Land restoration will happen under climate change and navigating uncertainty and planning for adaptation requires new knowledge systems.
Open access link (Spanish): Para adaptar la restauración de la tierra a un clima cambiante
Open access link (French): Adapter la restauration des terres à un climat en évolution
In many parts of the world, water and soil conservation technologies - such as terraces, living fences, gully control, infiltration ditches, slow-forming terraces, reforestation - have been implemented.
Open access link (Spanish): Impactos de las zanjas de infiltración en el Agua y los Suelos de los Andes: ¿Qué sabemos?
Power asymmetries influence stakeholders’ roles in relation to ecosystem services, including their participation in ecosystem services governance. Insights into roles, power and inequities can be useful for designing participatory governance mechanisms.
Open access link: Ecosystem services and social equity: Who controls, who benefits and who loses?
Ecosystems provide people with services that enable adaptation to climate change, which we refer to here as 'adaptation services'. But adaptation services do not flow automatically: some input from people is needed.
Open access link: Adaptation in the Anthropocene: How we can support ecosystems to enable our response to change
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Ecosystems can sustain social adaptation to environmental change by protecting people from climate change effects and providing options for sustaining material and non-material benefits as ecological structure and functions transform. Along adaptation pathways, people navigate the trade-offs between different ecosystem contributions to adaptation, or adaptation services (AS), and can enhance their synergies and co-benefits as environmental change unfolds.
Open access link: Co-producing ecosystem services for adapting to climate change
Power asymmetries affect the governance of natural resources but are rarely considered explicitly in ecosystem services research, which often overlooks the diversity of actors and their interactions.
Open access link: Power asymmetries in social networks of ecosystem services governance
This brief summarizes the main findings of qualitative research in Apurimac (Peru) that explores the affective, cognitive and sensory dimensions of people’s ecosystem experiences and imaginaries.
Open access link: Sensing, feeling, thinking: Why the body, heart and mind are all important in ecosystem management
Building on the core ideas of relational values, embodied experiences and connectedness with nature, we present a simple framework to explore the sensory, affective and cognitive dimensions of human–nature interactions, as well as the settings and activities that frame them.
Open access link: Sensing, feeling, thinking: Relating to nature with the body, heart and mind
Incentive-based conservation has gained ample notoriety over recent decades, particularly across Latin America where targeted incentives feature prominently in environmental services initiatives, such as for carbon storage or watershed regulation. Open access link: Incentive-based conservation in Peru: Assessing the state of six ongoing PES and REDD+ initiatives. Here we first develop an analytical framework for assessing the Peruvian initiatives of conservation incentives. We then identify six ongoing interventions that have introduced incentives conditional upon compliance with voluntary environmental commitments. We collected information from secondary sources and conducted semi-structured interviews with thirty national- and local-level stakeholders. We scrutinized the extent to which such [...]
Montoya-Zumaeta, J., Rojas, E., & Wunder, S. 2019 PloS one, 14(11) The authors estimated the effects of Peru’s oldest watershed payments for environmental services (PES) initiative in Moyobamba (Andes–Amazon transition zone) and disentangle the complex intervention into its two main forest conservation treatments. First, a state-managed protected area (PA) was established, allowing sustainable use but drastically limiting de facto land use and land rights of households in the upper watershed through command-and-control interventions. Second, a subset of those environmentally regulated households also received incentives: PES-like voluntary contracts with conditional in-kind rewards, combined with access to participation in sustainable income-generating activities [...]
