TY - JOUR

T1 - Ten people-centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration

AU - Elias, Marlene

AU - Kandel, Matt

AU - Mansourian, Stephanie

AU - Meinzen-Dick, Ruth

AU - Crossland, Mary

AU - Joshi, Deepa

AU - Kariuki, Juliet

AU - Lee, Lynn C.

AU - McElwee, Pamela

AU - Sen, Amrita

AU - Sigman, Emily

AU - Singh, Ruchika

AU - Adamczyk, Emily M.

AU - Addoah, Thomas

AU - Agaba, Genevieve

AU - Alare, Rahinatu S.

AU - Anderson, Will

AU - Arulingam, Indika

AU - Bellis, SGiids Kung Vanessa

AU - Birner, Regina

AU - De Silva, Sanjiv

AU - Dubois, Mark

AU - Duraisami, Marie

AU - Featherstone, Mike

AU - Gallant, Bryce

AU - Hakhu, Arunima

AU - Irvine, Robyn

AU - Kiura, Esther

AU - Magaju, Christine

AU - McDougall, Cynthia

AU - McNeill, Gwiisihlgaa Daniel

AU - Nagendra, Harini

AU - Nghi, Tran Huu

AU - Okamoto, Daniel K.

AU - Valencia, Ana Maria Paez

AU - Pagella, Tim

AU - Pontier, Ondine

AU - Post, Miranda

AU - Saunders, Gary W.

AU - Schreckenberg, Kate

AU - Shelar, Karishma

AU - Sinclair, Fergus

AU - Gautam, Rajendra S.

AU - Spindel, Nathan B.

AU - Unnikrishnan, Hita

AU - Wilson, Gulxa Taaa Gaagii Ngaang Nadine

AU - Winowiecki, Leigh

PY - 2022/5/1

Y1 - 2022/5/1

N2 - As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, there remains insufficient emphasis on the human and social dimensions of restoration. The potential that restoration holds for achieving both ecological and social goals can only be met through a shift toward people-centered restoration strategies. Toward this end, this paper synthesizes critical insights from a special issue on “Restoration for whom, by whom” to propose actionable ways to center humans and social dimensions in ecosystem restoration, with the aim of generating fair and sustainable initiatives. These rules respond to a relative silence on socio-political issues in di Sacco et al.'s “Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits” on socio-political issues and offer complementary guidance to their piece. Arranged roughly in order from pre-intervention, design/initiation, implementation, through the monitoring, evaluation and learning phases, the 10 people-centered rules are: (1) Recognize diversity and interrelations among stakeholders and rightsholders'; (2) Actively engage communities as agents of change; (3) Address socio-historical contexts; (4) Unpack and strengthen resource tenure for marginalized groups; (5) Advance equity across its multiple dimensions and scales; (6) Generate multiple benefits; (7) Promote an equitable distribution of costs, risks, and benefits; (8) Draw on different types of evidence and knowledge; (9) Question dominant discourses; and (10) Practice inclusive and holistic monitoring, evaluation, and learning. We contend that restoration initiatives are only tenable when the issues raised in these rules are respectfully addressed.

AB - As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, there remains insufficient emphasis on the human and social dimensions of restoration. The potential that restoration holds for achieving both ecological and social goals can only be met through a shift toward people-centered restoration strategies. Toward this end, this paper synthesizes critical insights from a special issue on “Restoration for whom, by whom” to propose actionable ways to center humans and social dimensions in ecosystem restoration, with the aim of generating fair and sustainable initiatives. These rules respond to a relative silence on socio-political issues in di Sacco et al.'s “Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits” on socio-political issues and offer complementary guidance to their piece. Arranged roughly in order from pre-intervention, design/initiation, implementation, through the monitoring, evaluation and learning phases, the 10 people-centered rules are: (1) Recognize diversity and interrelations among stakeholders and rightsholders'; (2) Actively engage communities as agents of change; (3) Address socio-historical contexts; (4) Unpack and strengthen resource tenure for marginalized groups; (5) Advance equity across its multiple dimensions and scales; (6) Generate multiple benefits; (7) Promote an equitable distribution of costs, risks, and benefits; (8) Draw on different types of evidence and knowledge; (9) Question dominant discourses; and (10) Practice inclusive and holistic monitoring, evaluation, and learning. We contend that restoration initiatives are only tenable when the issues raised in these rules are respectfully addressed.

KW - equity

KW - rightsholders

KW - social inclusion

KW - stakeholders

KW - tenure

KW - UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

U2 - 10.1111/rec.13574

DO - 10.1111/rec.13574

M3 - Article

VL - 30

JO - Restoration Ecology

JF - Restoration Ecology

SN - 1526-100X

IS - 4

M1 - e13574

ER -