Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs

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  • Mahesh Poudyal
    University of Kent
  • Franziska Kraft
    Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
  • Geoff Wells
    University of Edinburgh
  • Anamika Das
    Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
  • Suman Attiwilli
    Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
  • Kate Schreckenberg
    Kings College London
  • Sharachchandra Lele
    Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
  • Tim Daw
    Stockholm University
  • Carlos Torres-Vitolas
    SCI Foundation
  • Siddappa Setty
    Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
  • Helen Adams
    Kings College London
  • Sate Ahmad
    Trinity College Dublin
  • Casey Ryan
    University of Edinburgh
  • Janet Fisher
    University of Edinburgh
  • Brian Robinson
    McGill University, Montreal
  • Julia P. G. Jones
  • Katherine Homewood
    University College London
  • Jevgeniy Bluwstein
    University of Bern
  • Aidan Keane
    University of Edinburgh
  • Celia Macamo
    Eduardo Mondlane University
  • Lilian Mwihaki Mugi
    Edinburgh Napier University
Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods. However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated ecosystems to human wellbeing is still based on a series of small-scale studies due to limited availability of large-scale datasets. We pooled together 11 comparable datasets comprising 232 settlements and 10,971 households in ten low-and middle-income countries, representing forest, savanna and coastal ecosystems to analyse how uncultivated nature contributes to multi-dimensional wellbeing and how benefits from nature are distributed between households. The resulting dataset integrates secondary data on rural livelihoods, multidimensional human wellbeing, household demographics, resource tenure and social-ecological context, primarily drawing on nine existing household surveys and their associated contextual information together with selected variables, such as travel time to cities, population density, local area GDP and land use and land cover from existing global datasets. This integrated dataset has been archived with ReShare (UK Data Service) and will be useful for further analyses on nature-wellbeing relationships on its own or in combination with similar datasets.

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  • Ecosystem, Family Characteristics, Humans, Poverty, Rural Population, Sustainable Development
Original languageEnglish
Article number229
Pages (from-to)229
JournalScientific data
Volume11
Issue number1
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Publication statusPublished - 22 Feb 2024
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