TSUNAGARI: a new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study toward conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Nakaoka, Masahiro, Sudo, Kenji, Namba, Mizuho, Shibata, Hideaki, Nakamura, Futoshi, Ishikawa, Satoshi, Makino, Mitsutaku, Yamano, Hiroya, Matsuzaki, Shin-ichiro S., Yamakita, Takehisa, Yu, Xiubo, Hou, Xiyong, Li, Xiaowei, Brodie, Jon, Kanemoto, Keiichiro, Moran, Dan, and Verones, Francesca (2018) TSUNAGARI: a new interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study toward conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecological Research, 33 (1). pp. 35-49.

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Abstract

The expanding economical activities have accelerated losses of biodiversity and ecosystem services, which are especially pronounced in Asia. To find solutions to stop these losses, a group of scientists studying both ecological and social sciences has launched an interdisciplinary research network, entitled TSUNAGARI (Trans-System, UNified Approach for Global and Regional Integration of social-ecological study toward sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services). The project is based on two main perspectives: (1) integrating different disciplines of environmental research across multiple spatial scales, and (2) evaluating the importance of ecosystem connectivity between land and ocean for biodiversity and ecosystem services. The integrative studies have been started as follows: (1) integrating global-scale analyses of biodiversity and economy by developing GIS-based footprint analysis, (2) establishing the link between the studies of local good practices of ecosystem management and life cycle assessment on ecosystem good and services, (3) linking local-scale ecosystem studies to decision making processes for sustainable society by multiple stakeholders, and (4) upscaling local analyses of ecosystem processes to broad-scale analyses of ecosystem patterns. The proposed approaches are considered effective to solve problems that impede conservation of biodiversity and sustainable use of multiple ecosystem services in various situations although we also find some gaps such as regional biases in biodiversity data and involvement of different types of stakeholders. By overcoming the major bottlenecks, we believe the new integrated approaches will promote conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystem services research, and contribute to advance decision-making processes from local communities to international levels.

Item ID: 52391
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1440-1703
Keywords: Coastal ecosystem, Cross-scale integration, Eastern and southeastern Asia, Ecosystem connectivity, Social-ecological system
Copyright Information: © 2018 The Ecological Society of Japan
Funders: Belmont Forum Collaborative Research, Environment Research and Technology Development, Ministry of the Environment, Japan, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Projects and Grants: NSFC‐BF/IGFA, No. 31461143032
Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2018 07:30
FoR Codes: 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410401 Conservation and biodiversity @ 100%
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