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Ecosystem services for human wellbeing: trade-offs and governance

Mace, Georgina and Schreckenberg, Kathrin and Poudyal, Mahesh (2018) Ecosystem services for human wellbeing: trade-offs and governance. In: Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation: Trade-offs and Governance. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 305-316. E-ISBN 978-0-429-50709-0. (doi:10.4324/9780429507090-23) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:90688)

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Abstract

Following the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005, the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme was developed to address outstanding research and policy questions concerning how ecosystem services could contribute to sustainable poverty alleviation. Ecosystem functions and processes directly and indirectly underpin people's health and wellbeing, and are called ecosystem services. Considerations of the many linkages involved have highlighted the overall complexity across scales of both ecosystems and relevant governance systems, interdependencies and complex interactions between people and ecosystems and the significant governance challenges that are implicit in the Sustainable Development Goal framework. Referring back to the original ESPA framework, it is clear that while much work has focused on unpacking the central core of 'wellbeing', relatively little dealt with the surrounding 'ecosystems' circle. Provisioning services tend to dominate ecosystem decisions, commonly driven by markets that are not accessible to local communities.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9780429507090-23
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: M3 - Chapter [Field not mapped to EPrints] BT - Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User: Mahesh Poudyal
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2021 12:48 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Oct 2021 03:15 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90688 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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