Resource Use and Ecosystem Services in a Forest Park Landscape

Hartter, Joel

doi:10.1080/08941920903360372

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“…Several previous studies reported greater social perception of provisioning services compared with regulating and cultural services (Iftekhar and Takama 2008, Agbenyega et al 2009, Hartter 2010. In contrast, our results indicate that both cultural and regulating services were strongly perceived in both landscapes, even more than provisioning services.…”

Section: Forests Versus Cropland Landscapes As Providers Of Ecosystemcontrasting

confidence: 57%

Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

López-Santiago¹,

Oteros‐Rozas²,

Martín‐López³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. The ecosystem services approach has been proposed as a powerful tool for the analysis of coupled social-ecological systems. This approach is particularly useful for the evaluation of cultural landscapes, which represent the joint evolution of humans and nature across an extended time span. Transhumance is a customary practice of mobile pastoralism, involving the regular seasonal migration of livestock herds between summer and winter pasturelands. This practice maintains unique cultural landscapes in Mediterranean Spain, which have been shaped over many centuries of pastoral activity. Drove roads, which are used for herd migration, represent the most outstanding feature of these landscapes. We used visually based landscape interpretation to evaluate social perceptions of ecosystem services provided by the Conquense Drove Road transhumance landscape in Spain. Face-to-face questionnaires (N = 314) were given to a sample of local inhabitants, visitors, and urban inhabitants. The questionnaires contained two pairs of photographs depicting images of croplands and pine forests associated with the transhumance landscape, with one photograph in each pair containing a drove road. We compared the social perceptions of 16 ecosystem services supplied by these two landscapes. These 16 services were divided into 3 types: provisioning, such as the production of food and water; regulating, such as the control of climate and disease; and cultural, such as spiritual and recreational benefits. We also identified differences between landscapes with and without a drove road. Overall, respondents recognized the higher capacity of forests to deliver a wider range of ecosystem services to society compared with croplands. Provisioning services were mostly associated with cropland, whereas regulating services and cultural ecosystem services tended to be related to forests. All three types of ecosystem services were more perceived by respondents when a drove road was present in each landscape. However, differences in the visual perception of ecosystem services supply and preference for transhumance landscapes emerged in relation to certain socio-demographic and cultural respondent characteristics such as a previous relationship with transhumance and agriculture, rural/urban origin and identity, environmental awareness, and cultural attachment to a place. Four groups of respondents had consistent and diverging ecosystem services appreciation, revealing various potential conflicts and tradeoffs. We discuss the applicability and usefulness of the proposed approach for evaluating ecosystem services in cultural landscapes and for informing policy-making processes.

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Section: Forests Versus Cropland Landscapes As Providers Of Ecosystemcontrasting

confidence: 57%

Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

López-Santiago¹,

Oteros‐Rozas²,

Martín‐López³

et al. 2014

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“…Previous research highlights differentials in the perception of climate change based on compositional factors, that is, both biosocial and sociocultural factors (Hartter et al 2012). Therefore, perceptions of climate change may vary based on the number of years spent in an area or residence time (Hartter 2010), amount of formal education (Maddison 2007), wealth (Hartter and Goldman 2011), gender (Hartter 2010;McCright 2010) and age (Zahran et al 2006), among other factors. Similarly, Wolf and Moser (2011) argue that status in society (as indicated by gender, age, socioeconomic status and other social variables) may play an important role in these differentiated judgements of climate change by various groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

Monitored versus experience-based perceptions of environmental change: evidence from coastal Tanzania

Armah

Luginaah

Chuenpagdee

et al. 2015

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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The impacts of climate change are likely to exacerbate many problems that coastal areas already face. In this study, we used multinomial logistic regression to examine human perception of climate change based on a cross-sectional survey of 1253 individuals in coastal regions of Tanzania. This was complemented with time series analysis of 50-year meteorological data. The results indicate that self-rated ability to handle work pressure, self-rated ability to handle personal pressure and unexpected difficulties, age, region and educational status were significant predictors of perceived temperature change unlike ethnicity and gender. A disproportionately large percentage of respondents of all ages indicated that temperature was getting hotter between the past 10 and 30 years. This observation was supported by the time series analysis. Although respondents also alluded to changes in rainfall patterns in the past 10 -30 years, time series analysis of rainfall revealed a different scenario except for Mtwara region of Tanzania. Because there is agreement between respondents' perceptions of temperature and available scientific climatic evidence over the 50-year period, this study argues that when meteorological records are incomplete or unavailable, local perceptions of climatic changes can be used to complement scientific climatic evidence. Based on the spatial differentials in climate change perception observed in this study, there is opportunity for a more locally oriented adaptation dimension to climate policy integration, which has hitherto been underserved by both academics and policymakers.

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“…Employment opportunities linked to Kibale are also limited by location (MacKenzie 2012), whereas the perception of ecosystem services as a benefit from Kibale are widespread. The perception of these services may maintain support for conservation in communities where few, if any, other benefits are realized (Hartter 2010;Sodhi et al 2010).…”

Section: Materials Benefits and Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For each dataset, wealth was categorized through a post-facto hierarchical cluster analysis, which included landholdings (owned, rented, borrowed), house construction, livestock, and head of household gender (Hartter 2009(Hartter , 2010. We then grouped our predictors into four categories of factors: geography, household characteristics, respondent characteristics and perceptions (Table 1).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A set of 95 random geographic coordinates within these areas was selected, and those points became the centres of 9-ha areas (circles with radii of 170 m) termed 'superpixels' (Goldman et al 2008). Survey respondents (both men and women) were selected from among landholders in each of the superpixels, and all surveys were conducted in person using a trained male interpreter in Rutoro, Rukiga or English (Hartter 2009(Hartter , 2010. We tested five sets of perceived benefits within these two datasets: all benefits (material benefits and ecosystem services), all ecosystem services, and three individual ecosystem services (rainfall, fresh air, and climate regulation).…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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SUMMARYTraditionally, conservation programmes assume that local peoples' support for parks depends on receiving material benefits from foreign exchange, tourism, development and employment. However, in the case of forest parks in Africa, where annual visitation can be small, local support may instead result from ecosystem services. Kibale National Park, a forest park in Uganda, demonstrates that people appreciate parks in ways that are seldom cited nor explored. Public perceptions of benefits accrued from Kibale were explored using two different sampling techniques: a community census and a geographic sample. In both surveys, over 50% of respondents perceived benefits provided by Kibale National Park, and over 90% of those who perceived benefits identified ecosystem services, whereas material benefits were cited less frequently. Multimodel selection on a suite of general linear models for the two different sampling methods provided a comparison of factors influencing perceptions of ecosystem services. Perceptions of Park benefits were influenced by geography, household and respondent characteristics, and perception of negative impacts from the Park. Perceived ecosystem benefits played an important role in the way the Park was viewed and valued locally. Parks have considerable impacts on neighbouring communities, and their long-term political and economic sustainability depends on managing these relationships well. Since local people have the most to gain or lose by conserving neighbouring parks, analyses that incorporate the perceptions of local people are essential to management and sustainability of park landscapes.

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Resource Use and Ecosystem Services in a Forest Park Landscape

Cited by 109 publications

References 36 publications

Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

Using visual stimuli to explore the social perceptions of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes: the case of transhumance in Mediterranean Spain

Monitored versus experience-based perceptions of environmental change: evidence from coastal Tanzania

Contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services of an African forest park

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