Including Human Well-Being in Resource Management with Cultural Ecosystem Services

This dataset includes qualitative interview data aggregated and entered into an excel csv file. We conducted 31 semi-structured interviews with West Hawaiʻi community members involved in coastal and marine conservation, in a paid or unpaid manner. Interviews were conducted between April 2018 and March 2019. We used a mixture of key informant, purposive, and snowball sampling. A total of 10 interviewees were currently in or retired from a state or federal resource management position. A total of 7 interviewees worked for non-governmental resource management organizations. A total of 9 interviewees worked for a private sector company that has a large focus on ocean conservation. A total of 12 interviewees are a member of an organization/network focused on place-based marine conservation in West Hawai‘i. Interviews asked questions about human well-being, cultural ecosystem services, changes to the marine environment, and how these changes impact them. Interviews were coded into a coding structure that has 30 level one codes, 47 level two codes, 100 level three codes, 44 level four codes, and 1 level five code. One of the 30 level one codes included, “well-being,” under which the domains of human well-being listed in previous literature [Leong et al. (2019)] became sub-codes. “Well-being” also included the sub-code “CES,” which included all CES and their associated sub-codes.

The purpose of the interviews was to understand how human well-being can be integrated into resource management and how cultural ecosystem services affect human well-being.

Main Hawaiian Islands

This dataset includes qualitative interview data aggregated and entered into an excel csv file.

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contact Point of Contact or Data Steward

contact Point of Contact or Data Steward

contact Point of Contact or Data Steward

We used a mixture of key informant, purposive, and snowball sampling. A total of 10 interviewees were currently in or retired from a state or federal resource management position. A total of 7 interviewees worked for non-governmental resource management organizations. A total of 9 interviewees worked for a private sector company that has a large focus on ocean conservation. A total of 12 interviewees are a member of an organization/network focused on place-based marine conservation in West Hawai‘i.

The data represent the opinions and beliefs of the participants of these interviews.

We used a mixture of key informant, purposive, and snowball sampling. A total of 10 interviewees were currently in or retired from a state or federal resource management position. A total of 7 interviewees worked for non-governmental resource management organizations. A total of 9 interviewees worked for a private sector company that has a large focus on ocean conservation. A total of 12 interviewees are a member of an organization/network focused on place-based marine conservation in West Hawai‘i.

This dataset includes qualitative interview data aggregated and entered into an excel csv file. We conducted semi-structured interviews with West Hawaiʻi community members involved in coastal and marine conservation, in a paid or unpaid manner between April 2018 and March 2019. We used a mixture of key informant, purposive, and snowball sampling. Interviews were conducted in the English, the primary language of all interviewees. Interviews asked questions about human well-being, cultural ecosystem services, changes to the marine environment, and how these changes impact them.