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DrCarolineHowe

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Centre for Environmental Policy

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9339caroline.howe

 
 
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205Weeks BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Pascual:2018:10.4324/9780429507090,
author = {Pascual, U and Howe, C},
booktitle = {Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: trade-offs and governance},
doi = {10.4324/9780429507090},
editor = {Schreckenberg and Mace and Poudyal},
pages = {3--21},
title = {Seeing the wood for the trees: exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507090},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Ecosystem service frameworks connect with different societal goals and priorities regarding ecosystem management and development planning, and thus reflect the different epistemic communities from which they arise. Since the publication of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), ecosystem service framing has undergone a significant evolution and this evolution has, in turn, continued to reshape the epistemic communities and their take on policy instruments, including for example payments for ecosystem services. This chapter explores the development of ecosystem services framings over the last decade, focusing on how the ecosystem service frameworks, such as the UN-led Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), the UK-led Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme and the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), have significantly influenced how we conceptualise and use the ecosystem service approach. Through an exploration of the evolution of ecosystem service and well-being framings, the chapter highlights that there has been a substantial shift towards seeing ecosystem services through a richer lens, departing from a mostly supply (biophysical) perspective to a more balanced social-ecological perspective, including the issues of equity and justice in ecosystem governance, and a pluralistic conceptualisation of values.
AU  - Pascual,U
AU  - Howe,C
DO  - 10.4324/9780429507090
EP  - 21
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 9780429016295
SP  - 3
TI  - Seeing the wood for the trees: exploring the evolution of frameworks of ecosystem services for human wellbeing
T1  - Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: trade-offs and governance
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507090
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/66239
ER  -
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