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DOI10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.003
A social contract with the ancestors-Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar
Von Heland J.; Folke C.
发表日期2014
ISSN0959-3780
卷号24期号:1
英文摘要We investigate the role of culture in sustaining essential ecosystem services in the arid and erratic climate of an agropastoral landscape in southern Madagascar. Our fieldwork and interviews in Ambovombe subprefecture in Androy addressed land use, agropastoralism, livelihood, institutions and their moral basis. Our analysis points to the interdependence of cultural practices and ecosystem services: sacred forests, crop pollination, subsistence farming, cattle economy and societal transition and purification rituals. We posit a social-ancestral contract that works as a moral attractor structuring and sustaining the agropastoral ecosystem services system. The contract between living and nonliving clan members underpins the cultural practices and rituals that regulate the vulnerable agropastoral system. We conclude that the well-being values of the inhabitants of the south of Madagascar depend upon moralities that lend legitimacy and stability to the management of the social-ecological processes that precondition ecosystem services production. Neither ecosystem nor culture delivers ecosystem services to society. Ecosystem services are generated by an interdependent social-ecological system in which knowledge, practice, and beliefs coevolve: culture is a key factor in their generation and persistence. The study suggests these are significant interdependences to consider in dynamic analyses of ecosystem service production. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词Agropastoralism; Cultural ecosystem services; Drought; Mixed methods; Moral order; Social attractor; Social-ecological resilience; Southern Madagascar
语种英语
来源期刊Global Environmental Change
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117818
作者单位Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden; Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, PO Box 5005, 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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Von Heland J.,Folke C.. A social contract with the ancestors-Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar[J],2014,24(1).
APA Von Heland J.,&Folke C..(2014).A social contract with the ancestors-Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar.Global Environmental Change,24(1).
MLA Von Heland J.,et al."A social contract with the ancestors-Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar".Global Environmental Change 24.1(2014).
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