Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany

Peter, Sophie; Provost, Gaëtane Le; Mehring, Marion; Mueller, Thomas; Manning, Peter

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“…and the valuing of positive contributions is deeply entrenched in worldviews and practices related to different entities of nature (Ellis et al, 2019;Gunton et al, 2017;Peter et al, 2021). Overall, attitude thus reflects which contributions an individual perceives from an entity, and how they evaluate them.…”

Section: Attitudementioning

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“…Socio‐cultural and psychological context influence what contributions someone receives from an entity, to what extent they are aware of those contributions, how strongly they value or disdain them and how they respond to them (Gunton et al., 2017; Hill et al., 2021; Pascual et al., 2017; Peter et al., 2021). Culture plays a central role here, because it coins images, norms and practices regarding entities of nature (Batavia et al., 2020; Muradian & Pascual, 2018).…”

Section: Why We Need To Zoom Into Connections Between Nature and Peoplementioning

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Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

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Recognizing variation in human–nature relationships across different contexts, entities of nature and individual people is central to an equitable management of nature and its contributions to people, and to design effective strategies for encouraging and guiding more sustainable human behaviour. We complement the broader Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) conceptual framework by zooming in from relationships between people and nature to individual relationships with entities of nature (IREN), and introduce a new typology that categorizes those relationships based on individual attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour towards an entity. These three dimensions illustrate if an individual perceives the entity to provide mainly positive, negative or no contributions; prefers to have a mainly positive, negative or no impact on the entity; and performs mainly actions with positive, negative or no impacts on the entity. The IREN typology defines 17 overarching relationship types, including not only types where attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour are all negative (intolerance), all neutral (indifference) or all positive (stewardship), but also types where the valence of some dimensions diverges. Among those, we integrate and redefine established types like tolerance, and introduce new ones like ambivalent opposition, which is highly relevant for the management of overabundant or invasive species. Combining attitude, behavioural preference and behaviour to categorize different IREN types can help detect inequalities in the benefits and detriments individual people receive from different entities, and signal societal conflict potential or misalignment of behaviour with conservation goals. Combining those three dimensions also indicates the relative importance of goal‐oriented motives like the desire to optimize an entity's perceived contributions, moral motives like the desire to act righteously and implementation barriers preventing individuals from acting according to their preference. By adding an individual‐ and entity‐specific perspective, the IREN framework and typology can encourage more equitable approaches to managing the benefits and detriments people derive from nature, and assist the development of more effective strategies for aligning human behaviour with conservation and sustainability goals.

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“…In this line, there are several sociological theories that have been studied in the context of ES, for the consideration of intangible dimensions such as, for example, the "social theory and Bourdieu's concept of habitus", which seeks to understand the process by which relational values are socially constructed and shared [76]. Another theory studied in forest provisioning services has been the "sociological theory of risk" [77], which assumes that human perceptions of nature and society, as well as the risks associated with these perspectives, are socio-culturally constructed [78]. Finally, it is worth highlighting the research by Sotirov et al [79] based on "behavioral theory", which combines the logic of consequences, the logic of appropriateness ("Homo sociologicus") and the logic of cognition, thus managing to incorporate the variable "behaviour" in the assessment of forest ES provision, in this case at the landscape level.…”

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“…(ii) Regulatory services: In this category are the services obtained by people from ecosystem regulation processes [5], highlighting "climate regulation" [61,69] and "air purification", both linked to carbon sequestration/CO 2 depletion [84,111]. Another major benefit is "habitat maintenance for animals and plants" [58,77]. Finally, "prevention of desertification" [71,110], "soil fertility" [103] and "pollination" [70] are identified as essential regulatory processes for habitat maintenance in general and the development of different activities such as agriculture.…”

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An Analysis of the Worldwide Research on the Socio-Cultural Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services

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The socio-cultural valuation of forest ecosystem services is a useful tool to generate knowledge and help balance the different interests of stakeholders with respect to the management of these services. The aim of this study is to analyse the evolution of global research on the economic valuation of forest ecosystem services through a review of the existing literature on this topic. The results show that socio-cultural valuation has gained importance in recent years. There is a wide disparity between the countries conducting the research and those being studied. Inconsistency has been observed in the definition and classification of services provided by forests, as well as a lack of unanimity on the reference framework to be applied. The main methodological approaches in the socio-cultural valuation of forest services are participatory mapping, social media analysis, the Q method and free listing. For the collection of primary information, the dominant methodologies are focus groups, semi-structured interviews and online surveys. Finally, this study demonstrates that socio-cultural valuation has great potential to improve the legitimacy of forest ecosystem management decisions and to promote consensus building.

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“…If trade-offs are prevalent, explicit value-based decision making is necessary. The relative priority of different conservation objectives varies among different societal groups, which differ in their demands and values (Peter et al 2021). Therefore, decisions as to which areas should be prioritized are strongly value based.…”

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Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection

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The establishment and maintenance of protected areas (PAs) is viewed as a key action in delivering post-2020 biodiversity targets. PAs often need to meet a multitude of objectives, ranging from biodiversity protection to ecosystem service provision and climate change mitigation. As available land and conservation funding are limited, optimizing resources by selecting the most beneficial PAs is vital. Here we present a decision support tool that enables a flexible approach to PA selection on a global scale, allowing different conservation objectives to be weighted and prioritized according to user-specified preferences. We apply the tool across 1347 terrestrial PAs and highlight frequent trade-offs among different objectives, e.g., between biodiversity protection and ecosystem integrity. These results indicate that decision makers must usually decide among conflicting objectives. To assist this our decision support tool provides an explicitly value-based approach that can help resolve such conflicts by considering divergent societal and political demands and values.

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Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri bution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Cited by 35 publications

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Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

Rethinking individual relationships with entities of nature

An Analysis of the Worldwide Research on the Socio-Cultural Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services

Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection

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