World Resources 2008Roots of Resilience:Growing the Wealth of the Poor

Chapter 1Scaling Up Ecosystem Enterprise

Scaling up nature-based enterprises offers a clear route to building the resilience of rural communities.

Resilience

• Ecological

• Social

• Economic

What Are We Scaling Up?

• Environmental income

• Access

• Environmental enterprises

• Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)

Five Types of Scaling Up

• Quantitive

• Functional

• Organizational

• Political

• Institutional