Publications by authors named "Maria Martinez-Harms"
Sustainability is a key challenge for humanity in the context of complex and unprecedented global changes. Future Earth, an international research initiative aiming to advance global sustainability science, has recently launched knowledge-action networks (KANs) as mechanisms for delivering its research strategy. The research initiative is currently developing a KAN on "natural assets" to facilitate and enable action-oriented research and synthesis towards natural assets sustainability.
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- Experiences with nature in protected areas enhance pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, emphasizing the importance of accessibility.
- A study in Chile's biodiversity hotspot reveals that 20% of the population accounts for 87% of visits to these areas, highlighting significant access inequality.
- Wealthier individuals travel farther for nature visits, indicating a need to expand protected areas in lower-income regions to ensure equitable access to nature’s cultural benefits.
Landscape structure and fragmentation have important effects on ecosystem services, with a common assumption being that fragmentation reduces service provision. This is based on fragmentation's expected effects on ecosystem service supply, but ignores how fragmentation influences the flow of services to people. Here we develop a new conceptual framework that explicitly considers the links between landscape fragmentation, the supply of services, and the flow of services to people.
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