Local Ecosystem Service Use and Assessment Vary with Socio-ecological Conditions: A Case of Native Coffee-Forests in Southwestern Ethiopia

Tadesse, Getachew; Zavaleta, Erika S.; Shennan, Carol; FitzSimmons, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s10745-014-9704-2

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“…Through direct local community involvement on our ES assessment process, we found out that a number of ES underpin food security, employment, and sociological benefits, even though, most commonly recognized provisioning services related to basic needs and immediate benefits, especially those that generate income. This result is reflected by other studies of landscapes undergoing transformation (Akwetaireho and Getzner, 2010;Tadesse et al, 2014;Bhatta et al, 2016;Sinare et al, 2016;Mensah et al, 2017). In our oil palm landscapes, ES remained important to local communities for at least one decade following the expansion of oil palm in the region.…”

Section: Discussion Common Agreed Upon Es To Manage the Oil Palm Lansupporting

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“…Direct community involvement in ecosystem service research can contribute to improved natural resource management by acknowledging and responding to locally perceived tradeoffs (Tadesse et al, 2014). The direct involvement of local communities in research can also promote local engagement in finding solutions to ecosystem management challenges (Menzel and Teng, 2010;Meijaard et al, 2013).…”

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Beyond Oil Palm: Perceptions of Local Communities of Environmental Change

Hasanah

Komarudin

Dray

et al. 2019

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Involving local communities in ecosystem service research can improve the relevance, quality and, ultimately, the outcomes of natural resource management. Local engagement can also contribute to solutions to ecosystem management challenges by diversifying the range of options and contextualizing their applicability. The benefits to local communities of ecosystem service-based policies relative to other interventions, such as oil palm development, are, therefore, best understood from the perspectives of the local communities themselves. We used observations, focus group discussions, and interviews in four villages along the Belayan River, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, to explore how local communities in different oil palm development contexts perceive Ecosystem Services (ES). The main livelihood activity differed across these villages, which were either fishing, oil palm smallholder communities, or forest-dependent communities. Perceptions about ES varied across villages, though three services were perceived to be crucial in all four villages, namely fish provision, water quality, and land availability. These services can be a common concern entry point for discussions on landscape management. Despite common recognition of the negative impacts of oil palm development on these crucial services, all communities are nevertheless choosing to expand oil palm. Communities identified a wide array of direct and indirect drivers underlying this trend, including social influence, financial capital, ecological factors, and subsidies from local government. Early engagement of local policymakers, oil palm companies, and local communities is essential to the maintenance of crucial and widely recognized ecosystem services in oil palm landscapes.

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Section: Discussion Common Agreed Upon Es To Manage the Oil Palm Lansupporting

confidence: 73%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Oil Palm: Perceptions of Local Communities of Environmental Change

Hasanah

Komarudin

Dray

et al. 2019

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…Men were more likely to have a higher awareness or perceived a higher value for firewood, charcoal and timber for profit-earning purposes (Martin-Lopez et al, 2012;Mensah et al, 2017). However, women demonstrated a higher knowledge of and more direct use of domestic fuel supply (Hamann et al, 2015;Juma, 1998;Tadesse et al, 2014). Women usually have a higher dependency on this ecosystem service (Mutandwa and Kanyarukiga, 2016), but under stress and shock conditions (e.g.…”

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“…Nevertheless, both of these studies concluded that women saw greater value or appreciated this type of ecosystem service more than men (Jefferson et al, 2014; Sang et al, 2016). (Kalaba et al, 2013a,b;Martin-Lopez et al, 2012;Mensah et al, 2017;Mutandwa and Kanyarukiga, 2016) But in some cases (Hamann et al, 2015;Juma 1998;Tadesse et al, 2014;Paudyal et al, 2015), women had more knowledge on domestic fuel supply…”

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Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

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Passarelli²,

Lovell

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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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“…It is one of the most species-rich ecosystems that significantly contribute to the economic development of Ethiopia and is recognized globally as priority areas for the conservation of biodiversity [53]. However, supporting ecosystem services have been diminished because of deforestation, immigration, population growth, expansion of invasive species, expansion of agriculture, cultural transformation, and the lack of land ownership [54,55]. These threats result in the degradation of the habitat and biodiversity [56] in the investigated watershed.…”

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The InVEST Habitat Quality Model Associated with Land Use/Cover Changes: A Qualitative Case Study of the Winike Watershed in the Omo-Gibe Basin, Southwest Ethiopia

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The contribution of biodiversity to the global economy, human survival, and welfare has been increasing significantly, but the anthropogenic pressure as a threat to the pristine habitat has followed. This study aims to identify habitat suitability, analyze the change in habitat quality from 1988 to 2018, and to investigate the correlation between impact factors and habitat quality. The InVEST habitat quality model was used to analyze the spatiotemporal change in habitat quality in individual land-use types in the Winike watershed. Remote sensing data were used to analyze the land use/land cover changes. Nine threat sources, their maximum distance of impact, mode of decay, and sensitivity to threats were also estimated for each land-use cover type. The analysis illustrates that habitat degradation in the watershed was continuously increasing over the last three decades (1988 to 2018). Each threat impact factor and habitat sensitivity have increased for the last 30 years. The most contributing factor of habitat degradation was the 25.41% agricultural expansion in 2018. Population density, land-use intensity, elevation, and slope were significantly correlated with the distribution of habitat quality. Habitat quality degradation in the watershed during the past three decades suggested that the conservation strategies applied in the watershed ecosystem were not effective. Therefore, this study helps decision makers, particularly regarding the lack of data on biodiversity. It further looks into the conflict between economic development and conservation of biodiversity.

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Local Ecosystem Service Use and Assessment Vary with Socio-ecological Conditions: A Case of Native Coffee-Forests in Southwestern Ethiopia

Cited by 40 publications

References 39 publications

Beyond Oil Palm: Perceptions of Local Communities of Environmental Change

Beyond Oil Palm: Perceptions of Local Communities of Environmental Change

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

The InVEST Habitat Quality Model Associated with Land Use/Cover Changes: A Qualitative Case Study of the Winike Watershed in the Omo-Gibe Basin, Southwest Ethiopia

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