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Ecosystem services and social equity: Who controls, who benefits and who loses?

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Key messages

  • Stakeholders have different roles in the co-production of ecosystem services, e.g. they can be direct or indirect managers or beneficiaries.
  • There are mismatches between those who manage and those who depend on or benefit from ecosystem services.
  • Different forms of inequities are tied to these roles and can threaten the resilience of socio-ecological systems.
  • 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.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/007849
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    Publication year

    2020

    Authors

    Vallet, A.; Locatelli, B.; Pramova, E.

    Language

    English

    Keywords

    ecosystem services, watershed management

    Geographic

    Peru

    Funders

    European Commission (EC), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), CGIAR

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