PI: Professor Kate Brown

Funders: Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)

Belmont Forum

This project aimed to better understand the links between ecosystem services (ES) and wellbeing in order to design and implement more effective interventions for sustainable poverty alleviation. This was done in the context of coastal, social‐ecological systems in two poor African countries; Kenya and Mozambique. The research aimed to have direct impact on the wellbeing of poor inhabitants of the rapidly transforming coastal areas, while also providing indirect impact to coastal poor in other developing countries through international dissemination of findings. Research findings were disseminated to benefit multiple stakeholders at various levels.