TY - JOUR
T1 - Linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing
T2 - A Nexus Webs approach
AU - Leviston, Zoe
AU - Walker, Iain
AU - Green, Melissa
AU - Price, Jennifer
N1 - Funding Information:
The work reported here was supported by funding from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s Land & Water Flagship . The thoughtful insights of Matt Colloff and Ian Overton on an earlier version of this manuscript are gratefully acknowledged and appreciated.
Funding Information:
The work reported here was supported by funding from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's Land & Water Flagship. The thoughtful insights of Matt Colloff and Ian Overton on an earlier version of this manuscript are gratefully acknowledged and appreciated.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - Ecosystems provide benefits to people, and, in turn, people individually and collectively affect the functioning and wellbeing of ecosystems. Interdependencies between ecosystem services and human wellbeing are critical for the sustainable future of ecosystems and human systems alike, but they are not well understood. We offer an account of these interdependencies from the perspective of social psychology. Using the Nexus Webs framework (Overton et al., 2013), we explore how a fuller knowledge of coupled social-ecological systems will benefit resource management and decision-making in contested spaces. We challenge the tacit notion that ecosystem health and human wellbeing are linearly related, and suggest human wellbeing may affect ecosystem health. We outline the multiple construals of the construct ‘wellbeing’, and identify additional psychological constructs of importance. We examine how the benefits of ecosystems for human wellbeing may accrue differently across regions and across people. Four areas for future research are identified.
AB - Ecosystems provide benefits to people, and, in turn, people individually and collectively affect the functioning and wellbeing of ecosystems. Interdependencies between ecosystem services and human wellbeing are critical for the sustainable future of ecosystems and human systems alike, but they are not well understood. We offer an account of these interdependencies from the perspective of social psychology. Using the Nexus Webs framework (Overton et al., 2013), we explore how a fuller knowledge of coupled social-ecological systems will benefit resource management and decision-making in contested spaces. We challenge the tacit notion that ecosystem health and human wellbeing are linearly related, and suggest human wellbeing may affect ecosystem health. We outline the multiple construals of the construct ‘wellbeing’, and identify additional psychological constructs of importance. We examine how the benefits of ecosystems for human wellbeing may accrue differently across regions and across people. Four areas for future research are identified.
KW - Ecosystem services
KW - Human wellbeing
KW - Locus of control
KW - Sense of place
KW - Social psychology
KW - Social-ecological systems
KW - Solastalgia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047628352&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.052
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047628352
SN - 1470-160X
VL - 93
SP - 658
EP - 668
JO - Ecological Indicators
JF - Ecological Indicators
ER -