Poudyal, Mahesh and Kraft, Franziska and Wells, Geoff J and Das, Anamika and Attiwilli, Suman and Schreckenberg, Kate and Lele, Sharachchandra and Daw, Tim M. and Torres-Vitolas, Carlos A. and R, Siddappa Setty and Adams, Helen and Ahmad, Sate and Ryan, Casey M. and Fisher, Janet A. and Robinson, Brian S. and Jones, Julia PG. and Homewood, Katherine M. and Bluwstein, Jevgeniy and Keane, Aidan and Macamo, Celia and Mwihaki Mugi, Lilian (2024) Nature’s contribution to poverty alleviation, human wellbeing and the SDGs. Scientific Data, 11 (1).
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Abstract
Millions of households globally rely on uncultivated ecosystems for their livelihoods. However, much of the understanding about the broader contribution of uncultivated ecosystems to human wellbeing is still based on a series of small-scale studies due to limited availability of large-scale datasets. We pooled together 11 comparable datasets comprising 232 settlements and 10,971 households in ten low-and middle-income countries, representing forest, savanna and coastal ecosystems to analyse how uncultivated nature contributes to multi-dimensional wellbeing and how benefits from nature are distributed between households. The resulting dataset integrates secondary data on rural livelihoods, multidimensional human wellbeing, household demographics, resource tenure and social-ecological context, primarily drawing on nine existing household surveys and their associated contextual information together with selected variables, such as travel time to cities, population density, local area GDP and land use and land cover from existing global datasets. This integrated dataset has been archived with ReShare (UK Data Service) and will be useful for further analyses on nature-wellbeing relationships on its own or in combination with similar datasets.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to the authors. |
| Subjects: | A ATREE Publications > G Journal Papers |
| Divisions: | Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies Centre for Environment and Development > Forest, Governance and Livelihood |
| Depositing User: | Ms Suchithra R |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2025 03:45 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2025 03:45 |
| URI: | http://archives.atree.org/id/eprint/856 |
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