Estimating indigenous cultural values of freshwater: A choice experiment approach to Māori values in New Zealand

Miller, Sini Annukka; Tait, Peter R.; Saunders, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.07.031

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“…Indeed, non-use values are compatible with recreational values as evidenced by a majority of papers around wetland, coastal waters and MPA valuation, which use biodiversity/habitat attributes to describe the recreational activities they focus on, indicating that the value for recreational services involves a mix of use and non-use values [6,9,10,16,17,31]. Likewise, many inland and transitional water studies show the importance of eliciting passive use values relating to the historical and cultural importance of rivers [12]. Many papers find that non-users show a high, positive willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the conservation of coastal and marine ecosystems.…”

Section: Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services And Valuesmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…In the context of coastal ecosystems, interest in undertaking valuation studies to contribute to the management of beaches and other coastal habitats has been especially high in the last years [9][10][11]. This publication pattern has also been found for papers valuing services provided by inland and transitional waters, as almost half of them have been published during the last five years [12][13][14]. It is expected that the number of studies focusing on this type of ecosystem will increase in the next years if economic valuation and environmental cost-benefit analysis are going to play a role in integrated river basin management.…”

Section: Ev Of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services: An Overview Fromentioning

confidence: 86%

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Communicating research on the economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services

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Hanley

2017

Marine Policy

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Section: Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services And Valuesmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Ev Of Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services: An Overview Fromentioning

confidence: 86%

Communicating research on the economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services

Figuerola

Hanley

2017

Marine Policy

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“…These ecosystem services include: (1) fishing areas, (2) freshwater streams, (3) air channels, (4) medicinal plants and genetic and biochemical resources, (5) regulation of local climate, (6) high-quality soils and nutrients, (7) pollination areas, and (8) natural hazard mitigation. Additionally, the area is recognized as significant in terms of cultural services such as recreation and ecotourism, education and, finally, cultivation of spiritual values [84] as the natural landscape contains multiple Maori cultural elements [85]. However, these ecosystem services are under threat, as if land is converted for housing it will no longer produce agricultural products and trigger irreversible changes in the functional performance of the natural environment [86].…”

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Auckland’s Urban Sprawl, Policy Ambiguities and the Peri-Urbanisation to Pukekohe

Silva

2018

Urban Science

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Urban sprawl has been discussed extensively with regard to its negative impacts. On this basis, regulations have been put in place to control sprawling suburbanization, including the establishment of restricted areas for expansion defined by administrative urban boundaries. Overall, these measures have not been at all successful, considering that city-regions continue to expand inorganically, often reinforcing urban sprawl patterns. As clear evidence of the weaknesses of planning regimes of control, these unsuccessful attempts are partly explained by a series of policy ambiguities that contradict the meaning of planning as a prescriptive discipline. This ambiguity is justified by the need to frame flexible regulations that allow adaptation to unforeseen events over time. In this paper, using the case of Auckland, New Zealand, it is demonstrated that instead of planning flexibility, there is planning “ambiguity” accompanied by weak opposition from rural regimes, which deliberately contributes to urban sprawl. This is relevant considering that the inorganic encroachment of rural lands diminishes the huge environmental potential of the peri-urban space of Auckland, its ecosystem services, and agricultural activities—all elements that encourage the creation of more environmentally sustainable peripheral landscapes as a counterpoint to traditional sprawling suburbanization.

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“…There are two main challenges when including cultural values in structured, analytical decision making. First, many have argued that these values are incommensurate and not amenable to economic trade‐offs (Miller, Tait, & Saunders, ). For example, a management action may be seen as violating a deeply held principle, and therefore, the use of trade‐offs is rejected, stalling progress in collaborative decision making.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem‐based freshwater management

Langhans

Jähnig

Schallenberg

2018

River Research & Apps

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Freshwater ecosystems are essential to peoples' economic, cultural, and social well‐being, yet are still among the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. Consequently, a plethora of recent regulations and policies seek to halt the loss of restore or safeguard freshwaters, their biodiversity, and the ecosystem services they provide. Ecosystem‐based management (EBM), an approach that considers human society as an integral part of ecosystems, is increasingly being promoted to help meet this challenge. EBM involves an overarching regulatory framework and local solutions with trade‐offs and compromises—factors that not only make decision processes complex but also provide the means for combining top–down regulation with bottom‐up priorities into collaborative management strategies. Although stakeholder participation is encouraged in most modern freshwater management, community values are often largely neglected. Here, we introduce a well‐known participatory decision support framework based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) to operationalize EBM and promote community‐inclusive decision making in freshwater management. We explain the different steps that this approach comprises, which lead to the prioritization of a management strategy in a collaborative way. We also show how cultural values that inherently embed strong links between the environment and people can be used together with typical ecological and socio‐economic values. We illustrate the MCDA‐based EBM‐approach for New Zealand, one of the few countries in which regional freshwater management is mandated to uphold environmental quality standards, while safeguarding local community values and ecosystem services. Finally, we discuss some of the challenges, which are increasingly emerging as a result of mandated community collaboration in environmental management.

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Estimating indigenous cultural values of freshwater: A choice experiment approach to Māori values in New Zealand

Cited by 34 publications

References 47 publications

Communicating research on the economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services

Communicating research on the economic valuation of coastal and marine ecosystem services

Auckland’s Urban Sprawl, Policy Ambiguities and the Peri-Urbanisation to Pukekohe

On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem‐based freshwater management

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