The Gendered Nature of Ecosystem Services
The Gendered Nature of Ecosystem Services
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.018
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发表时间：
2019-05-01
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7
通讯作者：
Schulte-Herbruggen, B.
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作者：
Fortnam, M.;Brown, K.;Schulte-Herbruggen, B.
本文评估了我们对生态系统服务的概念化、理解和实证分析在多大程度上与生俱来地带有性别色彩；换句话说，他们在欣赏性别差异方面可能存在偏见和不平衡。我们通过实证调查肯尼亚和莫桑比克沿海的八个社区的女性和男性如何能够从生态系统服务中受益，从而做到这一点。我们的结果突出了生态系统服务影响福祉的不同方面，以及男性和女性对这些方面的不同评价。然而，不仅仅是生态系统服务的成本和收益的划分存在性别差异。我们使用“生态系统-幸福链”的启发式方法，将我们原始数据中的模式解释为性别化知识系统、性别化行为预期、性别化资源获取和性别化制度的结果。我们的结论是，这种对生态系统服务的全面、性别理解不仅对于如何概念化生态系统服务非常重要，而且对于制定和实施可持续和公平的政策和干预措施也很重要。
This article assesses the extent to which our conceptualisation, understanding and empirical analysis of ecosystem services are inherently gendered; in other words, how they might be biased and unbalanced in terms of their appreciation of gender differences. We do this by empirically investigating how women and men are able to benefit from ecosystem services across eight communities in coastal Kenya and Mozambique. Our results highlight different dimensions of wellbeing affected by ecosystem services, and how these are valued differently by men and women. However, it is not just the division of costs and benefits of ecosystem services that is gendered. Using a heuristic device of the 'ecosystem-wellbeing chain', we explain patterns within our primary data as an outcome of gendered knowledge systems, gendered behavioural expectations, gendered access to resources and gendered institutions. We conclude that this holistic, gendered understanding of ecosystem services is important not just for how ecosystem services are conceptualised, but also for the development and implementation of sustainable and equitable policy and interventions.