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Understanding How To Sustain The Services That Ecosystems Provide In Support Of Human Wellbeing Is An Active And Growing Research Area. This Book Provides A State-of-the-art Review Of Current Thinking On The Links Between Ecosystem Services And Poverty Alleviation. In Part It Showcases The Key Findings Of The Ecosystem Services For Poverty Alleviation (espa) Programme, Which Has Funded Over 120 Research Projects In More Than 50 Countries Since 2010. Espa’s Goal Is To Ensure That Ecosystems Are Being Sustainably Managed In A Way That Contributes To Poverty Alleviation As Well As To Inclusive And Sustainable Growth. As Governments Across The World Map How They Will Achieve The 17 Ambitious Sustainable Development Goals, Most Of Which Have Poverty Alleviation, Wellbeing And Sustainable Environmental Management At Their Heart, Espa’s Findings Have Never Been More Timely And Relevant. Part I Evolving Framings And Contexts / Kate Schreckenberg -- Chapter 1 Seeing The Wood For The Trees -- Exploring The Evolution Of Frameworks Of Ecosystem Services For Human Wellbeing / Unai Pascual -- Chapter 2 Justice And Equity -- Emerging Research And Policy Approaches To Address Ecosystem Service Trade-offs / Neil Dawson -- Chapter 3 Social-ecological Systems Approaches -- Revealing And Navigating The Complex Trade-offs Of Sustainable Development / Belinda Reyers -- Chapter 4 Limits And Thresholds -- Setting Global, Local And Regional Safe Operating Spaces / John Dearing -- Part Ii Ongoing And Rapid System Changes / Kate Schreckenberg -- Chapter 5 Interactions Of Migration And Population Dynamics With Ecosystem Services / W Neil Adger -- Chapter 6 Land Use Intensification -- The Promise Of Sustainability And The Reality Of Trade-offs / Adrian Martin -- Chapter 7 Ecosystem Services And Poverty Alleviation In Urbanising Contexts / Fiona Marshall -- Chapter 8 Reciprocal Commitments For Addressing Forest–water Relationships / Lana Whittaker -- Chapter 9 Restoration Of Ecosystems And Ecosy