Journal article
A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon
Global Environmental Change, Vol.61, 102059
2020
Abstract
Over the last few decades, numerous initiatives have advanced forest landscape restoration in the Amazon, and in 2015 the Brazilian government set an ambitious, still-valid, target to restore 4.8 million hectares of degraded Amazonian land by 2030. This has contributed to an emergent global restoration network that connects multiple stakeholders and processes for funding, implementing and monitoring restoration actions in such a way that prepares various ecosystem services for market integration. The network arose in tandem with the evolution of an institutional framework that includes regulatory requirements within Brazil, global commitments linked to climate change mitigation, corporate sustainability strategies, and the growth of crowd-sourcing activism. This paper presents restoration activities as embedded within a Global Production Network (GPN) for an ecosystem service, which we use as a heuristic device to inform our understanding of emergent environmental governance structures. The resulting multi-scalar, networked mode of environmental governance is presented as a web-like structure co-created by institutional evolution, actor-specific strategies, and interactions between firms and non-firm actors. The article pays particular attention to a case study of how the restoration network manifests territorially in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon. Despite the strong North-South orientation of dominant funding relationships, network governance is also seen to be relational. This is evident from the dissemination of ideas, supply models and seeding techniques from Upper Xingu to other regions of Brazil. These insights could be applied to improve landscape restoration outcomes, and indeed the provisioning of ecosystem services more broadly.
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- Title
- A global production network for ecosystem services: The emergent governance of landscape restoration in the Brazilian Amazon
- Authors
- Danilo Ignacio Urzedo (Author) - University of SydneyJeffrey Neilson (Author) - University of SydneyRobert J Fisher (Author) - University of the Sunshine CoastRodrigo G P Junqueria (Author) - Av. Higienópolis, Brazil
- Publication details
- Global Environmental Change, Vol.61, 102059; 13
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102059
- ISSN
- 0959-3780
- Organisation Unit
- Forest Research Institute; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Tropical Forests & People Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450829702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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