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9781498718004 English 1498718000 Sustaining our agricultural landscapes is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem, but it has evolved into a socially complex, so-called wicked problem of conflicting social governance and economics. This creates an extreme economic obstacle where the value of ecosystem services remains low and diffuses and the transactions costs remain high and multiple.Using Uber-like business platform technology and a shared governance model, a symbiotic demand for environmental benefits is created. Enabling multi-sector transactions for environmental benefits, this platform innovation would remedy the "tragedy of the commons"; the economic nemesis to achieving landscape sustainability. In a nutshell, to sustain our agricultural landscapes a transdisciplinary approach supported by a shared governance model housed within a multi-sided platform in needed. This book introduces an assessment framework identifying governance actors, styles and ratios for socio-ecological systems. The assessment uses a new governance compass to identify the types of actors completing which tasks and identifies the styles of governance used to complete the tasks. It is aimed to anyone involved in sustainability science, agricultural policy planning, or integrated landscape design., Working landscapes are a complex mix of economics, policy, ecology and social norms. Within these interactions and relationships, governance evolves. Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power or verify performance. Governance is naturally a role of government agencies, but private and NGO sectors also play significant roles. This book describes how shared governance, landscape intelligence, environmental portfolios and symbiotic demand are integrated to allow multiple stakeholders to share in the costs and values of environmental benefits.
9781498718004 English 1498718000 Sustaining our agricultural landscapes is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem, but it has evolved into a socially complex, so-called wicked problem of conflicting social governance and economics. This creates an extreme economic obstacle where the value of ecosystem services remains low and diffuses and the transactions costs remain high and multiple.Using Uber-like business platform technology and a shared governance model, a symbiotic demand for environmental benefits is created. Enabling multi-sector transactions for environmental benefits, this platform innovation would remedy the "tragedy of the commons"; the economic nemesis to achieving landscape sustainability. In a nutshell, to sustain our agricultural landscapes a transdisciplinary approach supported by a shared governance model housed within a multi-sided platform in needed. This book introduces an assessment framework identifying governance actors, styles and ratios for socio-ecological systems. The assessment uses a new governance compass to identify the types of actors completing which tasks and identifies the styles of governance used to complete the tasks. It is aimed to anyone involved in sustainability science, agricultural policy planning, or integrated landscape design., Working landscapes are a complex mix of economics, policy, ecology and social norms. Within these interactions and relationships, governance evolves. Governance relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power or verify performance. Governance is naturally a role of government agencies, but private and NGO sectors also play significant roles. This book describes how shared governance, landscape intelligence, environmental portfolios and symbiotic demand are integrated to allow multiple stakeholders to share in the costs and values of environmental benefits.