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

Hunter, Chelsea E.; Lauer, Matthew

doi:10.5751/es-12253-260224

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“…When undertaking valuation, it is increasingly recognised that multiple methods are often needed to identify the diversity of values of nature (Jacobs et al 2016;Kenter et al 2019;Kronenberg and Andersson 2019), as assumptions associated with pre-existing value frameworks can determine and limit the values elicited (Hunter and Lauer 2021). In designing valuations, methods and approaches can be explicitly selected and framed to help ensure the value sets within each of the Life Frames are recognised and assessed, and to acknowledge the limitations of approaches where this is not the case.…”

Section: Designing Valuations and Assessing Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies

Kenter

O’Connor

2022

Sustain Sci

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The Life Framework of Values links the richness of ways we experience and think of nature with the diverse ways nature matters. In this paper, we further develop and clarify the Life Framework in response to comments by Neuteleers et al. (Sustain Sci 14(1):4, 2020, 10.1007/s11625-020-00825-7). They supported its application to move beyond the instrumentalism and anthropocentrism associated with ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people, but were critical of our addition of the living as nature frame to O’Neill et al.’s (Environmental values. Routledge, London, 2008) original three (living from, in and with the natural world), and of the way we defined intrinsic and relational values. We argue that the original presentation of the frames was as distinct sources of concern for nature. The living as frame, characterised by oneness between nature and people, presents a unique source of concern not adequately represented by the original three frames. Whilst the Life Framework is open to diverse definitions of intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values, we present straightforward interpretations that are compatible with multiple ethical systems and can effectively serve deliberative processes. We demonstrate that intrinsic, instrumental, and relational values do not map onto the life frames one-to-one, as each frame layers multiple value justifications. Whilst a key purpose of the Life Framework is to facilitate recognition of a more inclusive set of values in valuation and policy, it can also enable more effective organisation, communication, assessment, bridging and deliberation of values. It also provides multiple levers for sustainability transformation, particularly by fully recognising holistic and relational understandings of people and nature.

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Section: Designing Valuations and Assessing Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies

Kenter

O’Connor

2022

Sustain Sci

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“…There are also tradeoffs between material aspects of well-being and social and cultural ones. In French Polynesia, degradation of coral reefs on the island of Moorea due to overfishing, pollution, and climate change has led to the realization that instrumental approaches to this ecosystem have undervalued other intrinsic and relational values such as identity and subsistence needs (Hunter and Lauer 2021). In Kenya, Unks et al (2021) show that the focus of conservation projects around Amboseli National Park has been to supply financial benefits to nearby Maasai communities, but this has had the unintended effect of increasing inequalities and exclusions, as well as changing communities' relationships with animals, which has led to more demand for a strict separation of wildlife and people.…”

Section: Cultural Ecosystem Services Contributions To Well-beingmentioning

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“…For example, using diverse methods such as photovoice to capture change in supply of ecosystem services can be used to provide early warning systems and to help communities devise improvements to ecosystem management (Allen et al 2021). Notions of culture and knowledge as being adaptive can help to address questions of how to deal with CES that are being diminished by climate and other environmental changes, as noted in the case of Moorea (Hunter and Lauer 2021) and in southwest China (He and Guo 2021). In Dhaka, Bangladesh, improved understanding of the myriad CES obtained by different communities could be used as a basis to advocate for more public participation and increased political support for urban green spaces (Sultana and Selim 2021).…”

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Challenges to understanding and managing cultural ecosystem services in the global South

McElwee¹,

He²,

Hsu³

2022

E&S

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Cultural ecosystem services (CES) have been proposed as the "intangible and non-material benefits that people enjoy from ecosystems", and the literature has been expanding on how CES are defined, identified, valued, and incorporated into policy. However, the literature on CES has a strong geographical bias toward Europe and North America. In this Special Feature, authors examine how and in what ways CES concepts and frameworks have applicability in diverse developing country settings, and the particular challenges that CES approaches face. By looking at CES across different contexts in the global South, the articles emphasize the usefulness of a range of methodologies for eliciting and valuing CES; the importance of CES for a variety of people, including urban dwellers and Indigenous peoples; and the need for more practices and programs for ecosystem management that incorporate CES. Overall, the articles in this Special Feature show that research focusing on the global South can make positive contributions to the growing CES literature by drawing attention to key challenges such as power and inequality in access to CES, pressures from social and environmental change on CES, and the importance of relational and other culturally diverse values elicited through appropriate methodologies.

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Livelihood diversity and fishing skill during COVID-19 lockdowns in French Polynesia

Lauer,

Wencélius,

Dawson

et al. 2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Small-scale fisheries provide seafood for billions of people and are one of the largest employers in many coastal communities. Those households engaged in these fisheries who maintain diverse income sources are generally thought to be better prepared to cope with social or ecological perturbations such as the crises presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. One outcome of the COVID-19 crisis was the collapse of international tourism after many nations instituted strict border controls to slow the virus’s spread, severely impacting coastal communities that depend on tourism-related employment. This research assessed the effects of COVID-19-induced collapse of tourism on small-scale coral reef fishers and households in Moorea, French Polynesia. Ninety-five households were surveyed about their livelihoods, fishing, demographics, and income-generating occupations before and after the lockdown. Shifts in fish biomass were evaluated using time series data collected through underwater visual surveys, and roadside fish vendors were surveyed to assess fish sales. Results showed that after tourism employment evaporated more Moorea households began fishing to boost their incomes and food security. However, the increase in fishing pressure showed no appreciable decline in the biomass of fishable species. The households responsible for the increased fishing activities were those who were working in the tourism economy prior to the pandemic and subsequently lost their jobs. Households that combined fishing with construction or other stable sectors showed greater abilities to cope, while those combining fishing with tourism were heavily impacted. Importantly, results showed that those households devoted solely to fishing managed the crisis adeptly due to their superior fishing skills and ecological knowledge. This pattern suggests that not all forms of household livelihood diversification confer equal advantages and that resource-dependent households are not necessarily intrinsically less resilient. More generally, it is argued that we should be cautious when promoting livelihood diversification as a blanket solution to decrease household vulnerability, and that ecological knowledge diversity is underappreciated.

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

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies

The Life Framework of Values and living as nature; towards a full recognition of holistic and relational ontologies

Challenges to understanding and managing cultural ecosystem services in the global South

Livelihood diversity and fishing skill during COVID-19 lockdowns in French Polynesia

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