摘要：Change in mangrove extent and condition has potential consequences for social disparity interms of who can adapt to change in ecosystem services and places perceived important forproviding them. Participatory GIS can elicit spatial variation in the importance attached toecosystem service places, but disaggregated research that can reveal difference over thesmall spatial extents often covered by mangroves is underdeveloped. Using mixed-methods(quantitative, qualitative and spatial) in a rehabilitated mangrove system in Vietnam, thisstudy assesses if and why perspectives about ecosystem services and their providing placesvary among households with different capacities to adapt to mangrove change.Three household groups with different adaptive capacities were characterised using quantitative adaptivecapacity indicators, demographic and economic data, and trajectory interviews spanningthree decades: accumulating, coping and flexible households Coastal protection was identified as beneficial by all, and sediment, habitat provisioning and food services were alsofrequently associated with mangroves. Only food was identified significantly more or less bydifferent groups. Spatial hotspots generated for each group by quantifying overlap in placesperceived important for providing these four services, revealed greatest difference in locations important for food. Interviews indicated change in the characteristics of mangrovelocalities and different abilities to adapt to them enabled some households to prosperwhile others struggled. We consider adaptive capacities that helped temper mangrovechange, and who might be most impacted by continuing change. We conclude by identifyingways forward for rehabilitation strategies centred on local people’s differential adaptivecapacity and multiple ecosystem service needs.
