The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania
The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania
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DOI：
10.5751/es-06333-190242
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Fazey, Ioan
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作者：
Hartel, Tibor;Fischer, Joern;Fazey, Ioan
许多传统文化景观是作为社会生态系统的耦合而演变的。重要的是要了解这些系统如何应对全球化带来的新挑战。为了解决这个问题，我们汇集了两个组成部分的试点研究进行了文化景观从罗马尼亚中部。该区域在过去世纪受到重大社会和经济动荡的影响，影响到族裔组成、社区凝聚力、土地财产制度和共同资源的管理。研究的第一部分通过对30个村庄的98名居民进行问卷调查，调查了农村居民对生态系统服务的评价。第二个组成部分旨在通过对5个村庄的50人进行半结构化访谈，评估人们对其社区正在发生的变化的看法。农村居民特别重视提供生态系统服务，如木柴、水和农作物，以及健康的土壤。农村社区的特点是存在一些社会和经济问题，特别是个人主义、缺乏信任、腐败和贫穷。来自社区的人有许多倡议，e。例如，在一个实施例中，非政府组织、协会和积极的个人对社区的未来比来自很少或没有主动行动的村庄的人更乐观。对于罗马尼亚中部的文化景观来说，一个主要的挑战是找到新的、有意义的方式来保持社会和生态系统的联系。否则，（短期）社会经济利益可能会损害重要生态系统服务的提供。
Many traditional cultural landscapes evolved as coupled social-ecological systems. It is important to understand how such systems navigate novel challenges posed by globalization. To address this issue, we bring together two components of a pilot study carried out in a cultural landscape from Central Romania. The region was affected by major social and economic perturbations in the past century, affecting ethnic composition, community cohesion, land property regimes, and the management of common resources. The first component of our study investigated how rural inhabitants appreciated ecosystem services through questionnaires with 98 people in 30 villages. The second component aimed to assess the perception of people about ongoing changes in their communities through semistructured interviews with 50 people in 5 villages. Rural inhabitants particularly valued provisioning ecosystem services such as firewood, water, and crops, but also healthy soils. Rural communities were characterized by a number of social and economic issues, especially individualism, lack of trust, corruption, and poverty. People from communities with many initiatives, e. g., NGOs, associations, and active individuals, were more optimistic regarding the future of their communities than people from villages with few or no initiatives. A major challenge for cultural landscapes such as those in Central Romania is to find new, meaningful ways to keep the social and ecological systems connected. Otherwise there is a risk that (short-term) socioeconomic interests may impair the provisioning of important ecosystem services.