An interview methodology for exploring the values that community leaders assign to multiple-use landscapes.

Ecology and Society

Rosalind Bark¹  Darla Hatton MacDonald¹  Tina Kalivas²  Agnes Grandgirard³  Andrea MacRae⁴  Sarah Strathearn⁴ 

[1] CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences;Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University;Pôle Eau-Territoires-Ressources, Service Milieux et Risques Naturels;University of Adelaide;

关键词: Australia;    community leaders;    ecosystem services;    grounded theory;    natural resource management;    values;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-05191-180129

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We report on a grounded theory research methodology to elicit the values that underpin community leaders' advice on regional natural resource management. In-depth, semi-structured in-person interviews of 56 community leaders permitted respondents to explore their values and to elucidate some trade-offs. Furthermore, analysis of the coded transcripts provides evidence ofthe anthropocentric nature of values, and the importance of people, communities, and physical infrastructure.As well, the relative silence by community NRM leaders on supporting and regulating ecosystem services may reveal a lack of understanding of these functions rather than a discord in values.The tested methodology provides one approach to understanding the values of important advisory groups that are increasingly being required to guide regional agencies that implement natural resource management policy. Results indicate that, in practice, the values expressed may at times be confrontingly anthropocentric, although those interviewed also expressed existence values. Greater understanding of values is a prerequisite to the design of improved natural resource management.

【 授权许可】

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