Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation

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dc.contributor.advisorCumming, Graemeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHeydinger, John Mooreen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-30T08:05:13Z
dc.date.available2015-06-30T08:05:13Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe ecosystem services concept has become inextricably linked to the economic valuation approach. Such an approach rests upon a triple incoherency, inadequately accounting for relationships between natural components, social and natural components, and within society itself. These incoherencies have distracted the ecosystem services concept away from its initial grounds: the reliance of humans upon the natural world. The faults of these three arenas are reviewed and found to be insuperable – ecosystem services must be re-imagined if they are to support positive conservation efforts. Such re-imagination here takes place within the framework of Social-ecological Systems (SES) theory. Founded upon the unifying concept of change, SES theory introduces a needed awareness of the dynamic interactions which characterize the process by which ecosystem services are realized by people. This introductory chapter sets the premise from which the rest of this thesis will operate: that the ecosystem services concept must account for the temporal dynamics of social-ecological interactions. Once an element of change becomes linked to ecosystem services only then can the concept may speak meaningfully to the co-constitution of the social and ecological arenasen_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHeydinger, J. M. (2014). <i>Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13189en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHeydinger, John Moore. <i>"Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13189en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHeydinger, J. 2014. Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Heydinger, John Moore AB - The ecosystem services concept has become inextricably linked to the economic valuation approach. Such an approach rests upon a triple incoherency, inadequately accounting for relationships between natural components, social and natural components, and within society itself. These incoherencies have distracted the ecosystem services concept away from its initial grounds: the reliance of humans upon the natural world. The faults of these three arenas are reviewed and found to be insuperable – ecosystem services must be re-imagined if they are to support positive conservation efforts. Such re-imagination here takes place within the framework of Social-ecological Systems (SES) theory. Founded upon the unifying concept of change, SES theory introduces a needed awareness of the dynamic interactions which characterize the process by which ecosystem services are realized by people. This introductory chapter sets the premise from which the rest of this thesis will operate: that the ecosystem services concept must account for the temporal dynamics of social-ecological interactions. Once an element of change becomes linked to ecosystem services only then can the concept may speak meaningfully to the co-constitution of the social and ecological arenas DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation TI - Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13189 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13189
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHeydinger JM. Cultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigation. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13189en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Biological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherBiological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.titleCultural ecosystem services and the avifauna of the Western Cape: a social-ecological systems investigationen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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