Speaking across boundaries to explore the potential for interdisciplinarity in ecosystem services knowledge production

Schutter, Marleen S.; Hicks, Christina C.

doi:10.1111/cobi.13659

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“…biophysical and socio-cultural) into ES assessments is an important step to implementing contemporary ES thinking into governance, management, and planning. Assessment and mapping of ES studies have often been constrained to either biophysical or economic approaches, although there are an increasing number of studies using socio-cultural and pluralistic methods (Martı ´n-Lo ´pez et al 2019;Schutter and Hicks 2021). Biophysical approaches have contributed substantially to the understanding of the spatial distributions and interactions between ES, particularly provisioning, and regulating and maintenance ES (Chan and Satterfield 2020).…”

Section: Multiple Values Of Landscapesmentioning

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Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles

Cusens

Barraclough

Måren

2023

Ambio

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Ecosystem services (ESs) play an important role in sustainable landscape management. People value ESs in diverse ways encompassing social and ecological domains and we need to bring these different values together. We used social-cultural and biophysical methods to map a diverse set of ESs at two spatial scales in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Norway. The ESs bundled into three distinct social–ecological system archetypes which were similar in their distribution and relative ES values at both spatial scales. The bundles were also well matched to relative ESs values of the Biosphere Reserve zones (core, buffer, and transition) indicating that the bundles capture the social–ecological systems of the zones. We argue that it is important to consider the social–ecological context of the zones to provide sufficient knowledge to inform management. Our work has the capacity to contribute to sustainable land management that takes biocultural values into consideration.

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Section: Multiple Values Of Landscapesmentioning

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Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles

Cusens

Barraclough

Måren

2023

Ambio

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“…In the face of interlinked social, ecological, and climate crises (IPBES & IPCC, 2021), improving the accessibility of policy-relevant findings in land system science becomes ever more important. Because of the steady increase in published research combined with access barriers (Rafidimanantsoa et al, 2018;Schutter & Hicks, 2020), synthesis of research findings is crucial to advance science and policy. However, much synthesis research is rather disciplinary.…”

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Interactive visual syntheses for social-ecological systems understanding

Martin,

Pham-Truffert,

Gillham

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Many social-ecological systems are in an unsustainable state. Bringing together disjunct published findings on complex interactions in social-ecological systems may enable the identification of leverage points for transformations towards sustainability. However, such interdisciplinary synthesis studies on specific regional social-ecological systems remain rare. Here, we pair a review of systematically identified studies with a cross-impact analysis to create an interactive visual social-ecological systems synthesis on conflicts and synergies between land use, biodiversity conservation, and human wellbeing in north-eastern Madagascar. The interactive visual synthesis (https://visualsynthesis.wyssacademy.org) depicts an archetypical regional landscape with 22 factors comprising physical landscape elements, ecosystem services, wellbeing, human activities, and telecouplings. To understand the connections between these factors, we assess directional causal links based on literature sources. The visual synthesis shows that research has so far focused on links between land use and biodiversity while links to human wellbeing were studied more seldomly. We then identify chains and cycles that emerge from the links between factors and rate them based on their plausibility and relevance. All eight top-rated chains and cycles relate to subsistence and commercial agriculture, revealing promising leverage points at which interventions could improve outcomes for biodiversity and wellbeing. In sum, we show how interactive visual syntheses can be a useful way to make disjunct published findings on regional social-ecological systems more accessible, to find research gaps, and to identify leverage points for sustainability transformations.

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“…The burgeoning field of ES mapping (Burkhard & Maes, 2017) has focussed on regulating and provisioning ES with fewer studies mapping cultural ES (Crossman et al., 2013; Egoh et al., 2012; Martínez‐Harms & Balvanera, 2012). Over the past 15 years, there has been a shift in the methodologies and approaches used for assessing and mapping ES, from largely single discipline biophysical and economic methods, towards a higher proportion of pluralistic and socio‐cultural methods (Martín‐López et al., 2019; Schutter & Hicks, 2021). This methodological shift accompanies the conceptual developments in ES thinking that include the multiple contributions that nature makes to our well‐being (e.g.…”

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Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

2021

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Making the right decisions for sustainable development requires sound knowledge of the values and spatial distribution of the services co‐produced by ecosystems and people. UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere programme and associated Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are key learning sites or model regions for sustainable development providing key entry points for transdisciplinary work on sustainable development. However, there is limited research exploring spatial distribution of socio‐cultural Ecosystem Service (ES) values in BRs and how those values vary according to the BR zonation. We used a transdisciplinary approach to design and implement a public participation geographical information systems (PPGIS) survey in a recently designated BR to (a) asses the spatial distribution of ES values in the different zones, (b) identify hotspots of ES values, (c) identify spatial bundles of ES values and (d) assess the social‐ecological characteristics that determine the distribution of those values. We found that stakeholders identify high biocultural ES values, mapping predominantly places for outdoor recreation, biodiversity, agricultural products and cultural heritage. Buffer zones had high agricultural and cultural heritage values while extractive values were largely absent from cores zones. We identified five spatial ES‐value bundles highlighting distinct places important for ES values related to ‘multifunctional landscapes’ located close to settlements, ‘cultural landscapes’ associated with agricultural land, ‘wild animal resources’ along the coastlines, ‘outdoor recreation and biodiversity’ and ‘passive cultural values’ widely distributed in high and moderately populated areas. We found that accessibility was important for ES values and that people value nature close to where they live. We show the importance of biocultural values in the region, and agricultural landscapes were highly valued for multiple ES values beyond agricultural products alone. We show that BRs have become places that link cultural heritage, agricultural and biodiversity values in multifunctional landscapes. We put our findings into the local context and suggest how they can inform land‐use planning and management through policies aimed at maintaining key agricultural landscapes that provide social‐ecological resilience. Additionally, we discuss the value of our study for the wider BR network and how similar work can contribute to monitoring of BR implementation. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

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Speaking across boundaries to explore the potential for interdisciplinarity in ecosystem services knowledge production

Abstract: Impact statement Ecosystem services holds promise in conservation settings, but STEM disciplines dominate, despite increased involvement of AHSSL disciplines.

Cited by 8 publications

References 50 publications

Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles

Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles

Interactive visual syntheses for social-ecological systems understanding

Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

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