Money, use and experience: Identifying the mechanisms through which ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing in coastal Kenya and Mozambique
Money, use and experience: Identifying the mechanisms through which ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing in coastal Kenya and Mozambique
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100957
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Szaboova, Lucy
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作者：
Chaigneau, Tomas;Brown, Katrina;Szaboova, Lucy
尽管最近有大量研究阐明了生态系统服务与人类福祉之间的复杂关系，但很少有人试图了解生态系统服务如何促进福祉和减贫。本文采用“人类需求理论”和“能力方法”的概念来识别生态系统服务和福祉领域之间发生的多种联系，并理解生态系统服务促进福祉的机制。在莫桑比克和肯尼亚的 8 个地点进行了焦点小组讨论（N = 40），以了解生态系统服务带来的效益如何、为何以及在多大程度上有助于不同的福祉领域。我们的结果强调了生态系统服务对福祉、货币、使用和体验做出贡献的三种机制。对这些机制的考虑可以为制定旨在保护或改善人们利益流动的干预措施提供信息。首先，支持多种机制的干预措施可能会支持多个福祉领域。其次，过分强调某些类型的机制可能会导致负面的社会反馈，威胁生态系统服务的未来流动。最后，这三种机制类型相互关联，可以协同作用，增强个人将生态系统服务转化为福祉的能力。
Despite extensive recent research elucidating the complex relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing, little work has sought to understand how ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing and poverty alleviation. This paper adopts concepts from the "Theory of Human Need" and the "Capability Approach" to both identify the multitude of links occurring between ecosystem services and wellbeing domains, and to understand the mechanisms through which ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing. Focus Group Discussions (N = 40) were carried out at 8 sites in Mozambique and Kenya to elicit how, why, and to what extent benefits derived from ecosystem services contribute to different wellbeing domains. Our results highlight three types of mechanisms through which ecosystem services contribute to wellbeing, monetary, use and experience. The consideration of these mechanisms can inform the development of interventions that aim to protect or improve flows of benefits to people. Firstly, interventions that support multiple types of mechanisms will likely support multiple domains of wellbeing. Secondly, overemphasising certain types of mechanism over others could lead to negative social feedbacks, threatening the future flows of ecosystem services. Finally, the three mechanism types are interlinked and can act synergistically to enhance the capacities of individuals to convert ecosystem services to wellbeing.