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Governing for ecosystem health and human wellbeing

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posted on 2023-06-09, 20:12 authored by Fiona Nunan, Mary Silva Menton, Constance McDermott, Kate Shreckenberg
Governance arrangements and processes influence access to and benefits from ecosystem services, and therefore the potential for ecosystem services to alleviate poverty. Governance also then influences the health of ecosystems. This chapter learns from decades of governance-related research to identify how to make ecosystem governance more effectively ‘pro-poor’. It is informed by a systematic mapping of literature related to governance of ecosystem services and renewable natural resources for improved wellbeing and poverty alleviation, expert interviews and a workshop with government and non-government actors across a range of sectors from both North and South. The chapter is organised around the concept of trade-offs, considering first ecosystem-focused approaches, then rights-based approaches and lastly, participatory approaches to governance. The chapter further addresses the relevance of scale and multiple administrative levels (multi-level governance) and the importance of informal, or socially embedded, institutions. The chapter concludes that there is no single governance approach that can definitively deliver on improved ecosystem health and human wellbeing, that trade-offs are inevitable and governance is therefore an inherently political process.

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ESPA; DfID/NERC/ESRC

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  • Published

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  • Published version

Publisher

Routledge

Page range

159-173

Pages

352.0

Book title

Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation: trade-offs and governance

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780429507090

Department affiliated with

  • Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Georgina Mace, Kate Shreckenberg, Mahesh Poudyal

Legacy Posted Date

2020-01-10

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-01-10

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2020-01-10

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