Sharing Ecosystem Services

Osamu Saito United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) Tokyo, Japan 

What and how are we sharing? Academic landscape of the sharing paradigm and practices. Objectives and organization of the book.- Home-based food provision and social capital in Japan.- Food provisioning services via homegardens and communal sharing in satoyama socio-ecological production landscapes on Japan’s Noto peninsula.- Non-market food provisioning services via homegardens and communal sharing in satoyama socio-ecological production landscapes on Japan's Noto peninsula.- Sharing experiences and associated knowledge in the changing waterscape: an intergenerational sharing program in Mikatagoko area, Japan.- "Sustaining Diverse Knowledge Systems in SEPLs: Sharing Tacit Knowledge of Apiculture and Mushroom Production with Future Generations.- Can new digital technologies and traditional sharing practices be inte-grated? The case of use of natural resources in Palau, Micronesia.- Solidarity Economy in Brazil: Towards Institutionalization of Sharing and Agroecological Practices.- Sharing knowledge and value for nurturing socioecological production landscapes: a case of payment for ecosystem services in Rejoso watershed, Indonesia.- Sharing Place: A case study on the loss of peri-urban landscape to urbanization in India.- Cow-Sharing and Alpine ecosystems. A comparative case study of sharing practices and property rights .- Synthesis: Can sharing enhance the sustainability and resilience of our society?.