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Governance arrangements and processes influence access to and benefits from ecosystem services, and therefore the potential for ecosystem services to alleviate poverty. Governance also then influences the health of ecosystems. This chapter learns from decades of governance-related research to identify how to make ecosystem governance more effectively 'pro-poor'. It is informed by a systematic mapping of literature related to governance of ecosystem services and renewable natural resources for improved wellbeing and poverty alleviation, expert interviews and a workshop with government and non-government actors across a range of sectors from both North and South. The chapter is organised around the concept of trade-offs, considering first ecosystem-focused approaches, then rights-based approaches and lastly, participatory approaches to governance. The chapter further addresses the relevance of scale and multiple administrative levels (multi-level governance) and the importance of informal, or socially embedded, institutions. The chapter concludes that there is no single governance approach that can definitively deliver on improved ecosystem health and human wellbeing, that trade-offs are inevitable and governance is therefore an inherently political process.

También disponible en español con el título: Madera legal: verificación y gobernanza en el sector forestal. Publicado por CATIE ; This book investigates a topical issue in international forest policy development: how to verify the legality of timber sold on regional and international markets in ways that will satisfy both the interests of producer states and the demands of consumers. This seemingly straightforward and technical matter is in fact complex and political. It addresses a critical interface in inter-governmental relations, where producer states' rights of ownership are defended with considerable tenacity. While at one level the subject matter of this book is forest sector-specific, it touches on much broader issues about the balance between sovereign state control and the international stewardship of global public goods, illegality as a dimension of poor governance, and mechanisms of national and international public accountability. ed in this book, is a response to an important level of doubt over the functioning of the normal system of forest control, and involves two key aspects of 'additionality' to address this doubt: first, developing and implementing a set of additional measures to test and validate claims about legal compliance in the forest sector, and second, bringing in an additional set of actors from outside the forest sector, to help strengthen the credibility of these new measures and the accountability of those charged with implementing them. The overall conclusion that gradually emerges is that, to be effective in the situations that are typical of tropical producer states, the control of illegal logging cannot be addressed solely as a problem of criminality nor engineered entirely by external parties. It has, rather, to be positioned within a wider and well-embedded process of governance reform.

También disponible en español con el título: Madera legal: verificación y gobernanza en el sector forestal. Publicado por CATIE ; This book investigates a topical issue in international forest policy development: how to verify the legality of timber sold on regional and international markets in ways that will satisfy both the interests of producer states and the demands of consumers. This seemingly straightforward and technical matter is in fact complex and political. It addresses a critical interface in inter-governmental relations, where producer states' rights of ownership are defended with considerable tenacity. While at one level the subject matter of this book is forest sector-specific, it touches on much broader issues about the balance between sovereign state control and the international stewardship of global public goods, illegality as a dimension of poor governance, and mechanisms of national and international public accountability. ed in this book, is a response to an important level of doubt over the functioning of the normal system of forest control, and involves two key aspects of 'additionality' to address this doubt: first, developing and implementing a set of additional measures to test and validate claims about legal compliance in the forest sector, and second, bringing in an additional set of actors from outside the forest sector, to help strengthen the credibility of these new measures and the accountability of those charged with implementing them. The overall conclusion that gradually emerges is that, to be effective in the situations that are typical of tropical producer states, the control of illegal logging cannot be addressed solely as a problem of criminality nor engineered entirely by external parties. It has, rather, to be positioned within a wider and well-embedded process of governance reform.