{"id":3638,"date":"2014-10-28T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/cib\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2021-06-01T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T11:58:25","slug":"stakeholder-perspectives-crucial-for-mainstreaming-ecosystem-services-in-development-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/cib\/stakeholder-perspectives-crucial-for-mainstreaming-ecosystem-services-in-development-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Stakeholder perspectives crucial for mainstreaming ecosystem services in development planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature provides us with benefits such as fresh water, food, climate regulation, nutrient recycling and a sense of place. These benefits, also known as \u201cecosystem services\u201d, are critical for our well-being and underpin any future development. Despite an increase in research on ecosystem services, and how these services link to development, it would seem that there is still a gap between ecosystem service research and the implementation of management activities on the ground.<\/p>\n

In a paper published in Landscape Ecology, <\/em>PhD student Nadia Sitas and C\u00b7I\u00b7B researchers Prof Karen Esler and Dr Heidi Prozesky, together with Prof Belinda Reyers (CSIR) tested an approach that recognised the importance of multi-stakeholder perspectives in exploring opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming ecosystem services in development planning.<\/p>\n

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The research found that many challenges for mainstreaming ecosystem services exist, such as: insufficient resources; confusion about the concept of ecosystem services; tension between environmental and development concerns; weak alignment of policies and legislation and minimal proactive planning. Despite the challenges, the research also found some opportunities for mainstreaming ecosystem services, especially in relation to: communicating ecosystem service science; the contribution of information to disaster risk-reduction; sector and spatial planning; policy tools and regulatory instruments and the important role of champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research is important as it highlights the opportunities for mainstreaming ecosystem services that are user-inspired, and that are based on the complexities of management activities on the ground.\u201d<\/em> says Sitas, lead author of the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the paper<\/h4>\n

Sitas, N., H.E. Prozesky, K. J. Esler, and B. Reyers (2013) Opportunities and challenges for mainstreaming ecosystem services in development planning: perspectives from a landscape level. Landscape Ecology 29(8): 1315-1331. <\/a><\/p>\n

For more information, contact Nadia Sitas at nadiasitas@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nature provides us with benefits such as fresh water, food, climate regulation, nutrient recycling and a sense of place. These benefits, also known as \u201cecosystem services\u201d, are critical for our well-being and underpin any future development. 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