Mapping social–ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use

Hamann, Maike; Biggs, Reinette; Reyers, Belinda

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.07.008

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“…The L-H households had high cultivated land areas per capita and depended mainly on the ecosystem (Table 1), and had a lower economic level than other household types. The finding was widely noted in the literature that poorer households rely more on the ecosystem [22,29,[50][51][52]. The H-L households had significantly higher remittance income and non-farm income than other household types (Table 1).…”

Section: The Classification Of Household Welfare-ecosystem Dependencysupporting

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Classification of the Relationship between Household Welfare and Ecosystem Reliance in the Miyun Reservoir Watershed, China

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Abstract:Household welfare is inseparable from the environment because of its dependence on ecosystems and their services. However, linking household welfare and ecosystems in order to inform differentiated household livelihood development in spatially heterogeneous regions is still a great challenge. Based on a field survey of 1754 households, we grouped the relationships between household welfare (defined by total income) and ecosystem reliance (expressed by an index of dependence on ecosystem services) in the Watershed of Miyun Reservoir, the only source of surface water for domestic use in Beijing, China. The relationships can be grouped into four types: high welfare and high dependency; low welfare and low dependency; high welfare and low dependence; and low welfare and high dependency. Family structure, households' education and skill level, and the proximity to Beijing have significant impacts on household welfare, while the quantity of natural capital and eco-compensation fund significantly contribute to the ecosystem dependence. Maintaining suitable family size and age structure, improving education and skill levels, and strengthening payment for ecosystem services within low welfare households would be effective approaches to their welfare improvement. The above classification can help design tailored policy and management options to promote sustainable livelihoods based on different household subgroups.

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Section: The Classification Of Household Welfare-ecosystem Dependencysupporting

confidence: 55%

Classification of the Relationship between Household Welfare and Ecosystem Reliance in the Miyun Reservoir Watershed, China

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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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Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

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Passarelli²,

Lovell

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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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“…Our findings -together with other recent large-scale work (Angelson et al 2014;Ferraro et al 2015) -therefore highlight the importance of largescale studies for understanding the linkages between poverty and ES. Our work also shows that there is a great deal of spatial variability within rural 'greenloop' systems (regions in which the populations are highly directly dependent on ES) (Cumming et al 2014;Hamann et al 2015) in terms of which ESs are most important for rural livelihoods. However, further work is required to ascertain whether the linkages between ES and poverty we observe at the county scale for China hold at finer resolutions.…”

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“…As discussed, we focus on provisioning ES due to their direct relevance to rural livelihoods (Yang et al 2013a;Hamann et al 2015) and hence income poverty, as well as issues of data availability. We included two measures of biodiversity for its role both in regulating the ecosystem processes that underpin all ES as well as its value as an ES in its own right (Mace et al 2011).…”

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“…As results of cluster analysis are known to be sensitive to both the clustering algorithm used and the number of clusters selected, we used the 'clValid' package in R 3.31 (R Development Core Team 2016) to select the most appropriate method and number of clusters by comparing multiple methods using multiple validation measures (Hamann et al 2015). This showed that 'pam' is the most appropriate method, and that the most appropriate number of clusters for our data is two.…”

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Spatial covariance of ecosystem services and poverty in China

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Tang

Eisner

et al. 2017

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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Ecosystem services (ESs) are known to be particularly important to the rural poor globally and effective management of such services is argued to be a sustainable pathway out of poverty. However, there is as yet no clear evidence as to how important ESs are for poverty alleviation, partly as there are very few large-scale studies addressing this issue. Here, we examine patterns of spatial covariation of income poverty and provisioning services and biodiversity using county-level data across China (n = 1924). We conduct our analyses both at the national scale and at the subnational scale. At the national scale, poor counties have significantly lower levels of agricultural provisioning services and water availability, but significantly higher levels of forest-related provisioning services and biodiversity. This finding supports the hypothesis that in general, high levels of poverty co-occur with areas with high levels of non-agricultural ESs. However, in the forest-dominated counties in southern China, low poverty, high densities of forest-related provisioning services and high levels of natural forest cover co-occur. Our results highlight the scale and context dependency of patterns of cooccurrence of poverty and ESs, and the importance of large-scale analyses for understanding the relationships between poverty and ESs.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Mapping social–ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use

Cited by 172 publications

References 47 publications

Classification of the Relationship between Household Welfare and Ecosystem Reliance in the Miyun Reservoir Watershed, China

Classification of the Relationship between Household Welfare and Ecosystem Reliance in the Miyun Reservoir Watershed, China

Gendered perspectives of ecosystem services: A systematic review

Spatial covariance of ecosystem services and poverty in China

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