Patriotism, place, and provisioning

Assessing cultural ecosystem services through longitudinal and historical studies in Vietnam

Bibliographic Data

ID4240451
AuthorsPamela Mcelwee (0000-0003-3525-9285, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Hương Vũ (0009-0000-2469-5562, VNU Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies), Giang Võ (VNU Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies), Dianne Lê (Harvard University Press)
Year2022
Volume27
Issue1
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConservation Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087
PublisherResilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.5751/es-12615-270103
OpenAlexW4205441013
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited27

Cultural ecosystem services (CES) provide multiple benefits to people, including experiences, identities, and capabilities through both material and non-material means. There have been few studies of CES in Vietnam, despite a number of historical, religious, cultural, and customary traditions that have long influenced landscape values and management. We aim to identify a range of CES important to respondents in a study site in north-central Vietnam by providing a unique longitudinal view. Over a two-decade period, different ecosystem benefits have been obtained by local households, some of which have been influenced by cultural factors or could be considered CES. These have included material ecosystem services, including agricultural production, local medicinal plants, and culturally relevant craft materials. There are also non-material CES of interest, including those related to sense of place and national identities, spiritual and religious practices, and recreational and aesthetic benefits. However, over time there has been diminishing importance of some material resources as landscapes have changed from a mix of agricultural lands and natural forests to plantation forestry, and social impacts have resulted from increased labor migration, which has diminished sense of place among younger generations. Assessing these changes allows us to explore how CES are not static or pre-given but shift over time and within different contexts

Agriculture · Archaeology · Craft · Cultural landscape · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource · Political science · Provisioning · Recreation · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Ecology

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