scholarly journals MEASURING SOCIAL–ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS BEHIND THE GENERATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 1267-1278 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Andersson ◽  
S. Barthel ◽  
K. Ahrné
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals “A Very Noble Crop”: Financial Stability, Agronomic Expertise, and Personal Values Support Conservation in Shade-Grown Coffee Farms

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7227
Author(s):  
Jeannine H. Richards ◽  
Ingrid M. Torrez Luna ◽  
Alberto Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Nutrient Cycles ◽  
Tropical Biodiversity ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Building Conservation ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Conservation Interventions

Shade-grown coffee is an important reservoir for tropical biodiversity, but habitat quality hinges on decisions made by farmers. Our research aims to investigate the link between coffee producers’ decisions and outcomes for biodiversity, using epiphytes as our focal group. Using qualitative methods, we interviewed 33 producers in northern Nicaragua to understand how they connect trees and epiphytes on their farms to ecosystem services and how personal values, access to agronomic expertise, labor supply, and financial stability influence decision-making. We used interview responses to construct six producer typologies. Most producers had strong positive attitudes toward trees and associated them with a variety of important ecosystem services. Smallholders were more likely to connect trees with provisioning services, while producers on larger farms and with greater agronomic knowledge emphasized regulating services. Most producers connected epiphytes primarily with aesthetic values. Across demographics, producers emphasized the restorative potential for shade coffee in repairing damage to soil, water, and nutrient cycles caused by other forms of agriculture. The conservation significance and sustainability of this social-ecological system can be maintained and expanded through economic and capacity-building conservation interventions, especially when those can be connected to values already held by farmers.

Multi-level social-ecological networks in a payments for ecosystem services programme in central Veracruz, Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Alfonso Langle-Flores ◽  
Adriana Aguilar Rodríguez ◽  
Humberto Romero-Uribe ◽  
Julia Ros-Cuéllar ◽  
Juan José Von Thaden
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Conservation Activity ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
Hydrological Services

Summary Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programmes have been considered an important conservation mechanism to avoid deforestation. These environmental policies act in social and ecological contexts at different spatial scales. We evaluated the social-ecological fit between stakeholders and ecosystem processes in a local PES programme across three levels: social, ecological and social-ecological. We explored collaboration among stakeholders, assessed connectivity between forest units and evaluated conservation activity links between stakeholders and forest units. In addition, to increase programme effectiveness, we classified forest units based on their social and ecological importance. Our main findings suggest that non-governmental organizations occupy brokerage positions between landowners and government in a dense collaboration network. We also found a partial spatial misfit between conservation activity links and the forest units that provide the most hydrological services to Xalapa. We conclude that conservation efforts should be directed towards the middle and high part of the Pixquiac sub-watershed and that the role of non-governmental organizations as mediators should be strengthened to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the local PES programme.

scholarly journals MINI REVIEW Social ecological dynamics of tropical secondary forests

2021 ◽  
Vol 496 ◽  
pp. 119369
Author(s):  
Patricia Balvanera ◽  
Horacio Paz ◽  
Felipe Arreola-Villa ◽  
Radika Bhaskar ◽  
Frans Bongers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
Social Ecological

Exploring social-ecological dynamics of a coral reef resource system using participatory modeling and empirical data

Marine Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 90-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Leenhardt ◽  
Vanessa Stelzenmüller ◽  
Nicolas Pascal ◽  
Wolfgang Nikolaus Probst ◽  
Annie Aubanel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
Participatory Modeling ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Resource System
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