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Provedor de dados: | Ecology and Society
País: | Canada
Título: | Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia
Data: | 2014-11-05
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Concept of culture; Ecosystem services; Ethnography; Landscapes  Namibia; Valuation.
Resumo: | Defining culture as shared knowledge, values, and practices, we introduce an anthropological concept of culture to the ecosystem-service debate. In doing so, we shift the focus from an analysis of culture as a residual category including recreational and aesthetic experiences to an analysis of processes that underlie the valuation of nature in general. The empirical analysis draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted along the Okavango River in northern Namibia to demonstrate which landscape units local populations value for which service(s). Results show that subjects perceive many places as providing multiple services and that most of their valuations of ecosystem services are culturally shared. We attribute this finding to common experiences and modes of activities within the cultural groups, and to the public nature of the valuation process.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol19/iss4/art26/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 19, No. 4 (2014)