Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases

Falk, Thomas; Spangenberg, Joachim H.; Siegmund‐Schultze, Marianna; Kobbe, Susanne; Feike, Til; Kuebler, Daniel; Settele, Josef; Vorlaufer, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.07.012

Cited by 32 publications

(16 citation statements)

References 60 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…provisioning or enhancing actions, where people support the creation, maintenance, and improvement of resources; and appropriation actions, where people subtract from available resources (Hinkel et al 2015, Costanza et al 2017Falk et al 2018). In addition, sustainable NRM requires coordination between individual actions.…”

Section: Key Concepts and Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

Falk¹,

Zhang

Meinzen-Dick

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a CGIAR Research Center established in 1975, provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI's strategic research aims to foster a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply; promote healthy diets and nutrition for all; build inclusive and efficient markets, trade systems, and food industries; transform agricultural and rural economies; and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is integrated in all the Institute's work. Partnerships, communications, capacity strengthening, and data and knowledge management are essential components to translate IFPRI's research from action to impact. The Institute's regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world.

show abstract

Section: Key Concepts and Assumptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

Falk¹,

Zhang

Meinzen-Dick

et al. 2021

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Using social-ecological networks that link community-led approaches to managing forest resources can address the pervasive ecological concerns at the local levels, such as D&FD and increased forest resources access (Lesniewska & McDermott, 2014;Falk et al, 2018). Notably, reducing D&FD coupled with increased afforestation through the agroforestry schemes can serve the win-win carbon stocks enhancement and improved NTFPs for forest-dependent communities.…”

Section: Focus On Forest Governance From the Social-ecological Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review

Kyere-Boateng¹,

Marek²,

Huba³

et al. 2021

OJF

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Forests provide diverse co-benefits, including livelihoods enhancement, poverty alleviation, and biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services such as climate mitigation. Consequently, Ghana has embraced several global, regional, national, and local forest policy interventions to safeguard its forest resources' sustainable management. However, the forest policy interventions have not adequately addressed the co-benefits issues of forest resources leading to several forest illegalities that drive forest resources degradation and loss. These forest policies and interventions on the ground primarily favour carbon stocks enhancement and sequestration activities for carbon mitigation purposes compared to the benefits, access and rights that forest-dependent people and communities are supposed to derive from forest resources. These perceived injustices in the access and distribution of forest resources have culminated into all forms of forest illegalities driving Ghana's forest resources into massive degradation and loss. Currently, Ghana is experiencing a 2% rate of annual deforestation and forest degradation, which translates into approximately 135,000 ha/year of forest cover loss due to anthropogenic causes. Our review is based on relevant and critical forest documents, and scientific peer-reviewed papers on Ghana's forest policy interventions and dynamics recently published. The information gathered enabled us to highlight the

show abstract

“…Excludability refers to the costs of preventing a beneficiary from enjoying a benefit. Subtractability describes to which degree one beneficiary's enjoyment affects the possibility of other beneficiaries enjoying the same benefit (Ostrom, 2009;Falk et al, 2018). Substractability was rated on a three-point scale (no competition in use, moderate competition, and strong competition).…”

Section: General Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India

Falk

Kumar

Srigiri

2019

Agricultural Water Management

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Since the 1990s, India invested more than one billion USD in participatory watershed development. Amongst other interventions, the rehabilitation of small-scale water harvesting infrastructure is a main focus. Nevertheless, despite its multiple economic and ecological benefits, many communities fail to maintain the structures. External support in this regard focuses largely on the promotion of blueprint solutions such as community water funds or organizational capacity development of Water User Associations. Little attention is paid to supporting the communities in developing rules related to the actual water and water infrastructure management. In this study we explored how experimental games closely framed to local conditions can help to better understand coordination challenges and develop institutional capacities related to managing small village reservoirs in Rajasthan/India. We played artefactual public good experiments with 300 water managers and combined the games with discussions. The approach created awareness for the cooperation challenges, facilitated debate related to possible solutions and helped to better understand cooperation patterns. Our results suggest that participants were playing substantially better than the predictions of standard economic theory but also substantially better than the behavior observed in real life. The discussions showed that the players connected the game to their real life experiences. They highlighted challenges but also gave examples where cooperation in the community is working well. The games allowed them to experiment in a compressed way with different institutions which deepened the discussion.

show abstract

Identifying governance challenges in ecosystem services management – Conceptual considerations and comparison of global forest cases

Cited by 32 publications

References 60 publications

Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

Games for triggering collective change in natural resource management: A conceptual framework and insights from four cases from India

Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review

Experimental games for developing institutional capacity to manage common water infrastructure in India

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About