Mountain Cryosphere Landscapes in South America: Value and Protection

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dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Pereira, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorPeterson, Voltaire Alvarado
dc.contributor.authorLiaudat, Dario Trombotto
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:18:15Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:18:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractMountain landscapes support hydric and biodiversity potential under different ownership and land use perspectives. A focal point justifying their preservation is often the legislation's ethical endorsement. Yet, when scales for assessment diverge without a common analytical purpose, the protective measures may become either ambiguous or insufficient. By considering that mountain cryosphere landscapes have both subjective and supply values, we focused on approaches to protect them and examined conceptual dissonances in their assessment. This ambiguity was examined by analyzing the hydric storage potential of the mountain cryosphere in semi-arid regions in the Andes. We reviewed the technical aspects of cryosphere hydrology and how current legislation aims to preserve freshwater supply and non-instrumental value. The analysis found a clash between instrumental and non-instrumental values and, most importantly, the neglect of a temporal dimension for landscape evolution. Particularly, landscape protection becomes suboptimal as scales of analysis for use and non-use values diverge. Therefore, we recommend analyzing mountain cryosphere landscapes as overlapped sub-units bearing a unified potential (future value) as a hydric resource. This analysis should fit the most inclusive scale on which transaction costs reflecting needs and insurance values reflecting management quality are optimal.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/conservation3010017
dc.identifier.eissn2673-7159
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/conservation3010017
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92450
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001215507100001
dc.issue.numero1
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final246
dc.pagina.inicio232
dc.revistaConservation
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectmountain cryosphere
dc.subjectlandscape protection
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjecthydric potential
dc.subjectnatural value
dc.subjectCentral Andes
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleMountain Cryosphere Landscapes in South America: Value and Protection
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen3
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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