Perceived availability and access limitations to ecosystem service well-being benefits increase in urban areas

Lapointe, Marie; Gurney, Georgina G.; Cumming, Graeme S.

doi:10.5751/es-12012-250432

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“…As in Lapointe et al (2020), we found some significant differences between socio-cultural groups in pressures, indicating that Italian-speaking respondents are more tolerant toward noisiness, garbage, and touristic exploitation.…”

Section: Pressures On Ces and Experiencessupporting

confidence: 63%

Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Schirpke¹,

Scolozzi²,

Tappeiner³

2022

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Although the importance of lakes for providing cultural ecosystem services (CES) is widely recognized, the integration of associated values and benefits in decision making is still underdeveloped. Therefore, this study aimed at collecting and analyzing people's perceptions related to various CES of mountain lakes using an online questionnaire. We thereby distinguished societal values in terms of CES from individual experiences that contribute to subjective well-being and elicited perceived pressures reducing the quality of nature-based experiences. Based on 526 responses, our results indicate that bequest, symbolic, aesthetic, and spiritual values are perceived as most important, while representation and entertainment were less important. Accordingly, experiences such as connection to nature, relaxation, and freedom had the highest values. In terms of pressures, crowdedness was mentioned most often, followed by noisiness and garbage. These pressures mostly affected experiences such as connection to nature, freedom, relaxation, peace, and memories, with negative effects also on CES, mainly on aesthetic value, sense of place, existence value, and symbolic value. In general, the perceptions were highly consistent across different socio-cultural groups. Nevertheless, some differences emerged between groups with different cultural backgrounds with respect to CES and pressures, while differences in experiences were mostly related to gender. Our findings advance the understanding of CES related to mountain lakes and provide useful insights for research as well as decision and policy making, emphasizing the high intrinsic value expressed by the respondents as well as the variety of CES and experiences associated with mountain lakes. Moreover, the identified pressures provide a valuable basis for consideration in tourism management, the protection of natural resources, and sustainable development because they advance our understanding of how infrastructure development and socioeconomic changes may aggravate impacts on societal values and individual experiences.

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Section: Pressures On Ces and Experiencessupporting

confidence: 63%

Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Schirpke¹,

Scolozzi²,

Tappeiner³

2022

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“…Similarly, Martín-López et al (2012) found that, in Spain, the moral satisfaction gained from conserving biodiversity increased in urban areas, which they attributed partly to higher formal education levels. Formal education levels were also higher in urban areas of the Solomon Islands (Lapointe et al 2020a). Furthermore, Gurney et al (2017) have shown that, in a modern, connected world, people can form emotional connections with natural places without being physically connected to those places in their daily lives.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…However, the ecosystem services of culture (including traditional knowledge and heritage value) and recreation were reported by fewer urban dwellers in the case of forest and river bundles. The differences between urban and rural dwellers could be due to lack of access to these ecosystems because of lower availability, poorer condition, longer travel time, or land ownership rights (Lapointe et al 2020a). In contrast, the ecosystem service of stewardship is quite different from other ecosystem services as it expresses the importance for people of preserving certain ecosystems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Urbanization affects how people perceive and benefit from ecosystem service bundles in coastal communities of the Global South

Lapointe

Gurney

Cumming

2021

Ecosystems and People

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Urbanization profoundly transforms ecosystems and the bundles of services they provide to people. The relationship between urbanization and how ecosystem services are produced together to form bundles has received increased research interest. However, there is limited understanding of how people's perceptions of the benefits they receive from ecosystem service bundles change with urbanization, particularly in the Global South. Addressing this research gap is critical given perceptions influence how people relate to, use and manage their environment. We used a paired sampling design to contrast urban and rural dwellers' perceptions of ecosystem service bundles associated with local ecosystems in the Solomon Islands, a rapidly urbanizing Small Island Developing State. Interviews from 200 households revealed that urbanization simplified the composition of perceived ecosystem service bundles. Contributions of provisioning and some cultural ecosystem services were reduced in bundles in urban areas, indicating a decrease in the diversity of experiences of nature and ecosystems providing those experiences. Examining changes in perceived ecosystem service bundles offers a valuable perspective on the implications of social-ecological change for ecosystem service demand and human wellbeing. Our approach presents a novel and simple way to identify and analyse bundles, providing insights into how and where people benefit from nature.

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“…Furthermore, a next step would be to investigate the causal mechanisms responsible for the observed patterns in socio-cultural perceptions. Explanatory factors could range from needs, preferences or socio-economic status at an individual scale, to limitations in terms availability and access to ecosystem services at biophysical and social-institutional scales (refer to Lapointe et al, 2020b).…”

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Ecosystem services, well‐being benefits and urbanization associations in a Small Island Developing State

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Perceived availability and access limitations to ecosystem service well-being benefits increase in urban areas

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps

Urbanization affects how people perceive and benefit from ecosystem service bundles in coastal communities of the Global South

Ecosystem services, well‐being benefits and urbanization associations in a Small Island Developing State

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