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Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation

Informations

Total budget
116,025,292 EUR
Start date
1/1/2009
URL
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/espa/
Fundings
-
End date
12/29/2017

Description

Three organisations - NERC, the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DfID) - have joined forces for a multi-disciplinary £40·5m research programme on Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA). ESPA aims to deliver high quality and cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. ESPA research will provide the evidence and tools to enable decision makers and end users to manage ecosystems sustainably and in a way that contributes to poverty reduction. ESPA aims to deliver high quality and cutting-edge research that will deliver improved understanding of how ecosystems function, the services they provide, the full value of these services, and their potential role in achieving sustainable poverty reduction. ESPA research will provide the evidence and tools to enable decision makers and end users to manage ecosystems sustainably and in a way that contributes to poverty reduction.

Projects

NameRoleStartEndAmount
Towards a virtual observatory for ecosystem services and poverty alleviationGrant---
Ecosystem Services as a Missing Dimension of PovertyGrant---
Human Adaptation to Biodiversity Change: Building and Testing Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Understanding and Supporting Autonomous AdaptationGrant---
Safeguarding local equity as global values of ecosystem services riseGrant---
Sharing the benefits of sustainable fisheries: from global to local legal approaches to marine ecosystem services for poverty alleviationGrant---
Managing land for carbon in southern Africa: relationships between carbon, livelihoods and ecosystem servicesGrant---
Landscape Diversity and Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Ecosystems: Implications for Sustainable Growth and Rural Poverty in ChinaGrant---
Swahili SeasGrant---
Valuing rainforests as Global Eco-Utilities: a novel mechanism to pay communities for ecosystem services provided by the AmazonGrant---
Agglomeration payments for catchment conservation and improved livelihoods in MalawiGrant---
Ecosystem service sustainability and poverty reduction under land use change: A case study in Yunnan Province, ChinaGrant---
CESEA - Coastal Ecosystem Services in East AfricaGrant---
Risks and Responses to Urban Futures: Building synergies between urban development processes and peri-urban communities for enhanced ecosystem serviceGrant---
Poverty and ecology: developing a new evolutionary approachGrant---
Biodiversity, agriculture, and livelihoods: Co-evolution and competition in an Andean-Amazonian watershedGrant---
Enhancing Water for Food: poverty reduction through improved management of ecosystem services for sustainable food production in sub-Saharan AfricaGrant---
Why should ecosystem services be used for poverty alleviation? Establishing the ethical foundations of ESPA. (Short title: WhyESPA)Grant---
Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Social sustainability and Tipping points in African drylandsGrant---
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation under Multiple Stresses in Mountainous Western ChinaGrant---
Integrating Forest Ecosystem Service Assessment with Pro-Poor Governance in IndiaGrant---
Amazonia-Yungas Observatory on Biodiversity and Indigenous Health and Well-being: Development of a South-South-North Research and Partner ConsortiumGrant---
The ESPA Framework: A socio-ecological systems analysis of the political economy of Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation.Grant---
Managing ecosystem services and food security and the nutritional health of the rural poor at the forest-agricultural interfaceGrant---
Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous DeltasGrant---
WISER: Which Ecosystem Service Models Best Capture the Needs of the Rural Poor?Grant---
Transformation and shifts in production landscapes for livelihood improvements in the Sahel: building a partnership in researchGrant---
Adaptive governance of mountain ecosystem services for poverty alleviation enabled by environmental virtual observatories (MOUNTAIN-EVO)Grant---
Biomass energy - optimising its contribution to poverty reduction and ecosystem servicesGrant---
Negotiating Tradeoffs: Making Informed Choices about Ecosystem Services for Poverty AlleviationGrant---
Managing ecosystem services for food security and the nutritional health of the rural poor at the forest-agricultural interfaceGrant---
Valuing, Implementing and Evaluating Payments for Ecosystems Services in rural West AfricaGrant---
Strengthening Capacity to Alleviate Poverty through Ecosystem Services (SCAPES): Putting methodological developments into practiceGrant---
Mapping Ecosystem Services for Agricultural Improvement and Human Health in Sub-Saharan AfricaGrant---
ACES: Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican WoodlandsGrant---
Using climate change information in ecosystems services for poverty alleviation research in ChinaGrant---
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Interactions of livestock/wildlife, poverty and environmental changeGrant---
Can capturing global ecosystem service values reduce poverty?Grant---
Sustainable poverty alleviation from coastal ecosystem services (SPACES): Investigating elasticities, feedbacks and tradeoffsGrant---
Can paying 4 global ecosystems services reduce poverty?Grant---
Whole decision network analysis for coastal ecosystems (WD-NACE)Grant---
Managing ecosystem services to reduce poverty and vulnerability in East African coffee landscapesGrant---
Food and Ecosystem Services in Eastern AfricaGrant---
Livelihoods from ecosystems - reviewing dryland African experiences and opportunities, and developing novel research strategies and partnershipsGrant---
The REDD Game: A didactic tool for designing effective, efficient and equitable policies to deliver REDD in BoliviaGrant---
Streamlining Monitoring for Smallholder and Community PES (SMS-PES)Grant---
Strengthening research capacity of China and South Africa (SA) in sustainable water resources management with UK and Australian experiencesGrant---
Capacity building for carbon- and biodiversity-based payments for ecosystem services in the Peruvian AmazonGrant---
Mechanisms for human-induced changes in marine life: impacts on ecosystem services and poverty alleviationGrant---
Capturing the value of coastal ecosystem services for poverty alleviation in East and Southern AfricaGrant---
Exploring the ecosystem limits to poverty alleviation in African forest-agriculture landscapesGrant---
Coastal ecosystems, governance and poverty: A case study of managing the Brahmaputra-Ganges mega-delta in a changing worldGrant---
Poverty and ecosystem Impacts of payment for wildlife conservation initiatives in Africa: Tanzania's wildlife Management Areas (PIMA)Grant---
Assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltasGrant---
Alternative Carbon Investments in Ecosystems for Poverty AlleviationGrant---
Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa: Ecosystems, livestock/wildlife, health and wellbeingGrant---
Just ecosystem management: Linking ecosystem services with poverty alleviationGrant---
Ecosystem Services, Wellbeing and Justice: Developing Tools for Research and Development PracticeGrant---
Unraveling biofuel impacts on ecosystem services, human wellbeing and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan AfricaGrant---
Indian Ecosystem Service Initiative to promote sustainable livelihoods (IndES Initiative)Grant---
Water governance, livelihoods and wellbeing: adapting to change in African river basinsGrant---
Understanding and Managing Watershed Services in Andean and Amazonian CatchmentsGrant---
Ecosystem management to alleviate poverty on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateauGrant---
The impacts of ecosystem services and environmental governance on human well-being in the Pongola region, South AfricaGrant---
Greenhouse gas mitigation from Chinese agriculture (technical potential, economic efficiency and equity impacts)Grant---
Modeling Climate, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods to Identify Resilient Governance SystemsGrant---
The Political Economy of Water Security, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods in the Western HimalayasGrant---
Participatory Modelling Frameworks to Understand Wellbeing Trade-offs in Coastal Ecosystem Services.Grant---
Food security at the forest-agriculture Interface: A complex systems analysis of ecosystem services trade-offs and tipping pointsGrant---
Sustainable delivery of pollination services to strengthen rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan AfricaGrant---
Risks and Responses to Urban Futures: integrating peri-urban/urban synergies into urban development planning for enhanced ecosystem service benefits.Grant---

Funding agencies

NameRoleStartEndAmount
Natural Environment Research CouncilLead Funder---

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