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Decoding ecosystem services using a DSRP approach
Citation:
Williams, K., J. Carlson, Dave Bolgrien, J. Hoffman, AND T. Angradi. Decoding ecosystem services using a DSRP approach. Twin Ports Systems Thinkers Workshop: Cultivating Interdisciplinary Thinking and Collaboration, Duluth, MN, July 12 - 13, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate a Distinctions-Systems-Relationships-Perspectives approach can be utilized to create a framework for data analysis in reseearch.
Description:
Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization (R2R2R) is a place-based practice that requires ongoing communication amongst agencies, local governments, and citizens. One of the challenges is that each of these entities have different relationships with and responsibilities to sites where R2R2R unfolds. Sediment remediation and habitat restoration project goals, community planning, and lived experiences diverge in scale, focus, and interaction depending on the agency or individual. A DSRP approach can be useful to identify and explain how different individuals and organizations value a space. We applied some Distinctions-Systems-Relationships-Perspectives (DSRP) approach (Cabrera et al., 2015) to develop a framework to sort and classify data and identify ecosystem services collected through inductive methods like participant observation and document analysis. The framework that emerged from the analysis includes neighborhood components that individuals, organizations, and local governments may discuss in the context of their community. The characteristics are a mix of built environment types, structural dimensions, personal experiences, and human-environment relationships and include: parks/open spaces, trails or connections, housing, schools, infrastructure, local businesses, macro-economy, natural features, governmental rules or regulations, demographics/crime statistics/health care facilities, safety, self-determination or participation, identity, social cohesion, sustainability, and aesthetics. We intend this framework to be utilized as a “decoder ring” to interpret distinct values and facilitate communication or comparison.