Advancing Knowledge Pluralism and Cultural Benefits in Ecosystem Services Theory and Application

Hoelting, Kristin; Martinez, Doreen E.; Schuster, Rudy M.; Gavin, Michael C.

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“…Dominant approaches to research on both value pluralism and ES-knowledge-use rest on the assumption that ES-knowledge is only made available to decision-makers through scientific documentation. As a result, we fail to recognize the role of knowledge pluralism as an enabling factor for meaningful consideration of the plural values linked to the cultural benefits of ES (Hoelting et al, 2022). Western scholars and decision-makers are beginning to acknowledge that attention to knowledge pluralism is a requirement to achieve value pluralism in ES research and in decision-making more broadly (Díaz et al, 2015a(Díaz et al, , 2015bHoelting et al, 2022;Pascual et al, 2021;Tengo et al, 2014Tengo et al, , 2017Turnhout et al, 2014;Turnhout, 2018).…”

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“…As a result, we fail to recognize the role of knowledge pluralism as an enabling factor for meaningful consideration of the plural values linked to the cultural benefits of ES (Hoelting et al, 2022). Western scholars and decision-makers are beginning to acknowledge that attention to knowledge pluralism is a requirement to achieve value pluralism in ES research and in decision-making more broadly (Díaz et al, 2015a(Díaz et al, , 2015bHoelting et al, 2022;Pascual et al, 2021;Tengo et al, 2014Tengo et al, , 2017Turnhout et al, 2014;Turnhout, 2018). This emerging awareness echoes persistent frustrations among Indigenous peoples, who have long faced challenges in explaining the value of the land to non-Native decision-makers (e.g., Bates & Winter, 1993;Lewis & Sheppard, 2005;Mowaljarlai, 1993).…”

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“…We use knowledge pluralism to refer to multiple ways of knowing, including distinct worldviews and diverse knowledge forms understood to convey valid knowledge claims (Hoelting et al, 2022).…”

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“…Value aspects: To achieve value pluralism, we must attend not only to instrumental value aspects, i.e., utilitarian and substitutable, but also relational aspects, i.e., nonsubstitutable and arising from reciprocal human-nature relationship, and intrinsic value aspects, i.e., ecosystems, or components of ecosystems, are understood to possess their own value, independent of human use or other benefit (Hoelting et al, 2022).…”

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“…The separation of value aspects into distinct categories represents a reductionist value perspective. To achieve value pluralism, we must also create space for holistic value perspectives, in which instrumental, relational, and intrinsic aspects of value are understood to be inseparable and mutually reinforcing (Hoelting et al, 2022).…”

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Opportunities for Improved Consideration of Cultural Benefits in Environmental Decision-Making

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Many cultural benefits of ecosystems are difficult to capture in standard ecosystem services (ES) assessments. Scholars and practitioners often respond to this gap by seeking to develop new scientific methods to capture and integrate the plural values associated with diverse cultural benefits categories. This increasing emphasis on value pluralism represents an essential step toward recognitional justice within ES theory and practice. However, current approaches continue to rest on the assumption that ES-knowledge is only made available to decision-makers through scientific documentation. As a result, scholars and decision-makers fail to account for the role of knowledge pluralism as a core element of recognitional justice, and a key enabling factor for meaningful consideration of the plural values linked to cultural benefits of ES. In this paper, we contribute to a pluralist theory of cultural-benefits-knowledge, and ES-knowledge more broadly. Using a Critical Interpretive Synthesis of environmental management literature, we conceptualize a wider range of knowledge forms that convey cultural benefits, based on the knowledge-as-practice concept in addition to the knowledge-as-product concept more familiar to Western actors. As part of the synthesis, we explore when and how diverse forms of cultural-benefits-knowledge intersect with decision-making processes, and the value aspects and categories of cultural benefits most frequently conveyed by each form of knowledge. Our synthesizing argument offers a critique of the concept of “ES-knowledge-use,” proposing a shift in focus toward “learning opportunities” that exist across phases of decision-making. We demonstrate that attention to a greater diversity of knowledge forms (knowledge pluralism), and a fuller spectrum of opportunities to integrate them (learning opportunities) can support more meaningful consideration of the plural values associated with cultural benefits of ecosystem services (value pluralism). In combination, attention to knowledge pluralism and value pluralism can help bring the ES approach into alignment with environmental justice through the recognition and legitimization of multiple identities, well-beings, and human-nature relationships, as reflected in meaningful consideration of the diverse cultural benefits of ES.

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Within governance agencies, academia, and communities alike, there are increasing calls to recognize the value and importance of culture within social‐ecological systems and to better implement Indigenous sciences in research, policy, and management. Efforts thus far have raised questions about the best ethical practices to do so. Engaging with plural worldviews and perspectives on their own terms reflects cultural evolutionary processes driving paradigm shifts in 3 fundamental areas of natural resource management: conceptualizations of natural resources and ecosystems, processes of public participation and governance, and relationships with Indigenous Peoples and communities with differing worldviews. We broadly describe evolution toward these paradigm shifts in fish and wildlife management. We then use 3 case studies to illustrate the ongoing cultural evolution of relationships between wildlife management and Indigenous practices within specific historical and social‐ecological contexts and reflect on common barriers to appropriately engaging with Indigenous paradigms and lifeways. Our case studies highlight 3 priorities that can assist the field of wildlife management in achieving the changes necessary to bridge incommensurable worldviews: acknowledging and reconciling historical legacies and their continued power dynamics as part of social‐ecological systems, establishing governance arrangements that move beyond attempts to extract cultural information from communities to integrate Indigenous Knowledges into dominant management paradigms, and engaging in critical reflexivity and reciprocal, accountable relationship building. Implementing these changes will take time and a commitment to processes that may initially feel uncomfortable and unfamiliar but have potential to be transformative. Ethical and culturally appropriate methods to include plural and multivocal perspectives and worldviews on their own terms are needed to transform wildlife management to achieve more effective and just management outcomes for all.

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Advancing Knowledge Pluralism and Cultural Benefits in Ecosystem Services Theory and Application

Cited by 5 publications

References 96 publications

Opportunities for Improved Consideration of Cultural Benefits in Environmental Decision-Making

Opportunities for Improved Consideration of Cultural Benefits in Environmental Decision-Making

Evolving wildlife management cultures of governance through Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives

The complexity of evaluating, categorising and quantifying marine cultural heritage

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