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Conserving Natures? Co-producing Payments for Ecosystem Services in Mongolian Rangelands

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ID3883754
AuthorsCaroline Upton (0000-0002-3543-4664, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume51
Issue1
Pages224-252
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/dech.12549
OpenAlexW2981193508
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited32

Despite well-founded concerns over the proliferation of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes, critical geographers have begun to challenge the 'milieu of apprehension' associated with PES (Jackson and Palmer, 2014: 122). There is a growing call for more nuanced analyses of ways in which the ecosystem services paradigm and PES may, in particular circumstances, encompass and make legible diverse ways of being in/knowing nature and provide opportunities for local/indigenous actors to advance their own needs and values. Adopting a 'radical pragmatist' approach, the author of this article worked with Mongolian herder groups to develop a locally-grounded manifestation of PES, with specific attention to the incorporation of diverse socio-ecological relations, beliefs and values. The article argues that such co-produced iterations of PES, with due attention to tripartite dimensions of environmental justice, can facilitate local stewardship, whilst eschewing enclosure of commons and crowding out of non-market values and motives for conservation, albeit shaped and constrained by diverse manifestations of power

Apprehension · Commons · Economics · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Epistemology · Indigenous · Payment · Payment for ecosystem services · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Pragmatism · Sociology · Stewardship (theology) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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Citations per year2,5
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 14

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