An empirical evaluation of spatial value transfer methods for identifying cultural ecosystem services

An empirical analysis of cultural ecosystem values in coastal landscapes

Lake related greenspace provides many benefits to residents and visitors, which often get unnoticed. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project (2005) proposed the valuation of ecosystem services, defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem support, providing cultural services from natural resources, free of charge. The challenge here is: How can we use cultural ecosystem services derived from scenic landscapes for Greenspace management and assessment? Cultural ecosystem services received international recognition as part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project (2005). Also, ecosystems services encompass regulatory, provisional and ecosystem support. For this article, we are particularly concerned with cultural services, which include recreation, science and education, spiritual/historical as well as aesthetic functions. De Groot (2002) and Farber (2006) provided descriptions of cultural Ecosystem services. De Groot (2002) describes Information functions as comprising of; aesthetic information, recreation, cultural-artistic information and spiritual/historical information. Farber (2005) description of cultural services includes; aesthetic, recreation, science/education, and spiritual/historical functions. This article examines the existing literature with the objective of assessing ecosystem cultural services related to water-based scenic landscape resources and applies it to an Upstate New York lake landscape. Careful accounting of greenspace ecosystem services is presented as applied to lakeshore residents, village residents and town/watershed residents and other lake greenspace users utilizing the US Environmental Protection Agency’s user benefit calculations to yield over 10.6 million dollars of benefits per year (Smardon 2018).

Cultural ecosystem services constitute a growing field of research that is characterized by an increasing number of publications from various academic disciplines. We conducted a semiquantitative review of publications explicitly dealing with cultural ecosystem services. Our aims were: (1) to provide an overview of the current state of research, (2) to classify the diversity of research approaches by identifying clusters of publications that address cultural ecosystem services in similar ways, and (3) to highlight some important challenges for the future of cultural ecosystem services research. We reviewed 107 publications and extracted 20 attributes describing their type and content, including methods, scales, drivers of change, and trade-offs between services. Using a cluster analysis on a subset of attributes we identified five groups of publications: Group 1, conceptual focus, deals with theoretical issues; Group 2, descriptive reviews, consists mostly of desktop studies; Group 3, localized outcomes, deals with case studies coming from different disciplines; Group 4, social and participatory, deals mainly with assessing preferences and perceptions; and Group 5, economic assessments, provides economic valuations. Emerging themes in cultural ecosystem services research relate to improving methods for cultural ecosystem services valuation, studying cultural ecosystem services in the context of ecosystem service bundles, and more clearly articulating policy implications. Based on our findings, we conclude that: (1) cultural ecosystem services are well placed as a tool to bridge gaps between different academic disciplines and research communities, (2) capitalizing on the societal relevance of cultural ecosystem services could help address real-world problems, and (3) cultural ecosystem services have the potential to foster new conceptual links between alternative logics relating to a variety of social and ecological issues.

Analysis of cultural ecosystem services using text mining of residents’ opinions

PDF HTML阅读 XML下载 导出引用 引用提醒 游客和居民视角下武夷山市生态系统文化服务感知比较研究 DOI: 10.5846/stxb202105171286 作者: 作者单位: 作者简介: 通讯作者: 中图分类号: 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金（41301203）；福建农林大学高峰学科建设经费（712018007） Perception of cultural ecosystem services in Wuyishan City from the perspective of tourists and residents Author: Affiliation: Fund Project: 摘要 | 图/表 | 访问统计 | 参考文献 | 相似文献 | 引证文献 | 资源附件 | 文章评论 摘要:生态系统文化服务（CES）的核心是人与自然之间的情感连接，利益相关者视角下的参与式制图是感知与保护热点文化服务地区的有效方法。采用参与式制图与访谈、问卷相结合的方式调查了游客和居民2类群体对武夷山市CES的感知情况；利用空间分析、热点分析和相关性分析比较分析了游客和居民CES的感知差异特征、影响因素及其空间分布格局。结果表明：（1）除了居民月收入对感知有影响外，游客和居民对武夷山市CES认知基本不受人口学特征（性别、年龄、职业和文化程度）的影响（P>0.05）；（2）居民的CES价值人均支付保护意愿较游客高。文化遗产、游憩与生态旅游、教育、美学价值是游客和居民都重视的4类子文化服务。游客对文化遗产价值服务的支付意愿最高，而居民则对教育价值服务支付意愿最高。（3）居民对CES价值感知分布空间范围较广，几乎涵盖了武夷山市大部分乡镇；而游客则相对集中，主要位于旅游点密集区域，对其他地区的感知程度较低。CES价值冷热感知程度与旅游点分布呈现相同的空间分布格局，游客和居民对CES价值热点区的感知强度从南向北逐渐降低。（4）从不同文化服务类型权衡/协同关系上看，除了"精神与宗教价值"和"游憩与生态旅游价值"之间不相关外，其它各子文化服务之间均有高相关性。游客中的美学价值和灵感价值相关性最强，居民中的美学价值与地方认同感价值相关性最强。可见，充分辨识并考虑居民和游客不同群体在CES感知差异特征对提升研究区区域规划与景观服务功能具有重要意义。 Abstract:Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) are the non-material benefits people obtain from nature. They play a key role in improving human well-being and maintaining environmental sustainability. The core of CES is the emotional connection between human and nature. Conducting participatory mapping from the perspective of stakeholders is an effective way to perceive and protect hot CES spots. A participatory mapping and interview questionnaires were used to investigate the perception of CES between tourists and residents in Wuyishan City, which is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province of China. It is the main location of Mount Wuyi, which is a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage Site and Wuyishan National Park. We compared the influencing factors and spatial pattern distribution of tourists' and residents' perception difference of CES in our study area, using spatial analysis and hotspot analysis methods. The results showed that:(1) except that residents' monthly income had an impact on their perception, the perception of CES of tourists and residents was basically not affected by demographic characteristics (gender, age, occupation and education level) (P>0.05). (2) The residents' per capita willingness to pay for protection in CES value was higher than tourists. Then, cultural heritage, recreation and ecotourism, education, and aesthetic value were four sub-cultural services valued by both tourists and residents. Tourists had the highest willingness to pay for cultural heritage value services, while residents had the highest willingness to pay for educational value services. (3) Residents' perception of CES value existed in the spatial distribution of a wide range, almost covering most towns and villages in Wuyishan City, while tourists were mainly located in the area with dense tourist destinations. The degree of perception of CES value on cold- or hot-spots had similar spatial distribution patterns to tourist spots. The intensity of perception of CES value from both tourists and residents decreased gradually from south to north of Wuyishan City. (4) There was no correlation between spiritual and religious values and recreational and ecotourism values, while there was a high correlation among the other sub-cultural services. For tourists, aesthetic value had the strongest correlation with inspiration value, while aesthetic value had the strongest correlation with local identity value among residents. Therefore, it is of great significance to identify and consider the perception differences between residents and tourists in CES to improve the regional planning level and landscape service functions. Integration the link between CES and civil society's engagement in environmental stewardship is beneficial to achieve more harmonious relationship between man and nature in our study area. 参考文献 相似文献 引证文献

Governance of ecosystem services (ES) requires an understanding of the complex dynamics of collaboration (and contestation) of multiple stakeholders and multiple ES. However, many studies consider only a few ES or stakeholder groups. In our work, we map the co-production of multiple ES by multiple stakeholders connected through ES governance networks. Through a unique combination of Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS), stakeholder focus groups, surveys, and social network analysis, we reveal insights on social-ecological fit of ES co-production across an area unified by a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation.By overlaying relationships between stakeholders, multiple ES, and ES co-production networks, our results reveal gaps and mismatches in the ES governance system. We identified mismatches between those ES most valued by the region’s inhabitants and those managed, governed and studied by relevant institutions and stakeholders. Cultural ES were the most highly appreciated by stakeholders, but social networks of cultural ES governance were the least densely connected, with highly influential stakeholders involved in cultural ES management (e.g., farmers), not well connected to the governance network. Thus, our findings point to a weakness in cultural ES governance and the need of incorporating cultural ES more clearly into natural resource management agendas.Our results show the importance of mapping what is being discussed by whom, and that mapping environmental governance networks alone does not necessarily provide sufficient resolution to understand co-production of different ES. We confirm the difficulties of governing ES when the ES providers and/or beneficiaries operate at different or distant scales, the scale of ecological processes does not match management (e.g., in some regulating and maintenance ES), or stakeholders which are important in affecting ES provision are not involved in governance, resulting in social-ecological misfit. Lastly, our work confirms the broad array of research methods needed to capture the complexity of governing multiple ES.

An ecosystem service approach for land-use or conservation decisions normally uses economic or biophysical assessments for valuating nature’s services. In contrast, even though ecosystem services are required for human well-being, the actual use of services by differing stakeholder groups are rarely considered in typical ecosystem service assessments, especially the more intangible, cultural ecosystem services. The aim of this research was to quantify different uses for 15 cultural and provisioning ecosystem service indicators across seven stakeholder groups in a watershed proposed with large hydroelectric dam development. We used a large-scale survey to quantify use and frequency of use for ecosystem services. We demonstrate that different stakeholder groups use ecosystem services differently, both in terms of specific ecosystem service indicators, as well as for frequency of ecosystem service use. Across all stakeholder groups, specific cultural ecosystem services were consistently more important to participants when compared to provisioning ecosystem services, especially aesthetic/scenic values. This work is of global importance as it highlights the importance of considering cultural ecosystem services (e.g. aesthetic/scenic, sense-of-place values) along with multiple stakeholder groups to identify the trade-offs and synergies during decision-making processes for land-use or conservation initiatives.

Ecosystem services may be underestimated, and consequently threatened, when land-use planning and management decisions are based on inadequate information. Unfortunately, most of the studies aimed to evaluate and map cultural ecosystem services (CES) are not used for actual decision support therefore there is a gap in the literature about its use in practice. This study aimed to reduce this gap by: (i) mapping CES perceived by city park users through participatory mapping (PPGIS); (ii) mapping CES arising from park management (management perception); (iii) comparing citizens and park management perception to identify matches or mismatches; and (iv) discussing the utility of the data acquired and the methodology proposed to inform urban planning. The methodology presented in this study resulted in data directly informative for urban planning. It provided spatially explicit data about perceived cultural services of the park as well as information about the matching or mismatching patterns about cultural services provision comparing the users’ view with the management dimension. This research demonstrated a way to use the potential of ES mapping to inform urban planning and explored the local management demand for CES mapping, showing this to be a valuable tool for effective integration into actual decision making.

According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), Ecosystem Services are divided into four main categories: supporting, regulating, provisioning, and cultural services. The Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) represent the physical, intellectual, and spiritual interactions with ecosystems and land/seascapes. The current work aims to strengthen the links between CES and Tourism, by presenting how the conceptualization of CES can contribute to researching landscapes. A sample of 876 questionnaire respondents in six different types of landscape revealed that the CES conceptualization could provide a useful framework for understanding visitor perceptions and experiences of landscapes. Furthermore, the study showed that CES categories are very closely interconnected and an integrated approach is recommended for all landscape planning. This knowledge is essential to place making, which incorporates elements of meaning-making and attachment, as well as place identity, continuity, and dependency.

The importance of cultural ecosystem services in natural resource-dependent communities: Implications for management

Wetland areas' direct contributions to residents' well-being entitle them to high cultural ecosystem values

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