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O. Saito et al. (eds.), Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and
Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia, Science for Sustainable
Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1133-2_7
Chapter 7
Place-Based Solutions for Conservation
and Restoration of Social-Ecological
Production Landscapes and Seascapes
in Asia
Raffaela Kozar, Elson Galang, Jyoti Sedhain, Alvie Alip,
Suneetha M Subramanian, and Osamu Saito
Abstract The relevance of traditional land-use systems in Asia is under threat from
externally influenced drivers such as the use of modern agricultural technologies,
urbanization, rapid industrialization, overexploitation, and underutilization. The
impacts of these changes in land use are contributing to a loss of biodiversity and
ecosystem services (BES) in social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
(SEPLS). Societal actors operating from multiple scales create and implement
place-based solutions in SEPLS in response to landscape-specific challenges and
opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
This study aims to identify and demonstrate the abundance of place-based solutions
for solving challenges to sustainable use and management of natural resources in
SEPLS, and to better inform the existing suite of conservation and restoration solutions. We review a set of 88 case studies from The International Partnership for the
Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) in the South, East and Southeast Asian regions using a
societal-based solution scanning approach to systematically identify these solutions
for conservation and restoration at local scales and to categorize them by solution
type. Societal actors demonstrate preferences for solution types to reversing the loss
R. Kozar · E. Galang · J. Sedhain · A. Alip
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS),
Tokyo, Japan
S. M. Subramanian
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH),
Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
O. Saito (*)
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS),
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: saito@unu.edu
© The Author(s) 2020
O. Saito et al. (eds.), Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and
Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia, Science for Sustainable
Societies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1133-2_7
Chapter 7
Place-Based Solutions for Conservation
and Restoration of Social-Ecological
Production Landscapes and Seascapes
in Asia
Raffaela Kozar, Elson Galang, Jyoti Sedhain, Alvie Alip,
Suneetha M Subramanian, and Osamu Saito
Abstract The relevance of traditional land-use systems in Asia is under threat from
externally influenced drivers such as the use of modern agricultural technologies,
urbanization, rapid industrialization, overexploitation, and underutilization. The
impacts of these changes in land use are contributing to a loss of biodiversity and
ecosystem services (BES) in social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
(SEPLS). Societal actors operating from multiple scales create and implement
place-based solutions in SEPLS in response to landscape-specific challenges and
opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
This study aims to identify and demonstrate the abundance of place-based solutions
for solving challenges to sustainable use and management of natural resources in
SEPLS, and to better inform the existing suite of conservation and restoration solutions. We review a set of 88 case studies from The International Partnership for the
Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) in the South, East and Southeast Asian regions using a
societal-based solution scanning approach to systematically identify these solutions
for conservation and restoration at local scales and to categorize them by solution
type. Societal actors demonstrate preferences for solution types to reversing the loss
R. Kozar · E. Galang · J. Sedhain · A. Alip
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS),
Tokyo, Japan
S. M. Subramanian
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH),
Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
O. Saito (*)
United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS),
Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan
Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
e-mail: saito@unu.edu