Options for Governance and Decision-Making across Scales and Sectors

The Asia-Pacific Regional Assessment is a collective effort among more than 120 researchers, scientists, academics and ILK holders from 27 countries from within and outside the region. Collectively the author team represents several IPBES member governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and private sector companies. The Chapter constitute the last chapter of the Assessment, which uses the scenarios outlined in Chapter 5 to identify existing challenges, opportunities and pitfalls for decision makers for the conservation and sustainable use of NCP at the subregional scale. Key foci include institutions, organizations, property rights, legal framework, enabling environment, multi-stakeholder governance approaches, public-private partnerships, and participatory and community-based processes. The chaper provides feasible and practical options for good ecosystem governance, across these multiple domains.