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

这一PPDG的目的是在ESPA内建立一个新的跨学科联盟(INDES)，能够开发和测试新颖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。该提案建立在对次大陆最近的形势分析的基础上，并通过寻求将关于生态系统服务(ES)和人类福祉的知识与对生态系统功能的洞察相结合来补充其他倡议。INDES将重点关注印度三个邦与森林和水资源使用相关的环境和贫困问题：特里普拉邦、恰尔肯德邦和安得拉邦。PPDG将设计一个研究框架，允许研究联盟拨款(RCG)资助的研究对山区、丘陵、平原和沿海地区的人与环境关系进行比较。RCG将审查一系列服务，包括碳封存、洪水灾害和水调节，以及食品、材料和能源的提供。INDES PPDG的目标是：1.就目标研究地点的环境和可持续生计问题，建立对INDES联盟内的研究需求和能力的详细和共同的了解。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，以便推进这项工作。4.在2010年12月为全面的区域合作伙伴关系制定一项筹资建议。将在6个月内实现这些目标的工作方案列于本表格的目标部分。对于那些关心贫困与环境之间联系的人来说，环境问题已经成为一个关键的焦点。虽然人们接受减贫战略取决于自然资本的可持续管理，但仍然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，在该平台上可以实现这一点。PPDG将涵盖完整的RCG提案，通过查看贝叶斯网络为整合、表示和利用不同类型的知识提供的机会，审查、测试和应用谈判这些具有挑战性的研究和政策议程的新方法。INDES联盟是一个强大的联盟，它将来自一系列自然科学和社会科学学科的研究人员联系在一起，他们在建立和评估生态系统模型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，该财团的性质是跨学科的，将让当地利益攸关方参与制定问题和评估结果。尽管合作伙伴以前曾在不同的组合中合作过，但Indes PPDG将以正式的方式将他们聚集在一起，以发展对这个一直支离破碎的领域的整体观点。因此，INDES团队将为ESPA方案带来新的思维，并为其未来的战略发展作出贡献。除了欧盟、DEFRA等其他资助机构外，该财团还与DFID、ESRC、NERC有过往记录，现在欢迎LWEC-ESPA方案的机会，以及为这一全球重要问题开发、应用和测试概念的机会。PPDG和RCG将由CEM领导，CEM一直致力于在国际一级推进可持续发展和可持续发展议程。然而，该联盟有来自南北双方的成员，印度联合组织也在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/社会背景方面的专门知识方面发挥关键作用。

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.