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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th-cmuir.6653943832-74132014-08-30T04:08:58Z The governance of ecosystem services from tropical upland watersheds Lebel L. Daniel R. 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. 2014-08-30T04:08:58Z 2014-08-30T04:08:58Z 2009 Review 18773435 10.1016/j.cosust.2009.07.008 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70449408068&partnerID=40&md5=d6b2819db9141b2e666ea42318092eb8 http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/7413 English |
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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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