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How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators
Breyne, Johanna; Dufrêne, Marc; Maréchal, Kevin
2021In Ecosystem Services, 49 (101278)
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Keywords :
ecosystem services; socio-cultural values; stakeholders’ perceptions; forest management; value pluralism; subjective indicators
Abstract :
[en] As an attempt to clarify the meaning of ‘values’ within ecosystem services (ES) assessments, this paper proposes the integration and fine-tuning of the concept of ‘socio-cultural values’ within the ES assessment framework. Firstly, it makes a conceptual clarification between biophysical, social or monetary value indicators describing the performance of a service, and socio-cultural values reflecting opinions on the importance of a (set of) service(s). Secondly, it provides a practical application to illustrate how to interpret ‘social value indicators’ through their interactions with ‘socio-cultural values’. An adequate use of these ‘socio-cultural values’ combined with subjective social value indicators’ makes it possible to take the opinion of a wide range of actors into account and to give meaning to their expressed preferences instead of blindfolding on caricaturized profiles. The case study in this paper deals with the Ardennes forests (Belgium). Wider public preferences for different structural forest characteristics (as performance-oriented ES value indicators) actually relate to different ‘socio-cultural values’. The study results reveal a mismatch between current forest management strategies and wider public preferences. This paper clearly demonstrates the potential of ‘socio-cultural values’ to improve legitimacy and to foster consensus-building of decision-making in natural resource management.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Breyne, Johanna ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Terra
Dufrêne, Marc  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Biodiversité et Paysage
Maréchal, Kevin ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement
Language :
English
Title :
How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators
Publication date :
2021
Journal title :
Ecosystem Services
eISSN :
2212-0416
Publisher :
Elsevier, Netherlands
Volume :
49
Issue :
101278
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
AGRETA
Funders :
Interreg France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen [BE]
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