An overview of cultural and spiritual values in ecosystem management and conservation strategies
An overview of cultural and spiritual values in ecosystem management and conservation strategies
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生态系统管理和保护战略中的文化和精神价值概述
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2007
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B. Verschuuren
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文化和精神价值观是自然保护和生态系统管理的关键驱动力，但往往难以在决策过程中体现。自然生态系统的文化重要性不仅包括有形的商品和服务，还包括许多无形的、非物质的或信息服务。这些非物质和精神价值是当地人宇宙观的一部分，在塑造他们对自然的认知中发挥着关键作用。人们感知自然的方式取决于文化定义的价值观和信仰体系，这些体系形成了重要的、通常是代际的信息来源。其中一些有价值的信息，特别是与其精神层面有关的信息，可能尚未在当前的生态系统管理中得到考虑。造成这种情况的部分原因可能是这些知识无法被西方培训的保护主义者和传统生态系统管理者等外部人士获取和理解。因此，在生态系统管理实践中考虑各种世界观及其相应的文化和精神价值观，对管理者、政策制定者和当地人来说都是一个挑战。
Cultural and spiritual values are critical driving forces in nature conservation and ecosystem management but are often difficult to represent in decision-making processes. The cultural importance of natural ecosystems not only consists of tangible goods and services, but also includes many often intangible, non-material or information services. These non-material and spiritual values are part of local people’s cosmovision and play a pivotal role in shaping their perception of nature. The way people perceive nature depends on culturally defined value and belief systems that form an important, often intergenerational, source of information. Some of this valuable information, relating in particular to its spiritual dimensions, may not yet be considered in current ecosystem management. Part of the reason for this may be that such knowledge is inaccessible and difficult to be understood by outsiders such as western-trained conservationists and conventional ecosystem managers. Hence, accounting for the various worldviews and their corresponding cultural and spiritual values in the practice of ecosystem management forms a challenge for managers, policy-makers and local people alike.