Significance Criteria for Cultural Ecosystem Services
Presentation Abstract
One of the biggest challenges to integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services into planning and policy is how to weigh them against other values and each other. Fundamentally we need to know which are the most important CES. I present a proposed set of criteria to help managers describe the importance of CES. The criteria were developed at a workshop on CES in Marine Spatial Planning with researchers and practitioners. By focusing on spatial areas of importance, who they are important to, and what is needed to sustain them, the criteria allow values, preferences and principles around CES to remain bundled. Further empirical work will be needed to understand how to improve the criteria and how they change the way CES data is collected versus approaches that use categories of values or services.
Session Title
Session S-09H: Trading Cultural Ecosystem Services from Data Collection to Decision Making
Conference Track
Social Science Plus
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2014 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
1-5-2014 5:00 PM
End Date
1-5-2014 6:30 PM
Location
Room 6C
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Ecosystem services--Social aspects--Research
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Text
Language
English
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application/pdf
Significance Criteria for Cultural Ecosystem Services
Room 6C
One of the biggest challenges to integrating Cultural Ecosystem Services into planning and policy is how to weigh them against other values and each other. Fundamentally we need to know which are the most important CES. I present a proposed set of criteria to help managers describe the importance of CES. The criteria were developed at a workshop on CES in Marine Spatial Planning with researchers and practitioners. By focusing on spatial areas of importance, who they are important to, and what is needed to sustain them, the criteria allow values, preferences and principles around CES to remain bundled. Further empirical work will be needed to understand how to improve the criteria and how they change the way CES data is collected versus approaches that use categories of values or services.
