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Ecosystem Restoration through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

  • Offers primary concepts, methodologies, approaches, and strategies for pursuing ecosystem restoration

  • Highlights the roles, attitudes, and actions of those responsible for SEPLS management in conserving biodiversity

  • Presents how the efforts in managing SEPLS can contribute to ecosystem restoration and sustainable development

Part of the book series: Satoyama Initiative Thematic Review (SITR)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction

    • Maiko Nishi, Suneetha M. Subramanian
    Pages 1-12Open Access
  3. Community-Based Rangeland Restoration for Climate Resilience and Pastoral Livelihoods in Chyulu, Kenya

    • Josephat Mukele Nyongesa, Camila I. Donatti, Tom Kemboi Kiptenai
    Pages 35-59Open Access
  4. Initiation of SEPLS Approach from World Peace Biodiversity Park (WPBP), Pokhara in Panchase Region of Nepal

    • Dambar Pun, Aashish Tiwari, Pabin Shrestha, Kapil Dhungana, Gunjan Gahatraj, Dem Bahadur Purja Pun
    Pages 61-75Open Access
  5. Farmland Management Strategies by Smallholder Farmers in the Mount Bamboutos Landscape in Cameroon

    • Louis Nkembi, Tankou Christopher Mubeteneh, Asabaimbi Deh Nji, Ngulefack Ernest Forghab, Njukeng Jetro Nkengafac
    Pages 97-116Open Access
  6. Traditional Regenerative Agriculture as a Sustainable Landscape Approach: Lessons from India and Thailand

    • Yoji Natori, Pia Sethi, Prasert Trakansuphakon, Siddharth Edake
    Pages 117-135Open Access
  7. Restoring Rice Paddies and Rice Agro-Ecosystem Services Through a Participatory Seed Conservation and Exchange Programme

    • Archana Bhatt, N. Anil Kumar, C. S. Dhanya, P. Vipindas
    Pages 137-155Open Access
  8. Community-Based Approach to Wetland Restoration: Case Study of the Songor Wetland, Ghana

    • Raymond Owusu-Achiaw, Yaw Osei-Owusu
    Pages 157-177Open Access
  9. An Integrated Seascape Approach to Revitalise Ecosystems and Livelihoods in Shimoni-Vanga, Kenya

    • Tamara Tschentscher, Nancy Chege, Hugo Remaury
    Pages 179-202Open Access
  10. Capacitating Philippine Indigenous and Local Institutions and Actualising Local Synergies on Restorative Ridge-to-Reef Biodiversity Conservation for Food Security and Livelihoods

    • Mark Edison R. Raquino, Marivic Pajaro, Jagger E. Enaje, Reymar B. Tercero, Teodoro G. Torio, Paul Watts
    Pages 247-265Open Access
  11. Synthesis: Ecosystem Restoration in the Context of Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)

    • Maiko Nishi, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Alebel Melaku
    Pages 267-288Open Access

About this book

This open access book is a compilation of case studies that provide useful knowledge and lessons that derive from on-the-ground activities and contribute to policy recommendations, focusing on the relevance of social-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) to ecosystem restoration. Building on the concept of SEPLS, the Satoyama Initiative promotes landscape approaches as integrative area-based strategies to bring together diverse stakeholders aiming to balance multiple objectives, including conservation and development, for the benefit of biodiversity and human well-being. Many of the SEPLS case studies from the International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative (IPSI) offer rich evidence to help guide restoration efforts while advancing relevant knowledge and practices. The book highlights how the efforts in managing SEPLS can contribute to ecosystem restoration and sustainable development, looking at the strategies and approaches by which multiple stakeholders express, negotiate, and embrace their plural value perspectives of nature to restore ecosystems within a landscape or seascape. It begins with an introductory chapter followed by twelve case studies and a synthesis clarifying the relevance of the case study findings to policy and academic discussions. This book will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and professionals in the field related to sustainable development, especially on SDGs 15 and 17.

Keywords

  • Open Access
  • Landscape approaches
  • Biodiversity
  • Well-being
  • Sustainable development
  • Science-policy-practice interface
  • SDG 15
  • SDG 17
  • International Partnership for the Satoyama Initiative
  • IPSI

Editors and Affiliations

  • Biodiversity & Society, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan

    Maiko Nishi, Suneetha M. Subramanian

About the editors

Dr. Maiko Nishi

Research Fellow

United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

 

Dr. Suneetha M Subramanian

Research Fellow

United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS)

Bibliographic Information

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Softcover Book USD 49.99
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