Which Ecosystem Services Are Really Integrated into Local Culture? Farmers' Perceptions of the Columbian and Venezuelan Páramos

Does International Environmental Certification Change Local Production and Trade Practices? A Case Study of Shrimp Farming in Southern Vietnam

“…Although the state and NGOs aimed to raise farmers' awareness, farmers had already recognized the value of the environment because their extensive production depended on the mangrove ecosystem. This result is similar to Leroy and Garcia's (2021) results, in which local farmers understand the biological, economic, and sociocultural services of the environment, although they are unfamiliar with the term ecosystem services.…”

Auctioning approaches for ecosystem services – Evidence and applications

“…For IPAs, Chakrabarti et al (2019) describe exchanges (but not formal interviews) with real-life donors, while Uchida et al (2018) recount interactions from a forward auction workshop. Further effort to build up a holistic, multidimensional understanding of the experience of real auction participants (and less reliance on reading the process through the eyes of Homo economicus) could shed light on participation issues and strategies for representing uncertainty alike (Cooke and Lane, 2018;Leroy and Barrasa Garcia, 2021;Mariola, 2012).…”

Challenges Facing Andean Communities in the Protection of the Páramo in the Central Highlands of Ecuador

“…These areas are inhabited by communities that can have an up to 80% indigenous population, the result of a combination of processes of colonization, marginalization, migration and miscegenation [9][10][11]. The occupied areas are variable and present characteristics of overpopulation, poverty, soil degradation and, in some cases, abandonment due to migration [12].…”

“…The recovery of páramo soils is a challenge due to their complex nature and the difficulty resulting from the elimination of anthropogenic factors; therefore, it is necessary to implement incentives and alternatives that encourage these populations to participate in conservation and restoration activities within the páramo. At the moment, there is not enough research that focuses on finding socially sustainable alternatives that are compatible with this ecosystem, which is essential, because decisions at the local level play a transcendental role when it comes to protecting an ecosystem and ensuring the subsistence of people [5,10,16,17].…”

“…The main objective of this article is to analyze the phenomenon of socio-technical reconfiguration that the communities located in the Salinas parish have gone through in their search to protect this ecosystem and at the same time manage livelihoods that allow them to survive without leaving the area. For this purpose, a descriptive investigation was developed with the use of qualitative tools (interviews and participant observations), which facilitated the understanding of relevant issues through personal experiences and the opinions of interviewees [10]. It is expected that the results obtained will contribute to a better understanding of the realities concerning the inhabitants of this area, and will be inputs for those in charge of formulating policies for the protection of natural resources to consider the socio-technical processes of the communities involved.…”