. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis. agriculture. Here, rapidly increasing water withdrawals and return flows further intensify water stress. While the GDP per person improves on aver- age in all scenarios, this can mask increased inequity and declines in some ecosystem ser- vices (). Food security improves in the South in all scenarios except in Order from Strength, a world with a focus on security through boundar- ies and reactive to the environment. (See Figure ) Food security remains out of reach for many people, however, and child malnutrition cannot be eradi
. Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis. agriculture. Here, rapidly increasing water withdrawals and return flows further intensify water stress. While the GDP per person improves on aver- age in all scenarios, this can mask increased inequity and declines in some ecosystem ser- vices (). Food security improves in the South in all scenarios except in Order from Strength, a world with a focus on security through boundar- ies and reactive to the environment. (See Figure ) Food security remains out of reach for many people, however, and child malnutrition cannot be eradicated even by 2050, with the number of malnourished children still at 151 million in Order from Strength. In a regionalized and envi- ronmentally proactive world, there is an improve- ment of provisioning services in the South through investment in social, natural, and, to a lesser extent, human capital at local and regional levels (Adapting Mosaic). Global health improves in a globalized world that places an emphasis on economic development (Global Orchestration) but worsens in a regionalized world with a focus on security, with new diseases affecting poor populations and with anxiety, depression, obesity and diabetes affecting richer populations (Order from Strength). New health technologies and better nutrition could help unleash major social and economic improvements, especially among poor tropical populations, where it is increasingly well recog- nized that development is being undermined by numerous infectious diseases, widespread under- nutrition, and high birth rates. Good health depends crucially on institutions. The greatest improvements in social relations occur in a regionalized world with a focus on the environ- ment, as civil society movements strengthen (Adapting Mosaic). Curiously, security is poorest in a world with focus on security through bound- aries (Orderfom Strength). This scenario also sees freedom of choice and action reduced both in the North and the
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