RGS - IBG Annual International Conference 2013
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Session abstract: Sustainable natural resource management has become of crucial importance in the face of new challenges such as climate change and accelerated environmental degradation in a world of 7 billion people. In response, current international neoliberal policy formulation and implementation is focused around the management of comodified ‘ecosystem services’ such as carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. REDD+ and other payments for ecosystem services schemes require governments to establish mechanisms for monitoring these ecosystem services or natural goods. In the pursuit of assigning some form of ‘value’ to the environment and its services, together with the predominantly top-down vision governing the process of monitoring, the generally accepted approach has been to focus on highly quantitative forms of measurement and monitoring. Yet, in many countries where state and civic society resources, both financial and human are low, it is the local communities who are being asked to act as the stewards of ecosystems and actually do the 'management' and 'monitoring' on the ground. But to what extent do local communities living in these ecosystems have quantitative worldviews and means of communication? Studies, particularly on indigenous peoples, indicate the oral, relational, emotional, and visual, as important elements of how communities relate to their environment.
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