Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway
We examined the contribution of natural capital and social capital through the notion of cultural ecosystem services to shaping human well-being in the fishing community of Røst in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. Through ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews, and a participatory sce...
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ftunivmob:oai:nmbu.brage.unit.no:11250/2487528 2023-05-15T17:08:14+02:00 Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway Kaltenborn, Bjørn Petter Linnell, John Durrus Gomez-Baggethun, Erik Lindhjem, Henrik Thomassen, Jørn Chan, Kai M. 2017-05-16T13:32:25Z application/octet-stream http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2487528 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.003 eng eng Norges forskningsråd: 251112 Norges forskningsråd: 230307 Ecological Economics. 2017, 140 166-176. urn:issn:0921-8009 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2487528 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.003 cristin:1470515 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no CC-BY-NC-ND 166-176 140 Ecological Economics VDP::Økonomi: 210 VDP::Economics: 210 Journal article Peer reviewed 2017 ftunivmob https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.003 2021-10-06T22:37:24Z We examined the contribution of natural capital and social capital through the notion of cultural ecosystem services to shaping human well-being in the fishing community of Røst in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. Through ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews, and a participatory scenarioworkshopwe develop four narratives centering on the links of nature and ecosystem services. Benefits derived from ecosystem services are fundamental building blocks in the local vision of ‘the good life’ and emerge from a combination of satisfied preferences and struggle, hardships, and capabilities inflicted by a demanding environment and challenging work conditions. Beyond a certain level of meeting basic needs and provisioning of essential public services, simplicity in life and local control over resources and surroundings was preferred over a multitude of other opportunities and services.Well-being was strongly linked to maintenance of identity through traditional practices for harvesting of natural resources, nurturing of skills, social cohesion, and acting meaningfully in one's local environment. In a relational perspective, cultural ecosystem services are constituted and given meaning through interaction with nature. The main policy implication is that contributions of natural and social capital to well-being proved to be hard to meaningfully separate. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Ecosystem services Cultural values Well-being The good life Lofoten Norway acceptedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Lofoten Northern Norway Røst Open archive Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Brage NMBU Lofoten Norway Røst ENVELOPE(11.983,11.983,67.467,67.467) Ecological Economics 140 166 176 |
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We examined the contribution of natural capital and social capital through the notion of cultural ecosystem services to shaping human well-being in the fishing community of Røst in the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway. Through ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews, and a participatory scenarioworkshopwe develop four narratives centering on the links of nature and ecosystem services. Benefits derived from ecosystem services are fundamental building blocks in the local vision of ‘the good life’ and emerge from a combination of satisfied preferences and struggle, hardships, and capabilities inflicted by a demanding environment and challenging work conditions. Beyond a certain level of meeting basic needs and provisioning of essential public services, simplicity in life and local control over resources and surroundings was preferred over a multitude of other opportunities and services.Well-being was strongly linked to maintenance of identity through traditional practices for harvesting of natural resources, nurturing of skills, social cohesion, and acting meaningfully in one's local environment. In a relational perspective, cultural ecosystem services are constituted and given meaning through interaction with nature. The main policy implication is that contributions of natural and social capital to well-being proved to be hard to meaningfully separate. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Ecosystem services Cultural values Well-being The good life Lofoten Norway acceptedVersion |
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Kaltenborn, Bjørn Petter Linnell, John Durrus Gomez-Baggethun, Erik Lindhjem, Henrik Thomassen, Jørn Chan, Kai M. |
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Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway |
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Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway |
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Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway |
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Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway |
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Ecosystem Services and Cultural Values as Building Blocks for ‘The Good life’. A Case Study in the Community of Røst, Lofoten Islands, Norway |
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