LWEC presentation on the Ecosystem Approach and the National Ecosystem Assessment Follow on project...

National Ecosystem Assessment Follow-on

A Tools Framework for Improved Policy and Decision-Making

National Ecosystem Assessment Follow-on

“..develop and communicate the evidence base of the UK NEA and make it relevant to decision and policy making ”

WP 9 – Mission

To embed value of nature into decision-making

To develop and test a framework for tools development

To improve policy and decision making.

Policy-Making under Uncertainty

Theory-Practice gap for policy-making models

Hide failure Spin success Process matters

Tools and Uncertainty 1

• Too many tools confuse • Need to understand – POWERS and

LIMITATIONS– WHAT tool to use – HOW it should be used – WHEN it should be used – IN COMBINATION with

what other tools

Tools and Uncertainty 2

• Bound by sectoral/professional silos

• Bound by institutional inertia

• Bound by primacy of economic growth

Tools and Uncertainty 3

• Tools perceived as– burdens– overly complex – overly simplistic

• Tools used post hoc for policy-based evidence

Conceptual Framework

Tools and Uncertainty 4

• Governance challenge: putting the pieces together by working together

Conceptual Framework

12 Involve all relevant sectors of

society

11 Consider all forms of evidence

10 Balance between conservation and

use of biodiversity

9 Change is inevitable

7 Appropriate spatial and temporal scales

6 Identify limits and thresholds

3 Adjacent effects

4 Manage in an economic context

5 Ecosystem Services 1 Societal choice

2 Subsidiarity

Ecosystem Approach: 12 Principles for Tool Use

CA S E

STUDIES

8 Long-termism

Conceptual Framework

• Tree as interdependent policy cycle

• Guidance supports each stage

• Birds provide case studies

• Signpost tools to use • Toolkit within typology

roots

Conceptual Framework

Ecosystem Serviced tools

Ecosystem Services Tools

Incentive Tools Futures Tools Regulatory Tools Valuation Tools

1. Ecosystem Assessment

2. Ecosystem Mapping

3. Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)

4. Futures Tools (Backcasting

ForesightVisioning)

5.Environment Impact Analysis (EIA)

6. Strategic Environment Assessment (SEA)

7 Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV)

8 Cost Benefit Analysis

9 Natural Capital Asset Check

Case study research teams

Bespoke process given state of present guidance

EATME: http://www.eatme-tree.org.uk “putting the pieces together”

PES

Learning by doing

Monitoring & indicators Valuation

Ecosystem Approach

Evidence

Tools to enable

local delivery

Guidance Participation

Maps