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Area Characterisation

Objectives

The  central Uzbek government needed to be convinced that investments in the Amu Darya delta would make social, ecological and economic sense. Ecosystem services of the delta were valued for three situations: the situation before degradation, the present degraded and the potential restored situation.

Actions

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Transferability of the Results

Lessons learned

Recognition of ecosystem services was instrumental in changing the course of development from sectoral, technocratic and unsustainable interventions, towards the restoration of natural processes. The ecosystem service concept helped to overcome two obstacles: - identify the relevant stakeholders and the central trade-offs amongst them. - sensitise the stakeholders that they all depend on the same ecosystem, which is affected by their land use practices.

Publications & Reports

GIZ Values Discover Story Map: Aral Sea Wetland Restoration Strategy , Uzbekistan

Financing

Organisations

ValuES: Methods for integrating ecosystem services into policy, planning, and practice

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Postfach 5180 / P.O. Box 5180, 65726 Eschborn, Deutschland / Germany

T  + 49 6196 79-1321, E  info@aboutvalues.net

Other partners: 
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ;
Conservation Strategy Fund (CSF);
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nucelar Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany (Funding)

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