Exploring the links

CONCLUSION The second critical component is the use of an overarching framework to provide the enabling conditions for the successful development and implementation of THIS publication’s main contribution to the tools to remove barriers. [...] As mentioned early in this paper, we want to focus on adoption of an ecosystem approach and increasing the capabilities of the poor to achieve the constituents and determi- the equal treatment given to all three nants of well-being. [...] The declaration noted that the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002 should address the two major challenges to sustainable development: 1] The pervasive effects of the burden of poverty on at least half of humanity; and 2] The excessive and wasteful consumption and inefficient resource use that perpetuates the vicious cycle of environmental degradation and increasing poverty. [...] Local conditions relate to the specific ecosystems and their services to the local communities, the economic activities, the social and Section 5 ends the paper with an cultural values, and, finally, the political and governance structures. [...] Similar to regulation, the level of contribution this service provides for However, many of these ecosystems have been converted for commercial well-being is determined by the size and quality (the stock) of the natural activities with the intention that these activities will provide the poor with the ecosystem available.