Making space for cultural ecosystem services: Insights from a study of the UK nature improvement initiative
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Fish, RobChurch, Andrew
Willis, Cheryl
Winter, Michael
Tratalos, Jamie A.
Haines-Young, Roy
Potschin, Marion
Affiliation
University of KentUniversity of Brighton
University of Exeter
University College Dublin
University of Nottingham
Fabis Consulting Ltd
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2016-11-03Subjects
cultural ecosystem servicesshared values
ecosystem assessment
mixed-methodologies
Subject Categories::F810 Environmental Geography
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A study of the cultural ecosystem services (CES) arising from peoples’ interactions with the rural environment is conducted within the context of a landscape scale, ‘nature improvement’ initiative in the United Kingdom. Taking a mixed methodological approach, the research applies, and demonstrates empirically, a framework for CES developed under the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (Fish et al., 2016). Applications of the framework involve the study of the ‘environmental spaces’ and ‘cultural practices’ that contribute to the realisation of benefits to well-being. In this paper empirical work is undertaken to inform the CES evidence base informing management priorities of the Northern Devon Nature Improvement Area (NDNIA) in south west England. Findings from a questionnaire survey, qualitative mapping, group discussion and a participatory arts-based research process are presented to document the many and diverse ways this study area matters to local communities. The paper analyses the qualities that research participants attribute to the environmental space of the NDNIA, the cultural practices conducted and enabled within it, and their associated benefits. The implications of the study for applying this framework through mixed methodological research are discussed, alongside an account of the impact of this approach within the NDNIA itself.Citation
Fish R, Church A, Willis C, Winter M, Tratalos JA, Haines-Young R, Potschin M (2016) 'Making space for cultural ecosystem services: Insights from a study of the UK nature improvement initiative', Ecosystem Services, 21 (Part B), pp.329-343.Publisher
ElsevierJournal
Ecosystem ServicesAdditional Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041616303539Type
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enISSN
2212-0416Sponsors
UK Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Welsh Government, the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.09.017
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