Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture

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...

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Autores principales:	Juliana Porsani, Lowe Börjeson, Rickard Lalander, Kari Lehtilä, Angelina R. O. Martins
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Publicado:	Resilience Alliance 2020
Materias:	cultural embeddedness experienced ecosystem services gender livelihoods mozambique nguava Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:221f422e70f74a03a64689820aa0fac62021-12-02T14:21:36ZEnriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture1708-308710.5751/ES-11781-250420https://doaj.org/article/221f422e70f74a03a64689820aa0fac62020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss4/art20/https://doaj.org/toc/1708-3087Based 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.Juliana PorsaniLowe BörjesonRickard LalanderKari LehtiläAngelina R. O. MartinsResilience Alliancearticlecultural embeddednessexperienced ecosystem servicesgenderlivelihoodsmozambiquenguavaBiology (General)QH301-705.5EcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Society, Vol 25, Iss 4, p 20 (2020)
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topic	cultural embeddedness experienced ecosystem services gender livelihoods mozambique nguava Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	cultural embeddedness experienced ecosystem services gender livelihoods mozambique nguava Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Ecology QH540-549.5 Juliana Porsani Lowe Börjeson Rickard Lalander Kari Lehtilä Angelina R. O. Martins Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
description	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.
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author	Juliana Porsani Lowe Börjeson Rickard Lalander Kari Lehtilä Angelina R. O. Martins
author_facet	Juliana Porsani Lowe Börjeson Rickard Lalander Kari Lehtilä Angelina R. O. Martins
author_sort	Juliana Porsani
title	Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
title_short	Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
title_full	Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
title_fullStr	Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
title_full_unstemmed	Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
title_sort	enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture
publisher	Resilience Alliance
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/221f422e70f74a03a64689820aa0fac6
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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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