{"id":755,"date":"2023-07-16T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/?p=755"},"modified":"2023-07-16T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T15:15:30","slug":"sociocultural-values-ecosystem-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qsconsultants.in\/blog\/sociocultural-values-ecosystem-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociocultural values & Ecosystem services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember, \u2018What we give our Attention to matters.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life\u2019s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention an article titled \u2018Studies highlight local perception of ecosystem services<\/em>\u2019 by Arathi Menon from Mongabay-India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mongabay-India is an environment and conservation platform that brings high-quality, original reports from nature\u2019s frontline in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies highlight Local perception of ecosystem services (Excerpts)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecosystem services are conventionally evaluated only by ecological and economic values. Now, two studies investigate what local communities perceive as sociocultural values of ecosystems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two studies, one from the Eastern Himalayas<\/a> and the other from the Western Ghats<\/a>, probed what local communities perceived as valuable ecosystem services. Freshwater emerged as one of the most valuable natural commodities in the Himalayan study while the Western Ghats study found communities largely valued provisioning services.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts from Mongabay-India<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this article and hopefully find it insightful. You can click on the link below and read the article or log onto https:\/\/india.mongabay.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Studies highlight local perception of ecosystem services<\/a><\/blockquote>