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People perceive the importance of benefits from ecosystem services in different ways, depending on their values, beliefs, and needs. Acknowledging and integrating this diversity into decision-making processes can support informed natural resource management. Our empirical study unpicks the multiple ways stakeholder groups perceive the benefits derived from wetland ecosystem services (WES) in the area surrounding the “Gialova” coastal wetland in Messenia, Greece. The inhabitants from this region benefit from a range of WES, and most livelihoods are closely linked to agriculture and tourism. We aim to understand the patterns in commonly held stakeholder views on WES using “Q methodology”, a participatory mixed-methods approach. We identified five distinct perspectives on WES from a sample of 32 stakeholders. Alongside diverse perceptions of the relative importance of different WES, we observed a range of explanations of why certain WES are important and analyzed these through the lens of “value pluralism”. This identified tension between relational and instrumental values. Such analyses move beyond ecosystem service identification towards an understanding of value justifications and conflicts, and can support the deliberation of conflicted views, and policy design in alignment with people’s values.
Sofia Maniatakou; Håkan Berg; Giorgos Maneas; Tim Daw. Unravelling Diverse Values of Ecosystem Services: A Socio-Cultural Valuation Using Q Methodology in Messenia, Greece. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10320 .
AMA StyleSofia Maniatakou, Håkan Berg, Giorgos Maneas, Tim Daw. Unravelling Diverse Values of Ecosystem Services: A Socio-Cultural Valuation Using Q Methodology in Messenia, Greece. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10320.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSofia Maniatakou; Håkan Berg; Giorgos Maneas; Tim Daw. 2020. "Unravelling Diverse Values of Ecosystem Services: A Socio-Cultural Valuation Using Q Methodology in Messenia, Greece." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10320.
In response to the interconnected character of societal challenges, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary sustainability research. However, for transdisciplinary research to be able to support the generation of new knowledge in a participatory and reflexive manner, a number of challenges have been identified in each stage of the transdisciplinary research process. In this paper, we respond specifically to the challenge of initiating transdisciplinary research projects, by proposing a process for performing transdisciplinary project scoping. Our group of early‐career researchers share experiences from scoping for transdisciplinary research potential, bridging local stakeholder needs with researchers’ interests across departments and national contexts. We present our methodological approach,which includes tools for stakeholder identification, systems thinking, and gap‐mapping. The approach was applied in the local context of the Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia, Greece. The findings identify regional sustainability concerns related to, for example, tourism, agriculture, and environmental management issues. The gap‐map highlights overlaps (e.g., in terms of existing research on the effects of agriculture on water resources), but also how previous research has been conducted on spatial and temporal scales not directly relevant to local actors. We believe that the approach can be used beyond this case study to identify the potential for problem‐oriented inter‐and transdisciplinary research.
Therese Bennich; Giorgos Maneas; Sofia Maniatakou; Luigi Piemontese; Christina Schaffer; Marie Schellens; Carl Österlin. Transdisciplinary research for sustainability: scoping for project potential. International Social Science Journal 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleTherese Bennich, Giorgos Maneas, Sofia Maniatakou, Luigi Piemontese, Christina Schaffer, Marie Schellens, Carl Österlin. Transdisciplinary research for sustainability: scoping for project potential. International Social Science Journal. 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTherese Bennich; Giorgos Maneas; Sofia Maniatakou; Luigi Piemontese; Christina Schaffer; Marie Schellens; Carl Österlin. 2020. "Transdisciplinary research for sustainability: scoping for project potential." International Social Science Journal , no. : 1.