Can geocaching be an indicator of cultural ecosystem services? The case of the montado savannah-like landscape

Rosário, Inês T.; Rebelo, Rui; Cardoso, Paulo; Segurado, Pedro; Mendes, Ricardo Manuel Nogueira; Santos‐Reis, Margarida

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.12.003

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“…Previously, data on the views and values of visitors to parks have been collected using surveys, choice experiments, community consultation and focus groups, among others (Newsome et al 2012;Stolton and Dudley 2014). More recently, data from social media have been used to address important environmental and management questions (Ghermandi and Sinclair 2019), including identifying how visitors view and value natural environments and potential ecosystem services (Oteros-Rozas et al 2018;Teles da Mota and Pickering 2018;Rosa ´rio et al 2019).…”

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Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

Rossi

Barros

Walden‐Schreiner

et al. 2019

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Social media images are a novel source of data to assess how people view and value the environment. Access to these images is often free, the volume and spread of images is expanding rapidly and hence they are an increasingly valuable source of data complementing and expanding on other data. Recently, coding images has been used to assess sociocultural values relating to ecosystem services including those provided by national parks. To further explore the use of social media images, including for remote environments, we analysed the content of images posted to Flickr by people visiting a national park that contains the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere, Mt. Aconcagua, in Argentina, South America. The saliency of aesthetic landscapes, recreation, social relations and fresh-water provisioning was high across the 334 images posted to Flickr by 104 visitors to the Park, but location mattered. Images from visitors in easily accessible day-use areas were significantly more likely to include content that reflects biodiversityexistence, geology, culture and education services, while the content of images from remote areas was more likely to reflect social relations and fresh-water provision services. Comparisons of the content of images from Mt. Aconcagua with other studies in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia highlight similarities and differences in people's views of the diversity of locations, but also the benefits and limitations of user-generated social media content when assessing environmental and management issues.

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Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

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Walden‐Schreiner

et al. 2019

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“…Recent advancements have broadened the monitoring and quality assessment of HNVf and its ES with a multidimensional approach, emphasizing the importance of blending ecological, economic, and socio-cultural insights [48,108,[124][125][126][127]. A pivotal challenge lies in harmonizing localized, hands-on knowledge of HNVf with expansive global metrics.…”

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Trends in High Nature Value Farmland and Ecosystem Services Valuation: A Bibliometric Review

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Gomes,

Pereira

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High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) represents a rural landscape characterized by extensive farming practices. These lands not only deliver vital ecosystem services (ES) but also serve as significant harbors of biodiversity, underscoring their critical conservation status. Consequently, European Union countries have prioritized the identification, monitoring, and enhancement of HNVf systems in their policies. As governments and international organizations increasingly lean on green subsidies to promote sustainable environmental practices, the valuation of ecosystem services (VES) emerges as a crucial tool. This valuation offers both an economic rationale for conservation and aids in determining the optimal allocation of these subsidies for maximum environmental and economic return on investment. Given the potential for such valuations to shape and justify conservation subsidies, there is a growing imperative to understand the research trends and knowledge gaps in this realm. This article, through a bibliometric review, seeks to illuminate the size, growth trajectory, and thematic tendencies within HNVf and VES literature. Bibliometric analysis is recognized as promising in identifying research trends; thus, this article consists of a bibliometric review of HNVf and VES research. The objective is to identify the size, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of HNVf and VES literature between the first publication until 2022, while assessing the critical publishing journals, authors, documents, and conceptual structure of the research fields (e.g., economic, social, and environmental). The analysis revealed a predominant concentration of research on HNVf in Europe, with limited studies conducted outside this continent. The primary focus of these studies revolved around subject areas such as environmental science, agriculture, and biological sciences. Conversely, regarding research on VES, there was no clear regional concentration. VES research publications mainly covered the interdisciplinary fields of economics, biology, and policymaking. As the fields of HNVf and VES have evolved, it is evident that there has been a stronger push towards data-driven approaches, emphasizing the need for tangible assessments and precise understanding. In examining the overlap between topics, the analysis revealed a gap between methodologies for HNVf monitoring and conservation and VES, highlighting the need for further development in crafting an integrated approach encompassing both areas.

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“…Geocaching also offers an API service with data available on the location of caches, find counts, points-of-interest and user profiles (Geocaching, 2019). The data available has been used to directly measure recreational services (Dai et al, 2019), as well as preferences for natural areas (Cord et al, 2015;Rosário et al, 2019), cycling routes (Griffin and Jiao, 2015;Sultan et al, 2017;Sun et al, 2017) and protected areas (Jurado Rota et al, 2019;Norman et al, 2019;Norman and Pickering, 2017).…”

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Crowdsourced data and machine learning to measure cultural ecosystem services

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Cultural ecosystem services (CES) are some of the most valuable contributions of ecosystems to human well-being. Nevertheless, these services are often underrepresented in ecosystem service assessments. Defining CES for the purposes of spatial quantification has been challenging because it has been difficult to spatially model CES. However, rapid increases in mobile network connectivity and the use of social media have generated huge amounts of crowdsourced data. This offers an opportunity to define and spatially quantify CES. We inventoried established CES conceptualisations and sources of crowdsourced data to propose a CES definition and typology for spatial quantification. Furthermore, we present the results of three spatial models employing crowdsourced data to measure CES on Texel, a coastal island in the Netherlands. Defining CES as information-flows best enables service quantification. A general typology of eight services is proposed. The spatial models produced distributions consistent with known areas of cultural importance on Texel. However, user representativeness and measurement uncertainties affect our results.Ethical considerations must also be taken into account. Still, crowdsourced data is a valuable source of information to define and model CES due to the level of detail available. This can encourage the representation of CES in ecosystem service assessments.

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Can geocaching be an indicator of cultural ecosystem services? The case of the montado savannah-like landscape

Cited by 14 publications

References 77 publications

Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

Trends in High Nature Value Farmland and Ecosystem Services Valuation: A Bibliometric Review

Crowdsourced data and machine learning to measure cultural ecosystem services

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