Public perceptions of freshwater wetlands in Victoria, Australia

Dobbie, Meredith Frances; Green, Ray

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.11.003

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“…The highlighted result showed that the valuation of cultural services was the highest, with the Tubul-Raqui salt marsh identified as an ecosystem capable of providing opportunities for services related to recreation, local identity, science, and environmental education, as also demonstrated in Australia and the United States [4]. For example, according to Lindborg et al [55], the positive perception of ES provision is dependent on the connection of people to the landscape, which has been linked to low-intensity primary activities (e.g., agriculture), where habitats maintained in a semi-natural landscape state can offer biological, cultural, and heritage values, a situation similar to that reported in Tubul-Raqui regarding the intensity of economic activities.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Kunstler (1994), cited by Bouahim et al [3], recognized the importance of that and the beauty of places in promoting a sense of attachment and human belonging, both key factors in perception studies. Furthermore, Dobbie and Green [4] indicated that intrinsic (habitat, social, esthetic, educational, and tourism) values often dominate the perception of wetlands.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ecosystem services (ES) are defined as benefits that people obtain directly or indirectly from ecosystems, which are usually classified as provisioning, regulating, or cultural [1][2][3][4]. In this sense, wetlands provide a wide range of ES that contribute to human well-being [5][6][7][8], including algae and fish, ornamental species, natural disaster mitigation, microclimate regulation, aesthetic value, and tourism, among many others [1,9,10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

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Natural disasters can cause abrupt disturbances in coastal wetlands, affecting the social perception of ecosystem services (ES). The Tubul-Raqui coastal wetland is one of the most important wetlands in south-central Chile. Rich in biodiversity, these wetlands provide ES to a population of 2238 inhabitants. The recent M W = 8.8 earthquake of 2010 caused a coastal uplift of 1.4 m and substantial morphological, social, and environmental changes. This paper analyzes the social perceptions of the inhabitants of the village of Tubul-Raqui following a large earthquake disturbance with regards to ES provision frequency and their future changes. A statistically representative semi-structured survey was conducted (175 valid surveys) and the data interpreted through factor analysis and statistical tests for independent categorical variables. The perception of cultural and regulating services was significantly greater than that of provisioning services, which were probably the most affected by the earthquake. Residents identified habitat for species, recreation, and hazard regulation as the most important ES. Perception was influenced by the categorical variables of gender, age, and ethnicity; for example, hazard regulation services varied strongly by gender. According to the respondents, the availability of ES will remain stable (50%) or decrease (40%) in the next 50 years, mainly due to anthropogenic drivers; the effect of natural disasters was not mentioned among the main drivers of change.

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Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

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“…The outcome can be the acceptance and reinforcement of an impoverished understanding (Stephenson ). Predefined classifications restrict participants' answers to the categories identified by the researcher (Dobbie & Green ), with the result that the research is not able to properly reflect some services or values which could be important in the cultural context of the study (Burger ).…”

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A cultural approach to wetlands restoration to assess its public acceptance

Pueyo‐Ros

Palom

Fraguell

2018

Restoration Ecology

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Ecological restoration (ER) of coastal wetlands is extremely important because they provide a huge variety of ecosystem services (ES), but they are the most degraded ecosystems in the world. However, coastal wetlands are usually located in largely modified and densely populated landscapes. Hence their restoration may conflict with cultural values. Therefore, considering the cultural dimension of ER is a way of increasing public acceptance of restoration projects. In this study, we assessed the public acceptance of a restoration project in a coastal wetland of Costa Brava (Spain). We combined the ES framework with a cultural approach, which is capable of considering interdisciplinarity, introducing barely assessed services like tranquility and facilitating further integration of the human dimension in the ES framework.We administered an open-ended questionnaire to 232 visitors and the answers were submitted to a content analysis to get a post hoc classification of services and values. Our results show that visitors undervalue environmental values, while tranquility is the most commonly stated value. Moreover, place attachment is found to be the main driver to influence the perception of the ER. The study concluded that the project enjoys a high public acceptance. However, some disengagement exists between the goals of restoration and visitors' perceptions, and this needs to be addressed. Sharing the decision-making power with stakeholders and informing visitors about ES that are not easily perceived could be appropriate steps to take.

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“…Dobbie and Green (2013) demonstrated that people do not see wetlands as a homogeneous group, but distinguish between different types of wetlands by characteristics of water and vegetation: respondents in their study classified wetlands as 'grasslands', 'treed grasslands', 'wetlands with emergent vegetation','wetlands with open water', 'arid (water) scapes' or 'treed wetlands'. We address three specific wetland types that are prominent in our study region: (a) treed wetlands, i.e.…”

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Public Support for Wetland Restoration: What is the Link With Ecosystem Service Values?

Scholte¹,

Todorova²,

Teeffelen³

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Wetlands

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Fostering public support for wetland restoration is essential for long-term sustainable management and use of wetland areas. This paper explores the socio-cultural dimension of wetland restoration, by looking at the importance of wetland ecosystem services for different user groups. We try to better comprehend such values by evaluating the awareness people have of ecosystem services and the direct benefits people obtain from the ecosystems in their surroundings. In addition, we study how the values people assign to ecosystem services are related to wetland restoration attitudes. We identified four perspectives towards wetland restoration, which could partially be explained by corresponding values for ecosystem services: an eco-centric, a cultural, an economic and a negative perspective. To gather public support for wetland restoration it is important to take into account the different motivations people have to support such initiatives.

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Public perceptions of freshwater wetlands in Victoria, Australia

Cited by 58 publications

References 30 publications

Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

Social Perception of Ecosystem Services in a Coastal Wetland Post-Earthquake: A Case Study in Chile

A cultural approach to wetlands restoration to assess its public acceptance

Public Support for Wetland Restoration: What is the Link With Ecosystem Service Values?

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