José Antonio Torres González

TL;DR: It is concluded that socio-cultural preferences toward ecosystem services can serve as a tool to identify relevant services for people, the factors underlying these social preferences, and emerging ecosystem service bundles and trade-offs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors distributed questionnaires to evaluate the social perceptions and attitudes of different stakeholder groups affected by invasive alien species in the Donana social-ecological system (SW Spain).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examined the Galapagos situation from a broad systems perspective, conceptualizing the archipelago as a complex social-ecological system, and explored past, present, and possible future trends using the resilience theory as a perspective for understanding the dynamics of the system.

TL;DR: A socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services associated with the Conquense Drove Road, one of the major transhumant networks still in use in Mediterranean Spain, was conducted via the distribution of questionnaires to 416 local residents and visitors to capture their perceptions regarding the importance of 34 ecosystem services (10 provisioning, 12 regulating, and 12 cultural) for both social and personal well-being as mentioned in this paper.