Author, as appears in the article.: De la Varga Pastor, Aitana; Pons Sole, Joan;
Department: Dret Públic
URV's Author/s: De la Varga Pastor, Aitana
Keywords: Valuation Payments for ecosystem services Need Millennium objectives Land stewardship Environmental protection Environmental legislation Ecosystem services Classification
Abstract: In this paper we analyse how the conservation of ecosystem services (ES) is integrated in Spanish and Catalan legislation on land stewardship. Analysing their implementation in Catalonia, we demonstrate that the legal land stewardship framework has innovative tools that can be supplemented by payments for ecosystem services (PES) and tax incentives toward comprehensive ES protection. By analysing several experiences in Catalonia currently under development, we verify that implementing all of these instruments and encouraging the involvement of public administrations and civil society as a whole is crucial to conserving ES. Overall, we demonstrate the importance of incorporating into law not only ES but also measures available for protecting them and the alternative instruments used to develop them.
Thematic Areas: Sociología Nature and landscape conservation Management, monitoring, policy and law Interdisciplinar Human geography and urban studies Global and planetary change Geography, planning and development Environmental studies Environmental sciences Engenharias i Ecology Ciencias sociales Ciências ambientais Ciências agrárias i Biodiversidade Agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous)
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: aitana.delavarga@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-3124-4409
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Ecosystem Services. 29 395-403
APA: De la Varga Pastor, Aitana; Pons Sole, Joan; (2018). Innovative legal tools applied in land stewardship for the conservation of ecosystem services in Catalonia. Ecosystem Services, 29(), 395-403. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.08.010
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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