Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation
Abstract Biodiversity conservation efforts have been criticized for generating inequitable socio‐economic outcomes. These equity challenges are largely analyzed as place‐based problems affecting local communities directly impacted by conservation programs. The conservation of migratory species exten...
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| author | Charles C. Chester Aaron M. Lien Juanita Sundberg Jay E. Diffendorfer Columba Gonzalez‐Duarte Brady J. Mattsson Rodrigo A. Medellín Darius J. Semmens Wayne E. Thogmartin Jonathan J. Derbridge Laura López‐Hoffman |
| author_facet | Charles C. Chester Aaron M. Lien Juanita Sundberg Jay E. Diffendorfer Columba Gonzalez‐Duarte Brady J. Mattsson Rodrigo A. Medellín Darius J. Semmens Wayne E. Thogmartin Jonathan J. Derbridge Laura López‐Hoffman |
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| description | Abstract Biodiversity conservation efforts have been criticized for generating inequitable socio‐economic outcomes. These equity challenges are largely analyzed as place‐based problems affecting local communities directly impacted by conservation programs. The conservation of migratory species extends this problem geographically since people in one place may benefit while those in another bear the costs of conservation. The spatial subsidies approach offers an effective tool for analyzing such relationships between places connected by migratory species. Designed to quantify ecosystem services provided and received in specific locations across a migratory species’ range—and the disparities between them—the spatial subsidies approach highlights three axes of inequity: between indigenous and settler colonial societies, between urban and rural populations, and between the Global North and Global South. Recognizing these relationships is critical to achieving two mutually reinforcing policy goals: avoiding inequitable conservation outcomes in efforts to conserve migratory species, and ensuring effective long‐term conservation of migratory species. In demonstrating how the spatial subsidies approach enables the identification and quantification of inequities involving three migratory species (northern pintail ducks, monarch butterflies, and Mexican free‐tailed bats), we argue that a spatial subsidies approach could apply to migratory species conservation efforts worldwide under the context of “payments for ecosystem services.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4b90369b08e4f83a0689f4eb28699ce2022-12-30T08:28:38ZengWileyConservation Letters1755-263X2022-11-01156n/an/a10.1111/conl.12920Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservationCharles C. Chester0Aaron M. Lien1Juanita Sundberg2Jay E. Diffendorfer3Columba Gonzalez‐Duarte4Brady J. Mattsson5Rodrigo A. Medellín6Darius J. Semmens7Wayne E. Thogmartin8Jonathan J. Derbridge9Laura López‐Hoffman10Environmental Studies Program Brandeis University Waltham Massachusetts USASchool of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USADepartment of Geography University of British Columbia Kelowna British Columbia USAU.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center Denver Colorado USADepartment of Sociology/Anthropology Mount Saint Vincent University Halifax CanadaInstitute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management University of Natural Resources and Life Science Vienna AustriaInstitute of Ecology National Autonomous University of Mexico Mexico City MexicoU.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center Denver Colorado USAU.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center La Crosse Wisconsin USASchool of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USASchool of Natural Resources and the Environment University of Arizona Tucson Arizona USAAbstract Biodiversity conservation efforts have been criticized for generating inequitable socio‐economic outcomes. These equity challenges are largely analyzed as place‐based problems affecting local communities directly impacted by conservation programs. The conservation of migratory species extends this problem geographically since people in one place may benefit while those in another bear the costs of conservation. The spatial subsidies approach offers an effective tool for analyzing such relationships between places connected by migratory species. Designed to quantify ecosystem services provided and received in specific locations across a migratory species’ range—and the disparities between them—the spatial subsidies approach highlights three axes of inequity: between indigenous and settler colonial societies, between urban and rural populations, and between the Global North and Global South. Recognizing these relationships is critical to achieving two mutually reinforcing policy goals: avoiding inequitable conservation outcomes in efforts to conserve migratory species, and ensuring effective long‐term conservation of migratory species. In demonstrating how the spatial subsidies approach enables the identification and quantification of inequities involving three migratory species (northern pintail ducks, monarch butterflies, and Mexican free‐tailed bats), we argue that a spatial subsidies approach could apply to migratory species conservation efforts worldwide under the context of “payments for ecosystem services.”https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12920ecosystem servicesMexican free‐tailed bat (MFTB)migratory speciesmonarch butterflypayment for ecosystem services (PES)pintail duck |
| spellingShingle | Charles C. Chester Aaron M. Lien Juanita Sundberg Jay E. Diffendorfer Columba Gonzalez‐Duarte Brady J. Mattsson Rodrigo A. Medellín Darius J. Semmens Wayne E. Thogmartin Jonathan J. Derbridge Laura López‐Hoffman Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation Conservation Letters ecosystem services Mexican free‐tailed bat (MFTB) migratory species monarch butterfly payment for ecosystem services (PES) pintail duck |
| title | Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| title_full | Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| title_fullStr | Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| title_short | Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| title_sort | using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation |
| topic | ecosystem services Mexican free‐tailed bat (MFTB) migratory species monarch butterfly payment for ecosystem services (PES) pintail duck |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12920 |
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