A Participatory Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing in Rural Costa Rica Using Photo-Voice
A Participatory Assessment of Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing in Rural Costa Rica Using Photo-Voice
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DOI：
10.1007/s00267-012-9822-9
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Berbes-Blazquez, Marta
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作者：
Berbes-Blazquez, Marta
人类福祉与生态系统服务密切相关。对生态系统服务文献的一个关键贡献是千年生态系统评估，MA（生态系统和人类福祉：评估框架，岛屿出版社，华盛顿，DC; 2003年，2005年）。迄今为止，关于生态系统服务的大部分工作都侧重于环境功能的评估和分类。人们普遍认识到，需要将社区观点纳入生态系统评估，以便更好地了解自然资源使用所产生的影响和惠益的分布情况。社区可以提供一条直接途径，帮助人们了解生态系统与人类福祉之间的复杂关系，以及环境管理如何影响他们的生计。Photovoice作为参与性需求评估的一种工具已经很受欢迎，但迄今为止，它在生态系统评估中的使用有限。本文的目的是双重的：（1）介绍社区一级的环境服务评估的结果，在哥斯达黎加菠萝单一种植为主的流域;（2）评价的优势和局限性的photovoice作为一种工具，映射生态系统和人之间的关系。我认为，photovoice是一种未充分利用的方法，有可能补充生物物理生态系统服务评估的背景下，贫困和资源依赖的社区，特别是，因为评估生态系统服务和采取行动的信息需要整合不同的利益相关者的知识，认识到权力的不平衡，并努力与社会生态系统的复杂性。诸如“照片之声”等进程有可能促进社区的自我组织，这是增强权能的一个关键组成部分。
Human well-being is intricately connected to ecosystem services. A keystone contribution to the ecosystem service literature has been the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, MA, (Ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment, Island Press, Washington, DC; 2003, 2005). Much of the work on ecosystem services to date has focused on the assessment and classification of environmental functions. The need for inclusion of community perspectives in ecosystem assessments has been widely recognized in order to better understand the distribution of impacts and benefits resulting from natural resource use. Communities can offer a direct route to understanding the complex relationships between ecosystems and human well-being and how environmental management affects their livelihoods. Photovoice has been made popular as a tool for participatory needs assessment but it has had limited use in ecosystem assessments to date. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to present the results of a community-level assessment of environmental services in a watershed dominated by pineapple monoculture in Costa Rica; and (2) to evaluate the strengths and the limitations of photovoice as a tool for mapping the relationship between ecosystems and people. I argue that photovoice is an underutilized methodology that has the potential to complement biophysical ecosystem service assessments in the context of impoverished and resource-dependent communities, particularly, since assessing ecosystem services and acting upon that information requires integrating the knowledges of diverse stakeholders, recognizing power imbalances, and grappling with the complexity of social-ecological systems. Processes such as photovoice have the potential to catalyze community self-organization, which is a critical component for empowerment.