Is recreation a landscape value?: Exploring underlying values in landscape values mapping

Biedenweg, Kelly; Williams, Katherine A.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Styers, Diane M.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.12.005

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“…Yet the MA did not include particularly rigorous consideration of how those nonmaterial aspects should be conceptualized and treated. Some consider the CES category a poorly defined 'catch-all' bin for any sort of ecosystem benefit that does not fit in the other three better-specified bins (as a prominent example, 'recreation' is almost always listed as a CES, but it is conceptually distinct from many other ecosystem benefits associated with CES, such as identity and heritage (Biedenweg et al 2019)). Though CES have their own chapter in the MA, it is only one of 27 chapters.…”

Section: Part I: Brief Intellectual History Of Cultural Ecosystem Sermentioning

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Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services

Gould

Adams

Vivanco

2020

Ecosystems and People

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Cultural ecosystem services research is in a somewhat tumultuous state. The cultural ecosystem services (CES) idea is seen simultaneously as a welcoming, expansive addition to conservation policy-making and as a strange, square-peg-in-around hole concept that should be replaced by a more appropriate metaphor or conceptual structure. This confluence of interest and skepticism suggests an opportune moment to take stock of CES, both as a concept and growing scholarly field. Here, we focus on dilemmas that characterize and constitute CES as a field of empirical inquiry and practice. We describe five tensions that characterize the field (and mirror tensions in interdisciplinary work more broadly): universalism and antiuniversalism; reductionism and non-reductionism; historical and ahistorical approaches; politicized and depoliticized approaches; and objectivity and situated knowledges. We then suggest five non-mutually-exclusive roles that CES research can (and does) play: The Convener/Illuminator; the Process Police Officer; the Translator; the Revolutionary; and the Policy In-fighter. We provide examples of each tension and role, and posit that clarity and reflexivity may help to make sense of a fertile, if sometimes confusing, interdisciplinary field. Making more sense of, and being more explicit about, the contradictions and contributions of the CES field, can, we suggest, aid decision-makers, CES researchers, and others to better include these values in environmental management.

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Section: Part I: Brief Intellectual History Of Cultural Ecosystem Sermentioning

confidence: 99%

Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services

Gould

Adams

Vivanco

2020

Ecosystems and People

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“…However, the proposed method is probable to be further developed due to its advantageous abilities to solve complicated problems of landscape research. The techniques can show a partial or comprehensive estimation of landscape values, which then supports the preferences of management and planning [1,12]. Coupling with the participatory approach, this enables the contribution of stakeholders to the process of decision-making through assessing place-based values [2].…”

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“…It highlights the importance of human society and its interaction with biophysical factors [3,4], which therefore reflects comprehensive landscape value assessments for efficient decision making [5]. Through harmonizing opinions from the perspective of stakeholders, landscape value assessment contributes to the process of territory planning and development [4,6,7], natural resources management [8,9], natural risk management [7], and assessments of socio-economic development [10][11][12]. This is a multi-dimensional approach for considering several aspects of landscape value, covering both the human and nature landscape [13].…”

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Mapping the potential aggregation values of ecotourism landscapes from stakeholder survey, structural equation modeling and GIS: Case study of Moc Chau site, Vietnam

Pham

Dang

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PLoS ONE

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The primary aim of this study is to propose a potential landscape value assessment from different dimensions rather than the traditional approach of a composite indicator. The method used in this study is the combination of data collection from stakeholder survey, score measurement for landscape value dimensions using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and spatial representation with the support of Geographic Information System (GIS). From a large-scale (n = 400) investigation in the Moc Chau district, the statistical data extracted from the survey provides input data for the score determination process. SEM analysis shows that each landscape site has 11 determinants influencing the landscape value assessment. Using the RMSE comparison (for validation) with different interpolation methods, the ordinary kriging method is chosen to model the aggregation landscape value map of Moc Chau District. About 24.97% total area of the study area has great potential for tourism development, being mainly distributed in the center of a high mountainous area. This approach can be used as a model to advocate local and regional assessment and enhance value-based management in other territories in Vietnam and beyond.

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“…Brown and Reed (2012) introduced the concept of social landscape metrics to quantify human perceptions of landscapes using GIS. Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS; Sieber 2006), Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES; Sherrouse et al 2011, 2014), and Landscape Values Mapping (LVM; Biedenweg et al 2019) are also among recent initiatives for incorporating social‐value information into land analysis, assessment, and management at varying scales. Mapped SVs are correlated with people's attitudes toward land use, can be predictive of land‐use conflicts, and seem to be valid at various scales (Brown et al 2020).…”

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Spatial analysis of landscape social values in multifunctional landscapes of the Upper Missouri River Basin

2021

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The Upper Missouri River Basin (UMRB) was used as a study region to examine how the spatial distribution of social values (SVs) people hold for their landscapes overlaps with ecoregions of the UMRB and how the results can be interpreted to inform regional-scale strategic landscape management for optimizing the production of ecosystem services. The methods include a survey of residents about their landscape SVs across the UMRB and a multistage spatial analysis of eleven georeferenced SVs linked to ecosystem services and human activities in the region. The results show agriculture, recreation, and conservation are, respectively, the most significant activities that people value in landscapes of the UMRB. An overlapping area was identified between hotspots of recreation, tourism, and cultural activities on the one hand and conservation on the other hand. A large overlap was found between landscapes of social importance (i.e., landscapes where residents value the land) and ecoregion junctions (i.e., the meeting points of ecoregions). More than one-fourth of the mapped points were no more than 5 km from the meeting points of ecoregions, meaning ecoregion junctions are highly attractive to residents, and therefore, subject to a variety of human activities. It was also shown that although distance to the place of residence may influence the spatial distribution of mapped points, proximity to ecoregion junctions is a stronger factor for predicting the locations people value on landscapes. These findings have important implications for food and energy production, cultural ecosystem services, and biodiversity across landscapes of the UMRB.

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Is recreation a landscape value?: Exploring underlying values in landscape values mapping

Cited by 24 publications

References 19 publications

Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services

Looking into the dragons of cultural ecosystem services

Mapping the potential aggregation values of ecotourism landscapes from stakeholder survey, structural equation modeling and GIS: Case study of Moc Chau site, Vietnam

Spatial analysis of landscape social values in multifunctional landscapes of the Upper Missouri River Basin

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