Beyond services: A process and framework to incorporate cultural, genealogical, place-based, and indigenous relationships in ecosystem service assessments

Pascua, Pua‘ala; McMillen, Heather; Ticktin, Tamara; Vaughan, Mehana; Winter, Kawika B.

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Beyond services: A process and framework to incorporate cultural, genealogical, place-based, and indigenous relationships in ecosystem service assessments

2017
By Pascua, Pua‘ala ; McMillen, Heather ; Ticktin, Tamara ; ...

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Journal Title:

Ecosystem Services
Personal Author:

Pascua, Pua‘ala ; McMillen, Heather ; Ticktin, Tamara ; Vaughan, Mehana ; Winter, Kawika B.
NOAA Program & Office:

Sea Grant
Sea Grant Program:

HAWAU (Hawaii Sea Grant)
Description:

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) – the non-material benefits realized through human-environmental interactions – contribute to ecosystem service assessments by revealing key social dimensions in natural resource management. Yet there is limited understanding of how CES are experienced by individuals with strong generational and genealogical ties to land. Consequently place-based CES are frequently absent from management policies. We use a case study from Hawaiʻi to: 1) outline a process of eliciting place-based and indigenous CES; 2) develop a Hawai‘i-based CES framework that is adaptable to other place-based communities; 3) demonstrate how place-based CES compare/contrast with standard CES; and 4) discuss how this process can enhance resource management and land-use planning. Through interdisciplinary methods drawing on multiple years of research and workshops in two rural Hawaiʻi communities, we highlight concepts not well captured in the existing CES literature including reciprocal relationships between people and place, sense of security, traditional values, and cultural subsistence. Our framework presents CES from a Hawaiian place-based/indigenous point of view by highlighting four main categories: ʻIke (Knowledge), Mana (Spiritual Landscapes), Pilina Kanaka (Social Interactions), and Ola Mau (Physical and Mental Wellbeing). Ultimately, this research provides a methodology to engage place-based communities when identifying CES in ecosystem service assessments.
Keywords:

Agricultural And Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Ecology Geography, Planning And Development Global And Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Nature And Landscape Conservation Agricultural And Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning And Development Global And Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Nature And Landscape Conservation Geography, Planning And Development Global And Planetary Change Management, Monitoring, Policy And Law Nature And Landscape Conservation
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Ecosystem Services, 26, 465-475
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.03.012
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2212-0416
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Elsevier BV
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Journal Article
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