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Enriching perspectives : experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
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- Porsani, Juliana (author)
- Södertörns högskola,Miljövetenskap
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- Börjeson, Lowe (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen
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- Lalander, Rickard (author)
- Södertörns högskola,Miljövetenskap
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- Lehtilä, Kari (author)
- Södertörns högskola,Miljövetenskap
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- Martins, Angelina R. O. (author)
- Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
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- Resilience Alliance Publications, 2020
- 2020
- English.
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In: Ecology and Society. - : Resilience Alliance Publications. - 1708-3087. ; 25:4
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- Based on a case study from rural Mozambique, we stress that ecosystem services research may be enriched through gendered livelihood approaches, particularly in terms of experienced ecosystem services. Ecosystem services studies have been accused of being gender blind. We argue for the value of open narratives that are attentive to the gender dynamics underpinning the production and reproduction of livelihoods. By focusing on the experienced gender dimension of ecosystem services, livelihood perspectives fulfill the normative role of providing a people-centered means to assess the values of the environment “from below” and can therefore constitute an entry point to a holistic understanding of by whom, how, when, and why the environment is experienced as valuable. Our findings stress the dynamism and plurality of experienced ecosystem services (i.e., they vary across groups and time and cross-cut material and immaterial dimensions), as well as the asymmetrical gendered and fundamentally cultural relations that they enable. Accounting for the experienced gender dimension of ecosystem services is critical to contextualize the environment in people’s lifeworlds and to make understandings of ecosystem services representative of, and instrumental to, people’s voices and agendas. We show how such enriched, diverse, bottom-up ecosystem services perspectives form an essential foundation (together with ecological research) for resisting applications of reductionist top-down categories assumed to represent general local values.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Development studies
- cultural embeddedness
- experienced ecosystem services
- gender
- livelihoods
- Mozambique
- Nguava
- Environmental Studies
- Miljövetenskapliga studier
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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