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Opportunities and Constraints for Use of Cultural Ecosystem Services Knowledge in Federal Agency Decision-Making

Kristin Hoelting, Ph.D. Student

A 2015 Memorandum

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directs U.S. Federal agencies

to integrate ecosystem services (ES) information in

decision-making, including information about cultural

benefits arising from cultural ecosystem services

(CES). This requires consideration of both monetary

and non-monetary representations of value.

The Memorandum reflects growing recognition of

the potential of ES knowledge – including CES

knowledge – to enhance natural resource

management.

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White House. 2015. Memorandum for executive departments and agencies: Incorporating ecosystem services into federal decision making. Executive Office of the President, Washington D.C.

2. Rich, R.F. (Ed.). The knowledge cycle. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

3. Figure by Susanne Moser Research and Consulting. 2013. Free to use with credit to original figure source:

https://data.globalchange.gov/report/nca3/chapter/coastal-zone/figure/coastal-ecosystem-services

4. Gorddard et al. Values, rules and knowledge: adaptation as change in the decision context. Env Sci Pol 57: 60-69.

5. Chan et al. 2012. Rethinking ecosystem services to better address and navigate cultural values. Ecol Econ 74: 8-18.

6. Fish et al. 2016. Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement. Ecosyst Serv 21: 208-217.

7. Initial working definition proposed by author (Hoelting). 8. McKenzie et al. 2014. Understanding the use of ecosystem

services knowledge in decision making: Lessons from international experiences in spatial planning. Environ Plann C Gov Policy 32: 320-340.

References

Background

Colorado State University, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

Contact: kristin.hoelting@colostate.edu

Gavin Lab: http://www.michaelcgavin.com/

Decision Context

Ecosystem Services (ES):

“Ecosystem processes underpinning

benefits” to humans.

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Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES):

“Contributions ecosystems make to human

well-being in terms of the identities they

help frame, the experiences they help

enable, and the capabilities they help

equip.”

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CES Knowledge: “The values and

meanings arising from individual and

collective human relationship to the

natural world, and the capabilities to enact

and honor that relationship.”

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CES Knowledge Product: “A

representation or expression of the

benefits, meanings, and valued

relationships experienced by individuals

who interact with one or more

components of an ecosystem.”

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Modes of Knowledge Use:

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Instrumental

: “Knowledge flows from

scientists to rational decision makers who

make observable decisions on technical

grounds.”

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Conceptual

: “Knowledge broadens

and deepens understanding, shapes

thinking, and enables people to develop

new beliefs and values.”

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-

Strategic

: “Knowledge is used to

support and promote a specific

intervention or policy option, or justify

previously held beliefs and values.”

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Participatory Identification of

CES Knowledge Products

(Workshops/interviews)

Key Informant Interviews to

Trace Transmission and Use of CES

Knowledge Products (Modes of

knowledge use may include

instrumental, conceptual, and/or

strategic uses)

Decision Context Assessment

(Statutes; data requirements; venues

for deliberation; decision timeline)

Stakeholder Analysis

(Decision-making participants; stakeholders, CES

knowledge holders)

v

Retrospective Case Studies:

v

Scoping:

Study Methods

Background

Values

Rules

Knowledge

Knowledge Cycle

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Representation

Transmission

Utilization

Representation

:

Moving knowledge

of CES value into knowledge products;

Transmission

:

Transferring

knowledge to decision-makers;

Use

:

Knowledge product directly

informs decision, leads to conceptual

shifts, and/or is used strategically to

influence decision outcomes.

Improve conceptual clarity

around definitions of

CES knowledge and CES knowledge products;

Improve understanding of opportunities &

constraints

for representation, transmission, and use of

CES knowledge products in Federal decision-making;

Develop tools

to assist Federal managers in identifying

and integrating CES knowledge products

.

Study Objectives

Source: Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, 2013

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Ecosystem Services and Ecosystem Service Value Domains

Decision Context:

“The circumstances that form

the setting of the decision

process; specifically the

interconnected system of

values, rules and knowledge

that form the ways of

viewing and framing the

decision process.”

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