Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (OPEN ACCESS) Trade-offs and Governance Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services Series

Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research 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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429016295, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Part I Evolving framings and contexts 1. Seeing the wood for the trees: exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing 2. Justice and equity: emerging research and policy approaches to address ecosystem service trade-offs 3. Social-ecological systems approaches: revealing and navigating the complex trade-offs of sustainable development 4. Limits and thresholds: setting global, local and regional safe operating spaces Part II Ongoing and rapid system changes 5. Interactions of migration and population dynamics with ecosystem services 6. Land use intensification: the promise of sustainability and the reality of trade-offs 7. Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in urbanising contexts 8. Reciprocal commitments for addressing forest-water relationships 9. Restoration of ecosystems and ecosystem services Part III Improving governance 10. Governing for ecosystem health and human wellbeing 11. Co-generating knowledge on ecosystem services and the role of new technologies 12. PES: Payments for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation? 13. Scaling-up conditional transfers for environmental protection and poverty alleviation 14. Social impacts of protected areas: exploring evidence of trade-offs and synergies Part IV Achieving sustainable wellbeing 15. Multiple dimensions of wellbeing in practice 16. Gender and ecosystem services: a blind spot 17. Resilience and wellbeing for sustainability 18. Insights for sustainable small-scale fisheries Part V Concluding thoughts Chapter 19: Ecosystem services for human wellbeing: trade-offs and governance

Kate Schreckenberg is a Reader in Development Geography at King’s College London, UK, and Director of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme. Her research focuses on equity in natural resource governance.

Georgina Mace is Professor of Biodiversity and Ecosystems and Director of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, UK, and scientific adviser to the ESPA research programme. Her research focuses on the causes and consequence of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change.

Mahesh Poudyal is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Programme Directorate. He is an environmental social scientist with research focusing on the poverty-environment nexus.