Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assessing and Mapping Ecosystem Service Uses and Values Among National Forest Stakeholders

博士论文研究：评估和绘制国家森林利益相关者的生态系统服务用途和价值

基本信息

批准号：
1832315
负责人：
Kathleen Farley
金额：
$ 1.03万
依托单位：
San Diego State University Foundation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-08-01 至 2021-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832315&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Assessing Mapping

项目摘要

This doctoral dissertation research improvement project focuses on developing methods to equitably inform U.S. public land management based on improved understanding of the values and uses a wide range of stakeholder groups have regarding public lands. The U.S. Forest Service has been tasked with including the variety of benefits individuals and society obtain from ecosystems, often called ecosystem services, in National Forest planning and decision-making. While the concept aims to directly link environmental decision-making with human wellbeing, there is little guidance on how to collect and include data related to human wellbeing and cultural values in ecosystem service-based management. A first step in giving more attention to wellbeing and cultural values through an ecosystem services framework is to better understand the diverse ways National Forest lands are used and valued by different stakeholder groups. This research will provide data and demonstrate methods that can be used to fulfill statutory requirements for National Forest planning going forward, while allowing stakeholder groups to provide input into public lands management. Furthermore, results will be shared with the Forest Service and presented to stakeholder groups, improving understanding of priorities and highlighting values that are shared among groups. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support to enable a promising student to establish an independent research career.While the concept of ecosystem services has risen in prominence as a decision-making framework over the last two decades, analysis has often focused on few, easily quantifiable services rather than the more difficult to quantify cultural benefits that individuals and society may value most. This research will address this knowledge gap through the development of participatory approaches for identifying, valuing, and mapping ecosystem services that will link the concept with the resource use, cultural values, and livelihoods of diverse stakeholder groups. First, investigation of which ecosystem services are identified, used, prioritized, and most valued by different stakeholder groups will be conducted through semi-structured interviews. Secondly, participants will engage in a participatory mapping exercise focused on understanding the spatial patterns of the uses and values they have identified across the landscape, which will be input into geographic information system software and analyzed. Finally, these place-based findings uncovered from participatory engagement with multiple groups will be compared with non-participatory methods for ecosystem service assessment, including spatial models of ecosystem service provision and results from semi-structured interviews with forest managers that uncover institutional ecosystem service priorities. While this project focuses on developing these methods and establishing data for Gifford Pinchot National Forest, the methods used will applicable to public lands across the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该博士学位论文研究改进项目的重点是开发基于对价值观的改进的理解，并使用广泛的利益相关者群体对公共土地的广泛理解，以公平地为美国的公共土地管理提供信息。美国森林服务局的任务包括个人在国家森林规划和决策中从生态系统（通常称为生态系统服务）中获得的各种利益。尽管该概念旨在将环境决策与人类福祉直接联系起来，但在基于生态系统服务的管理中，如何收集与人类福祉和文化价值有关的数据几乎没有指导。通过生态系统服务框架更加关注福祉和文化价值的第一步是更好地了解不同利益相关者群体使用和评价国家森林土地的多样化方式。这项研究将提供数据并证明可用于满足未来国家森林规划的法定要求的方法，同时允许利益相关者群体提供对公共土地管理的意见。此外，结果将与森林服务部门共享，并呈现给利益相关者群体，提高对优先级的理解并突出群体之间共享的价值观。作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的学生能够建立独立的研究职业。在过去的两个十年中，生态系统服务的概念作为一个决策框架的概念已经上升，但分析通常集中在少数几个方面，而不是易于量化的服务，而不是更难量化个人和社会可能价值最大的文化收益。这项研究将通过开发参与式方法来识别，评估和映射生态系统服务的参与式方法来解决这一知识差距，这些方法将把概念与资源使用，文化价值和不同利益相关者群体的生计联系起来。首先，将通过半结构化访谈进行对不同利益相关者群体进行确定，使用，优先级和最重视的生态系统服务的调查。其次，参与者将进行参与式映射练习，重点是了解他们在整个景观中确定的用途和价值的空间模式，该模式将输入地理信息系统软件中并进行分析。最后，将将与多个组的参与式参与中发现的基于地点的发现与生态系统服务评估的非参与性方法进行比较，包括生态系统服务提供的空间模型以及与未发现机构生态系统服务优先事项的森林经理的半结构化访谈的结果。尽管该项目着重于开发这些方法并建立吉福德·皮乔特国家森林（Gifford Pinchot National Forest）的数据，但所使用的方法将适用于美国各地的公共土地。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。