The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services

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1.       Pamela D. McElwee, Karen E. Allen, Rachelle K. Gould, Minna Hsu, Jun He: Introduction: Cultural Ecosystem Services: Definitions and state of the field

Part 1. Approaching and Defining CES

2.       Rachelle K. Gould and Terre Satterfeld: Critiques of Cultural Ecosystem Services, and Ways Forward that Minimize Them

3.       Jonathan Fisk, Kirsten Leong, ʻAlohi Nakachi, and Rebecca Ingram: A Net to Hold our Futures: Navigating Politics, Power, and Management and Stewardship Applicability with the Cultural Ecosystem Services Framework

Part 2. Understanding Categories of CES and their Importance

4.       Gregory N. Bratman, Joanne K. Garrett and Lewis R. Elliot: Psychological Ecosystem Services

5.       Lucy L. Jupe, Alexandra M. Collins, Liam Kirkpatrick, Julia L. Newth, Sara A. Thornton, Kevin A. Wood: Applying Cultural Ecosystem Services: The Relevance of Cultural Interactions between People and Nature for Environmental Protection, Conservation and Restoration by eNGOs

6.       Shane Orchard: Cultural Ecosystem Services and the Natural Capital of Nature-based Recreation and Fisheries

7.       Thais Moreno Soares, Marta de Azevedo Irving, Yasmin Xavier Guimarães Nasri and Beatriz Cabral: Tourism and Leisure as Cultural Ecosystem Services: Counter-Hegemonic Contributions to the Debate

Part  3: Place, Identity and CES

8.       Na Guo and Jun He: Sacred Landscapes, Local Identity and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Tibetan Villages, Southwest China

9.       Subhani Rath and Alison A. Ormsby: Cultural Ecosystem Services of the Sacred Groves of Kandhamal, Odisha, India

10.   Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Craig A. Talmage, and Dehara Weeraman: Understanding and Supporting Cultural Ecosystem Services for Positive and Enduring Wildlife Conservation and Community Outcomes

11.   Nicole M. Ardoin and Alison W. Bowers: Unlocking Transformative Change: The Role of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Fostering Collective Environmental Action Through Place Connections

Part 4: CES across Ecologies

12.   Lucy L. Jupe, Alexandra M. Collins, Liam Kirkpatrick, Julia L. Newth, Jonathan P. Reeves, Sara A. Thornton, and Kevin A. Wood: Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided by Wetlands

13.    Austin Himes: Cultural Ecosystem Services in Forests

14.    Aline Pingarroni, Daniela Alba‑Patino, Irene Otamendi-Urroz, Beatriz E. Murillo-Lopez, and Alejandra Tauro: Cultural Ecosystem Services across Agricultural Landscapes

15.   Andreu Blanco and Rosa M. Fernández Otero: Coastal and Marine Cultural Ecosystem Services: Enhancing Research and Conservation Strategies

16.   Rumana Sultana: Cultural Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation: A Nexus for Sustainable Urban Development in the Global South

Part 5. Methods and Valuation for CES

17.    Ishika Ramakrishna, Yashendu Chinmayee Joshi, and Anindya Sinha: Of Culture and Nature: Interdisciplinary Forays into Cultural Ecosystem Services through Human–Wildlife Relationships

18.   Tatiana Marquina and Rachelle K. Gould: Methods to Measure Relative Importance of Cultural Ecosystem Services

19.    Ans Vercammen, Priya Vaughan, and Chloe Watfern: Understanding and Enhancing Cultural Ecosystem Services through Art

20.    Chelsea E. Hunter and Matthew Lauer: Cultural Ecosystem Services Research as a Situated Practice

21.    John E. Quinn, Logan Richardson, Joe Hiebert and Kylie Gambrill: Theory and Techniques for Mapping Spatial Patterns in Cultural Ecosystem Services

22.    Janna Holmstedt, Jenny Lindblad, Christina Fredengren, Cecilia Åsberg, Malin Lobell, and Karin Wegsjö: Cultivating Ecosystem Conviviality Through Soil Arts and Urban Gardening

23.    Karen E. Allen and Matthew E. Bush: Monetary Valuation and CES: Does Money Talk?

24.    Luna Khirfan: Deliberative Methods for Cultural Ecosystem Services: Lessons from the Field

Part 6: CES in Management and Policy

25.   Maria Jose Martinez-Harms, Kelly Biedenweg, and Laura Nahuelhual: Incorporating Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Measurement of Human Well-being Indicators for Transformative Environmental Policy

26.   Shruti Ashish Lahoti, Shalini Dhyani, and Osamu Saito: Exploring Values Embedded in Policy Options of the Cultural Landscapes of Japan through the Nature Futures Framework

27.   Adriana de Paula Cavalcante Fraga, Daniel Rondinelli Roquetti, José Agnello Alves Dias de Andrade, Luís Pedro Silva Moreira, Mariana Luiza Fiocco Machini, Mario Prestes Monzoni Neto, Natalia Lutti Hummel Wicher: "The Fish, the Water, That is Life": The Role of Sociocultural Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Socio-Environmental Disaster Recovery Processes

28.   Pamela McElwee, Nghiem Phuong Tuyen, Ida Ansharyani, Win Maung, Le Thi Van Hue, Vu Dieu Huong, Eni Hidayati, Win Kyi and Sauvanithi Yupho: The Untapped Potential of Cultural Ecosystem Services in Environmental Policy in Southeast Asia

29.   Andrea Alatorre: Paying for Cultural Ecosystem Services: How and For Whom?

30.   Deborah McGrath and Gretchen Green: CES Enhance Investments in Other Ecosystem Services: Carbon Credits in Haiti

31.   Kristin R. Hoelting, Rachelle K. Gould, Amanda E. Cravens and Brian D. Winter: Constraints and Enablers for Meaningful Consideration of Plural Values through Integration of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) in Decision-making

Part 7: New Directions for CES

32.    Linus A. Rosén: Indigenous Knowledges in CES Thinking: How Invisible Forest Beings Can Inform More Equitable Science

33.    Kai M. A. Chan, Rachelle K. Gould, Rocío López de la Lama, Harold N. Eyster: What if Cultural Ecosystem Services were Relational? A Research Agenda for Nature’s Contributions to Well-Being—and Human Action

34.    Rachelle K. Gould and Karen E. Allen: Conclusion: CES and the Pathway Forward

Index

Biography

Pamela D. McElwee is trained as an anthropologist and forester and is a Professor of Human Ecology at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on human dimensions of environmental change related to biodiversity and climate. She has served key roles in science-policy assessments, including the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and US National Climate Assessment.

Karen E. Allen is a cultural anthropologist who works in conservation and sustainability science. Her research focuses on the sustainability of social-ecological systems and the interaction between environmental policy and human decision-making. She is an Associate Professor at Furman University.

Rachelle K. Gould is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work involves social science, the humanities, and ecology. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Her research explores the relationship between people and ecosystems and focuses on (1) environmental values, including Cultural Ecosystem Services and relational values; (2) lifelong and life-wide environmental learning and its relationship to behavior; and (3) how issues of equity, inclusion, and justice permeate environmental issues.

Minna Hsu is a human geographer whose work focuses on Indigenous peoples' rights and knowledges in natural resource and disaster management. She is the co-lead of the IUCN Cultural Practices and Ecosystem Management Thematic Group (Commission on Ecosystem Management).

Jun He is a Professor of human ecology at the School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, China. His research interests lie in global value chains, Indigenous knowledge, non-timber forest products, agroforestry and forest governance.

"Cultural ecosystem services are the glue that binds people and nature together. Charting its way through an important, if often diffusing emerging, field of knowledge, this authoritative handbook will be an essential guide for researchers and practitioners concerned with the cultural dimensions of natural resource management."

Professor Rob Fish, Imperial College London

"The Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services is an essential tool to illuminate the vital, yet often overlooked, intangible benefits humans gain from nature. By providing a global perspective and diverse examples, it sets the foundation for future research while offering guidance for integrating culture into environmental policy and practice."

Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)

“How do we do conservation differently, to pursue well-being of people and nature together? This rich volume presents a multitude of approaches, tools and perspectives addressing cultural dimensions and meaningful reciprocal human-nature relations as a key way forward. An important resource to guide research, policy and practice.”

Maria Tengö, Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, and the Nature College Special Chair in Human-Nature Relationships in the Anthropocene at Wageningen University

"Extractive, profit-based, relationships between people and nature support our current civilizational crisis. This book offers a refreshing focus on the deeply rooted and very diverse non-material benefits to people from nature across the world. It provides a roadmap to better weave individuals, communities and non-humans through reciprocal and just relations."

Patricia Balvanera, Researcher at the Institute of Research in Ecosystems of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Professor of Biology and Human Well-being