Marije Schaafsma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1414485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marije Schaafsma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marije |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaafsma |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAAFSMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0878-069X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The role of climate and loan financing information on solar irrigation adoption among cocoa farmers in Ghana
While climate change poses increasing risks to cocoa production, the adoption of irrigation in Ghana's cocoa sector remains low. In this context, this study examined farmers' preferences for climate and loan financing information for solar irrigation adoption. A discrete choice experiment was conducted with cocoa farmers across seven regions of Ghana. In treatment groups, we varied the availability of major season consecutive dry days information…
Where Nature and Poverty Meet
Despite the intrinsic relationships between the natural environment, poverty and human wellbeing, measures of poverty do not adequately account for environmental dimensions of wellbeing. This paper furthers theoretical debates about environment-poverty relationships by developing environmental dimensions and indicators for integration into multidimensional poverty indices. We demonstrate that this integration is practically possible using public …
Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa
As the global human population grows and the demand for space and resources increases, human-wildlife interactions and conflicts are expected to rise, particularly in biodiversity-rich tropical agroecosystems where subsistence farmers and wildlife coexist. We investigated farmers' attitudes using the ABC framework, analyzing their affect, behavior, and cognition toward wild animals. Additionally, we explored how socio-demographic characteristics …
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice
The Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that multiple valuation methods and approaches exist to assess diverse value types. The evidence is based on the largest review of academic valuation studies on nature to date, developed for the Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We evaluate studies acco…
Deliberately vague or vaguely deliberative
The pitfalls of plural valuation
This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of nature are undertaken. It challenges the belief that somehow, more and technically better valuation will drive the societal change toward more just and sustainable futures. Instead, we argue that current and proposed valuation practices risk to continue to overrepresent the values of those who hold power and dominate the valuation space, and to perpetuate t…
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature
The Values Assessment (VA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that while a wide range of valuation methods exist to include nature's values in diverse decision-making contexts, uptake of these methods remains limited. Building on the VA, this paper reviews five critical steps in the evaluation of project or policy proposals that can improve the inclusion of nature’s values in decisions. F…
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is theref…
A framework to understand the social impacts of agricultural trade
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic growth and food security. Instead, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of…
Towards Capturing Human Well-Being-Nature Relationships in Poverty Assessments in Rural Malawi and Rwanda
Despite repeated emphasis on the links between the natural environment and human well-being and the disproportionate and direct dependence of the rural poor on natural resources, these links have not been well addressed in poverty assessments. Common poverty profiles neither reflect the contribution of nature to well-being nor the multiple values and meanings that people ascribe to nature. Building on a conceptual grounding for including environm…
Trade-off decisions in ecosystem management for poverty alleviation
The academic literature on trade-offs in ecosystem management has paid relatively little attention to justice and poverty reduction objectives. The aim of this paper is to highlight the multiple dimensions of trade-offs in ecosystem services management for poverty alleviation, and to support decision-makers in planning for the almost inevitable trade-offs arising from environmental interventions. The paper brings together different dimensions or …
Assessing smallholder preferences for incentivised climate-smart agriculture using a discrete choice experiment
The promotion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) techniques to increase farmer resilience against climate change and improve their livelihoods is high on the international development agenda and aims to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals of food security (SDG 2), climate resilience and mitigation (SDG 13). We present the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) conducted in face-to-face interviews. In a study in Malawi, farmers respo…
Agent-Based Modelling to Assess Community Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
We present a methodological approach for constructing an agent-based model (ABM) to assess community food security and variation among livelihood trajectories, using rural Malawi as a case study. The approach integrates both quantitative and qualitative data to explore how interactions between households and the environment lead to the emergence of community food availability, access, utilisation and stability over time. Results suggest that live…
Will the Sustainable Development Goals address the links between poverty and the natural environment
The relationships between the natural environment and poverty have been a central theme in the sustainability and development literatures. However, they have been less influential in mainstream international development and conservation policies, which often neglect or fail to adequately address these relationships. This paper examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may influence the framing of environment–poverty relationships. We …
Understanding trade-offs in upscaling and integrating climate-smart agriculture and sustainable river basin management in Malawi
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
The relationship between sustainable development's prime goal, human wellbeing, and the natural environment has been narrowly conceived. This paper focuses on the possibility and the implications of treating the natural environment as a ‘constituent’, or internal element, of the concepts of wellbeing and poverty, as opposed to a ‘determinant’, or instrumental, external factor. Our review of philosophical accounts and conceptual frameworks of well…
Unpacking ecosystem service bundles
The value of green walls to urban biodiversity
Market Signals of Unsustainable and Inequitable Forest Extraction
The importance of local forest benefits
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
A web application to support the quantification and valuation of ecosystem services
Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products
Directional heterogeneity in WTP models for environmental valuation
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
The relationship between sustainable development's prime goal, human wellbeing, and the natural environment has been narrowly conceived. This paper focuses on the possibility and the implications of treating the natural environment as a ‘constituent’, or internal element, of the concepts of wellbeing and poverty, as opposed to a ‘determinant’, or instrumental, external factor. Our review of philosophical accounts and conceptual frameworks of well…
Unpacking ecosystem service bundles
Trade-off decisions in ecosystem management for poverty alleviation
The academic literature on trade-offs in ecosystem management has paid relatively little attention to justice and poverty reduction objectives. The aim of this paper is to highlight the multiple dimensions of trade-offs in ecosystem services management for poverty alleviation, and to support decision-makers in planning for the almost inevitable trade-offs arising from environmental interventions. The paper brings together different dimensions or …
The importance of local forest benefits
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
Assessing smallholder preferences for incentivised climate-smart agriculture using a discrete choice experiment
The promotion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) techniques to increase farmer resilience against climate change and improve their livelihoods is high on the international development agenda and aims to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals of food security (SDG 2), climate resilience and mitigation (SDG 13). We present the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) conducted in face-to-face interviews. In a study in Malawi, farmers respo…
Will the Sustainable Development Goals address the links between poverty and the natural environment
The relationships between the natural environment and poverty have been a central theme in the sustainability and development literatures. However, they have been less influential in mainstream international development and conservation policies, which often neglect or fail to adequately address these relationships. This paper examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may influence the framing of environment–poverty relationships. We …
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is theref…
A framework to understand the social impacts of agricultural trade
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic growth and food security. Instead, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of…
A web application to support the quantification and valuation of ecosystem services
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature
The Values Assessment (VA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that while a wide range of valuation methods exist to include nature's values in diverse decision-making contexts, uptake of these methods remains limited. Building on the VA, this paper reviews five critical steps in the evaluation of project or policy proposals that can improve the inclusion of nature’s values in decisions. F…
The value of green walls to urban biodiversity
Market Signals of Unsustainable and Inequitable Forest Extraction
The pitfalls of plural valuation
This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of nature are undertaken. It challenges the belief that somehow, more and technically better valuation will drive the societal change toward more just and sustainable futures. Instead, we argue that current and proposed valuation practices risk to continue to overrepresent the values of those who hold power and dominate the valuation space, and to perpetuate t…
Understanding trade-offs in upscaling and integrating climate-smart agriculture and sustainable river basin management in Malawi
Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products
Directional heterogeneity in WTP models for environmental valuation
The importance of local forest benefits
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
A web application to support the quantification and valuation of ecosystem services
Market Signals of Unsustainable and Inequitable Forest Extraction
Understanding trade-offs in upscaling and integrating climate-smart agriculture and sustainable river basin management in Malawi
Poorer without It? The Neglected Role of the Natural Environment in Poverty and Wellbeing
The relationship between sustainable development's prime goal, human wellbeing, and the natural environment has been narrowly conceived. This paper focuses on the possibility and the implications of treating the natural environment as a ‘constituent’, or internal element, of the concepts of wellbeing and poverty, as opposed to a ‘determinant’, or instrumental, external factor. Our review of philosophical accounts and conceptual frameworks of well…
Unpacking ecosystem service bundles
The value of green walls to urban biodiversity
Agent-Based Modelling to Assess Community Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods
We present a methodological approach for constructing an agent-based model (ABM) to assess community food security and variation among livelihood trajectories, using rural Malawi as a case study. The approach integrates both quantitative and qualitative data to explore how interactions between households and the environment lead to the emergence of community food availability, access, utilisation and stability over time. Results suggest that live…
Will the Sustainable Development Goals address the links between poverty and the natural environment
The relationships between the natural environment and poverty have been a central theme in the sustainability and development literatures. However, they have been less influential in mainstream international development and conservation policies, which often neglect or fail to adequately address these relationships. This paper examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) may influence the framing of environment–poverty relationships. We …
Assessing smallholder preferences for incentivised climate-smart agriculture using a discrete choice experiment
The promotion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) techniques to increase farmer resilience against climate change and improve their livelihoods is high on the international development agenda and aims to help achieve Sustainable Development Goals of food security (SDG 2), climate resilience and mitigation (SDG 13). We present the results of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) conducted in face-to-face interviews. In a study in Malawi, farmers respo…
Towards Capturing Human Well-Being-Nature Relationships in Poverty Assessments in Rural Malawi and Rwanda
Despite repeated emphasis on the links between the natural environment and human well-being and the disproportionate and direct dependence of the rural poor on natural resources, these links have not been well addressed in poverty assessments. Common poverty profiles neither reflect the contribution of nature to well-being nor the multiple values and meanings that people ascribe to nature. Building on a conceptual grounding for including environm…
Trade-off decisions in ecosystem management for poverty alleviation
The academic literature on trade-offs in ecosystem management has paid relatively little attention to justice and poverty reduction objectives. The aim of this paper is to highlight the multiple dimensions of trade-offs in ecosystem services management for poverty alleviation, and to support decision-makers in planning for the almost inevitable trade-offs arising from environmental interventions. The paper brings together different dimensions or …
A framework to understand the social impacts of agricultural trade
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution. Previous frameworks have primarily focused on trade effects on environmental conditions in production regions, as well as economic growth and food security. Instead, we develop a conceptual framework for understanding the impact of…
Diverse values of nature for sustainability
Twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystem services for human well-being 1,2 , addressing the global biodiversity crisis 3 still implies confronting barriers to incorporating nature’s diverse values into decision-making. These barriers include powerful interests supported by current norms and legal rules such as property rights, which determine whose values and which values of nature are acted on. A better understandin…
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice
The Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that multiple valuation methods and approaches exist to assess diverse value types. The evidence is based on the largest review of academic valuation studies on nature to date, developed for the Values Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). We evaluate studies acco…
Deliberately vague or vaguely deliberative
The pitfalls of plural valuation
This paper critically examines the current political context in which valuation studies of nature are undertaken. It challenges the belief that somehow, more and technically better valuation will drive the societal change toward more just and sustainable futures. Instead, we argue that current and proposed valuation practices risk to continue to overrepresent the values of those who hold power and dominate the valuation space, and to perpetuate t…
Five steps towards transformative valuation of nature
The Values Assessment (VA) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services shows that while a wide range of valuation methods exist to include nature's values in diverse decision-making contexts, uptake of these methods remains limited. Building on the VA, this paper reviews five critical steps in the evaluation of project or policy proposals that can improve the inclusion of nature’s values in decisions. F…
Mapping social impacts of agricultural commodity trade onto the sustainable development goals
While international trade in agricultural commodities can spur economic development especially where governance is strong, there are also concerns about the local impacts of commodity production and their distribution on the environment and on people. The sustainable development goals (SDGs), though seeing trade as a means to support their achievement, recognise the need to address potential negative social and environmental impacts. It is theref…
Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa
As the global human population grows and the demand for space and resources increases, human-wildlife interactions and conflicts are expected to rise, particularly in biodiversity-rich tropical agroecosystems where subsistence farmers and wildlife coexist. We investigated farmers' attitudes using the ABC framework, analyzing their affect, behavior, and cognition toward wild animals. Additionally, we explored how socio-demographic characteristics …
Where Nature and Poverty Meet
Despite the intrinsic relationships between the natural environment, poverty and human wellbeing, measures of poverty do not adequately account for environmental dimensions of wellbeing. This paper furthers theoretical debates about environment-poverty relationships by developing environmental dimensions and indicators for integration into multidimensional poverty indices. We demonstrate that this integration is practically possible using public …
The role of climate and loan financing information on solar irrigation adoption among cocoa farmers in Ghana
While climate change poses increasing risks to cocoa production, the adoption of irrigation in Ghana's cocoa sector remains low. In this context, this study examined farmers' preferences for climate and loan financing information for solar irrigation adoption. A discrete choice experiment was conducted with cocoa farmers across seven regions of Ghana. In treatment groups, we varied the availability of major season consecutive dry days information…
Economics (20 works) · Business (16 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (11 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 works) · Natural resource economics (11 works) · Environmental planning (8 works)