restoration actions. The Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was used to validate the model. Prior to estimating the model, a Pearson correlation analysis was performed to rule out multicollinearity problems among the variables. The results indicated that people consider 11 ecosystem services as very important and only one as not at all important. The socioeconomic factors that facilitate or limit people's participation in restoration actions were: the number of people in the household (p-value=0.000), the distance from the center of the community to the farm (p-value=0.065) and agricultural income (p-value=0.083). This study can contribute as a basis for promoting strategies to prevent the implementation of anthropogenic activities detrimental to ecosystem services. Likewise, understanding socioeconomic factors is fundamental for the planning of restoration projects based on the social reality and needs of rural communities. Key words: perception, ecosystem services, restoration, socioeconomic aspects, rural communities.

• Hovedforfatter: Aguinsaca Gómez, Fanny Mireya (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Sprog: spa
• Udgivet: 2023
• Fag: ECOSISTEMA; COMUNIDADES RURALES; SOCIOECONOMICOS
• Online adgang: https://dspace.unl.edu.ec/jspui/handle/123456789/27536