Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making

IF 6.1 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY
Kristin R. Hoelting , Joshua W. Morse , Rachelle K. Gould , Doreen E. Martinez , Rina S. Hauptfeld , Amanda E. Cravens , Sara J. Breslow , Lucas S. Bair , Rudy M. Schuster , Michael C. Gavin
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Abstract

Many cultural benefits of ecosystem services (ES) are difficult to capture in standard ES assessments. Scholars and practitioners often respond to this gap by seeking to develop new scientific methods to capture and integrate the plural values associated with diverse cultural benefits categories. This increasing emphasis on value pluralism represents an essential step toward recognitional justice within ES theory and practice. However, current approaches continue to rest on the assumption that ES-knowledge is only made available to decision-makers through scientific documentation. As a result, scholars and decision-makers fail to account for the role of knowledge pluralism as a core element of recognitional justice, and a key enabling factor for meaningful consideration of the plural values linked to cultural benefits of ES. In this paper, we contribute to a pluralist theory of cultural-benefits-knowledge, and ES-knowledge more broadly. Using a critical interpretive synthesis of environmental management literature, we conceptualize a wider range of knowledge forms that convey cultural benefits, based on the knowledge-as-practice concept in addition to the knowledge-as-product concept more familiar to Western actors. As part of the synthesis, we explore when and how diverse forms of cultural-benefits-knowledge intersect with decision-making processes, and the value aspects and categories of cultural benefits most frequently conveyed by each form of knowledge. Our synthesizing argument offers a critique of the concept of “ES-knowledge-use,” proposing a shift in focus toward “learning opportunities” that exist across phases of decision-making. We demonstrate that attention to a greater diversity of knowledge forms (knowledge pluralism), and a fuller spectrum of opportunities to integrate them (learning opportunities) can support more meaningful consideration of the plural values associated with cultural benefits of ES (value pluralism). In combination, attention to knowledge pluralism and value pluralism can help bring the ES approach into alignment with environmental justice through the recognition and legitimization of multiple identities, well-beings, and human-nature relationships, as reflected in meaningful consideration of the diverse cultural benefits of ES.

在环境决策中更好地考虑文化惠益的机会
生态系统服务 (ES) 的许多文化效益很难在标准的 ES 评估中体现出来。针对这一差距,学者和从业人员通常会寻求开发新的科学方法来捕捉和整合与不同文化效益类别相关的多元价值。这种对价值多元化的日益重视是在生态系统服务理论和实践中实现公认公正的重要一步。然而,目前的方法仍然基于这样一种假设,即只有通过科学文献才能向决策者提供环境科学知识。因此,学者和决策者没有考虑到知识多元化作为承认正义的核心要素的作用,也没有考虑到知识多元化是有意义地考虑与生态系统服务文化惠益相关的多元价值的关键有利因素。在本文中,我们将对文化惠益知识的多元化理论以及更广泛的生态系统知识做出贡献。通过对环境管理文献进行批判性的解释综合,除了西方参与者更熟悉的 "知识即产品 "概念外,我们还基于 "知识即实践 "概念,对传递文化惠益的更广泛的知识形式进行了概念化。作为综合论证的一部分,我们探讨了不同形式的文化效益知识何时以及如何与决策过程产生交集,以及每种知识形式最常传达的文化效益的价值方面和类别。我们的综合论点对 "环境服务知识使用 "的概念提出了批评,建议将重点转向存在于决策各阶段的 "学习机会"。我们证明,关注更多样化的知识形式(知识多元化)和更全面的整合机会(学习机会),可以更有意义地考虑与生态系统服务文化利益相关的多元价值(价值多元化)。将知识多元化和价值多元化结合起来,有助于通过承认多重身份、福祉和人与自然的关系并使之合法化,使环境教育方法与环境正义相一致,这体现在对环境教育的各种文化惠益进行有意义的考虑上。
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Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem Services ECOLOGYENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES&-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CiteScore
14.90
自引率
7.90%
发文量
109
期刊介绍: Ecosystem Services is an international, interdisciplinary journal that is associated with the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP). The journal is dedicated to exploring the science, policy, and practice related to ecosystem services, which are the various ways in which ecosystems contribute to human well-being, both directly and indirectly. Ecosystem Services contributes to the broader goal of ensuring that the benefits of ecosystems are recognized, valued, and sustainably managed for the well-being of current and future generations. The journal serves as a platform for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders to share their findings and insights, fostering collaboration and innovation in the field of ecosystem services.
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