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Existing institutions are often designed to address issues related to specific ecosystem services, not taking into account interactions and trade-offs among different ecosystem services. This chapter illustrates the effectiveness of a nested institutional approach for managing a bundle of ecosystem services, taking into account complex interactions among multiple uses, user groups and values of services, as well as the existence of multiple property regimes. It starts by providing an overview of the concept and features of common goods and services, followed by the discussions on a concept of the new “commons” introduced by the Japan Satoyama-Satoumi Assessment in 2010, a system of co-management of ecosystem services and biodiversity within private and public land.
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Yashiro, M., Duraiappah, A., Kosoy, N. (2013). A Nested Institutional Approach for Managing Bundle Ecosystem Services: Experience from Managing Satoyama Landscapes in Japan. In: Muradian, R., Rival, L. (eds) Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services. Studies in Ecological Economics, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5176-7_10
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