AI Article Synopsis

  • Integrating ecosystem services into development strategies can enhance understanding of how nature benefits human societies, particularly in the biodiverse Hindu Kush Himalaya region, which is crucial for a significant portion of the global population.
  • The analysis shows that prioritizing relationships between ecosystems and socio-economic factors can help tackle challenges like poverty, cultural preservation, and holistic development within the area.
  • The Nature Futures Framework from the IPBES outlines three key pathways—Prevention, Restoration, and Development innovation—that promote sustainability by aligning societal values with ecosystem service management and policy decisions.

Article Abstract

Centre-staging ecosystem services within development paradigms can improve understanding on the flow of benefits from nature to human societies across time, scale and geographies, and trigger well-being-oriented societal and policy responses in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region. This region is amongst the world's most biodiverse, has high-value nature-society interactions, supports one-fourth of humanity and faces several developmental challenges. An assessment of the existing evidence establishes that substantial benefits and values can be gained by nurturing the relationship between ecosystems and socio-economic systems. Mainstreaming ecosystem services in the development agenda helps address poverty and intersectionality, preserves culture and heritage, and enables holistic transformation in the region. The Nature Futures Framework of the IPBES is used to develop and apply an analytical framework for the region, in which ecosystem service-oriented action pathways are considered to be relevant and feasible for attaining sustainability. Three pathways, labelled as Prevention, Restoration and Development innovation, incorporate strategies and actions that mainstream ecosystem services and uphold the multiple values placed on nature by society. Illustrations are used to demonstrate the significant potential for policy action in creating positive impacts on both nature and society with the adoption of a Nature Futures framing for the region. The region has the potential to demonstrate the operationalisation of an integrated framework for nurturing nature-people relationships, in the pursuit of transformative change as envisioned under the sustainable development agenda. Ecosystem services can enable such transformative change, acting as triggers for action that mainstream nature into developmental decision-making.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912225PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-02022-xDOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

ecosystem services
20
hindu kush
8
kush himalaya
8
services development
8
region region
8
development agenda
8
nature futures
8
nature society
8
transformative change
8
ecosystem
6

Similar Publications

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!