Scoping studies

This workshop report summarises discussions from a Southeast Asia regional consultation workshop held in Bangkok in March 2023. 

This report details a rapid literature review for the REDAA programme, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa. The report concentrates on analysis at a regional level and complements ongoing scoping efforts in the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern and Southern Africa). 

Through a literature review, survey, key informant interviews and a set of evaluation criteria this study proposes six research-to-action priority outcomes for improving evidence, tools and governance systems in South Asia. 

The study also identifies 24 potential priority areas where REDAA interventions may be located.  

Through a literature review, key informant interviews and field visits (to Tonle Sap Cambodia, Riau Indonesia, and Nan Thailand), and the use of a set of evaluation criteria, this study proposes 11 research-to-action priority outcomes for improving evidence, tools and governance systems. 

There is increasing evidence that digital solutions can significantly improve the efficiency, responsiveness and efficacy of natural resource management activities.

An overwhelming amount of research calls for governments to take urgent action to secure and foster nature’s benefits for the planet and for human livelihoods and wellbeing at local, national and international levels.

What is environmental degradation and what are its causes? It seems an obvious question, but it’s not. This short study identifies five explanations of the root causes of environmental degradation widely applied in policy debates and promoted by different actors.

Through a literature review, this scoping study highlights knowledge gaps and existing approaches to reverse environmental degradation in sub-Sahara Africa, Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Synergies between biodiversity and land degradation goals and reducing gender and intersectional inequalities cannot be presumed, they must be created and nurtured.

The 2019 IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystems is clear: biodiversity is declining faster than at any time in human history but declining less rapidly on land managed by Indigenous Peoples than on other lands.

Both poverty alleviation and ecosystem restoration currently sit high on international agendas. Though there are trade-offs in practice to achieving those goals. This scoping study provides an overview of the current research landscape on trade-offs between environmental restoration and poverty alleviation.