Disaggregating livelihood dependence on ecosystem services to inform land management

Robinson, Brian E.; Zheng, Hua; Peng, Wenjia

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100902

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“…They attach much value to natural capital, natural processes, and cultural capital on which their livelihoods depend, especially provisioning and cultural services. This is similar to previous research that local residents pay more attention to primary ecosystem services that can be directly enjoyed [4,50,51]. It is expected that direct provisioning services were important for subsistence, but the results also showed that some regulating services, which are critical elements supporting agricultural systems, were also identified, indicating that local people perceive their surroundings as a whole.…”

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Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Gallagher

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2021

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This research examines perceptions of ecosystem services (ES) and social well-being in the Wuyishan National Park, China. This study analyses the importance of and linkages between them based on the impact of new designation of protected areas on this social-ecological system. Realisation of rural well-being is critical to park-people relations in populated protected areas, and effective resolution is needed to achieve positive conservation outcomes. We conducted 372 structured interviews with community members with different livelihood strategies. Key findings from the research include: (1) the importance of provisioning (e.g., tea, rice, timber) and cultural ES (e.g., local culture, eco-tourism) is related to both current livelihood necessity and future development pursuit. (2) The perceived material well-being is higher than spiritual well-being, and high social well-being is closely related to high-income groups and those that think highly of cultural services, i.e., those engaged in non-agricultural activities (e.g., tourism) and tea cultivation. (3) Cultural values are better preserved in tea and rice cultivation and tourism, but in general, they are not incorporated to improve social well-being. The results suggest that Protected area (PA) management of local communities must seek cultural valorisation for differentiated livelihood strategies for rural people’s sustainable livelihood and stability of the social-ecological system.

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Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

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2021

Land

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“…For example, indigenous people rarely benefit from water quality offset projects associated with road development in the Peruvian Amazon 6 . In the Miyun Reservoir watershed in northern China, poorer households with members who are chronically sick and elderly have less access to ES than wealthier, healthier, and younger households 7 . Even in US cities, the supply of evaporative cooling ES provided by urban vegetation is spatially correlated with neighborhood income, resulting in lower-income communities more exposed to extreme heat 8 .…”

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Projected losses of ecosystem services in the US disproportionately affect non-white and lower-income populations

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Addressing how ecosystem services (ES) are distributed among groups of people is critical for making conservation and environmental policy-making more equitable. Here, we evaluate the distribution and equity of changes in ES benefits across demographic and socioeconomic groups in the United States (US) between 2020 and 2100. Specifically, we use land cover and population projections to model potential shifts in the supply, demand, and benefits of the following ES: provision of clean air, protection against a vector-borne disease (West Nile virus), and crop pollination. Across the US, changes in ES benefits are unevenly distributed among socioeconomic and demographic groups and among rural and urban communities, but are relatively uniform across geographic regions. In general, non-white, lower-income, and urban populations disproportionately bear the burden of declines in ES benefits. This is largely driven by the conversion of forests and wetlands to cropland and urban land cover in counties where these populations are expected to grow. In these locations, targeted land use policy interventions are required to avoid exacerbating inequalities already present in the US.

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“…Human livelihood is generally described as the combination of capital, which includes social, human, physical, economic, and natural capital (Scoones, 2009). Robinson et al (2019) decomposed the family level value of ecosystem services across locations and benefit groups, demonstrating a differential dependence on different types of services. Thus, we suggest that the extent of the contribution of ecosystems to the goods sold or consumed by residents depends on their livelihood dependence.…”

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“…This study attempts to respond to a core challenge, namely to determine whether the contribution of multiple ESs to human beings can be measured on a fine scale to allow the subdivision of the interests of space or population groups of interest (Rieb et al, 2017). Robinson et al (2019) explored the dependence of population groups at the family level by location and major livelihood types on the different types of ES. Based on previous experience, this study calculated the proportion of the importance of ecological services by the choices of residents and weighted the data to form a comprehensive value.…”

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The Closer the Better? Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects of Ecological Externalities in Coastal Mangroves

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Zheng²,

Li³

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Front. Mar. Sci.

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As an important part of ecological externalities, the spatial spillover effect has attracted the attention of researchers in the field of environmental economics. However, the traditional view that the spillover mechanism of ecological externalities generally decreases in line with increases in distance remains to be thoroughly proven. Effective ecological management requires an understanding of the relationship between the natural environment and human communities. In this study, the concept of geographical accessibility and a two-step mobile search model are introduced in order to connect ecosystems and humans by a spatial distance. This model can fully demonstrate the external spatial spillover effect of ecology. Based on research from the Beihai Wetland Reserve, Guangxi, China, this study found that the change in the ecological externality spillover mechanism is not only affected by spatial distance but is also affected by the pro-environmental attributes of individual residents around the region. Under the same conditions, residents with a high degree of interaction with ecological protection zones can display a stronger spatial spillover effect. The conclusion of this study provides a more accurate understanding of the changes in the spillover effect of ecological externalities, which in turn can help managers to formulate more adequate ecological protection policies that are based on the specific conditions of different residents. This is crucial for the successful management of protected ecological areas that are highly linked to human communities.

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Disaggregating livelihood dependence on ecosystem services to inform land management

Cited by 47 publications

References 51 publications

Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Projected losses of ecosystem services in the US disproportionately affect non-white and lower-income populations

The Closer the Better? Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects of Ecological Externalities in Coastal Mangroves

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