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Opinions on the Orchard of the Lower Segura River: A Changing Space under Great Human Pressure

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  • María Dolores Ponce-Sánchez

    (Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Murcia, Campus La Merced, 30001 Murcia, Spain)

  • Ramón García-Marín

    (Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Murcia, Campus La Merced, 30001 Murcia, Spain)

  • Gregorio Canales-Martínez

    (Instituto Interuniversitario de Geografía, Universidad de Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain)

  • Javier Lozano-Parra

    (Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avda. Vicuña Mackenna, 4860 Santiago de Chile, Chile)

Abstract

What makes the Lower Segura River (southeast of Spain) unique is the existence of a densely populated and entropized territory around a smallholder agricultural activity that for centuries has shaped the so-called “Segura Orchard.” In recent years, there has been widespread occupation due to the construction of secondary residences, which has clearly changed the rural appearance, sometimes creating an image more typical of disorderly residential urbanization than of an inhabited agricultural territory. The objective of this paper is to determine the attitude and position of the resident population regarding the situation and future prospects that are envisioned for this area. In this paper, we have conducted a personal and open interview as a technique to collect the information. If we are not capable of generating sustainable socio-economic activity, we will not be able to preserve, protect and transcend what we still know as an orchard. This spatial structure is undoubtedly singular and complex, and after a process of loss of identity and alteration of traditional uses, it requires an intervention that tends to organize it and protect the important territorial heritage that it still preserves.

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  • María Dolores Ponce-Sánchez & Ramón García-Marín & Gregorio Canales-Martínez & Javier Lozano-Parra, 2020. "Opinions on the Orchard of the Lower Segura River: A Changing Space under Great Human Pressure," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-16, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:11:p:4446-:d:364984
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