The governance of ecosystem services from tropical upland watersheds

Upland watersheds in the tropics provide a range of crucial ecosystem goods and services. How they are governed can be crucial to human well-being and environmental sustainability. Communities, governments and firms have taken many different approaches to sharing these benefits, negotiating trade-of...

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Main Authors: Louis Lebel, Rajesh Daniel
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Published: 2018
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-491052018-08-16T02:18:50Z The governance of ecosystem services from tropical upland watersheds Louis Lebel Rajesh Daniel Environmental Science Social Sciences Upland watersheds in the tropics provide a range of crucial ecosystem goods and services. How they are governed can be crucial to human well-being and environmental sustainability. Communities, governments and firms have taken many different approaches to sharing these benefits, negotiating trade-offs between them, and allocating the risks and burdens if services are degraded or lost. This review of policies and projects draws four initial conclusions: (1) multi-stakeholder planning improves the assessment of underappreciated services and users, but does not eliminate importance of power relations; (2) regulations invariably create winners and losers with outcomes that often depend on pre-existing institutions; (3) information and incentives can change behaviours and are therefore important complement to plans and regulations; (4) monitoring is the least well developed area of governance. Many challenges in integrating ecological and social understanding remain. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 2018-08-16T02:10:06Z 2018-08-16T02:10:06Z 2009-10-01 Journal 18773435 2-s2.0-70449408068 10.1016/j.cosust.2009.07.008 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=70449408068&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/49105
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Social Sciences
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Social Sciences
Louis Lebel
Rajesh Daniel
The governance of ecosystem services from tropical upland watersheds
description Upland watersheds in the tropics provide a range of crucial ecosystem goods and services. How they are governed can be crucial to human well-being and environmental sustainability. Communities, governments and firms have taken many different approaches to sharing these benefits, negotiating trade-offs between them, and allocating the risks and burdens if services are degraded or lost. This review of policies and projects draws four initial conclusions: (1) multi-stakeholder planning improves the assessment of underappreciated services and users, but does not eliminate importance of power relations; (2) regulations invariably create winners and losers with outcomes that often depend on pre-existing institutions; (3) information and incentives can change behaviours and are therefore important complement to plans and regulations; (4) monitoring is the least well developed area of governance. Many challenges in integrating ecological and social understanding remain. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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