Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation : trade-offs and governance / edited by Kate Schreckenberg, Georgina Mace, and Mahesh Poudyal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schreckenberg, Kathrin, editor.

Mace, G. M. (Georgina M.), editor.

Poudyal, Mahesh, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in ecosystem services

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem management.

Environmental economics.

Poverty--Environmental aspects.

Poverty.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 325 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing researh area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, which has funded over 120 research projects in more than 50 countries since 2010. ESPA's goal is to ensure that ecosystems are being sustainably managed in a way that contributes to poverty alleviation as well as to inclusive and sustainable growth. As governments across the world map how they will achieve the 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, most of which have poverty alleviation, wellbeing and sustainable environmental management at their heart, ESPA's findings have never been more timely and relevant. The book synthesises the headline messages and compelling evidence to address the questions at the heart of ecosystems and wellbeing research. The authors, all leading specialists, address the evolving framings and contexts for the work; review the impacts of ongoing drivers of change; present new ways to achieve sustainable wellbeing, equity, diversity and resilience; and evaluate the potential contributions from conservation projects, payment schemes and novel governance approaches across scales from local to national and international. The cross-cutting, thematic chapters challenge conventional wisdom in some areas, and validate new methods and approaches for sustainable development in others. The book will provide a rich and important reference source for advanced students, researchers and policy-makers in ecology, environmental studies, ecological economics and sustainable development--back cover.

Contents:

Seeing the wood for the trees : exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing / Unai Pascual and Caroline Howe

Justice and equity : emerging research and policy approaches to address ecosystem service trade-offs / Neil Dawson, Brendan Coolsaet and Adrian Martin

Social-ecological systems approaches: revealing and navigating the complex trade-offs of sustainable development / Belinda Reyers and Odirilwe Selomane

Limits and thresholds : setting global, local and regional safe operating spaces / John Dearing

Interactions of migration and population dynamics with ecosystem services / W. Neil Adger and Matt Fortnam

Land use intensification : the promise of sustainability and the reality of trade-offs / Adrian Martin, Brendan Coolsaet, Esteve Corbera, Neil Dawson, Janet Fisher, Phil Franks, Ole Mertz, Unai Pascual, Laura Vang Rasmussen and Casey Ryan

Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in urbanising contexts / Fiona Marshall, Jonathan Dolley, Ramila Bisht, Ritu Priya, Linda Waldman, Priyanie Amerasinghe and Pritpal Randhawa

Reciprocal commitments for addressing forest-water relationships / Lana Whittaker, Eszter K Kovacs and Bhaskar Vira

Restoration of ecosystems and ecosystem services / Alison Cameron

Governing for ecosystem health and human wellbeing / Fiona Nunan, Mary Menton, Constance McDermott and Kate Schreckenberg

Co-generating knowledge on ecosystem services and the role of new technologies / Wouter Buytaert, Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi, David M Hannah, Julian Clark and Art Dewulf

PES : Payments for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? / Mary Menton and Aoife Bennett

Scaling-up conditional transfers for environmental protection and poverty alleviation / Ina Porras and Nigel Asquith

Social impacts of protected areas: exploring evidence of trade-offs and synergies / Emily Woodhouse, Claire Bedelian, Neil Dawson and Paul Barnes

Multiple dimensions of wellbeing in practice / Sarah Coulthard, J. Allister McGregor and Carole S. White

Gender and ecosystem services : a blind spot / Katrina Brown and Matt Fortnam

Resilience and wellbeing for sustainability / Lucy Szaboova, Katrina Brown, Tomas Chaigneau, Sarah Coulthard, Tim Daw and Tom James

Insights for sustainable small-scale fisheries / Daniela Diz and Elisa Morgera

Ecosystem services for human wellbeing : trade-offs and governance / Georgina Mace, Kate Schreckenberg and Mahesh Poudyal.

Notes:

"Earthscan from Routledge"-- cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138580831

113858083X

9781138580848

1138580848

OCLC:

1032291148

Publisher Number:

99978797343