Reading ecosystem services at the local scale through a territorial approach: The case of peri-urban agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France
In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand “hard” monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust “one size fits all” analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a “technology of globalization,” thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within which ecosystems emerge. Third, economic valuation has been shown to limit local stakeholders in expressing their daily and immediate ways of interacting with their environment over and beyond extrinsic motivation provided by financial gains. We address these three limitations by analyzing a social evaluation of the roles of peri-urban farmland from a territorial perspective. Our case study is the Thau lagoon in southern France. We conducted in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and ran two participatory workshops. Using a territorial meta-model that distinguishes three levels— physical, logical, and existential—stakeholder data were analyzed to unravel the interplay of territorial elements at these three levels that gives rise to ES in two broad categories: food production and aesthetic landscape. The coupling of ES and territory concepts opens up several novel analytical perspectives. It allows partitioning of ES in a manner that “re-contextualizes” them and gives insight about both their physical constituents and their meaning at the territorial level. Additional research should incorporate the dynamics of service demand and supply, and further investigate options for implementation.
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dig-cirad-fr-5791072024-01-28T23:13:06Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/579107/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/579107/ Reading ecosystem services at the local scale through a territorial approach: The case of peri-urban agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France. Ruoso Laure-Elise, Plant Roel, Maurel Pierre, Dupaquier Claire, Roche Philip K., Bonin Muriel. 2015. Ecology and Society, 20 (3), 16 p.https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07694-200311 <https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07694-200311> Reading ecosystem services at the local scale through a territorial approach: The case of peri-urban agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France Ruoso, Laure-Elise Plant, Roel Maurel, Pierre Dupaquier, Claire Roche, Philip K. Bonin, Muriel eng 2015 Ecology and Society P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières A01 - Agriculture - Considérations générales agriculture périurbaine services écosystémiques développement régional étude de cas approche participative http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_18389 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1348040570280 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6488 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24392 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_9000119 Languedoc-Roussillon France http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_4188 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3081 In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand “hard” monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust “one size fits all” analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a “technology of globalization,” thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within which ecosystems emerge. Third, economic valuation has been shown to limit local stakeholders in expressing their daily and immediate ways of interacting with their environment over and beyond extrinsic motivation provided by financial gains. We address these three limitations by analyzing a social evaluation of the roles of peri-urban farmland from a territorial perspective. Our case study is the Thau lagoon in southern France. We conducted in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and ran two participatory workshops. Using a territorial meta-model that distinguishes three levels— physical, logical, and existential—stakeholder data were analyzed to unravel the interplay of territorial elements at these three levels that gives rise to ES in two broad categories: food production and aesthetic landscape. The coupling of ES and territory concepts opens up several novel analytical perspectives. It allows partitioning of ES in a manner that “re-contextualizes” them and gives insight about both their physical constituents and their meaning at the territorial level. Additional research should incorporate the dynamics of service demand and supply, and further investigate options for implementation. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/579107/1/ES-2015-Ruoso%20et%20al%202015.pdf text Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07694-200311 10.5751/ES-07694-200311 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5751/ES-07694-200311 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07694-200311 |
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In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand “hard” monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust “one size fits all” analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a “technology of globalization,” thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within which ecosystems emerge. Third, economic valuation has been shown to limit local stakeholders in expressing their daily and immediate ways of interacting with their environment over and beyond extrinsic motivation provided by financial gains. We address these three limitations by analyzing a social evaluation of the roles of peri-urban farmland from a territorial perspective. Our case study is the Thau lagoon in southern France. We conducted in-depth interviews with a broad range of stakeholders and ran two participatory workshops. Using a territorial meta-model that distinguishes three levels— physical, logical, and existential—stakeholder data were analyzed to unravel the interplay of territorial elements at these three levels that gives rise to ES in two broad categories: food production and aesthetic landscape. The coupling of ES and territory concepts opens up several novel analytical perspectives. It allows partitioning of ES in a manner that “re-contextualizes” them and gives insight about both their physical constituents and their meaning at the territorial level. Additional research should incorporate the dynamics of service demand and supply, and further investigate options for implementation. |
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Reading ecosystem services at the local scale through a territorial approach: The case of peri-urban agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France |
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