Ecosystem services concepts and approaches in conservation: Just a rhetorical tool?
Ecosystem services concepts and approaches in conservation: Just a rhetorical tool?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.11.004
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
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7
通讯作者：
Brown, Katrina
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作者：
Fisher, Janet A.;Brown, Katrina
许多评论家对最近关注生态系统服务（ES）概念的保护提出了质疑，但很少有实证分析存在。我们提出了一种新的实证分析，使用访谈和Q方法来研究保护从业者和组织如何解释和使用生态环境概念和相关方法。我们发现，采用这些概念是为了扩大支持者的必要工具，并期望扩大资金来源。我们发现了保护中的一些担忧，即强调生态系统概念的功利主义可能会损害未来为自然提出非功利主义论点的能力。关于不断变化的实践，我们研究了伙伴关系和资金的变化，在这些变化中，可持续发展理念提供了关于价值流动的共同语言，显然加速了保护与私营部门的整合。虽然许多受访者注意到与ES理念相关的转变的重要性，但有些人试图淡化这些变化，将其组织采用这些理念视为“只是一种修辞工具”。然而，我们认为，考虑到这些概念日益成为规划工具和政策工具的基础和信息，采用ES概念不能仅仅是修辞上的。(C) 2014年Elsevier B.V.出版
Many commentators have raised questions about the recent focus on ecosystem services (ES) concepts in conservation, but little empirical analysis exists. We present a novel empirical analysis using interviews and Q Methodology to examine how conservation practitioners and organisations are interpreting and using ES concepts and associated approaches. We find that these concepts are being adopted for instrumental imperatives to broaden constituencies and with an expectation of extending funding sources. We uncover concerns within conservation that the utilitarian emphases of ES concepts may compromise the ability to make non-utilitarian arguments for nature in the future. In relation to changing practice, we examine shifts in partnerships and funding, where ES ideas provide a shared language about flows of value, apparently accelerating the integration of conservation and the private sector. Whilst many respondents noted the significance of shifts related to ES ideas, some attempted to play these down, presenting their organisation's adoption of these ideas as 'just a rhetorical tool'. However, we argue that the adoption of ES concepts cannot be presented as solely rhetorical, given that these increasingly underpin and inform planning tools and policy instruments. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.