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ToolsCahillane, Ashley, Buitendijk, Tomas, Brannigan, John and Crowe, Tasman P. (2024) Valuing plurality:Environmental humanities approaches to ecosystem services and Nature's Contributions to People. Environmental Science and Policy, 162. ISSN 1462-9011
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Ecosystem services and Nature's Contributions to People frameworks allow policymakers and other stakeholders to understand and value the different benefits received by society from processes in the natural environment. However, they face challenges when assessing cultural and/or non-quantifiable services and contributions, and their linked benefits. They can also fall short when incorporating plural conceptions of value and their knowledge frameworks, including those of Indigenous People and/or local communities. Finally, with regard to future ecosystem management, they tend to rely on linear rather than speculative, idealistic assessments of future human-ecosystem interactions. In this Perspective article, we show how these challenges can be met by developing a cross-disciplinary dialogue with the field of environmental humanities. We demonstrate that incorporating environmental humanities principles and methods can improve ecosystem services and Nature's Contributions to People frameworks by making cultural and intangible services/contributions and their benefits amenable to more inclusive assessment, based on a relational, ecocentric (re-)evaluation of human-nature relationships. The environmental humanities encourage the use of both Indigenous Knowledges and grassroots knowledges and offer non-linear ways of thinking about future ecosystem management, for example using speculative imaginaries. In exchange, dialogue with ecosystem services and Nature's Contributions to People frameworks offers a further pathway to impact for the environmental humanities. We conclude by recommending multiple instruments that put the dialogue between ecosystem services, Nature's Contributions to People, and the environmental humanities into practice.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Authors |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cultural ecosystem services,ecosystem assessment,environmental humanities,interdisciplinary research,plural valuation of nature,speculative imaginaries,geography, planning and development,management, monitoring, policy and law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2025 13:31 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2025 13:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/100762 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103907 |
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