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Lees, Kirsten J., Carmenta, Rachel 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-4147, Condliffe, Ian, Gray, Anne, Marquis, Lyndon and Lenton, Timothy M.
(2023)
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales.
AMBIO, 52 (7).
pp. 1282-1296.
ISSN 0044-7447
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Abstract
Sustainable peatland management is a global environmental governance challenge given peat’s carbon storage. Peatlands worldwide are sites of contested demands between stakeholders with distinct management priorities. In the United Kingdom, peatland management is a focus of political interest for nature-based solutions (NBS), causing tensions with land managers who feel their traditional knowledge is undervalued. Using Q-method (a semi-quantitative method for clarifying distinct viewpoints) with estate managers, gamekeepers, farmers, and employees of land-owning organisations, we explored perceptions around changing upland management in the Yorkshire Dales. Land managers hold strong values of ownership, aesthetics, and stewardship. The prospect of changing management causes fears of losing these relational values alongside instrumental values. Yorkshire Dales stakeholders agreed on NBS aims (reducing flooding, limiting wildfires, protecting wild birds), but disagreed on methods to achieve these. Our research supports engaging local stakeholders at all stages of peatland protection schemes to minimise resentment towards top-down management.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This project was funded by a University of Exeter Engaged Research Exploratory Award 2020 and by Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2018-046). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | moorland,nature-based solutions,peatland,plural values,q-method,relational values,geography, planning and development,environmental chemistry,ecology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2023 14:30 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2023 08:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91890 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13280-023-01850-3 |
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