- Title
- Mapping the intangibles: Cultural ecosystem services derived from Lake Macquarie estuary, New South Wales, Australia
- Creator
- Martin, Carol L.; Momtaz, Salim; Gaston, Troy; Moltschaniwskyj, Natalie A.
- Relation
- Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science Vol. 243, no. 106885
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106885
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Cultural ecosystem services (CES) provide intangible physical, emotional, social and psychological benefits crucial to human wellbeing, and are valued worldwide in a variety of ways by a diversity of people and cultures (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). They are formally defined as “the non-material benefits people obtain from ecosystems through spiritual enrichment, cognitive development, recreational and aesthetic experiences” that contribute to human wellbeing (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2003, pp. 58–59). Non-material is defined as “not involving, seeking, or primarily concerned with riches or material things; rather involving or concerned with the spiritual, intellectual or cultural aspects of life” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Non-material benefits derived from ecosystems are obtained through four different channels of human experience (both conscious and subconscious): (i) knowing; (ii) perceiving; (iii) interacting; and, (iv) living within, which can be experienced separately or as multiple channels (Russell et al., 2013). Thus, CES are primarily driven by human experience obtained through individual and collective interactions between environmental spaces and cultural and recreational practices that occur within these spaces (Fish et al., 2016).
- Subject
- decision making; ecosystem services; environmental planning; estuarine ecosystems
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439279
- Identifier
- uon:40877
- Identifier
- ISSN:0272-7714
- Language
- eng
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