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Social assessment of ecosystem services – Linking images of nature and ecosystem services assessment
Boekbijdrage - Boekhoofdstuk Conferentiebijdrage
This paper describes a qualitative social
assessment of ecosystem services (ESS), as part of an integrated ESS assessment in a peri-urban study area in central Belgium. We interviewed 39 decisionmakers and other people actively using and managing nature in the study area and asked them firstly what nature means to them, and secondly to assess the importance of 31 ecosystem services at the local scale. By applying a grounded theory-inspired analysis of the interview transcripts, we defined interviewees' images of nature. Two dimensions along which images of nature are revolving, emerged: on the one hand the nature versus culture dimension and on the other hand the view on the relation between nature and people. This paper elaborates on these dimensions and illustrates them trough interview quotes.We also demonstrate how the images of nature fit the ESS concept and ESS classification. We show how cultural and provisioning ESS are clearly present in the images of nature, regulating ESS are much less connected to the images.
assessment of ecosystem services (ESS), as part of an integrated ESS assessment in a peri-urban study area in central Belgium. We interviewed 39 decisionmakers and other people actively using and managing nature in the study area and asked them firstly what nature means to them, and secondly to assess the importance of 31 ecosystem services at the local scale. By applying a grounded theory-inspired analysis of the interview transcripts, we defined interviewees' images of nature. Two dimensions along which images of nature are revolving, emerged: on the one hand the nature versus culture dimension and on the other hand the view on the relation between nature and people. This paper elaborates on these dimensions and illustrates them trough interview quotes.We also demonstrate how the images of nature fit the ESS concept and ESS classification. We show how cultural and provisioning ESS are clearly present in the images of nature, regulating ESS are much less connected to the images.
Boek: eProceedings of the XXVth Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology
Series: Rural resilience and vulnerability: The rural as locus of solidarity and conflict in times of crisis
Pagina's: 219-220
Aantal pagina's: 2
ISBN:978-88-908960-0-2
Jaar van publicatie:2013
Trefwoorden:ecosystem services, images of nature, social assessment, social valuation