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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assessing and Mapping Ecosystem Service Uses and Values Among National Forest Stakeholders

博士论文研究：评估和绘制国家森林利益相关者的生态系统服务用途和价值

基本信息

批准号：
1832315
负责人：
Kathleen Farley
金额：
$ 1.03万
依托单位：
San Diego State University Foundation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-08-01 至 2021-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832315&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Assessing Mapping

项目摘要

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project focuses on developing methods to equitably inform U.S. public land management based on improved understanding of the values and uses a wide range of stakeholder groups have regarding public lands. The U.S. Forest Service has been tasked with including the variety of benefits individuals and society obtain from ecosystems, often called ecosystem services, in National Forest planning and decision-making. While the concept aims to directly link environmental decision-making with human wellbeing, there is little guidance on how to collect and include data related to human wellbeing and cultural values in ecosystem service-based management. A first step in giving more attention to wellbeing and cultural values through an ecosystem services framework is to better understand the diverse ways National Forest lands are used and valued by different stakeholder groups. This research will provide data and demonstrate methods that can be used to fulfill statutory requirements for National Forest planning going forward, while allowing stakeholder groups to provide input into public lands management. Furthermore, results will be shared with the Forest Service and presented to stakeholder groups, improving understanding of priorities and highlighting values that are shared among groups. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.While the concept of ecosystem services has risen in prominence as a decision-making framework over the last two decades, analysis has often focused on few, easily quantifiable services rather than the more difficult to quantify cultural benefits that individuals and society may value most. This research will address this knowledge gap through the development of participatory approaches for identifying, valuing, and mapping ecosystem services that will link the concept with the resource use, cultural values, and livelihoods of diverse stakeholder groups. First, investigation of which ecosystem services are identified, used, prioritized, and most valued by different stakeholder groups will be conducted through semi-structured interviews. Secondly, participants will engage in a participatory mapping exercise focused on understanding the spatial patterns of the uses and values they have identified across the landscape, which will be input into geographic information system software and analyzed. Finally, these place-based findings uncovered from participatory engagement with multiple groups will be compared with non-participatory methods for ecosystem service assessment, including spatial models of ecosystem service provision and results from semi-structured interviews with forest managers that uncover institutional ecosystem service priorities. While this project focuses on developing these methods and establishing data for Gifford Pinchot National Forest, the methods used will applicable to public lands across the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个博士论文研究改进项目的重点是开发方法，以公平地告知美国公共土地管理的基础上，提高对价值的理解和使用范围广泛的利益相关者群体对公共土地。美国林务局的任务是将个人和社会从生态系统中获得的各种好处（通常称为生态系统服务）纳入国家森林规划和决策。虽然这一概念旨在将环境决策与人类福祉直接联系起来，但在如何收集和纳入基于生态系统服务的管理中与人类福祉和文化价值观有关的数据方面，几乎没有指导。通过生态系统服务框架更多关注福祉和文化价值的第一步是更好地了解不同利益攸关方群体使用和评价国家森林土地的不同方式。这项研究将提供数据和示范方法，可用于满足国家森林规划的法定要求，同时允许利益相关者团体为公共土地管理提供投入。此外，将与林务局分享成果，并向利益攸关方群体介绍成果，以增进对优先事项的了解，并突出各群体共有的价值观。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该项目将为有前途的学生提供支持，使其能够建立独立的研究生涯。虽然生态系统服务的概念在过去二十年中作为决策框架而突出，但分析往往集中在少数易于量化的服务上，而不是更难以量化的个人和社会可能最重视的文化利益。这项研究将通过制定参与性方法来确定，评估和绘制生态系统服务，将这一概念与资源使用，文化价值观和不同利益攸关方群体的生计联系起来，从而解决这一知识差距。首先，将通过半结构化访谈调查不同利益攸关方群体确定、使用、优先考虑和最重视哪些生态系统服务。第二，参与者将进行参与性绘图活动，重点是了解他们在整个景观中确定的使用和价值的空间模式，这些模式将输入地理信息系统软件并进行分析。最后，这些基于地方的调查结果发现，从参与性参与多个群体将与非参与性方法进行比较，生态系统服务评估，包括生态系统服务提供的空间模型和结果从半结构化的采访森林管理人员，发现机构生态系统服务的优先事项。虽然这个项目的重点是发展这些方法和建立数据的吉福德平肖国家森林，所使用的方法将适用于公共土地在整个美国。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。