Policy design for the Anthropocene

Sterner, Thomas; Barbier, Edward B.; Bateman, Ian J.; Bijgaart, Inge van den; Crépin, Anne‐Sophie; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Fischer, Carolyn; Habla, Wolfgang; Hassler, John; Johansson‐Stenman, Olof; Lange, Andreas; Polasky, Stephen; Rockström, Johan; Smith, Henrik G.; Steffen, Will; Wagner, Gernot; Wilen, James E.; Alpízar, Francisco; Azar, Christian; Carless, Donna; Chávez, Carlos; Coria, Jessica; Engström, Gustav; Jagers, Sverker C.; Köhlin, Gunnar; Löfgren, Åsa; Pleijel, Håkan; Robinson, Amanda Lea

doi:10.1038/s41893-018-0194-x

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“…As urban areas expand, planning for these areas that incorporates multiple solution types can enhance their resilience, especially when solution mixes are selected for multiple goals, and for future resilience across urban-rural landscapes (Wendling et al 2018;Eggermont et al 2015). This kind of design fits with broader approaches to planning solutions in SEPLS in ways that support policy design for the Anthropocene, where synergies among solutions are key to balancing trade-offs and staying within planetary boundaries through connected places (Sterner et al 2019).…”

Section: Place-based Solutions For Sustainable Use and Management Of mentioning

confidence: 83%

Place-Based Solutions for Conservation and Restoration of Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes in Asia

Kozar

Galang

Sedhain

et al. 2020

Science for Sustainable Societies

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The relevance of traditional land-use systems in Asia is under threat from externally influenced drivers such as the use of modern agricultural technologies, urbanization, rapid industrialization, overexploitation, and underutilization. The impacts of these changes in land use are contributing to a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services (BES) in social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS). Societal actors operating from multiple scales create and implement place-based solutions in SEPLS in response to landscape-specific challenges and opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. This study aims to identify and demonstrate the abundance of place-based solutions for solving challenges to sustainable use and management of natural resources in SEPLS, and to better inform the existing suite of conservation and restoration solutions. We review a set of 88 case studies from The International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) in the South, East and Southeast Asian regions using a societal-based solution scanning approach to systematically identify these solutions for conservation and restoration at local scales and to categorize them by solution type. Societal actors demonstrate preferences for solution types to reversing the loss 118 of BES in SEPLS while embracing a mix of all solution types across ecosystems. Institutional and governance solutions are the most common type across Asia. Technological solutions are preferred in East Asia, while knowledge and cognitive solutions are preferred in Southeast Asia. Economic and incentive-based solutions are found most often in South Asia as livelihood investments for local residents, and to balance trade-offs among food production and biodiversity conservation. Sharing the knowledge of various place-based solution types in different social-ecological contexts helps improve more purposeful and deliberate design of SEPLS for multiple benefits.

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Section: Place-based Solutions For Sustainable Use and Management Of mentioning

confidence: 83%

Place-Based Solutions for Conservation and Restoration of Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes in Asia

Kozar

Galang

Sedhain

et al. 2020

Science for Sustainable Societies

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“…Fifth, in an ecologically, socially and economically integrated world, spillovers may be very hard to avoid, if at all (Sterner et al 2019). Awareness about their different pathways can help analyze, pre-empt and manage different forms of leakage.…”

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Leakage and boosting effects in environmental governance: a framework for analysis

Lima

Persson

Meyfroidt

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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In an increasingly interconnected world, leakage-broadly understood as unintended displacement of impacts caused by an environmental policy intervention-has become a major governance concern. Yet, leakage remains both loosely conceptualized and poorly understood as a phenomenon in policy making. To fill this gap and broaden the leakage research agenda, we conduct a state-of-theart review of scientific assessments on leakage (particularly on land use) and combine it with conceptual and analytical frameworks from the environmental governance literature. We then propose a rigorous definition of leakage, discuss frequently overlooked political dimensions, and develop a typology of leakage pathways. Our analysis of leakage through a governance lens yields five core insights: (1) Leakage is not simply a mechanistic phenomenon, but a complex governance issue involving questions of institutional fit, interactions, and political agency.(2) Although the land use literature traditionally focuses on leakage through markets or activity displacement, a governance lens shows that it also occurs through information, motivation, or institutional channels. (3) As policymakers may act strategically, the unintentionally of leakage should not be assumed but rather become an object of research. (4) A phenomenon not initially regarded as leakage can come to be framed as such through the action of 'problem brokers' and changes in policy fields. (5) Policy-makers and researchers should broaden their focus from only avoiding leakage to seeking positive spillovers and institutional synergies. These insights are illustrated with examples from two cases relating to land use policy in Brazil and Southeast Asia.

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“…On Saturn Farm, the leasing farmer made the contract with USDA, paid for the cost of practice establishment, and receives the payments. Another potential mechanism for public support of MA would be to offer tax credits that favor agroforestry, especially in situations where agriculture is causing resource concerns [49,50]. For example, these credits could encourage MA on the 8.0 million ha of land with expiring CRP contracts in 2019-2030 [51].…”

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Multi-Party Agroforestry: Emergent Approaches to Trees and Tenure on Farms in the Midwest USA

Keeley

Wolz²,

Adams³

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Agroforestry represents a solution to land degradation by agriculture, but social barriers to wider application of agroforestry persist. More than half of all cropland in the USA is leased rather than owner-operated, and the short terms of most leases preclude agroforestry. Given insufficient research on tenure models appropriate for agroforestry in the USA, the primary objective of this study was to identify examples of farmers practicing agroforestry on land they do not own. We conducted interviews with these farmers, and, in several cases, with landowners, in order to document their tenure arrangements. In some cases, additional parties also played a role, such as farmland investors, a farmer operating an integrated enterprise, and non-profit organizations or public agencies. Our findings include eleven case studies involving diverse entities and forms of cooperation in multi-party agroforestry (MA). MA generally emerged from shared objectives and intensive planning. MA appears to be adaptable to private, investor, institutional, and public landowners, as well as beginning farmers and others seeking land access without ownership. We identify limitations and strategies for further research and development of MA.

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Policy design for the Anthropocene

Cited by 191 publications

References 60 publications

Place-Based Solutions for Conservation and Restoration of Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes in Asia

Place-Based Solutions for Conservation and Restoration of Social-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes in Asia

Leakage and boosting effects in environmental governance: a framework for analysis

Multi-Party Agroforestry: Emergent Approaches to Trees and Tenure on Farms in the Midwest USA

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