Comparing logging and subsistence values of plants across an indigenous peoples’ influenced landscape

Shah, Muna; Cummings, Anthony R.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.06.045

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“…This tension between subsistence activities and economic gain mirrors what has been reported by ES researchers in other contexts in the Global South. In Southern Guyana, for example, Indigenous peoples ranked the subsistence values of plants as more important than logging values (Shah and Cummings 2018). Similarly, research conducted in Bangladesh found that research participants rely on materials provided by provisioning services more for subsistence than for cash purposes (Ahammad et al 2019).…”

Section: Tensions Of the Elicitedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystems services research in action: reflexively valuing environments in the South Pacific

Hunter¹,

Lauer²

2021

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Ecosystem services (ES) are heralded as an approach that communicates across disciplines and between researchers and resource managers, encouraging more environmentally sustainable human behavior. However, most studies presuppose that "values" are ontologically distinct from "ecosystem services" without examining what this framing enables and occludes about human and otherthan-human relations. Through a reflexive research approach, we conduct a conventional photo elicitation ES survey among four groups in Moorea, French Polynesia, while also eliciting respondents' evaluations of the survey method, and documenting the method in action as participants interacted with it. Photo elicitation results suggest that fishers valued the subsistence fishery while scientists favored habitats, yet all stakeholders were concerned about the role of economic activities in contributing to environmental degradation. Yet, survey participants had difficulties with interpreting the photos of ecosystem services as intended, an indication that the ES framework commits to a nature-culture dualism and displaces other ways of ordering human and other-than-human relations, particularly those present throughout the Global South. We argue that ecosystem services research is best treated as a situated practice where researcher and research participants jointly produce intended and unintended results and outcomes.

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Section: Tensions Of the Elicitedmentioning

confidence: 99%