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FrontMatter -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 REFRAMING THE PROBLEM -- 3 KNOWLEDGE GAPS, NEW MARKETS, AND POLITICAL WILL -- 4 INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY -- 5 INSTITUTIONALIZING SUSTAINABILITY -- 6 PATHWAYS FORWARD -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A: WORKSHOP AGENDA -- Appendix B: REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS LIST -- Appendix C: ROUNDTABLE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I Introduction -- II Partners Coming Together--Summary, Panel Discussion -- III Partnership Organization and Governance--Summary, Panel Discussion -- IV Partners and Co-production--Summary, Panel Discussion -- V Evaluating Outcomes and Enhancing Effectiveness--Summary, Panel Discussion -- VI Partnerships for Sustainability: Examining the Evidence--Background paper prepared for the symposium--Derek Vollmer -- CASE STUDIES ABSTRACTS -- VII Networks, Club Goods, and Partnerships for Sustainability: The Green Power Market Development Group--Liliana B. Andonova -- VIII Assessing the Role and Relevance of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) in Global Sustainability Governance--Philipp Pattberg, Kacper Szulecki, Sander Chan, and Aysem Mert -- IX Clean Water and Sanitation for All: Global Water Challenge--Derek Vollmer, Kathleen McAllister, and Jacqueline Coté -- X Agua para Todos: Water for All--Cortnie Shupe and Julia Steets -- XI The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance--William Sugrue -- XII The Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C)--Petra Kuenkel, Vera Fricke, and Stanislava Cholakova -- XIII Sustainable Silicon Valley: A Model Regional Partnership--Blas Pérez Henríquez -- XIV The ACS Green Chemistry Institute®: A Case Study of Partnerships to Promote Sustainability in the Chemical Enterprise--Kira JM Matus -- XV The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria: An Alliance to Enhance African Malaria Research--Barbara Sina -- XVI Public-Private Partnerships and Pro-Poor Livestock Research: The Search for an East Coast Fever Vaccine--David J. Spielman -- XVII The Farm to Fork Initiative: A Shareholder and Management Partnership--LeRoy C. Paddock.

AbstractEcosystems provide a range of services, including water purification, erosion prevention, and flood risk mitigation, that are important to water resource managers. But as a sector, water resources management has been slow to incorporate ecosystem protection and restoration, for a variety of reasons, although related concepts such as nature-based solutions and green infrastructure are gaining traction. We explain some of the existing challenges to wider uptake of the ecosystem services concept in water resources management and introduce some promising avenues for research and practice, elaborated in more detail through 12 papers, spanning five continents and a variety of contexts, which make up a Special Issue on "Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Water Resources Management". Cross-cutting themes include (A) ecosystem services as a flexible concept to communicate with stakeholders; (B) participatory processes to involve stakeholders in research; (C) multiple values, and valuation methods, of water-related services; and (D) applications of decision-support tools. We conclude with a summary of research gaps and emphasize the importance of co-producing knowledge with decision makers and other stakeholders, in order to improve water resources management through the integration of ecosystem services.

AbstractNatural ecosystems are fundamental to local water cycles and the water ecosystem services that humans enjoy, such as water provision, outdoor recreation, and flood protection. However, integrating ecosystem services into water resources management requires that they be acknowledged, quantified, and communicated to decision-makers. We present an indicator framework that incorporates the supply of, and demand for, water ecosystem services. This provides an initial diagnostic for water resource managers and a mechanism for evaluating tradeoffs through future scenarios. Building on a risk assessment framework, we present a three-tiered indicator for measuring where demand exceeds the supply of services, addressing the scope (spatial extent), frequency, and amplitude for which objectives (service delivery) are not met. The Ecosystem Service Indicator is measured on a 0–100 scale, which encompasses none to total service delivery. We demonstrate the framework and its applicability to a variety of services and data sources (e.g., monitoring stations, statistical yearbooks, modeled datasets) from case studies in China and Southeast Asia. We evaluate the sensitivity of the indicator scores to varying levels data and three methods of calculation using a simulated test dataset. Our indicator framework is conceptually simple, robust, and flexible enough to offer a starting point for decision-makers and to accommodate the evolution and expansion of tools, models and data sources used to measure and evaluate the value of water ecosystem services.

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is increasingly recognizing that adequate valuation of ecosystem services is a key input to improved decision-making on protected areas, forest and natural resources more generally; but the lack of data, accepted methodologies and technical capacity have prevented it from using ecosystem valuation for decision making on meaningful scale. This analytical work is being undertaken as part of a broader effort of the World Bank to provide guidance to the RGC on managing its natural capital through landscape approaches. By focusing on the Pursat River Basin in the Cardamom Mountains, the case study presented in this report is intended to provide a practical illustration of how the ecosystem services that are provided by a forest can be valued and then compared to the benefits that would otherwise be obtained if the forest was converted to other uses. The study provides evidence of the importance of forests in providing ecosystem services that are important for Cambodia's economy as well as for the country's climate and disaster resilience. The results therefore intend to help the RGC quantify and communicate the value of its natural capital to Cambodia's economy.

FrontMatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Developing Livable Urban Areas -- 3 Resilience and Adaptation -- 4 Models, Metrics, and Future Scenarios -- 5 Moving R&D into Practice -- 6 R&D Gaps and Opportunities -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Workshop Agenda -- Appendix B: Registered Participants -- Appendix C: Roundtable Roster -- Appendix D: Notable Examples of Urban Sustainability R&D Programs.

AbstractWater crises in Latin America are more a consequence of poor management than resource scarcity. Addressing water management issues through better coordination, identification of problems and solutions, and agreement on common objectives to operationalize integrated water resources management (IWRM) could greatly improve water governance in the region. Composite indices have great potential to help overcome capacity and information challenges while supporting better IWRM. We applied one such index, the Freshwater Health Index (FHI) in three river basins in Latin America (Alto Mayo, Perú; Bogotá, Colombia; and Guandu, Brazil) to assess freshwater ecosystem vitality, ecosystem services, and the water governance system in place. The approach included convening management agencies, water utilities, planning authorities, local NGOs and industries, community groups and researchers to co-implement the FHI. The results provide detailed information on the ecological integrity of each basin and the sustainability of the ecosystem services being provided. All three basins show very low scores for governance and stakeholder engagement, thus improving both in the region should be a priority. The results also shed light on how the FHI framework can help inform decision-making to improve IWRM implementation by facilitating stakeholder engagement while contributing to coordination, identification of problems and solutions as well as agreement on common objectives. Because implementation of IWRM is part of the solution for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.5 ("By 2030, implement IWRM at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate"), our case studies can serve as examples to other Latin American countries to achieve SDG 6.5.