Outcomes of Session – „Increasing the Policy Impact of ES
assessments and valuations – Insights from Practice
• We bridge knowledge gaps between ecosystem services
assessment and water resources management decision making
by practical case studies from Cambodia, Nepal and India, which
improve the understanding of fresh water contribution.
• We recognize water resources is one of the most important
elements of ecosystems. The value of fresh water should be
mapping and assessed for the better governance.
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B1 Session
Dynamics of Marine ES and their application to marine and coastal
management
It is an important issue how to solve the conflicts aming relevant
governmental organizations. Including local people and promoting
their participation are very crucial fro establishing the marine policies.
Developing a proper model for cause-and-effect relationship which
can show the effects of relevant variables on environment-friendly
activites.
- structure and function of marine ecosystems is to be understand
first for the proper appreciation of marine ecosystem services
- availability, collecting and sharing of nationwide scientific data is
very important in understanding of marine ecosystem services in
korea
- regional network in terms of marine ecosystem services should be
further developed among Asian countries
B2 Coral reef ES in Asia-Pacific
• Coral reef is a unique ecosystem system supplying important ecosystem services
• tourism
• fish nursery
• costal protection
• biodiversity
•coral reef is heavily threatened by
•global warming
•sea level rise
•Sea level acidification
• inappropriate fishing practice
• major part of global coral reef located in Asia-pacific region
• limited amount of abstrats submitted to this session
• Still, importance of coral reef ecosystems in the region confirmed
• exchange of ideas among involved researchers and the willingness to develop this topic
further
B4 Session
Ecosystem Functions of Ansan Reed Wetland and the
Role of local communities
The stakeholders’ cooperation is the first thing we need
to do for spatial management in sustainable ways. Also
we need to develop various programs including
education to meet a wide spectrum of the visitors. As a
result of the session, we suggested the environmental
forum of Shihwa Lake to resolve the problems we’re
facing today and to make this area as a ‘protected area’
in the long term.
B5 Session
ES of Lake Shihwa and its management
The most important issues of Shihwa Lake
has been the water quality. However it
should integrate the functions of ecosystem
services (ES) to meet various needs of
stakeholders in the local community as well
as the visitors. We also need citizen
monitoring continuously and design
protected area around the Shihwa Lake.
B8 Session
Urban forest & cities biodiversity
We together confirmed that ‘Local government’ is the body
that implements the tangible results of ecosystem services
while global and national policies show the directions and
visions of where we should be heading to.
Cooperation should be placed based on the agreement
among the stakeholders. Cases of Ansan, Suncheon, and
Japan touch upon respective key drivers at local and national
level including cooperative governance based on mutual
agreement, political will, public awareness, comprehensive
approaches, capacity building and financial support etc.
Finally, the session emphasized the importance of follow-up
steps’ to produce actual outputs.
O1 Session
National Ecosystem Assessments
All speakers and participants shared the overall states and trends of national
ecosystem services and the current processes of ecosystem assessments in the
Asian-Pacific region including South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, and Bhutan.
We also had good opportunities to understand how the outcomes of ecosystem
service assessments into policies and local residents’ livelihood through various case
studies. There were some very insightful questions from the audience. For example,
How ESP can interact and collaborate with the intergovernmental organizations such
as IPBES. Since S. Korea especially National Institute of Ecology just started to
conduct an ecosystem assessment project at national levels from 2016, We asked
the speakers of the specific questions about any challenges to overcome and new
methodologies developed while going through national ecosystem assessment. We
also discussed about the possibilities to develop any possible joint research projects
or plans through this network in near future, so that we can contribute to regional
(Asia-Pacific) assessments and even global assessment at international
organizations like IPBES and CBD
.
SESSION 03
Nature for Peace
Hosted by Gyeonggi provincial government, BfN
• Key points
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Financial solutions : regional fund, regional bank
Need for political will (local, provincial, national & international level)
Engaging local community
Engaging business community : Certification, ESP label
Public awareness : networking, best practices, training
Long-term engagement – ESP Regional Office Asia
• Way forward
• Joint publication of exemplary cases
(BfN and Gyeonggi Provincial gov.)
• Targeted training/workshop :
realistic and concrete proposal & planning
• Platform (Gyeonggi DMZ Forum)
supported by international advisory group
SESSION 05
Vulnerability Assessment for Co-investment of ES
• Key points
– The design of payments or co-investment of ES is better informed
by assessing household and landscape vulnerability, in the face of
climate change, and other types of shocks such as markets.
– The Capacity Strengthening for Vulnerability Assessment (CaSAVA)
is a useful framework for assessing vulnerability, and generating
insights for improving resilience while maintaining/improving ES.
• Next steps
Actively link with ESP network for:
– Knowledge, data and experience sharing
– Training on co-investment of ES and vulnerability assessment
S2 Session
Business and Ecosystem Services : a multi-stakeholder
shared experience in ecosystem
service co-investment
Various kinds of communities, experts, and stakeholders are
need to be included in PES system. When we use
communication strategies, we have to reflect the specific
characteristics of regional stakeholders. We need to promote
a participation of a business sector into PES. It is also
important to provide a kind of way or mechanism for a
business sector to use in their business. Making network
including a business sector is essential for PES. ESP
network, brand power and professionalism will work in
Korean business situation, however, those will be more
effective to small and medium-sized businesses.
S3 Session
National park management based on ES
▪ Human is an only part of Nature, so it's impossible to think human
without nature. The concept of ES is helpful to identify and better
understand the relationship between nature and human.
▪ In order to share the knowledge and to raise the reliability, to build
and continuous update the database regarding ES should be very
useful.
▪ ES concept could help to solve some conflicts between
conservation and development issues.
▪ Integrated conservation and community development approaches
are working to find alternative livelihoods to compensate for lost
traditional livelihoods and/or destructive practices
▪ Through using ES concepts, we could improve the management of
protected areas and will proceed better communication with broader
audiences.
Date 3 rd June, 9.00-12.30 a.m.
Emerald Hall (11th Floor)
Key Messages
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Protecting Natural Heritage Sites is urgent and critical
priority as they are more vulnerable to Disasters and
Climate Change.
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Need to include the idea of Disaster Risk Reduction,
resilience building, mitigation and prevention of hazards in
natural heritage sites and integrate it in development
planning, international trade and in decision making within
a country and beyond.
Key Messages contd..
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Eco-DRR approach to be recognized, quantified and
monitored under (Regulating and Supporting)
ecosystem services.
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Need to implement NBSAP at national level and
integrate climate change policy and action into
existing Management plans.
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Privilege traditional ecological knowledge
appropriately in all processes of developmental
planning and Biodiversity.
T1: Future Scenarios and Modelling of Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services in Asia
Date: 1 June 2016 (Wednesday)
Time: 13:30-17:30
Host: Osamu Saito (United Nations University)
Shizuka Hashimoto (The University of Tokyo)
 This session offered an opportunity to present and share the
updated science-policy issues on ecosystem scenarios and
modelling, the case studies at local to regional scales in Asia.
 Four case studies from Japan, two case studies from Myanmer
and one global scale study were presented in this session.
 The session mobilized Asian researchers and practitioners to
strengthen network and partnership of ecosystem scenarios and
models beyond local and national scale.
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T2 Integrated assessment of ES in water resources management decision
making
• We bridge knowledge gaps between ecosystem services assessment and
water resources management decision making by practical case studies
from Cambodia, Nepal and India, which improve the understanding of
fresh water contribution.
• We recognize water resources is one of the most important elements of
ecosystems. The value of fresh water should be mapping and assessed
for the better governance.
T5 Session
Citizen monitoring & PES
Policy makers need to remember
that the values of ecosystems such
as bird habitats decide a value of the
city. Continuous monitoring activities
are needed to gather systematic
data and to promote the public
awareness.
T6 Session
ES Policy and Nongovernmental Voluntary Payment for
Ecosystem Services
This workshop has integrated the concept of government
conservation planning and the application of ES research in
policy processes.
National conservation planning still needs to reflect
ecosystem services and the private sector, in particular the
NNT has tried to apply the conceptual framework as
voluntary PES in some designated area including Jeju and
Shihwa by working together with local communities.
We also re-affirmed that non-monetary value including
spiritual and cultural functions of ES should be more
considered in society wide. We also share some values that
has not counted in government PES system like Watershed
Fund.
T7 Session
REDD+ as PES
The challenges of REDD+ include defining the concepts of PES
while still managing to capture the various aspects that it
encompasses, the need for adequate capacities to facilitate the
implementation of these initiatives, and finally, determining the kind
of governance required to oversee the enforcement of these
initiatives. Good and appropriate governance is essential for the
successful implementation of REDD+ as a form of PES.
We have also identified the importance of science in forest
management aimed at achieving climate targets and other cobenefits as well. As such, we are proposing collaborations in the
form of knowledge partnerships to facilitate capacity-building in this
sector and to continue further discussions on this topic regularly as
we can learn from the sharing of experiences and best practices.
T8: Assessment of provision and consumption of ecosystem services
Hosts: Lin Zhen, Gaodi Xie
Number of presentations: 11
• Outcomes:
1.
In China, ecosystem’s provision of goods and services have changed significantly over the past
30 years due to the governmental ecosystem conservation policies, which changed human’s
consumption towards more diversified patterns, promoted ES flow from one region to
another, and reduced the people’s reliance on local goods and services, and thus
environmental impact on production regions.
2.
Payment for ecosystem service has been adopted as an effective tool for protection China’s ES
and mitigating human’s impact on ES, and the ES improvement has been observed since its
implementation. There is a high need to involve the market and private sector in the PES
implementation for long term benefits, especially in the ecological fragile regions.
3.
Rapid urbanization and economic development in China has intensified land use patterns for
ensuring urban development and provisioning of ES, at the same time, environmental
problems as represented by PM2.5 concentration is becoming a challenge especially for the
mega cities. Lots of research efforts have been done for the improvement at multi-scales, eg,
using ground-based monitoring and remote sensing estimation, as well as information
acquisition system based on TM data and smart phone.
4.
In Japan, wetland management system is developed through generating effective social
network using block modeling and reduced graphs to reveal general patterns. Management
behaviours of the resource users could be well monitored and compared and thus the most
effective management practices can be identified through the stakeholders’ participation and
networking process. This approach can be used in other regions so as to achieve resource
management targets and ensure ES health.