Regions:
Scale:
SubnationalEcosystems:
Rivers and lakesGoals:
Nbs actions:
Topics (Keywords):
Ecosystem services, stakeholder consultations, Trade-offsStart/End date
31 December 2013Client
Design Team
Awards
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
Potential impacts/benefitis
NBS benefits
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)