Equity and the Conservation of Global  Ecosystem Services

Davidson, Marc D.

doi:10.3390/su9030339

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“…While many of these services traded in markets are related to consumable goods, carbon trading provides a counter-example of a public, non-rival and non-excludable good. However, many other regulating and cultural ES have been inadequately included in accounting and inequality measurement exercises (Davidson 2017 ).…”

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An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services

Loos

Benra

Berbés-Blázquez

et al. 2022

Ambio

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Mainstreaming of ecosystem service approaches has been proposed as one path toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, critics of ecosystem services question if the approach can account for the multiple values of ecosystems to diverse groups of people, or for aspects of inter- and intra-generational justice. In particular, an ecosystem service approach often overlooks power dimensions and capabilities that are core to environmental justice. This article addresses the need for greater guidance on incorporating justice into ecosystem services research and practice. We point to the importance of deep engagement with stakeholders and rights holders to disentangle contextual factors that moderate justice outcomes on ecosystem service attribution and appropriation in socio-political interventions. Such a holistic perspective enables the integration of values and knowledge plurality for enhancing justice in ecosystem services research. This broadened perspective paves a way for transformative ecosystem service assessments, management, and research, which can help inform and design governance structures that nourish human agency to sustainably identify, manage, and enjoy ecosystem services for human wellbeing.

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Section: The Environmental Justice Framework As An Eye-opener On Syst...mentioning

confidence: 99%

An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services

Loos

Benra

Berbés-Blázquez

et al. 2022

Ambio

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“…Air, water, soils and vegetation can be considered as global commons, and thus are key resources that governments should collaboratively manage and steward for future generations, both locally and globally. [16,20,[75][76][77] Several studies have examined the uneasy relationship between the local and global contexts of resource management and stewardship. [20,68] These studies recognise that policies towards resource management may be contradictory and geopoliticised, and include international law, access, IP and state sovereignty.…”

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“…[9,14] The Nagoya Protocol, as a development of the Convention on Biological Diversity is also important for strategies towards enhancing both local and global biodiversity and ecosystem functions that promote climate change resilience and sustainability. [15][16][17] Reporting of compliance with the provisions of the Nagoya Protocol is done at a national level through the Access and Benefit Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH), and according to the requirements of article 18, paragraph 3, of the Convention on Biological Diversity.…”

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A literature review analysis of engagement with the Nagoya Protocol, with specific application to Africa

Knight

Flack-Davison

Engelbrecht

et al. 2022

S Afr J Bioethics Law

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The 2010 Nagoya Protocol is an international framework for access and benefit sharing (ABS) of the use of genetic and biological resources, with particular focus on indigenous communities. This is especially important in Africa, where local communities have a close reliance on environmental resources and ecosystems. However, national legislation and policies commonly lag behind international agreements, and this poses challenges for legal compliance as well as practical applications. This study reviews the academic literature on the Nagoya Protocol and ABS applications, and then considers the implications of this analysis for research in Africa. Results show that there is uneven engagement with the principles of the Nagoya Protocol across different academic disciplines; local communities are sometimes sidelined in these studies; and only 8% of researchers in the literature analysed are located in Africa. Future developments should focus on ensuring national compliance with the Nagoya Protocol, and that researchers and industry work in partnership with local African communities on ABS issues.

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“…The rationale is that climate change will cause such disastrous outcomes that we need to sink emissions without much regard to other near-term social justice issues. A strong position would prohibit certain types of land conversion, or even dictate rewilding, when areas have a strong potential for providing ecosystem services that capture carbon (Davidson, 2017).…”

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2. Adapting agriculture to a changing climate: a social justice perspective

Timmermann

2021

Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate

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We are already past the point where climate change mitigation alone does not suffice and major efforts need to be undertaken to adapt agriculture to climate change. As this situation was both foreseeable and avoidable, it is urgent to see that particularly people who have historically contributed the least to climate change do not end up assuming most of the costs. Climate change will have the worst effects on agriculture in the tropical region in the form of droughts, extreme heat waves and massive storms. The historical unequal contributions to climate change and its unjustly distributed consequences morally oblige us to distribute global adaptation costs fairly. Yet to have a full understanding of the social implications of adapting to climate change we need to look beyond making adaptation technologies accessible and available. Using a social justice framework, I defend fair prices of adaptation technologies as a demand of justice in exchange, an allocation of research attention proportional to urgent global needs as distributive justice, inclusive technology development and governance as contributive justice and addressing the interests of future generations as intergenerational justice.

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Equity and the Conservation of Global Ecosystem Services

Cited by 9 publications

References 62 publications

An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services

An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services

A literature review analysis of engagement with the Nagoya Protocol, with specific application to Africa

2. Adapting agriculture to a changing climate: a social justice perspective

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