Can local policy options reverse the decline process of small and marginalized rural areas influenced by global change?

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dc.bibliographicCitation.titleEnvironmental Science & Policyen
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume127es_ES
dc.contributor.authorTenza Peral, Aliciaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorPérez Ibarra, I.es_ES
dc.contributor.authorBreceda, A.es_ES
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Fernández, J.es_ES
dc.contributor.authorGiménez, A.es_ES
dc.coverage.spatialProducción y sanidad animales_ES
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-14T09:13:19Z
dc.date.available2021-12-14T09:13:19Z
dc.date.issued2022es_ES
dc.description.abstractRural depopulation generates deep territorial imbalances, threats regional food security, and causes the irreversible loss of culture and local institutions that manage natural resources and ecosystem services worldwide. While local leadership and economic diversification have been pointed as factors that could trigger rural development, what happens to remote rural areas whose continuous process of depopulation has undermined their social capital and leadership and their endogenous capacity for economic diversification? What realistic policy options could trigger an effective and endogenous rural development process in these weakened areas? Here we used a dynamic simulation model and a sensitivity analysis to explore the long-term effects of local policy options suggested by institutional, academic and local stakeholders that could act on leverage points to revert the depopulation of a marginalized rural area in Mexico, the oasis of Comondú in Baja California Sur. The identified leverage points are related to improving the production yields of irrigated agriculture and livestock farming, the main economic activities of this social-ecological system. Our results showed the positive, but limited, effects of acting on these leverage points. However, they seem plausible good places to act to start an endogenous revitalization process in this rural area. We found complementariness between the stakeholders’ management proposals, and high proximity of these proposals to the leverage points, especially the most place-based-specific proposals. This study shows the relevance of place-based research for rural development and how modeling is a valuable decision support tool to evaluate in advance the effectiveness of policy options proposed by stakeholders.en
dc.description.statusPublishedes_ES
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Science & Policy, vol. 127, (2022)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10532/5623
dc.language.isoenes_ES
dc.relation.doi10.1016/j.envsci.2021.10.007es_ES
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901121002872es_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.agrovocZonas ruraleses
dc.subject.agrovocMigración rural-urbanaes
dc.subject.agrovocPolítica de desarrolloes
dc.subject.agrovocDesarrollo rurales
dc.subject.agrovocEstrategías de desarrollo rurales
dc.subject.agrovocModelos de simulaciónes
dc.titleCan local policy options reverse the decline process of small and marginalized rural areas influenced by global change?en
dc.typeJournal Contribution*
dc.type.refereedRefereedes_ES
dc.type.specifiedArticlees_ES

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