Urban Ecological Oceanic Island Network System

The oceanic islands are well known for their high biodiversity where the dynamic integration of the ecosystems inside the populated islands are such as a living laboratory of ecological and social relations of interdependence.Oceanic islands are experimenting significant pressure on their ecosystems.Habitat fragmentation produces poor spatial connectivity between protected areas and human settlements.The essence of the research approach is to develop a new framework of Oceanic Island Urban Ecological Watershed Network System based on urban ecological networks in dealing with socio-ecosystems connectivity issues space.This new urban ecological planning tool can help to generate an integrator balance by a physical linkage system in a socio-ecosystem island.Facilitating the territorial ordering based on the spatial and functional relations between ecological functions and urban structure through the island watershed network.This system has not been analyzed yet as an essential resource for integrating de natural and human systems in oceanic islands.This thesis presents a landscape theory connectivity analysis of the built space vs.the natural space into the watershed space boundaries of oceanic islands.The case study is developed in Santa Cruz Island,Galapagos into the Pelican Way Watershed boundaries.In this context,spatial network elements are considered under land movement concept.The analysis is intended to determine the spatial elements interrelationships by socio-ecological networks establishing a new land use system strategy.Additionally,it is valuable and necessary to establish a new concept of land use network for oceanic islands such as a potential resource to generating a physical structure of environmental balance connectivity,which includes social needs and ecological potentialities for successful urban ecological conservation and development.