Assessment Process: Exploring Satoyama-Satoumi Renaissance

Overview of Japan Satoyama Satoumi Assessment (JSSA)

22 October 2010Maiko Nishi, UNU-IAS

Key Features of JSSA Assessment of current state of knowledge – a

critical evaluation of information on the interaction between humans and satoyama and satoumi landscapes in Japan using the MA framework of ecosystem services

Launched in 2007, contribution by 200 plus authors, stakeholders, and reviewers from Japan and abroad; peer reviewed

Governed by multi-stakeholder board and governmental advisory committee (national and local governments, academia, NGOs, etc.) and review process overseen by independent review board

　

Governance Structure

Secretariat

coordination , outreach /comms, and technical support

Board2 Co-Chairs, a Board members

& Governmental Advisory Committee

Science Assessment Panel

2 co-chairs (local & int’l.) & panel membersScience Assessment Panel

2 co-chairs (local & int’l.) & panel members

Author GroupsEach group consists of Coordinating Lead Authors

(CLAs); Lead Authors (Las); and Contributing Authors (CAs).

National Group

Cluster Groups

Local Advisory BodiesStakeholders/users from each location

Review Board Chair

Chapter Review Editors

Methodology and Key Concepts Adopting the MA conceptual framework – Ecosystem Services

直接的要因 間接的要因

供給サービス

調整サービス

文化的サービス

安全

基本的物資

健康

社会的関係

選択と行動の自由

基盤サー

ビス

里山・里海

Ecosystem Services 生態系サービス

Human Well-being 人間の福利 (JSSA, 2010)

Key Findings: What has been learned from the JSSA?

Mosaic Composition The mosaic composition of different ecosystem types managed by humans

to produce a variety of ecosystem services benefiting human well-being. Drop in Resiliency

Decline over the last 50 years, resulting in a drop in their resiliency to produce a sustainable supply of ecosystem services

Consequence for Humans and Biodiversity Continued loss of satoyama and satoumi landscapes has important and

potentially negative consequences for human well-being and biodiversity.Integrated Interventions　

Integrated approaches, including citizen participation, have been implemented increasingly over the past 10 years.

New “Commons”　 Critical to the success of a more integrated and holistic approaches to

ecosystem management is creation of a new “commons”.

Recommendations:What are the implications for policymakers moving forward?

Take a Satoyama-Satoumi Approach Policies that take a satoyama-satoumi approach towards managing biodiversity and

ecosystem services (recognizing the mosaic composition and their inherent interlinkages) should be developed.

Decentralized Decision-making New institutions should be designed under the lends of landscape governance that

can manage both public and private lands to govern the “new commons” and allow for decentralized decision-making.

Equitable Access and Use Institutions that complement the institutions of the new commons should be

designed to ensure equitable access and use of ecosystem services.A 10-year research programme　

A 10-year research programme to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of the ecosystems, their linkages, and their relationship with human well-being and biodiversity should be devised, for input to international assessment processes.

Assessments with a Wide Scope Comprehensive, integrated assessments of potential satoyama and satoumi

ecosystems across a number of developing and developed countries should be conducted. - establish baselines of ecosystem services and form an epistemic community

Findings and data:•Released– Summary for Decision

Makes (SDM) in English and Japanese　

– Policy Brief in English– 6 cluster reports in

Japanese

•To be released– National Report in

English (early in 2011 through UNU Press)　

– National Report in Japanese (end of 2010 through Asakura Publishing)

What are satoyama and satoumi?JSSA defines satoyama and satoumi landscapes as dynamic mosaics of managed socio-ecological systems producing a bundle of ecosystem services for human well-being.

Satoyama Satoumi