Social valuation of mangroves in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

James, Godstime K.; Adegoke, Jimmy; Osagie, Sylvester O.; Saba, Ekechukwu; Nwilo, Peter C.; Akinyede, J. O.

doi:10.1080/21513732.2013.842611

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“…Mangroves are also of interest because they are known to provide a range of cultural services (e.g., James et al 2013). The potential for mangroves to deliver a range of cultural services suggests that there is scope for societies to prioritize different aspects of mangroves over time, as environmental and societal conditions change.…”

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Historical and contemporary cultural ecosystem service values in the rapidly urbanizing city state of Singapore

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Richards

et al. 2015

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Cultural ecosystem services are a function of people and place, so may change as a location transitions from rural to urban. Singapore has undergone rapid urbanization after its independence in 1965, with a concomitant decline in natural habitat extent and accessibility. Using coastal mangrove forests as a case study habitat, changing cultural values were explored with a novel array of techniques, including qualitative archival analysis (photographs, oral histories), current sources (publically uploaded social media photographs), and surveys of (a) the general public and (b) visitors to publically accessible mangroves. Cultural value changed through time, with a significant transition from intrinsic, intrapersonal values (spiritual, cultural heritage) to instrumental, interpersonal values (recreation, education). Additionally, cultural value varied between different mangroves depending on their public accessibility, and the evolving degree of human interaction with the ecosystem as urban development occured. Cultural values change as development transitions, though mangroves still play an important cultural role in a heavily urbanized environment.

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Historical and contemporary cultural ecosystem service values in the rapidly urbanizing city state of Singapore

Thiagarajah

Wong

Richards

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“…Cultural ecosystem services are relatively neglected in contemporary ecosystem services research, and this is particularly the case when considering mangrove forests, where few contemporary studies exist [11,12]. This was also the case between 1823 and 1883, where only three reports (8% of all ecosystem services articles) discussed the cultural value of mangrove forests for local communities in the Pacific and Australia.…”

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“…Regulating and supporting services are a focus of much contemporary mangrove ecosystem service research [3], though were not of much concern to colonial explorers, mentioned in only seven articles. Cultural ecosystem services were only discussed in three articles, in predominantly anthropological journal articles, mirroring a similar lack of attention and research on cultural services of forested ecosystems today [11]. Geographically, articles were distributed across the tropics (Figures 2 and 3), though clustering of reports do occur in Africa, especially in Tanzania and Zanzibar.…”

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“…The anthropologist Charles Staniland Wake described Australian aboriginal ceremonies where the dead were buried in a grave and covered with mangrove saplings [64], while in Papua New Guinea the dead were left exposed in the forest as a method of preservation [64]. The role of mangrove forest in such ceremonies may have declined in many indigenous communities, especially with the spread of Christianity during the Colonial Period, though some coastal communities still use mangrove forest resources for spiritual ceremonial use today [11].…”

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“…These regulating services are potentially important at very large scales, with carbon storage in Indonesia being so high that mangrove deforestation may account for as much as 10%-31% of all carbon emissions related to national land cover change [10]. Mangrove forests also provide a broad suite of cultural ecosystem services to coastal populations living close to mangrove forests, ranging from the tangible (tourism, recreation, education) to the abstract (cultural heritage, aesthetics, sense of place) [11,12]. While huge challenges to quantifying and valuing ecosystem services remain, mangrove forest ecosystem services have been tentatively estimated at an average of US 4185 per hectare per year [13], though substantial spatial and temporal variation in this value would be expected.…”

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Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests: Insights from Historical Colonial Observations

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2016

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Ecosystem services are now strongly applied to mangrove forests, though they are not a new way of viewing mangrove-people interactions; the benefits provided by such habitats, and the negative interactions (ecosystem disservices) between mangroves and people have guided perceptions of mangroves for centuries. This study quantified the ecosystem services and disservices of mangroves as written by colonial explorers from 1823-1883 through a literature survey of 96 expedition reports and studies. Ecosystem disservices were most commonly discussed (60%), with settlers considering mangroves as reservoirs of diseases such as malaria, with wide-ranging implications, such as the global drainage of wetlands in the 19th-20th centuries. Multiple ecosystem services were discussed, especially provisioning services for export, representing colonial views of new lands as ripe for economic use. Interestingly, regulating services of mangroves such as erosion control and sediment accretion that are a focus of much contemporary research were recognized as early as 1865. This study shows that the ecosystem service paradigm has a long history in mangroves. We should not underestimate mangrove ecosystem disservices, and how contemporary perceptions of mangroves may be influenced by such historical viewpoints. Archival materials provide a rich resource to study human-environment interactions, and how they change through time.

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Mangrove cultural services and values: Current status and knowledge gaps

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Found exclusively in the tropics and subtropics, mangrove ecosystems make up less than 1% of the earth's total surface area but provide crucial functions and services disproportionate to their size, including serving as habitat for a wide variety of biodiversity, storing carbon at levels equivalent to those measured in the Amazon rainforests, and providing coastal stability and storm protection (Giri et al., 2011;Saatchi et al., 2011;Thomas et al., 2017). Despite their importance, at least 35% of the world's mangroves have been lost since 1990 due primarily to agricultural/aquacultural uses and logging (Thomas et al., 2017). These declines are expected to significantly affect not only the ecological and economic value of mangroves, but also the communities around them that have tightly linked cultural values and uses associated with these landscapes.The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) defines ecosystem services (ES) as the suite of benefits that ecosystems generate for society, which can be placed into four broad categories:

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Social valuation of mangroves in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

Cited by 55 publications

References 56 publications

Historical and contemporary cultural ecosystem service values in the rapidly urbanizing city state of Singapore

Historical and contemporary cultural ecosystem service values in the rapidly urbanizing city state of Singapore

Ecosystem Services and Disservices of Mangrove Forests: Insights from Historical Colonial Observations

Mangrove cultural services and values: Current status and knowledge gaps

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