Getting a measure of nature

Cultures and values in an ecosystem services approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11937680
AutoresSusan Molyneux‐hodgson (0000-0003-4504-0252, autor de correspondencia), Susan M Hodgson, Lorraine Maltby (0000-0003-3817-4033), Achim Paetzold, David Phillips (0000-0002-2513-6831)
Año2007
Volumen32
Número3
Páginas249-262
Fecha de publicación2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/030801807x211739
OpenAlexW2027265091
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas13

We explore the concept of 'ecosystem services' as a way of understanding how particular relations between nature and society can be established and studied and as a potential integrating approach for interdisciplinary research. Given that something only becomes a 'service' within a particular, economically minded framework, the shift from thinking about 'ecosystems' to understanding 'ecosystem services' requires shifts in the form and content of scientific knowledge about perceived services. For those interested in the process of knowledge production, the rise in prominence of an ecosystem services approach affords the opportunity to ask questions about who will generate this knowledge and how it might relate to wider issues of sustainability decision-making. Thus, the concept is used here as an example of how we might move towards research that aims to understand the world from an integrated perspective and at the same time situates that research process in a sociopolitical context

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