'Indian Ecosystem Service Initiative to promote sustainable livelihoods' (IndES Initiative)

“印度生态系统服务倡议促进可持续生计”（IndES Initiative）

• 批准号: NE/I002391/1
• 负责人: Marion Potschin
• 金额: $ 5.96万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FI002391%2F1
• 关键词: Indian; Ecosystem; Service; Initiative; promote

The aim of this PPDG is to build a new trans-disciplinary consortium (IndES) within ESPA that can develop & test novel, yet robust, evidence-based decision support tools for creating sustainable livelihoods in East India. The proposal builds on recent situation analyses for the subcontinent, and complements other initiatives by seeking to synthesise knowledge about the value of ecosystem services (ES) and human well-being with insights on ecosystem functioning. IndES will focus on ES and poverty issues associated with forest & water use in 3 Indian states: Tripura; Jharkhand; and, Andhra Pradesh. The PPDG will design a research framework that will allow a Research Consortium Grant (RCG)-funded study to make a comparison of people-environment relationships in mountain, hill, plain and coastal situations. The RCG will examine a range of services including carbon sequestration, flood hazard and water regulation, and the provision of food, materials and energy. The objectives of the IndES PPDG are to: 1. Establish a detailed and shared understanding of research needs and capacities within the IndES consortium in respect of the issues surrounding ES and sustainable livelihoods in the target study sites. 2. Review the opportunities that novel approaches based on Bayesian Belief Networks offer for synthesising and communicating knowledge. 3. Identify key research and skill gaps that must be addressed in order to take such work forward. 4. Develop a funding proposal for a full RSC in December 2010. The work programme that will achieve these objectives within 6 months is shown in the Objectives section of this form. ES have emerged as a key focus for those concerned with the links between poverty and environment. While it is accepted that strategies for poverty alleviation depend on the sustainable management of natural capital, new assessment and policy frameworks are still needed. Although progress has been made through the world-leading ESPA initiative, much remains to be done in relation to knowledge synthesis, capacity building, and the application and testing of techniques and approaches. The IndES PPDG application will build a platform on which this can be done. The PPDG will scope a full RCG proposal that will examine, test and apply novel methodologies for negotiating these challenging research and policy agendas, by looking at the opportunity that Bayesian Networks offer for integrating, representing and exploiting different kinds of knowledge. The IndES consortium is a strong one, linking researchers from a range of natural science and social disciplines, experienced in modelling and assessing ES, and analysis of issues impacting on the livelihoods of peoples living in the forest and agricultural ecosystems in South Asia. The consortium is, however, trans-disciplinary in character, and will involve local stakeholders in framing questions and evaluating outcomes. Although the partners have worked together before in different combinations, the IndES PPDG will bring them together in a formal way, to develop an holistic perspective on what has been a fragmented field. The IndES team will therefore bring new thinking to the ESPA programme and contribute to its future strategic development. Besides other funding bodies, EU, Defra, the consortium has a track record with Dfid, ESRC, NERC and now welcomes the opportunity of the LWEC-ESPA programme and the opportunity to develop, apply and test concepts to this globally important problem. The PPDG and RCG will be lead by CEM, who have been committed to taking the ES and sustainable development agendas forward at the international level. However, the consortium has a balance of members from north and south, with the Indian Co-Is are also playing a key role in contributing expertise on the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems, the role of these systems in sustaining human well-being and political/social contexts in which strategies for poverty reduction are set.

该PPDG的目的是在ESPA内建立一个新的跨学科联盟（IndES），该联盟可以开发和测试新的，但强大的，基于证据的决策支持工具，以在东印度创造可持续的生计。该提案建立在次大陆最近的情况分析基础上，并通过寻求综合有关生态系统服务价值和人类福祉的知识以及对生态系统功能的见解来补充其他举措。IndES将重点关注印度三个邦（特里普拉邦、贾坎德邦和安得拉邦）与森林和水资源利用有关的环境卫生和贫困问题。PPDG将设计一个研究框架，使研究联合会赠款（RCG）资助的研究能够比较山区、丘陵、平原和沿海地区的人与环境的关系。区域协调小组将审查一系列服务，包括碳固存、洪水灾害和水资源管理，以及食品、材料和能源的提供。IndES PPDG的目标是：1.建立一个详细的和共享的研究需求和能力在IndES联盟方面的问题，围绕环境服务和可持续生计在目标研究地点的理解。2.回顾基于贝叶斯信念网络的新方法为综合和交流知识提供的机会。3.确定必须解决的关键研究和技能差距，以推进此类工作。4. 2010年12月为正式区域服务中心制定供资提案。在6个月内实现这些目标的工作计划见本表的目标部分。环境服务已成为关注贫困与环境之间联系的人的一个关键重点。虽然人们承认减贫战略取决于自然资本的可持续管理，但仍需要新的评估和政策框架。虽然通过世界领先的ESPA倡议取得了进展，但在知识综合、能力建设以及技术和方法的应用和测试方面仍有许多工作要做。IndES PPDG应用程序将建立一个平台，在此基础上可以完成这项工作。PPDG将审查一个完整的RCG提案，该提案将通过研究贝叶斯网络为整合，表示和利用不同种类的知识提供的机会，来检查，测试和应用新的方法来谈判这些具有挑战性的研究和政策议程。IndES联合会是一个强大的联合会，将来自一系列自然科学和社会学科的研究人员联系起来，他们在建模和评估ES以及分析影响南亚森林和农业生态系统人民生计的问题方面经验丰富。然而，该联合会具有跨学科性质，将让当地利益攸关方参与提出问题和评估结果。尽管合作伙伴以前曾以不同的组合方式合作过，但IndES PPDG将以正式的方式将他们聚集在一起，对这个分散的领域形成一个整体的观点。因此，IndES团队将为ESPA计划带来新的思维，并为其未来的战略发展做出贡献。除了其他资助机构，欧盟，Defra，该财团与DIGITAL，ESRC，NERC有良好的记录，现在欢迎LWEC-ESPA计划的机会，并有机会开发，应用和测试这个全球重要问题的概念。项目开发小组和区域协调小组将由CEM领导，CEM一直致力于在国际一级推动环境服务和可持续发展议程。然而，该联合会的成员来自北方和南方，印度的协调机构也发挥着关键作用，提供关于森林生态系统的结构和功能、这些系统在维持人类福祉方面的作用以及制定减贫战略的政治/社会背景的专门知识。