Mainstreaming Natural Capital And Ecosystem Services Into Development Policy

Author : Pushpam Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315531205

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Mainstreaming Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into Development Policy by Pushpam Kumar Pdf

This book highlights the latest advances in the science and practice of using ecosystem services to inform decisions for economic development in the context of the developing countries. The development of the ecosystem services paradigm has enhanced our understanding of natural capital as an indispensable form of capital asset along with produced and human capital. This book addresses what could be the possible pathways to mainstream natural capital assets into development policies and what is currently known about the economic values of ecosystem services. A series of innovative tools to help policy makers and planners account for natural capital and ecosystem services in sectoral and macroeconomic policies have been explored and their application at the national and regional scale has been demonstrated. Several detailed case studies are presented in which the understanding of ecosystem services values has successfully informed decisions, including examples from Chile, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam and the Aral Sea in Central Asia. These provide the critically important insights, lessons learned and means and mechanisms for policy makers to incentivize protection and discourage degradation of ecosystems and the services they provide. Mainstreaming Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services into Development Policy is designed to help decision makers at all levels, including governments, businesses, multilevel development banks and individuals to integrate ecosystems and their services into their decision making.

Author : James Aronson,Suzanne J. Milton,James N. Blignaut
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597267793

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Restoring Natural Capital by James Aronson,Suzanne J. Milton,James N. Blignaut Pdf

How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration. Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ecologists, theoreticians, practitioners, policy makers, and scientists from the developed and developing worlds to consider the costs and benefits of repairing ecosystem goods and services in natural and socioecological systems. It examines the business and practice of restoring natural capital, and seeks to establish common ground between economists and ecologists with respect to the restoration of degraded ecosystems and landscapes and the still broader task of restoring natural capital. The book focuses on developing strategies that can achieve the best outcomes in the shortest amount of time as it: • considers conceptual and theoretical issues from both an economic and ecological perspective • examines specific strategies to foster the restoration of natural capital and offers a synthesis and a vision of the way forward Nineteen case studies from around the world illustrate challenges and achievements in setting targets, refining approaches to finding and implementing restoration projects, and using restoration of natural capital as an economic opportunity. Throughout, contributors make the case that the restoration of natural capital requires close collaboration among scientists from across disciplines as well as local people, and when successfully executed represents a practical, realistic, and essential tool for achieving lasting sustainable development.

Author : Frances H. Irwin,Janet Ranganathan,Mark Bateman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951P00850915G

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Restoring Nature's Capital by Frances H. Irwin,Janet Ranganathan,Mark Bateman Pdf

This publication outlines an action agenda for governments, business, and civil society to restore and sustain ecosystem services: the benefits people receive from nature such as fresh water, food, protection from floods, and spiritual enrichment. The action agenda responds to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment finding that globally nearly two thirds of ecosystem services assessed were degraded. The agenda is informed by the recommendations of 17 policy experts from around the globe.

Author : Lisa Ann Mandle,Zhiyun Ouyang,Gretchen Cara Daily,James Edwin Salzman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781642830033

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Green Growth That Works by Lisa Ann Mandle,Zhiyun Ouyang,Gretchen Cara Daily,James Edwin Salzman Pdf

Rapid economic development has been a boon to human well-being, but comes at a significant cost to the fertile soils, forests, coastal marshes, and farmland that support all life on earth. If ecosystems collapse, so eventually will human civilization. One solution is inclusive green growth--the efficient use of natural resources. Its genius lies in working with nature rather than against it. Green Growth That Works is the first practical guide to bring together pragmatic finance and policy tools that can make investment in natural capital both attractive and commonplace. Pioneered by leading scholars from the Natural Capital Project, this valuable compendium of proven techniques can guide agencies and organizations eager to make green growth work anywhere in the world.

Author : Sue Mainka,Jeff McNeely,Jeffrey A. McNeely,Bill Jackson
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : 9782831708874

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Depend on Nature by Sue Mainka,Jeff McNeely,Jeffrey A. McNeely,Bill Jackson Pdf

Human wellbeing depends on the capacity of the earth’s natural systems to provide ecosystem goods and services. However, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment chillingly concludes that unless we take action to mitigate the current decline in ecosystem services, the cost to society will be substantial. In this publication, IUCN defines three key challenges that will need to be addressed in the near future in order to deliver internationally-agreed development goals. Actions for implementation for all three challenges are also proposed, as well as some 'First Steps’ that should be initiated now if we are to secure our future.

Author : Peter Kareiva,Heather Tallis,Taylor H. Ricketts,Gretchen C. Daily,Stephen Polasky
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191621031

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Natural Capital by Peter Kareiva,Heather Tallis,Taylor H. Ricketts,Gretchen C. Daily,Stephen Polasky Pdf

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy. The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda. The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includes discussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services.

Author : The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative,Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries; Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 10-11, 2011
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309252423

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Ecosystem Services by The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative,Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries; Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 10-11, 2011 Pdf

Natural environments provide enormously valuable, but largely unappreciated, services that aid humans and other earthlings. It is becoming clear that these life-support systems are faltering and failing worldwide due to human actions that disrupt nature's ability to do its beneficial work. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability documents the National Academies' Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Ecosystem Services. At this conference, participants were divided into 14 interdisciplinary research teams to explore diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. The teams needed to address the challenge of communicating and working together from a diversity of expertise and perspectives as they attempted to solve a complicated, interdisciplinary problem in a relatively short time. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability describes how ecosystem services scientists work to document the direct and indirect links between humanity's well-being and the many benefits provided by the natural systems we occupy. This report explains the specific topics the interdisciplinary research teams addressed at the conference, including the following: -how ecosystem services affect infectious and chronic diseases -how to identify what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale -how to develop social and technical capabilities to respond to abrupt changes in ecosystem services -how to design agricultural and aquacultural systems that provide food security while maintaining the full set of ecosystem services needed from landscapes and seascapes -how to design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition -how to develop appropriate methods to accurately value natural capital and ecosystem services -how to design a federal policy to maintain or improve natural capital and ecosystem services within the United States, including measuring and documenting the effectiveness of the policy -how to design a system for international trade that accounts for impacts on ecosystem services -how to develop a program that increases the American public's appreciation of the basic principles of ecosystem services

Author : Sophie de Coninck
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280729624

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Mainstreaming Poverty-environment Linkages Into Development Planning by Sophie de Coninck Pdf

Natural resources such as forests and fisheries play a larger role in the national income and wealth of less developed economies. This handbook is designed to serve as a guide for champions and practitioners engaged in the task of mainstreaming poverty-environment linkages into national development planning. The handbook draws on a substantial body of experience at the country level and the many lessons learned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in working with governments — especially ministries of planning, finance and environment — to support efforts to integrate the complex interrelationships between poverty reduction and improved environmental management into national planning and decision-making

Author : Jetske A. Bouma,Pieter J. H. van Beukering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107062887

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Ecosystem Services by Jetske A. Bouma,Pieter J. H. van Beukering Pdf

This book draws on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives to provide a framework for translating concepts into ecosystem-related decision making and practice.

Author : D. Barry Dalal-Clayton,Stephen Bass
Publisher : IIED
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843697565

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The Challenges of Environmental Mainstreaming by D. Barry Dalal-Clayton,Stephen Bass Pdf

Reviews the changing context and challenges to environmental mainstreaming, discusses what it takes to achieve effective mainstreaming, and provides guidance for selecting operational methods and tools. This title explores the emphasis on getting environmental issues reflected in the government processes.

Author : Emma Rosa Mary Archer,Katharine Emma Vincent,Andrew John Dougill,Marta Bruno Soares,Chris C. Funk
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832507278

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Extreme Events in the Developing World by Emma Rosa Mary Archer,Katharine Emma Vincent,Andrew John Dougill,Marta Bruno Soares,Chris C. Funk Pdf

Author : Peter Kareiva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199588992

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Natural Capital by Peter Kareiva Pdf

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy. The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda. The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includes discussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services.

Author : K. N. Ninan
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849770859

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Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity by K. N. Ninan Pdf

'Should be essential reading for all those who wish to realize truly sustainable development in this new millennium.' From the foreword by Achim Steiner UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director United Nations Environment Programme 'Fills a much needed gap in the literature ... The chapters include contributions by leading academics and policy experts which make for one of the most authoritative books in this field.' Andreas Kontoleon University Lecturer and Director of MPhil in Environmental Policy University of Cambridge This is the most comprehensive book to address the economic soci.

Author : Marion Potschin,Roy Haines-Young,Robert Fish,R. Kerry Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317687030

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Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services by Marion Potschin,Roy Haines-Young,Robert Fish,R. Kerry Turner Pdf

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental managers, and many institutions are now developing teaching programmes to equip the next generation with the skills needed to apply the concepts more effectively. This handbook provides a comprehensive reference text on ecosystem services, integrating natural and social science (including economics). Collectively the chapters, written by the world's leading authorities, demonstrate the importance of biodiversity for people, policy and practice. They also show how the value of ecosystems to society can be expressed in monetary and non-monetary terms, so that the environment can be better taken into account in decision making. The significance of the ecosystem service paradigm is that it helps us redefine and better communicate the relationships between people and nature. It is shown how these are essential to resolving challenges such as sustainable development and poverty reduction, and the creation of a green economy in developing and developed world contexts.

Author : V. Venkatramanan,Shachi Shah,Ram Prasad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811573217

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Sustainable Bioeconomy by V. Venkatramanan,Shachi Shah,Ram Prasad Pdf

Sustainable development is the most important challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. The global economic growth in the recent past has indeed exhibited marked progress in many countries. Nevertheless, the issues of income disparity, poverty, gender gaps, and malnutrition are not uncommon in the global landscape, in spite of the upward growth of the economy and technological advances. This grim picture is further exacerbated by our growing human population, unmindful resource use, ever-increasing consumption trends, and changing climate. In order to protect humanity and preserve the planet, the United Nations issued the “2030 agenda for sustainable development,” which includes but is not limited to sustainable production and consumption practices, e.g. in a sustainable bioeconomy. The hallmark of the sustainable bioeconomy is a paradigm shift from a fossil-fuel-based economy to a biological-based one, which is driven by the virtues of sustainability, efficient utilization of resources, and “circular economy.” As the sustainable bioeconomy is based on the efficient utilization of biological resources and societal transformations, it holds the immense potential to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This book shares valuable insights into the linkages between the sustainable bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals, making it an essential read for policymakers, researchers and students of environmental studies.