1. Citizen participation as a social shift tool in projects of urban fluvial space recovery: A case study in Spain
- Author
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Miriam Serrano Martínez, Juan José Pons Izquierdo, and Francisco Durán Vian
- Subjects
education.field_of_study ,Ecology ,business.industry ,Population ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Soil Science ,Fluvial ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Forestry ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,Space (commercial competition) ,Social engagement ,01 natural sciences ,Environmental education ,Work (electrical) ,Public use ,Political science ,business ,Rural settlement ,education ,Environmental planning ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
This article reviews the impact of social participation on the results of projects aimed at the improvement and conditioning of fluvial spaces for public use. This work focuses on a partially materialised fluvial rehabilitation in Arevalo (Avila), a Spanish rural settlement. The hypothesis of the study was that the projects success depended not only on its technical aspects but also on the involvement of local population from its beginning and on the information and environmental education that they received. Once the first stage of the project was completed, and in order to measure the projects performance, some indicators related to the developed activities were collected and a survey was carried out. The results show that, thanks to a social feedback process, there was a rise of the fluvial space knowledge and consciousness of the environment among the population, as well as a reconciliation with the river area.
- Published
- 2018