Identifying forest ecosystem services through socio-ecological bundles: a case study from northern Jordan

Al-Assaf, Amani; Nawash, Oraib; Omari, Mohammad

doi:10.1080/13504509.2014.919968

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“…Women were predominant in the valuation of medicinal products. All papers reviewed that focus on this ecosystem service show that women usually know more species with medicinal properties as well as more medicinal uses per species, especially species associated with childbirth and childhood ailments as compared to men (Al-assaf et al, 2014;Deb and Haque, 2011;deSantana et al, 2016;Diaz-Reviriego et al, 2016).…”

Section: Provisioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Yang

Passarelli²,

Lovell

et al. 2018

Ecosystem Services

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a b s t r a c tWomen and men often have differential access to and derive different benefits from ecosystem services; therefore, their perception and knowledge of ecosystem services also differ. Understanding these differences is critical to ensuring that policies aimed at enhancing access to and use of ecosystem services can provide benefits to all genders. We conducted a systematic review of studies that aim to understand the relationship between gender and ecosystem service perceptions to summarize research from this emerging topic and to identify patterns between gender and ecosystem service perceptions from different case studies. The results show that highly gendered ecosystem services include medicinal products from forest or mangrove ecosystems and freshwater supply. Women have a stronger perception of water quality and erosion control, soil formation, habitat conservation and sustaining biodiversity. Men, on the other hand, had more knowledge of fuel and timber and extreme event mitigation services. Our review also identifies the limitations of sample size for this interdisciplinary topic, calls for more case studies and comparative studies to identify relationships between gender and ecosystem service perceptions, and calls for the development of models on ecosystem services that incorporate gender. Finally, we discuss how our review can augment existing gender frameworks for policymaking.

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Section: Provisioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They usually know more medicinal plant species and also more medicinal uses per species (Al-assaf et al, 2014;Deb and Haque, 2011;deSantana et al, 2016;Diaz-Reviriego et al, 2016), especially species associated with childbirth and childhood ailments.…”

Section: Medicinal Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Yang

Passarelli²,

Lovell

et al. 2018

Ecosystem Services

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“…An interaction between socioeconomic factors and the ecosystem have an effect on social preferences toward ES (Martín-López et al 2012;Al-assaf et al 2014) and thus its economic valuation. This kind of interaction is based on the individuals' understanding of the roles that species play in ecosystems (Martín-López et al 2007).…”

Section: Conservation Responsibility For Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying contingent valuation to measure the economic value of forest services: a case study in Northern Jordan

Al-Assaf

2015

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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This paper reports an attempt to apply the contingent valuation method (CVM) to value ecosystem services in Jordan's northern forests. I employed the CVM to obtain an estimate for the population's willingness to pay (WTP) for restoration and conservation of services in this area. I sampled 300 rural households through in-person interviews, then applied two econometric models to examine the incentives for WTP. The aggregate present value benefit is 3,569,556 Jordanian Dinar for the whole of Jordan's northern forests; this valuation is based on the amount participants were willing to contribute to maintain forest ecosystem services. The conservation cost is assumed to reflect the direct value gained from human utilization of forest services. Results suggest a correlation between WTP and household income, as well as WTP and classification of services. I assess that income and forest service type most directly shaped participants' WTP for forest conservation. The study also indicates that the CVM can successfully be applied to Jordan and may be a viable and potentially useful direction for future research on environment valuation in other developing countries in the Middle East.

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“…Most studies are spatial analyses of ES supply, identifying which service or categories of services (such as cultural, provisioning, or supporting services) appear consistently together in space (e.g., [3,[15][16][17][18]). The other way that services can be bundled is cognitively, according to the preferences, or demand, of beneficiaries (e.g., [14,19,20]). Analyses of these types of ecosystem service bundles specifically look at whether there are common preferences among human populations for groups of ecosystem services.…”

Section: Ecosystem Service Bundlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent research in ecosystem services has identified that preferences for different services are based on individually-held values [20,21]. This begs the question of whether prior research on the determinants of environmental values is relevant to understanding ES preferences.…”

Section: Linking Ecosystem Services To Values and Residential Classifmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Ecosystem Service Preferences across Residential Classifications near Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington (USA)

Williams

Biedenweg

Cerveny

2017

Forests

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Ecosystem services consistently group together both spatially and cognitively into "bundles". Understanding socio-economic predictors of these bundles is essential to informing a management approach that emphasizes equitable distribution of ecosystem services. We received 1796 completed surveys from stakeholders of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (WA, USA) using both in-person workshops and an online platform. Survey respondents rated the importance of 26 ecosystem services. Subsequent analysis revealed six distinct preference bundles of these services: environmental quality, utilitarian values, heritage values, two types of recreational values, and access and roads. Results suggest that the conceptualizations of these bundles are consistent across socio-demographic groups. Resource agencies that seek to frame dialogue around critical values may want to consider these broadly representative bundle sets as a meaningful organizing framework that would resonate with diverse constituents.

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Identifying forest ecosystem services through socio-ecological bundles: a case study from northern Jordan

Cited by 31 publications

References 22 publications

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Applying contingent valuation to measure the economic value of forest services: a case study in Northern Jordan

Understanding Ecosystem Service Preferences across Residential Classifications near Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington (USA)

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