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and ecological knowledge, and that gives consideration to the interactions of drivers
and solution types at different scales and in different ecosystems from among the
full suite of technical, social, institutional, economic, and knowledge-based
solutions.
Deliberate place-based planning for sustainable use and management that will
enable future resilient SEPLS should take advantage of community-led innovations,
multi-level governance approaches, and solution mixes that include social, cultural,
and knowledge-based approaches along with context-dependent technical and economic solutions (Bohnet and Beilin 2015). As urban areas expand, planning for
these areas that incorporates multiple solution types can enhance their resilience,
especially when solution mixes are selected for multiple goals, and for future
resilience across urban-rural landscapes (Wendling et al. 2018; Eggermont et al.
2015). This kind of design fits with broader approaches to planning solutions in
SEPLS in ways that support policy design for the Anthropocene, where synergies
among solutions are key to balancing trade-offs and staying within planetary boundaries through connected places (Sterner et al. 2019).
7.5 Conclusions
The drivers of overconsumption, urbanization, modernization of agriculture, underutilization and industrialization, among others, and their interactions and cumulative effects are accelerating the loss of BES in SEPLS in Asia, and causing
imbalances in formerly harmonious approaches to sustainable use and management.
Externally influenced drivers and societal actors from all scales are part of the challenges but are also part of the solutions. IPSI members demonstrate that communities in SEPLS across Asia are working with multiple partners at different scales to
revitalize social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in ways that will
address the drivers of BES loss. In many cases, they are also helping to revitalize a
state of sustainable use and management that delivers ecosystem service benefits in
the form of production income, dietary diversity, and increased health and wellbeing, while providing conservation and restoration benefits that benefit ecosystems
and environmental health at multiple scales.
Through working with multiple stakeholders to devise institutional, cognitive,
economic, social and cultural, and technological responses across ecosystems and
scales, communities in SEPLS in Asia are responding to the need to devise solutions
across ecosystems and scales and to consider feedbacks among social-ecological
systems to revitalize a balance among the multiple ecosystems services for food,
forests, biodiversity, and livelihoods. As demonstrated by the wide breadth of societal actors working jointly on solutions in SEPLS, the representation across stakeholder groups, and varying composition of coalitions, the IPSI network is
contributing to the best available knowledge that reflects the pluralistic values of
multiple stakeholders in identifying which solutions are preferable in different
social-ecological systems.
R. Kozar et al.
and ecological knowledge, and that gives consideration to the interactions of drivers
and solution types at different scales and in different ecosystems from among the
full suite of technical, social, institutional, economic, and knowledge-based
solutions.
Deliberate place-based planning for sustainable use and management that will
enable future resilient SEPLS should take advantage of community-led innovations,
multi-level governance approaches, and solution mixes that include social, cultural,
and knowledge-based approaches along with context-dependent technical and economic solutions (Bohnet and Beilin 2015). As urban areas expand, planning for
these areas that incorporates multiple solution types can enhance their resilience,
especially when solution mixes are selected for multiple goals, and for future
resilience across urban-rural landscapes (Wendling et al. 2018; Eggermont et al.
2015). This kind of design fits with broader approaches to planning solutions in
SEPLS in ways that support policy design for the Anthropocene, where synergies
among solutions are key to balancing trade-offs and staying within planetary boundaries through connected places (Sterner et al. 2019).
7.5 Conclusions
The drivers of overconsumption, urbanization, modernization of agriculture, underutilization and industrialization, among others, and their interactions and cumulative effects are accelerating the loss of BES in SEPLS in Asia, and causing
imbalances in formerly harmonious approaches to sustainable use and management.
Externally influenced drivers and societal actors from all scales are part of the challenges but are also part of the solutions. IPSI members demonstrate that communities in SEPLS across Asia are working with multiple partners at different scales to
revitalize social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes in ways that will
address the drivers of BES loss. In many cases, they are also helping to revitalize a
state of sustainable use and management that delivers ecosystem service benefits in
the form of production income, dietary diversity, and increased health and wellbeing, while providing conservation and restoration benefits that benefit ecosystems
and environmental health at multiple scales.
Through working with multiple stakeholders to devise institutional, cognitive,
economic, social and cultural, and technological responses across ecosystems and
scales, communities in SEPLS in Asia are responding to the need to devise solutions
across ecosystems and scales and to consider feedbacks among social-ecological
systems to revitalize a balance among the multiple ecosystems services for food,
forests, biodiversity, and livelihoods. As demonstrated by the wide breadth of societal actors working jointly on solutions in SEPLS, the representation across stakeholder groups, and varying composition of coalitions, the IPSI network is
contributing to the best available knowledge that reflects the pluralistic values of
multiple stakeholders in identifying which solutions are preferable in different
social-ecological systems.
R. Kozar et al.