which are about participatory democracy (a booster of representative democracy) and accountability in regard to the implementation of policies, programmes and projects. Third Order outcomes fall into two broad categories: improvements in some
coastal ecosystem functioning and services, and improvements in some societal qualities. Here, the satoyama/satoumi concept may be a powerful catchword for stakeholders
’ownership in the sense that it links the drivers of change to the quality of ecosystem functions and services and finally to human well-being status, the very model
of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment although the latter did not say much about the key role of governance in dealing with the complexity of the model.