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  1. Article ; Online: Digging Deeper: A Case Study of Farmer Conceptualization of Ecosystem Services in the American South.

    Quinn, Courtney E / Quinn, John E / Halfacre, Angela C

    Environmental management

    2015  Volume 56, Issue 4, Page(s) 802–813

    Abstract: The interest in improved environmental sustainability of agriculture via biodiversity provides an opportunity for placed-based research on the conceptualization and articulation of ecosystem services. Yet, few studies have explored how farmers ... ...

    Abstract The interest in improved environmental sustainability of agriculture via biodiversity provides an opportunity for placed-based research on the conceptualization and articulation of ecosystem services. Yet, few studies have explored how farmers conceptualize the relationship between their farm and nature and by extension ecosystem services. Examining how farmers in the Southern Piedmont of South Carolina discuss and explain the role of nature on their farm, we create a detail-rich picture of how they perceive ecosystem services and their contributions to the agroeconomy. Using 34 semi-structured interviews, we developed a detail-rich qualitative portrait of these farmers' conceptualizations of ecosystem services. Farmers' conceptualization of four ecosystem services: provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural are discussed, as well as articulation of disservices. Results of interviews show that most interviewees expressed a basic understanding of the relationship between nature and agriculture and many articulated benefits provided by nature to their farm. Farmers referred indirectly to most services, though they did not attribute services to biodiversity or ecological function. While farmers have a general understanding and appreciation of nature, they lack knowledge on specific ways biodiversity benefits their farm. This lack of knowledge may ultimately limit farmer decision-making and land management to utilize ecosystem services for environmental and economic benefits. These results suggest that additional communication with farmers about ecosystem services is needed as our understanding of these benefits increases. This change may require collaboration between conservation biology professionals and extension and agriculture professionals to extended successful biomass provisioning services to other ecosystem services.
    MeSH term(s) Agriculture/methods ; Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/methods ; Decision Making ; Ecosystem ; Farmers/psychology ; Perception ; South Carolina ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; United States
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1478932-2
    ISSN 1432-1009 ; 0364-152X
    ISSN (online) 1432-1009
    ISSN 0364-152X
    DOI 10.1007/s00267-015-0534-9
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  2. Article: Digging Deeper: A Case Study of Farmer Conceptualization of Ecosystem Services in the American South

    Quinn, Courtney E / Quinn, John E / Halfacre, Angela C

    Environmental management. 2015 Oct., v. 56, no. 4

    2015  

    Abstract: The interest in improved environmental sustainability of agriculture via biodiversity provides an opportunity for placed-based research on the conceptualization and articulation of ecosystem services. Yet, few studies have explored how farmers ... ...

    Abstract The interest in improved environmental sustainability of agriculture via biodiversity provides an opportunity for placed-based research on the conceptualization and articulation of ecosystem services. Yet, few studies have explored how farmers conceptualize the relationship between their farm and nature and by extension ecosystem services. Examining how farmers in the Southern Piedmont of South Carolina discuss and explain the role of nature on their farm, we create a detail-rich picture of how they perceive ecosystem services and their contributions to the agroeconomy. Using 34 semi-structured interviews, we developed a detail-rich qualitative portrait of these farmers’ conceptualizations of ecosystem services. Farmers’ conceptualization of four ecosystem services: provisioning, supporting, regulating, and cultural are discussed, as well as articulation of disservices. Results of interviews show that most interviewees expressed a basic understanding of the relationship between nature and agriculture and many articulated benefits provided by nature to their farm. Farmers referred indirectly to most services, though they did not attribute services to biodiversity or ecological function. While farmers have a general understanding and appreciation of nature, they lack knowledge on specific ways biodiversity benefits their farm. This lack of knowledge may ultimately limit farmer decision-making and land management to utilize ecosystem services for environmental and economic benefits. These results suggest that additional communication with farmers about ecosystem services is needed as our understanding of these benefits increases. This change may require collaboration between conservation biology professionals and extension and agriculture professionals to extended successful biomass provisioning services to other ecosystem services.
    Keywords biodiversity ; biomass ; case studies ; decision making ; ecological function ; ecosystem services ; environmental sustainability ; farmers ; farms ; interviews ; land management ; piedmont ; professionals ; wildlife management ; South Carolina
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2015-10
    Size p. 802-813.
    Publishing place Springer US
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 1478932-2
    ISSN 1432-1009 ; 0364-152X
    ISSN (online) 1432-1009
    ISSN 0364-152X
    DOI 10.1007/s00267-015-0534-9
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  3. Article: Dodging alligators, rattlesnakes, and backyard docks: a political ecology of sweetgrass basket-making and conservation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, USA

    Hurley, Patrick T / Halfacre, Angela C

    GeoJournal. 2011 Aug., v. 76, no. 4

    2011  

    Abstract: There is growing recognition among political ecologists of the need to examine shifting natural resource regimes and their effects on livelihoods in “First World” places. This emerging literature has variously examined the “Third World within,” the ... ...

    Abstract There is growing recognition among political ecologists of the need to examine shifting natural resource regimes and their effects on livelihoods in “First World” places. This emerging literature has variously examined the “Third World within,” the persistence of “subsistence activities” in the “First World,” and the “reterritorialization” of land tenure and access. However, much of this work has tended to focus on traditional extractive industries in the American West, indigenous claims to lands and resources in the U.S. and Canada, and non-timber resources on public lands. In contrast, we use a case study of African-American sweetgrass basket-makers, associated with the Gullah culture, in South Carolina’s lowcountry to examine the ways in which ongoing amenity-driven residential development is fundamentally reshaping resource access on private lands. Historically, basket-makers harvested the materials (primarily sweetgrass or Mulenbergia filipes) needed for their culturally important art form from accessible, rural, and privately held tracts of land in close proximity to their communities, but development pressures and changes in resident interpretation of property rights has decreased access to basket-making resources. The case is particularly illuminating, as it examines the emergence of ‘conservation subdivisions’ in the region and raises important questions about what “rural uses” and users are being conserved through responses to exurban, suburban, and urban development in formerly rural areas.
    Keywords African Americans ; case studies ; ecologists ; ecology ; land tenure ; livelihood ; politics ; private lands ; property rights ; right of access ; rural areas ; rural development ; urban development ; Canada ; South Carolina
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2011-08
    Size p. 383-399.
    Publishing place Springer-Verlag
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 715360-0
    ISSN 1572-9893 ; 0343-2521
    ISSN (online) 1572-9893
    ISSN 0343-2521
    DOI 10.1007/s10708-009-9276-7
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  4. Article ; Online: A content analysis of Internet resources about the risks of seafood consumption.

    Henderson, Heather C / Hong, Jie / Friedman, Daniela B / Porter, Dwayne E / Halfacre, Angela C / Scott, Geoffrey I / Lead, Jamie R

    International journal of environmental health research

    2016  Volume 26, Issue 4, Page(s) 433–447

    Abstract: Seafood consumption is a main source of human exposure to certain environmental contaminants. Therefore, it is valuable to assess the online health risk messages focused on this topic, as people in the US are increasingly accessing the Internet for ... ...

    Abstract Seafood consumption is a main source of human exposure to certain environmental contaminants. Therefore, it is valuable to assess the online health risk messages focused on this topic, as people in the US are increasingly accessing the Internet for health-related information. Previous research indicates that online health information tends to be written at a reading level that is more advanced than ability of the general population. The purpose of this research was to examine the content and readability of Internet resources targeted toward consumers in the US regarding the health risks from consumption of contaminated seafood. Sources for analysis were gathered through a targeted search of state and national government websites, as well as through a Google search. The overall mean readability level was Grade 9.21, which is slightly above the average reading level of US adults. Future research should evaluate the accuracy of the health risk messages, as well as consumer perceptions of risk.
    MeSH term(s) Comprehension ; Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology ; Foodborne Diseases/etiology ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Health Literacy ; Health Resources/statistics & numerical data ; Humans ; Internet/statistics & numerical data ; Risk Assessment ; Seafood/toxicity
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1104887-6
    ISSN 1369-1619 ; 0960-3123
    ISSN (online) 1369-1619
    ISSN 0960-3123
    DOI 10.1080/09603123.2015.1135313
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  5. Article: Community Participation in Preservation of Lowcountry South Carolina Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) Basketry

    Hart, Zachary H / Halfacre, Angela C / Burke, Marianne K

    Economic botany. 2004 Apr., v. 58, no. 2

    2004  

    Abstract: Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) is a coastal, nontimber forest resource ranging from North Carolina southwestward to Texas. The plant has special cultural and economic importance in coastal South Carolina, where ... ...

    Abstract Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) is a coastal, nontimber forest resource ranging from North Carolina southwestward to Texas. The plant has special cultural and economic importance in coastal South Carolina, where the local Gullah community uses this resource in a form of coiled basketry. The plant is becoming increasingly unavailable to basket makers, however, because of habitat destruction, habitat limitation, and private ownership of the resource. This study examines stakeholder involvement in and perceptions of past and current sweetgrass management. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with Charleston, South Carolina area basket makers and were analyzed for emergent themes using content analysis, a technique permitting objective analysis of text. Survey respondents identified residential development as a major cause of sweetgrass inaccessibility and indicated that purchasing raw materials has become standard practice. Furthermore, respondents indicated several potential solutions to the problem and expressed their willingness to contribute time to management efforts.
    Keywords Muhlenbergia ; community service ; forests ; habitat destruction ; habitats ; interviews ; private ownership ; purchasing ; raw materials ; stakeholders ; surveys ; North Carolina ; South Carolina
    Language English
    Size p. 161-171.
    Publishing place New York Botanical Garden
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 419272-2
    ISSN 1874-9364 ; 0013-0001
    ISSN (online) 1874-9364
    ISSN 0013-0001
    DOI 10.1663/0013-0001(2004)058%5B0161:CPIPOL%5D2.0.CO;2
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  6. Article: Community Participation in Preservation of Lowcountry South Carolina Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) Basketry

    Hart, Zachary H. / Halfacre, Angela C. / Burke, Marianne K.

    Economic botany

    Volume v. 58,, Issue no. 2

    Abstract: Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) is a coastal, nontimber forest resource ranging from North Carolina southwestward to Texas. The plant has special cultural and economic importance in coastal South Carolina, where ... ...

    Abstract Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes [M. A. Curtis] J. Pinson and W. Batson) is a coastal, nontimber forest resource ranging from North Carolina southwestward to Texas. The plant has special cultural and economic importance in coastal South Carolina, where the local Gullah community uses this resource in a form of coiled basketry. The plant is becoming increasingly unavailable to basket makers, however, because of habitat destruction, habitat limitation, and private ownership of the resource. This study examines stakeholder involvement in and perceptions of past and current sweetgrass management. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with Charleston, South Carolina area basket makers and were analyzed for emergent themes using content analysis, a technique permitting objective analysis of text. Survey respondents identified residential development as a major cause of sweetgrass inaccessibility and indicated that purchasing raw materials has become standard practice. Furthermore, respondents indicated several potential solutions to the problem and expressed their willingness to contribute time to management efforts.
    Keywords forests ; Muhlenbergia ; private ownership ; habitats ; surveys ; raw materials ; purchasing ; interviews ; community service ; stakeholders ; habitat destruction
    Language English
    Document type Article
    ISSN 0013-0001
    Database AGRIS - International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology

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