Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A review of the constraints
Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: essors; information that is rarely available in developing countries. There are also other limits that relate to governance and institutions, social and cultural factors, biophysical limits, financial and economic, that all impact the extent that ecosystem-based approaches can be implemented as part of a more nature-friendly planning and policy regimes. This poster presents research that synthesizes the main constraints and limits identified in the emerging body of EbA specific literature. We analysed in detail the following constraints: economic and financial, governance and institutional, social and cultural, knowledge constraints and gaps, and physical and biological constraints and limits. The identified constraints demonstrate the variety of limitations that ecosystem-based adaptation approaches can face, but also provide further grounds for research how such challenges can be overcome. The realization that human well-being is intrinsically connected to ecosystems and biodiversity can help approaches, such as EbA, to gain more hold and provide more positive development pathways that together can result in broader planetary well-being.
Authors: Johanna Nalau, Susanne Becken, Brendan Mackey
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2804901275