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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 ShreckenbergGovernance 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.
Funding
ESPA; DfID/NERC/ESRC
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Publisher
RoutledgePage range
159-173Pages
352.0Book title
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation: trade-offs and governancePlace of publication
LondonISBN
9780429507090Department affiliated with
- Evolution, Behaviour and Environment Publications
Research groups affiliated with
- Sussex Sustainability Research Programme Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes