Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation (GESPA)

治理关系到自然资源的状况和谁受益。如果治理安排无效和不公平，或产生不可持续和不公平的结果，那么可持续管理和减贫的潜力就有限。治理涉及就谁可以从可再生自然资源中提取产品、提取多少产品和提取什么产品、何时何地进行决策，并对生态系统健康、生态系统服务的可持续性和减贫潜力产生影响。鉴于这种决策至关重要，资源使用者的包容、参与和代表性是关键问题。ESPA计划处于独特的地位，可以就治理结构和过程（正式和非正式）如何影响生态系统和生态系统服务的状况以及谁和在多大程度上从这些服务中受益提供经验教训和见解。因此，本项目的目的是综合这些经验教训，并得出对研究人员、决策者和从业人员具有广泛国际意义的关键结论。为进行这一综合而成立的小组处于独特的地位。该小组成员作为研究人员参与了欧洲空间局的11个项目，将林业、沿海生态系统、自然科学、社会学和发展研究方面的专门知识和经验带到了生态系统服务治理和减贫研究中，这项研究将借鉴欧洲空间局项目通过两个主要工作领域在一系列生态系统背景下开展的广泛研究。研究的第一个阶段是供应驱动阶段，将全面审查ESPA的所有研究，以了解其与可再生自然资源治理有关的研究结果。将寻求项目的产出（工作文件、讲习班报告、会议发言和文章），以确定对治理的重视，确定使用了哪些框架（如果有的话），并整理治理方面的具体成果。这一摸底调查的结果将为选择项目提供信息，在如何处理治理和/或从其调查结果中可以学到很多东西。在适当和可能的情况下，将从项目调查人员那里获得原始数据集，包括访谈记录。从这一系列数据中，该团队将整理并按主题分类以下信息：-如何理解和解决治理问题。如何调查和评估治理的结构、过程和结果。如何更广泛的治理政治经济学已经考虑到了什么已经了解了治理背景。了解和研究可再生自然资源治理方面的挑战。第二阶段是需求驱动的研究，将涉及开发和应用系统框架，分析ESPA的研究结果和其他相关研究，以确定实现联合国可持续发展目标（SDG）的核心经验教训。特别是，它将重点关注可持续发展目标1、10、14和15及其对消除贫困、减少不平等以及将生态系统和生物多样性战略纳入发展进程的呼吁。该框架的制定将通过审查ESPA和相关研究的相关分析框架，以及由来自英国和其他国家的参与ESPA项目的研究人员和从业人员参加的咨询研讨会来了解。对已发表的关于某些自然资源的管理和减贫的研究进行有重点的系统分析，将补充对欧洲战略和政策分析的研究结果的综合，两者都将纳入关于如何为可持续性和减贫提供自然资源管理的简报。

Governance matters for the condition of natural resources and for who benefits. If the governance arrangements are ineffective and unfair, or produce unsustainable and unfair outcomes, then the potential for sustainable management and poverty alleviation is limited. Governance involves decision-making over who can extract products from renewable natural resources, how much and what they can take, from where and when, with implications for ecosystem health, sustainability of ecosystem services and the potential for alleviation of poverty. Given the critical importance of such decision-making, the inclusion, participation and representation of resource users are key concerns. The ESPA programme is in a unique position to generate lessons and insights into how governance structures and processes (formal and informal) influence the condition of ecosystems and ecosystem services, and who, and to what extent, benefits from those services. The aims of this project, therefore, are to synthesise these lessons and to draw out key findings of broad international relevance to researchers, policy-makers and practitioners. The team formed to undertake this synthesis is uniquely placed to do so. The team members have been involved as researchers in 11 ESPA projects, bringing expertise and experience in forestry, coastal ecosystems, natural science, sociology and development studies to the study of the governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation.This research will draw on the extensive research undertaken by ESPA projects in a range of ecosystem contexts through two main areas of work. The first, supply-driven phase of the research will provide a comprehensive review of all ESPA research for their findings related to the governance of renewable natural resources. Outputs from the projects (working papers, workshop reports, conference presentations and articles) will be sought to ascertain the focus on governance, determine which, if any, frameworks have been used and collate governance-specific results. The outcomes of this mapping will inform the selection of projects from which there is much to learn in terms of how they approached governance and/or from their findings. Where appropriate and possible, original datasets, including interview transcripts, will be sought from the project investigators. From this range of data, the team will collate and thematically cluster information on:- How governance has been understood and addressed.- How the structures, processes and outcomes of governance have been investigated and assessed.- How the wider political economy of governance has been considered and what has been learnt about the governance context.- The challenges in understanding and researching the governance of renewable natural resources.The second, demand-driven phase of the research will involve the development and application of a systematic framework for analysing ESPA findings and other related research to identify core lessons for attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, it will focus on SDGs 1, 10, 14 and 15 and their call for the eradication of poverty, the reduction of inequality, and the integration of ecosystem and biodiversity strategies into development processes. The development of the framework will be informed by a review of relevant analytical frameworks in ESPA and related research, together with a consultative workshop involving select researchers and practitioners from the UK and other countries who have participated in ESPA projects. A focused systematic analysis of published research on the governance of selected natural resources and poverty reduction will complement the synthesis of ESPA findings and both will feed into a briefing on how to deliver on governance of natural resources for sustainability and poverty alleviation.