Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing
It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the...
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doaj-d542209265f1433bb6398951a45760de2020-11-25T00:56:26ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502017-08-0198148610.3390/su9081486su9081486Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit SharingIlkhom Soliev0Insa Theesfeld1Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 060099 Halle, GermanyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policy, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 060099 Halle, GermanyIt is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the policy agenda on multiple governance levels. This paper aims to explain how the benefit sharing approach can help reframe the debate for sustainability, its advantages and disadvantages for transforming governance challenges and adapting to increasing resource stress. We bring together fragmented discussions of benefit sharing from three resource domains: water, land, and biodiversity. Both theoretical and empirical examples are provided to aid understanding of how benefit sharing can facilitate adaptive governance processes in complex socio-ecological systems. The findings highlight importance of integrating the long-term perspective when societies move from volumes toward values of shared natural resources, as well as setting environmental conservation and equitable allocation as the top priority for benefit sharing to be sustainable.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/8/1486benefit sharingnatural resourcesconflictresource stresstransformationcooperationadaptive governancesustainability |
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Reframing for Sustainability: Exploring Transformative Power of Benefit Sharing |
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It is broadly agreed that development needs and effects from changing environment will increase pressure on the ways natural resources are utilized and shared at present. In most parts of the world, resource stress has already reached unprecedented levels setting resource sustainability high on the policy agenda on multiple governance levels. This paper aims to explain how the benefit sharing approach can help reframe the debate for sustainability, its advantages and disadvantages for transforming governance challenges and adapting to increasing resource stress. We bring together fragmented discussions of benefit sharing from three resource domains: water, land, and biodiversity. Both theoretical and empirical examples are provided to aid understanding of how benefit sharing can facilitate adaptive governance processes in complex socio-ecological systems. The findings highlight importance of integrating the long-term perspective when societies move from volumes toward values of shared natural resources, as well as setting environmental conservation and equitable allocation as the top priority for benefit sharing to be sustainable. |
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benefit sharing natural resources conflict resource stress transformation cooperation adaptive governance sustainability |
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