Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Ecuador: Good Practices for Adaptive Co-Management

Abstract

Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) requires social learning and linkages between actors and levels under Adaptive Co-Management (ACM), especially in landscapes with high biodiversity and vulnerability, such as the Tropical Andes. Methodology: A multicriteria methodology was designed and applied to identify, characterize, select and evaluate the ACM and the constraining and enabling conditions for its effectiveness in EbA actions implemented between 2011 and 2015. Results: 1. The integration of conservation, restoration and sustainable production, and linkage among institutions and sectors through local leadership, enable knowledge coproduction, social learning and innovation. 2. Governance and planning based on a landscape approach, and acknowledgment of the diversity of contexts, promote dialogue, cooperation and institutional innovation. 3. Economic alternatives in production, marketing and local markets, as well as complete and adequate technology transfers, stable and planned funding and monitoring, promote sustainability.

Long-Term Environmental and Social Monitoring in the Andes: State of the Art, Knowledge Gaps, and Priorities for an Integrated Agenda

“…It includes 4 types of elements: systems, stakeholders (ie actors), processes, and their interactions, which were labeled and contrasted with existing LTSEM. This model is a conceptual tool with which to explore knowledge generation and governance of Andean SES and the equitable distribution of decision-making power, as it includes the main mechanisms that involve actors in research and knowledge production and its application to informed decision-making (Ariza-Montobbio and Cuvi 2020).…”

Efectividad de la Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas El caso del Sistema Milpa+Papa+Ovinos+Bosque en la microcuenca San Francisco

“…En el análisis de las condiciones que han aumentado la resiliencia de las personas ante un clima cambiante, uno de los factores más sobresalientes es la voluntad y la capacidad de las personas para organizarse, articularse y constituir asociaciones fuertes, unidas y duraderas, en un contexto de guerra y posguerra40 y de una atmósfera general de escepticismo hacia la organización social, donde "hasta era penoso asociarse", como lo expresó un participante. Esta existencia de organizaciones de base sólidas y activas ha sido identificada como factor de éxito en otros estudios acerca del manejo de recursos naturales (Ariza-Montobbio y Cuvi, 2020;Frausto y Landa, 2007). Otra condición habilitadora fue la visión del MAGA, que en 1994 concedió fondos para fortalecer procesos de organización de base y de creación de capacidades para que las comunidades pudieran idear y conducir su propio desarrollo.…”