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National Ecosystem Assessment Follow-on A Tools Framework for Improved Policy and Decision-Making
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
