By: Marianne Darbi

Marianne Darbi — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:07:11 +0000

Dear Ram,
Many thanks for your detailed reply and reasoning! While it is certainly (and sadly) true that EIA alone cannot achieve sustainability (for me, it is not the most important tool to do so, rather part of a “toolbox”), I wouldn’t consider protection and conservation an outdated theory at all. What we certainly need is a new understanding of the complexity of our environment and our own actions. This cannot concentrate on one thing, but has to include conservation and protection as well as restoration and impact mitigation — and possibly most importantly it must focus on the interlinkages (e.g. between less environmentally damaging practices and poverty reduction). But we should be aware that the maximum achievable are compromises and a more or less outbalanced situation between the three pillars of sustainability — and nothing such as economic boom or bloom (if we’re at that point, you can’t really talk sustainability).
Anyway, “proper management of ecosystem services” sounds simple but is actually a hard task — so I’ll very much appreciate if you could share your experiences. Can you post the link to your LinkedIn post?

By: Ram Khadka

Ram Khadka — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:57:45 +0000

Dear Marianne
Your Biodiversity offset Blog is quite timely and the concept that you have dissaminated to us on the Ecosystem services concept improving is also very relavant.However the protection and conservation has became an outdated theory and the use of Environmental Impact Assessment itself is not sufficient to achieve sustenability as has been indicated by the out come of the appication of ESIA for last 30 years.However, the greatest treat to humanity is the prevaling poverty.SO why not connect ecosystem services for the reduction of the poverty by proper management of ecosystem resources and its services. Now this is the time to go for developing more effective economy through the proper management of Ecosystem services and help to reduce worlds poverty in a comprensive ways. In this case I have written a concept for Nepal and included in linkedin post.
Ram Khadka

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By: Marianne Darbi

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