A GIS application for assessing, mapping, and quantifying the social values of ecosystem services

Sherrouse, Benson C.; Clément, Jessica; Semmens, Darius J.

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.08.002

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“…Promising spatial referencing schemes have been offered for several cultural ES (125,126), but the object classes usually implemented in Geographic Information System (GIS) environments may not be sufficient to describe all interactions between ecosystems and social systems that define cultural services. For example, determining the cultural heritage significance of a specific ecosystem feature requires the participation of relevant stakeholder groups.…”

Section: Defining the Spatial Dimension Of Cultural Esmentioning

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Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

Daniel

Muhar

Arnberger

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data relevant to cultural services has been developed within the social and behavioral sciences before and outside of the ES approach. A selective review of work in landscape aesthetics, cultural heritage, outdoor recreation, and spiritual significance demonstrates opportunities for operationally defining cultural services in terms of socioecological models, consistent with the larger set of ES. Such models explicitly link ecological structures and functions with cultural values and benefits, facilitating communication between scientists and stakeholders and enabling economic, multicriterion, deliberative evaluation and other methods that can clarify tradeoffs and synergies involving cultural ES. Based on this approach, a common representation is offered that frames cultural services, along with all ES, by the relative contribution of relevant ecological structures and functions and by applicable social evaluation approaches. This perspective provides a foundation for merging ecological and social science epistemologies to define and integrate cultural services better within the broader ES framework.natural capital | scenic beauty | cultural landscapes | tourism | spiritual value

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Section: Defining the Spatial Dimension Of Cultural Esmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

Daniel

Muhar

Arnberger

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

1,201

748

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“…The complexity of possible applications is limited only by the availability of necessary data and quantified relationships between development and impacts. Inclusion of social values (e.g., disrupted viewsheds, lost recreational opportunities, lifestyle improvement due to local economic growth) can readily be accomplished given adequate data (e.g., Sherrouse et al 2011;Bagstad et al 2012). Inclusion of economic components and extension to full economic valuation are possible for any application, given adequate data and suitable valuation schemes; methods and data related to ecosystems services provide a means for mapping and valuing natural processes that benefit humans.…”

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A Framework for Quantitative Assessment of Impacts Related to Energy and Mineral Resource Development

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Natural resource planning at all scales demands methods for assessing the impacts of resource development and use, and in particular it requires standardized methods that yield robust and unbiased results. Building from existing probabilistic methods for assessing the volumes of energy and mineral resources, we provide an algorithm for consistent, reproducible, quantitative assessment of resource development impacts. The approach combines probabilistic input data with Monte Carlo statistical methods to determine probabilistic outputs that convey the uncertainties inherent in the data. For example, one can utilize our algorithm to combine data from a natural gas resource assessment with maps of sage grouse leks and piñ on-juniper woodlands in the same area to estimate possible future habitat impacts due to possible future gas development. As another example: one could combine geochemical data and maps of lynx habitat with data from a mineral deposit assessment in the same area to determine possible future mining impacts on water resources and lynx habitat. The approach can be applied to a broad range of positive and negative resource development impacts, such as water quantity or quality, economic benefits, or air quality, limited only by the availability of necessary input data and quantified relationships among geologic resources, development alternatives, and impacts. The framework enables quantitative evaluation of the trade-offs inherent in resource management decision-making, including cumulative impacts, to address societal concerns and policy aspects of resource development.

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“…We also collected all available secondary data, mainly in GIS formats such as vector or raster data, biological and social studies, political information and land-use plans. The surveys and PGIS work were based on previous studies (De Marchi & Scolozzi, 2012;Sherrouse et al, 2011). Our dataset is based on 375 surveys of inhabitants of Alto Mayo and 100 surveys of key actors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We also used the GIS-based tool Social Values for Ecosystem Service (SolVES), which is specifically designed to quantify the perceived social values of a series of ES through a quantitative, 10-point social-values metric, the Value Index (Sherrouse et al, 2011). SolVES version 2.1 integrates the Maxent maximum entropy modelling software, which produces maps and statistics that integrate the social values of ES distribution with the layers that the user introduced into the system -in this case, rasters about land use and land cover, the important sub-watersheds, the area occupied by different protected areas, and indigenous communities (Sherrouse, 2014).…”

Section: The Adamello Brenta Natural Park Italymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brown (2012) argued that the participatory mapping of ES using traditional ES classifications as attributes is very complex due to the high level of knowledge required. He proposed using the sense of place, or place perception framework, referred to in various fieldwork studies using different terms, such as 'place-based values', 'landscape values' and 'social values of ES' (Sherrouse et al, 2011). Social values of ES are defined as the 'perceived qualities carried by a natural environment that provide benefits to support human well-being' (Van Riper et al, 2012) or 'non-market values perceived by ecosystem stakeholders' (Sherrouse et al, 2014).…”

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Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru

Codato¹,

Pappalardo²,

Marchi³

2017

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Assessing ecosystem services (ES) and mapping their values are of paramount importance. Here we present two case studies where the participatory mapping of social values of landscape ecosystem services is used in territories with high levels of cultural and biological diversity (Adamello Brenta Natural Park in Italy and the Alto Mayo basin in the Western Amazon, Peru). A mixed-method approach combining social geography fieldwork (participatory mapping) and desk work (GIS analyses) is adopted to improve ES mapping by including multiple actors and to increase awareness. Mapping ecosystem services is not just a technical task; it also highlights social implications of the cartographic process, a key issue in human geography. By taking into account the controversial and multiple roles of maps, and by involving actors in attributing values and mapping their spatial relations to landscape and ES, it is possible to enrich technical knowledge with local knowledge.

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A GIS application for assessing, mapping, and quantifying the social values of ecosystem services

Cited by 443 publications

References 27 publications

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

Contributions of cultural services to the ecosystem services agenda

A Framework for Quantitative Assessment of Impacts Related to Energy and Mineral Resource Development

Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru

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