Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?

The creation of new legally protected areas brings many conflicts that distance the real landscape from the expected according to environmental law or conservation researchers. In this study, we mapped and compared the changes in Serra da Japi (São Paulo State, Brazil) throughout 40 years with scena...

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Autores principales:	Hardt,Elisa, Ferreira dos Santos,Rozely, Lopes Pereira-Silva,Erico F
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales 2012
Materias:	landscape ecology environmental law scenario LUCC Atlantic Forest
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-920020120003000192014-11-05Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?Hardt,ElisaFerreira dos Santos,RozelyLopes Pereira-Silva,Erico F landscape ecology environmental law scenario LUCC Atlantic Forest The creation of new legally protected areas brings many conflicts that distance the real landscape from the expected according to environmental law or conservation researchers. In this study, we mapped and compared the changes in Serra da Japi (São Paulo State, Brazil) throughout 40 years with scenarios of legal protection and scientific expectation on forest conservation, to evaluate the distance between them. This may allow us to infer the direction of historical changes and assist in the debate among decision makers. The results showed that most legal requirements on forest protection in the current landscape have been met. The 1960s was the period when the forest cover was closest to the desirable conservation stage. Although the Serra do Japi has maintained large areas of forests during the entire study period, human interference increased with the expansion of reforestation and urban areas, and access roads were identified as a primary potential driving forces of change. In addition, habitat loss was observed in the landscape, which can represent the first phase of a sequence of modifications detrimental to the environmental conservation of this protected area, including decision changes to land use. In conclusion, the changes evolved toward conservation expectations, but not toward the forest configuration of scientific expectation.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias ForestalesBosque (Valdivia) v.33 n.3 20122012-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-92002012000300019en10.4067/S0717-92002012000300019
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description	The creation of new legally protected areas brings many conflicts that distance the real landscape from the expected according to environmental law or conservation researchers. In this study, we mapped and compared the changes in Serra da Japi (São Paulo State, Brazil) throughout 40 years with scenarios of legal protection and scientific expectation on forest conservation, to evaluate the distance between them. This may allow us to infer the direction of historical changes and assist in the debate among decision makers. The results showed that most legal requirements on forest protection in the current landscape have been met. The 1960s was the period when the forest cover was closest to the desirable conservation stage. Although the Serra do Japi has maintained large areas of forests during the entire study period, human interference increased with the expansion of reforestation and urban areas, and access roads were identified as a primary potential driving forces of change. In addition, habitat loss was observed in the landscape, which can represent the first phase of a sequence of modifications detrimental to the environmental conservation of this protected area, including decision changes to land use. In conclusion, the changes evolved toward conservation expectations, but not toward the forest configuration of scientific expectation.
author	Hardt,Elisa Ferreira dos Santos,Rozely Lopes Pereira-Silva,Erico F
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title	Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
title_short	Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
title_full	Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
title_fullStr	Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
title_full_unstemmed	Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
title_sort	landscape changes in serra do japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?
publisher	Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales
publishDate	2012
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Landscape changes in Serra do Japi: legal protection or scientific expectation?

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