Policies for sustainable governance of global ecosystem services

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Policies for sustainable governance of global ecosystem services

edited by Janet Ranganathan, Mohan Munasinghe, Frances Irwin

Edward Elgar, c2008

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"Munasinghe Institute for Development 'making development more sustainable-MDMS', World Resources Institute" -- Added T.p

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book provides a compilation of policy, institutional and governance recommendations from eighteen leading international experts, in response to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) finding that over the last 50 years humans have degraded ecosystems services at a faster rate and on a larger scale than at any time in human history. The MEA provided the most comprehensive examination ever undertaken of the conditions and trends of ecosystems.By design, the MEA stopped short of prescribing policy recommendations. With this in mind, the international contributors have been drawn from diverse backgrounds to review the MEA findings and define a global action agenda for governments, businesses, international organizations, civil society, and research organizations. The book encompasses recommendations on a local, national and global scale. Policies for Sustainable Governance of Global Ecosystem Services: proposes an action agenda for integrating ecosystem considerations into development decisions focuses on ecosystem services as the benefits people receive from nature seeks to change the focus from how to protect ecosystems from development to how to invest in ecosystems for development represents earliest thinking on a global action agenda for reversing ecosystem degradation and promoting more robust development. This book is aimed at professionals, academics and researchers working in the environmental and development fields including advanced undergraduates and graduates of environmental, ecosystem and development studies. It will also be of great value to civil society organizations and environmental research organizations as well as policymakers themselves and the interested lay reader.

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Contents: Editor's Introduction Action Agenda for Sustaining Ecosystem Services Frances Irwin and Janet Ranganathan PART I: INCORPORATING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES INTO DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND PRACTICE 1. Mainstreaming and Implementing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Results by Integrating them into Sustainable Development Strategy: Applying the Action Impact Matrix Methodology Mohan Munasinghe 2. Development, Ecosystems and Governance: What are the Priorities for Policy Makers? Antonio La Vina 3. To Change Global Change: Ecosystem Transformation and Conflict in the 21st Century Nicolas J. Lucas, Iokine Rodriguez and Hernan Dario Correa 4. Putting the Assessment into Action: Six Steps for Governments Lailai Li 5. From Assessment to Action: Operationalizing Environmental Sustainability at the National Level Guido Schmidt-Traub and Albert Cho 6. Environmental Policy Priorities for the World Bank Robert Goodland PART II: USING NEW TOOLS AND SKILLS 7. A Scenarios Approach to Developing Ecosystem Management Strategies Mark E. Bateman 8. The Implications of Interdisciplinary Scientific Assessments for Environmental Governance Richard B. Norgaard 9. Looking Back and Ahead in Ecosystems: Reflections on the Lessons of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Anthony C. Janetos 10. Policy Actions to Help Move Us Towards Ecosystem Security Karin M. Krchnak 11. Framing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Messages for Political Resonance Frances Seymour PART III: BUILDING INSTITUTIONS TO SUSTAIN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES 12. Meeting the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Challenge: The Case for Biome Stewardship Councils Sudhir Chella Rajan 13. Smart Globalization: Opportunities for Business, Scientific and Political Leadership David Jhirad 14. A Commission to Spur Investments in Ecosystem Services for the Poor Frances Irwin Index

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