- Title
- He says, she says: ecosystem services and gender among indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon
- Creator
- Cruz-Garcia, Gisella S, Cubillos, Martha V, Torres-Vitolas, Carlos, Harvey, Celia A, Shackleton, Charlie M, Schreckenberg, Kate, Willcock, Simon, Navarrete-Frías, Carolina, Sachet, Erwan
- Subject
- South Africa To be catalogued 1836-1909 Maps
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179627
- Identifier
- vital:43128
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100921"
- Description
- Although it has been hypothesized that men and women vary in the way they value ecosystem services, research on ecosystem services rarely incorporates a gender dimension. We conducted research with nine indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon to understand which ecosystem services men and women perceive as most important for their wellbeing and to rank them according to locally-defined criteria of importance. Participants identified a total of 26 ecosystem services and 20 different ranking criteria. Ecosystem services such as land for agricultural fields (a supporting service), and provision of fish and medicinal plants were equally important for both men and women. Wild fruits and resources to make handicrafts were more frequently mentioned by women, whereas timber, materials for making tools and coca leaves were more frequently mentioned by men. There were also differences in the criteria used to value ecosystem services, with 11 criteria mentioned by both men and women, five mentioned exclusively by women and another four only by men. Our results suggest that taking gender differences into account in ecosystem services assessments may result in the prioritization of different services in conservation and sustainable development programs, and may lead to different outcomes for ecosystem service provision and local livelihoods.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (16 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ecosystem Services, Cruz-Garcia, G.S., Cubillos, M.V., Torres-Vitolas, C., Harvey, C.A., Shackleton, C.M., Schreckenberg, K., Willcock, S., Navarrete-Frías, C. and Sachet, E., 2019. He says, she says: Ecosystem services and gender among indigenous communities in the Colombian Amazon. Ecosystem Services, 37, p.100921., Ecosystem Services volume 37 number p.100921 June 2019 2212-0416
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Collections
Gender Action Forum (GENACT)
RU DST/NRF SARChI for Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods
RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 05. Gender Equality
SDG 15. Life On Land
SDG 03. Good Health and Well-Being
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