Showing papers by "Anantha Kumar Duraiappah published in 2012"
TL;DR: In this article, a redirection towards sustainability and well-being may be the most viable option for further development, and equity considerations are primary in order to have the resources to reduce poverty and increase wellbeing in developing countries.
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Book•
01 Mar 2012
TL;DR: The authors in this article present the findings of the Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA), a study of the interaction between humans and satoyama-Satoumi ecosystems in Japan and is written by the 200 plus authors, stakeholders and reviewers from Japan and elsewhere that make up the JSSA team.
Abstract: Satoyama is a Japanese term which describes mosaic landscapes of different types of ecosystem—secondary forests, farm lands, irrigation ponds and grasslands—along with human settlements managed to produce bundles of ecosystem services for human well-being. The concept of satoyama, long-standing traditions associated with land management practices that allow sustainable use of natural resources, has been extended to cover marine and coastal ecosystems—satoumi. These landscapes and seascapes have been rapidly changing and the ecosystem services they provide are under threat due to various social, economic, political and technological factors. Satoyama–Satoumi Ecosystems and Human Well-Being presents the findings of the Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA)—a study of the interaction between humans and satoyama–satoumi ecosystems in Japan and is written by the 200 plus authors, stakeholders and reviewers from Japan and elsewhere that make up the JSSA team. The study analyses changes which have occurred in satoyama–satoumi ecosystems over the last 50 years and identifies plausible future scenarios for the year 2050 taking into account various drivers such as government and economic policy, climate change, technology, and sociobehavioural responses. This provides a new approach to land-use planning that addresses not only economic development but also cultural values and ecological integrity. This book is a key reference text for development planners, postgraduate students, policymakers, scientists and others interested in the environment and development. “This volume brings together an extraordinarily detailed evaluation of what has happened over the past half century to Japanese landscape mosaics, in the foothills and at the seashore, that are rich in physical, biological and cultural attributes and that have been managed as integrated systems in the past and that are now being abandoned. Using the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment conceptual framework, a strong case is made for the positive economic and non-economic values of the maintenance of these systems by new policies at the local as well as the national level.”
86 citations
Imperial College London1, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation2, Stanford University3, Wageningen University and Research Centre4, Aix-Marseille University5, EcoHealth Alliance6, National University of Cordoba7, Stockholm University8, Australian Museum9, University of California, Davis10, University of Paris-Sud11, Laval University12, Yokohama National University13, University of Maryland, College Park14, Arizona State University15, Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment16, Washington State University17, University of Basel18, Kyushu University19
TL;DR: The vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of the components of biodiversity, as well as to changes in the biodiversity science-policy landscape.
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TL;DR: In the hue and cry about the green economy leading up to Rio+20 a number of simple points have been neglected as discussed by the authors, such as: the purposes of the economy have been too narrowly conceived, the role of demand management is vastly underplayed, and the assumptions about the nature of reality are inconsistent with contemporary science.
70 citations
TL;DR: The notion of sustainable development and the call for going beyond just material wealth to gauge our wellbeing has long featured in much of the sustainable development, environmental and ecological economics literature as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The world's leaders, business leaders and the public at large are beginning to question, amidst the multiple social, environmental and economic crises, whether our present trajectory of economic growth is sustainable. We seem to force ourselves to believe that we can grow ourselves out of the multiple crises we face today. The notion of sustainable development and the call for going beyond just material wealth to gauge our wellbeing has long featured in much of the sustainable development, environmental and ecological economics literature. We are afraid the present preoccupation with the green economy will not provide the change we are looking for if we don't address the fundamental problem of what we are aiming to achieve and how we measure our progress towards achieving those goals. We fall into the trap many international agencies have made over the past six decades, where the means become the ends and the ends become an academic exercise (Chang, 2001).
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Journal Article•
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