Ecosystem services between integration and economics imperialism

Thorén, Henrik; Stålhammar, Sanna

doi:10.5751/es-10520-230444

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“…The term 'value' is thus problematic, as it refers both to descriptive scientific assessments of the links between human well-being and ecosystems, as captured through ES valuation, and to underlying normative beliefs and moral principles in society that influence science and policy. In ES (or NCP) valuation, ontological questions regarding what values of nature are tend to merge with axiological issues of moral and ethical values in society, and how these should be accounted for in science and policy (see similar argument by Maier and Feest, 2016;Thorén and Stålhammar, 2018). More simply put, we are intermixing what currently is, with what should be.…”

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Assessing People’s Values of Nature: Where Is the Link to Sustainability Transformations?

Stålhammar

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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The efforts to measure people’s current preferences and values of ecosystem services raise questions about the link to sustainability transformations. The importance of taking social and cultural values of nature into account is increasingly recognised within ecosystem services research and policy. This notion is informing the development and application of social (or socio-cultural) valuation methods that seek to assess and capture non-material social and cultural aspects of benefits of ecosystems in non-monetary terms. Here, ‘values’ refer to the products of descriptive scientific assessments of the links between human well-being and ecosystems. This precise use of the values term can be contrasted with normative modes of understanding values, as underlying beliefs and moral principles about what is good and right, which also influence science and institutions. While both perspectives on values are important for the biodiversity and ecosystem services agenda, values within this space have mainly been understood in relation to assessments and descriptive modes of values. Failing to acknowledge the distinction between descriptive and normative modes bypasses the potential mismatch between people’s current values and sustainability transformations. Refining methodologies to more accurately describe social values risks simply giving us a more detailed account of what we already know—people in general do not value nature enough. A central task for values studies is to explore why or how peoples’ mindsets might converge with sustainability goals, using methods that go beyond assessing current states to incorporate change and transformation.

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Assessing People’s Values of Nature: Where Is the Link to Sustainability Transformations?

Stålhammar

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…A part of the ES-NCP spectrum of ideas has been to question the potentially reductionist character of the original economic emphasis, which may misrepresent how nature relates to society (Kusmanoff et al, 2017;Thorén and Stålhammar, 2018). Developments within the NCP concept, however, may be a support mechanism in this regard.…”

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Nature’s Services and Contributions: The Relational Value of Childhood Nature Experience and the Importance of Reciprocity

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Lekies

2021

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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People depend on functioning ecosystems to meet human needs and support well-being across the life span. This article considers the interest in ecosystem service valuation, the growing interest in the benefits of nature experience for children, and ways to bridge these perspectives. We focus on embodied childhood nature experiences: the physical and multisensory experiences that intertwine child and nature. Additionally, we highlight the reciprocal quality of nature and child experience relationship as an example of how this relationship goes beyond the instrumental and demonstrates relational value. Underlying this perspective is the belief that children need to be better represented in the perception and action of ecosystem valuation in environmental policy.

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“…Problems associated with operationalisation are not unique to this framework (see Thorén and Stålhammar, 2018), but they are perhaps more evident because of the high ambitions and extensive conceptualisation of the three dimensions. Regardless, the framework offers a starting point to further spark interest in and develop epistemologies that can both strive to operationalise co-constitutiveness between natural and social dimensions and accommodate pluralism.…”

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“…Moreover, experiences in nature can spur city dwellers' engagement for conservation and sustainability (Beery et al 2015, Marcus et al 2016. However, the ES concept and approach, with its near-paradigmatic influence on research and practice, has received criticism for its homogenising and instrumental approach to people's participation and for obscuring the complexity of local values and ecological knowledge (Norgaard 2010, Thorén andStålhammar 2018). The ES concept frames human-nature relationships in a dichotomous manner with nature as a service-provider (Potschin-Young et al 2018).…”

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‘Urban biocultural diversity’ as a framework for human–nature interactions: reflections from a Brazilian favela

Stålhammar

Brink

2020

Urban Ecosyst

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Biocultural diversity (BCD), denoting the ‘inextricable link’ between biological and cultural diversity, has traditionally highlighted the coevolution between highly biodiverse regions and the ethnic–linguistic diversity of indigenous communities. Recently, European researchers have relaunched BCD as a conceptual foundation for urban greenspace planning capable of overcoming challenges of the ecosystem services paradigm. However, the methodological foundation for this particular approach to ‘urban BCD’ is still in its infancy, obscuring precisely how the framework is an advancement for studying different urban residents’ experience of and connectedness to nature and biodiversity. In this paper, we further develop the urban BCD concept by using the culturally and biologically diverse city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as a ‘critical case’. First, we employ qualitative field methods to investigate manifestations of human–nature relationships in the favela (informal settlement) of Rocinha and the neighbouring Tijuca Forest. Second, we reflect on how the urban BCD framework and methodology emphasise i) interrelationships, ii) varied group values and iii) participation, and iv) are sensitising and reflexive. Our findings challenge the ‘usual’ narrative about favelas as places of environmental degradation and disaster risk, revealing BCD and nature connectedness that are as related to popular culture, fitness ideals and citizen-building, as to traditional livelihoods and spiritual beliefs. Departing from interrelationships, BCD can portray aspects that a narrow focus on ‘services’ and ‘disservices’ cannot, but attention should be paid to how operationalisation risks perpetuating ecosystem services thinking. Nevertheless, we identify promising avenues for its use in highly diverse cities with unequal access to natural areas.

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Ecosystem services between integration and economics imperialism

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Assessing People’s Values of Nature: Where Is the Link to Sustainability Transformations?

Assessing People’s Values of Nature: Where Is the Link to Sustainability Transformations?

Nature’s Services and Contributions: The Relational Value of Childhood Nature Experience and the Importance of Reciprocity

‘Urban biocultural diversity’ as a framework for human–nature interactions: reflections from a Brazilian favela

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