MESH-ing Ecosystem Services & Human well-being for the SDGsSarah Jones & Sylvia Wood

New Policy Context

Agricultural Landscapes as Silver Bullet for SDGs?

Integrated Land Management Approach for the SDGs

• Land & food systems an SDG “silver bullet”• Multi-sectoral planning and cooperation• ES link disparate Conservation & Development • Identify tradeoffs/opportunities across landscapes• Nudge needle on a number of SDGs

Water Quality Human Nutrition Climate ChangeFood Security

SDG 2 SDG 6 SDG 2 SDG 13

Carbon storage

Food Production& Nutrition

Water AvailabilityBuilding materials

Recreation!?

Transport/hydropower

SDG 2

SDG 13SDG 6

SDG 3

SDG 5?

SDG 9

SDG 7

SDG 14

Disease?

BiodiversitySDG 15

Eutrophication

Designing multi-functional landscapes

To address ES- SDG Gap: SNAP project

1) How can we quantify ES for SDGs (relevant to policy needs)?

2) How can we evaluate them in an integrative manner demanded by the SDGs

framework

models

• SDG Symbols – select out relevant ones

ES- SDG linkages

Ecosystem Services Scientific evidence

Food Production

Pollination

Nutrient Cycling

Erosion Prevention

Carbon Sequestration

Water Regulation

Habitat Creation

Temp Regulation

Air Quality

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Potential indicators

Agriculture

Transboundary water management

Stakeholders: Volta basin focus

Water scarcity and land degradation

• Strong need and interest in finding cross-sectoral synergies - $

• Challenge of data and tools

Nutrition

Science-policy workshop

Crop production value per land unit ($/ha)

Prevalence of undernourishment if food is sourced locally (calorie only) / (macro-nutrients only) / (micro-nutrients only)

Agricultural land at high / low / no risk of land degradation (%)

Crop production value per water unit ($/m3)SDG 2 (food)

No. people without access to sufficient quantity of quality water

SDG 3 (health)

No. people living in malaria risk zoneSDG 6 (water)

Human water quality footprint (index)

Population exposed to diarrhoeal disease

Total annual gross soil erosion on ag land (t/ha)

Ag land with low carbon emissions (%)

SDG 15

(terrestrial)

SDG 13 (climate)

Pollination

Regulation of water supply

Pollutant filtration

Nutrient retention

Crop production

Erosion control

Habitat-based vector control

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE MESH-SDG INDICATOR SDG

Carbon storage

Quantity of runoff in urban areas (mm/y)

Urban water quality footprint (index)

SDG 11 (cities)

Using Trade-Off Analysis for ILM

Challenges1. Data intensive2. Technically challenging3. Many steps & programs 4. Heavy pre- & post-processing

Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human wellbeing

Aiming for: User-friendly interface Easy to alter parameters Speed Default datasets User-driven output formats Plug-in capacity for other ES models

MESH Model Interface1. Scenario Generator

2. Select relevant ES

3. Run the models

4. Results output

5. Report

Links between ecosystem service supply and SDGs

Nutrition

Water quality

Water yieldCarbon

Sediment retention

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SDG 2

SDG 3

SDG 6SDG 13

SDG 15 Scenario 1Scenario 2Scenario 3

THANK YOU

Live Demo of MESH Check out Justin Johnson’s presentation

T4a 3:30pm!

MESH Webpage

http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/mesh/