scholarly journals Expanding the suite of Cultural Ecosystem Services to include ingenuity, perspective, and life teaching

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle Gould ◽  
Noa Lincoln

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are a crucial but relatively understudied component of the ecosystem services framework. While the number and diversity of categories of other types of ES have steadily increased, CES categories are still largely defined by a few existing typologies. Based on our empirical data, we suggest that those typologies need updating. We analyzed data from interviews conducted in adjacent Hawaiian ecosystems — one agricultural and one forested. We found that current categories of CES do not capture the diversity and nuance of the nonmaterial benefits that people described receiving from ecosystems. We propose three new CES categories: ingenuity, life teaching, and perspective. We discuss issues of lumping and splitting CES categories, and advocate that creating categories for these emerging themes will help us to more fully capture nonmaterial benefits in ecosystem services research and policy.

2017 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ruiz-Frau ◽  
S. Gelcich ◽  
I.E. Hendriks ◽  
C.M. Duarte ◽  
N. Marbà

Author(s):  
Д.В. ЧЕРНЫХ ◽  
Л.Ф. ЛУБЕНЕЦ ◽  
А.Е. ЗИНОВЬЕВА

В настоящее время в рамках концепции экосистемных услуг все большее значение приобретают культурные экосистемные услуги. Последние часто характеризуются как «субъективные» и поэтому трудно поддающиеся количественной оценке, а их экономическая оценка является предметом дискуссий. Цель исследования – предварительная оценка потенциала культурных экосистемных услуг территории Усть-Коксинского района Республики Алтай на основе интервьюирования населения. В исследовании приняли участие 92 человека. Интервьюирование проводилось в феврале 2020 г. в четырех населенных пунктах Усть-Коксинского района Республики Алтай: Усть-Кокса (26 чел.), Верх-Уймон (17), Мульта (23), Катанда (26). Среди нематериальных благ, предоставляемых людям ландшафтами, жители Усть-Коксинского района чаще всего называли чистый воздух (41 %), эстетическое наслаждение и связанные с ним восхищение и умиротворение (38 %), а также отдых (30 %). В перечне природных и культурных объектов, расположенных в районе и представляющих наибольший интерес для посетителей и туристов, респонденты на первое место поставили Мультинские озера и г. Белуха. В целом жители опрошенных населенных пунктов оценивают территорию своего района как эстетически привлекательную и положительно оценивают деятельность Катунского заповедника в сохранении этой привлекательности. Более половины населения считает, что отдыхающие должны платить за возможность наслаждаться красивым пейзажем, однако против введения рекреационного налога. Оказать разовую материальную поддержку для улучшения экологического состояния местности в районе проживания готовы 78.3 % опрошенных, однако оказывать такую поддержку на регулярной основе готовы лишь 18.5 %. Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are defined as the nonmaterial benefits that people obtain from ecosystems. CES is one of the four pillars comprising common ecosystem services classifications. They form an important part of tourism amenities. The study of CES has been considered one of the most difficult and least accomplished tasks in ecosystem services research. Despite growing research over the last decade, CES assessment still remains arbitrary. They are difficult to quantify in biophysical assessments, and their economic evaluation is generally subject to controversy. CES require very different measures to those generally used by biophysical scientists. Spatially explicit assessments of CES can be broadly divided into two approaches: user-dependent subjectivist approaches and user-independent formal assessments. Studies which provide information about the CES offered by particular ecosystems or regions are more usually based on the collection of qualitative data from people who use, or visit, those areas. Mountain regions meet an increasing demand for pleasant landscapes, offering many CES to both their residents and tourists. Natural protected areas in the mountains provide society with a rich flow of ecosystem-related benefits, including CES. The work presented in this paper aims to provide a framework for assessment of CES in Ust-Koksinsky District (Altai Republic), and it is part of a larger effort to set up tools and methods for the spatially explicit evaluation of ecosystem services in Altai mountains. The present study goal is to assess full range of CES as perceived by local people. The research is conducted in the Altai Republic, which has a well developed tourism industry based on the cultural landscape and nature attractions. It was performed in four villages within the Ust-Koksinsky District near Katunskiy Biosphere Reserve. The results stem from interviews with 92 persons that were analyzed with statistical techniques. Statistical analysis was employed to identify the preference of respondents for landscape features. Among the nonmaterial benefits provided to people by landscapes, respondents most often called air quality (41 %), aesthetic value (38 %) and recreation (30 %). Multinsky Lakes and Mount Belukha are the most interesting sites to tourists. The results show that respondents relate diverse CES and multiple local-level sites to reserve. We conclude that CES assessments should be pushed ahead as indispensable elements in the management and protection of mountain landscapes. Spatially explicit information on CES that incorporates the differentiated perceptions of local populations provides a rich basis for the development of sustainable land management strategies.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Stålhammar

The efforts to measure people’s current preferences and values of ecosystem services raise questions about the link to sustainability transformations. The importance of taking social and cultural values of nature into account is increasingly recognised within ecosystem services research and policy. This notion is informing the development and application of social (or socio-cultural) valuation methods that seek to assess and capture non-material social and cultural aspects of benefits of ecosystems in non-monetary terms. Here, ‘values’ refer to the products of descriptive scientific assessments of the links between human well-being and ecosystems. This precise use of the values term can be contrasted with normative modes of understanding values, as underlying beliefs and moral principles about what is good and right, which also influence science and institutions. While both perspectives on values are important for the biodiversity and ecosystem services agenda, values within this space have mainly been understood in relation to assessments and descriptive modes of values. Failing to acknowledge the distinction between descriptive and normative modes bypasses the potential mismatch between people’s current values and sustainability transformations. Refining methodologies to more accurately describe social values risks simply giving us a more detailed account of what we already know—people in general do not value nature enough. A central task for values studies is to explore why or how peoples’ mindsets might converge with sustainability goals, using methods that go beyond assessing current states to incorporate change and transformation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 101328
Author(s):  
Nathan Fox ◽  
Laura J. Graham ◽  
Felix Eigenbrod ◽  
James M. Bullock ◽  
Katherine E. Parks

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