The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services
Karen Allen editor Jun He editor Pamela D McElwee editor Rachelle K Gould editor Minna Hsu editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:28th Mar '25
£230.00
This title is due to be published on 28th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services provides an overview of Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES), which are the nonmaterial aspects of benefits that people derive from nature. These diverse and multifaceted contributions can include experiences, capabilities, and identities, among others. The Handbook addresses how these CES are valued, how they reflect human-nonhuman relationships, and what roles they can play in improved human well-being, ecosystem management, and trajectories towards sustainability.
This Handbook presents a wide array of perspectives on the roles CES can play in understanding relationships to nature, and on how those relationships might translate into policy. The Handbook includes philosophical approaches to CES, typologies and classifications of types of CES, and case studies of places, people, policies and projects engaging CES. Across seven distinctive Parts, the chapters deliver a number of important practical lessons on how to understand, measure and value CES, and use examples and applications from around the world, including how CES apply across different biomes. The Handbook also includes a selection of compelling artwork that represent CES in different cultural contexts. The 91 authors represent 19 different countries, providing a rich range of experiences, including a strong focus on the Global South.
This book can serve as a comprehensive guide to researchers who are new to CES and wish to understand more about the field, and as a set of go-to instructions for experienced CES researchers. It can also inform policymakers who wish to better incorporate CES into their work.
"Cultural ecosystem services are the glue that binds people and nature together. Charting its way through an important, if often diffusing emerging, field of knowledge, this authoritative handbook will be an essential guide for researchers and practitioners concerned with the cultural dimensions of natural resource management."
Professor Rob Fish, Imperial College London
"The Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services is an essential tool to illuminate the vital, yet often overlooked, intangible benefits humans gain from nature. By providing a global perspective and diverse examples, it sets the foundation for future research while offering guidance for integrating culture into environmental policy and practice."
Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
“How do we do conservation differently, to pursue wellbeing of people and nature together? This rich volume presents a multitude of approaches, tools and perspectives addressing cultural dimensions and meaningful reciprocal human-nature relations as a key way forward. An important resource to guide research, policy and practice.”
Maria Tengö, Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, and the Nature College Special Chair in Human-Nature Relationships in the Anthropocene at Wageningen University
"Extractive, profit-based, relationships between people and nature support our current civilizational crisis. This book offers a refreshing focus on the deeply rooted and very diverse non-material benefits to people from nature across the world. It provides a roadmap to better weave individuals, communities and non-humans through reciprocal and just relations."
Patricia Balvanera, Researcher at the Institute of Research in Ecosystems of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Professor of Biology and Human Well-being
ISBN: 9781032540467
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
534 pages