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| Lockwood, Michael; Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania; Michael.Lockwood@utas.edu.au; Mitchell, Michael; Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania; Michael.Mitchell@utas.edu.au; Moore, Susan A.; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University ; S.Moore@murdoch.edu.au; Clement, Sarah; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University ; S.Clement@murdoch.edu.au. |
| Biodiversity conservation continues to be a challenging task for societies worldwide. We undertook a resilience assessment to address the following question: What are the ramifications of social-ecological system dynamics for biodiversity governance of a nationally significant landscape? Resilience assessment offers promise for guiding response strategies, potentially enabling consideration of ecological, social, economic, and governance influences on biodiversity-related activities. Most resilience assessments have, however, struggled to effectively incorporate governance influences. We applied a modified version of the Resilience Alliance workbook approach to explicitly address governance influences at each stage of an assessment of internationally... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Biodiversity; Climate change; Governance; Resilience assessment; Transformation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Brazil will benefit if it gains control of its vast Amazonian timber resources. Without immediate planning, the fate of much of the Amazon will be decided by predatory and largely unregulated timber interests. Logging in the Amazon is a transient process of natural resource mining. Older logging frontiers are being exhausted of timber resources and will face severe wood shortages within 5 yr. The Brazilian government can avoid the continued repetition of this process in frontier areas by establishing a network of National Forests (Florestas Nacionais or Flonas) to stabilize the timber industry and simultaneously protect large tracts of forest. Flonas currently comprise less than 2% of the Brazilian Amazon (83,000 km2). If all these forests were used for... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Amazon; Brazil; GIS model; Conservation; Logging; National forest; Production forest; Sustainable management; Tropical forest. |
| Ano: 2002 |
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| Berman, Matthew; University of Alaska Anchorage; matthew.berman@uaa.alaska.edu. |
| Theoretical models of interaction between wild and domestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus; caribou in North America) can help explain observed social–ecological dynamics of arctic hunting and husbandry systems. Different modes of hunting and husbandry incorporate strategies to mitigate effects of differing patterns of environmental uncertainty. Simulations of simple models of harvested wild and domestic herds with density-dependent recruitment show that random environmental variation produces cycles and crashes in populations that would quickly stabilize at a steady state with nonrandom parameters. Different husbandry goals lead to radically different long-term domestic herd sizes. Wild and domestic herds are typically ecological competitors but... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Caribou hunting; Rangifer tarandus; Reindeer herding; Social– Ecological systems; System models. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara; McGill University; ciara.rh@gmail.com; Peterson, Garry D; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; garry.peterson@su.se. |
| Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated with ecosystem service processes, such as production, benefit distribution, and management. We examined how social-ecological spatial scale impacts ecosystem service assessment by comparing how ecosystem service distribution, trade-offs, and bundles shift across spatial scales. We used a case study in Québec, Canada, to analyze the scales of production, consumption, and management of 12 ecosystem services and to analyze how interactions among 7 of these ecosystem services change across 3 scales of observation (1, 9, and 75 km²).... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Covariance; Ecosystem service bundles; Mont Saint-Hilaire; Problem of fit; Scaling; Social-ecological; Spatial; Trade-offs. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Freeman, Olivia E; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); o.freeman@cgiar.org; Duguma, Lalisa A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); L.A.Duguma@cgiar.org; Minang, Peter A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); A.Minang@cgiar.org. |
| The terms “landscape” and “landscape approach” have been increasingly applied within the international environmental realm, with many international organizations and nongovernmental organizations using landscapes as an area of focus for addressing multiple objectives, usually related to both environmental and social goals. However, despite a wealth of literature on landscapes and landscape approaches, ideas relating to landscape approaches are diverse and often vague, resulting in ambiguous use of the terms. Our aim, therefore, was to examine some of the main characteristics of different landscape approaches, focusing on how these might be applied in the process of taking a landscape approach. Drawing on a review of... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Complex social-ecological systems; Integrated landscape approach; Multifunctionality; Participation; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Sunderlin, William D; Rights and Resources Group; Center for International Forestry Research; wsunderlin@rightsandresources.org; Dewi, Sonya; World Agroforestry Centre;; Puntodewo, Atie; Center for International Forestry Research;; Angelsen, Arild; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Center for International Forestry Research;; Epprecht, Michael; Swiss National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) "North-South", University of Berne;. |
| Forests have been declared important for the well-being of the poor because of the kinds of goods and services that they provide. We asked whether forests are important for the poor not only because of the kinds of goods and services they provide, but also because they tend to be located where the poor are. We conducted a spatial analysis to ascertain the degree of spatial association between poverty and forests in seven countries: Brazil, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Indonesia, and Vietnam. For most of these countries, there was a significant positive correlation between high natural forest cover and high poverty rate (the percentage of the population that is poor) and between high forest cover and low poverty density (the number of poor per unit... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Deforestation; Forest; Poverty; Spatial analysis. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca. |
| Most research in the area of common and common-pool resources in the past two or three decades sought the simplicity of community-based resource management cases to develop theory. This was done mainly because of the relative ease of observing processes of self-governance in simple cases, but it raises questions related to scale. To what extent can the findings of small-scale, community-based commons be scaled up to generalize about regional and global commons? Even though some of the principles from community-based studies are likely to be relevant across scale, new and different principles may also come into play at different levels. The study of cross-level institutions such as institutions of co-management, provides ways to approach scale-related... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Common property theory; Community-based resource management; Complex adaptive systems; Marine commons; Scale.. |
| Ano: 2006 |
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| Ngobo, Martine; IITA; m.ngobo@cgiar.org; McDonald, Morag; University of Wales, Bangor; mamcd@bangor.ac.uk; Weise, Stephan; ; s.weise@cgiar.org. |
| In the humid forest regions of southern Cameroon in central Africa, sectoral and macroeconomic policy reforms introduced in the late 1980s have led to intensified land use, which in turn has resulted in, among other environmental consequences, shortened fallow systems dominated by the Asteraceae shrub, Chromolaena odorata (L.) King and Robinson, rather than by secondary forest species. A trial was established to determine the effect of shortened fallow duration and invasion by C. odorata on the weed flora in subsequent mixed food cropping systems. Plots were established in cleared 5- to 7-year-old fallow fields in which the vegetation was either dominated by C. odorata or not, and in which the dominant fallow vegetation in... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: CVA; Cameroon; Chromolaena odorata; Fallow; Weeds. |
| Ano: 2004 |
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| Ruoso, Laure-Elise; Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; UMR TETIS, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, IRSTEA, Montpellier, France ; laure-elise.ruoso@student.uts.edu.au; Plant, Roel; Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; roel.plant@uts.edu.au; Maurel, Pierre; UMR TETIS, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, IRSTEA, Montpellier, France ; pierre.maurel@irstea.fr; Dupaquier, Claire; UMR TETIS, AgroParisTech, CIRAD, IRSTEA, Montpellier, France ; claire.dupaquier@teledetection.fr; Roche, Philip K.; UR EMAX, TR SEDYVIN, IRSTEA Aix en Provence, France; philip.roche@irstea.fr; Bonin, Muriel; UMR TETIS, CIRAD Montpellier, France; muriel.bonin@cirad.fr. |
| In recent years, the ecosystem services (ES) concept has become a major paradigm for natural resource management. While policy-makers demand “hard” monetary evidence that nature conservation would be worth investing in, ongoing attempts are being made to formalize the concept as a scientifically robust “one size fits all” analytical framework. These attempts have highlighted several major limitations of the ES concept. First, to date, the concept has paid little attention to the role of humans in the production of ES. Second, the ongoing formalization of the ES concept is turning it into a “technology of globalization,” thereby increasingly ignoring the socio-cultural context and history within... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Local land use planning; Participatory methods; Stakeholder perception; Territorial approach; Thau lagoon. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Opdam, Paul; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; Department of Land Use Planning, Wageningen University; paul.opdam@wur.nl; Pouwels, Rogier; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; rogier.pouwels@wur.nl; Rooij, Sabine van; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; sabine.vanrooij@wur.nl; Vos, Claire C; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; claire.vos@wur.nl. |
| In highly developed regions, ecosystems are often severely fragmented, whereas the conservation of biodiversity is highly rated. Regional and local actor groups are often involved in the regional planning, but when making decisions they make insufficient use of scientific knowledge of the ecological system that is being changed. The ecological basis of regional landscape change would be improved if knowledge-based systems tailored to the cyclic process of planning and negotiation and to the expertise of planners, designers and local interest groups were available. If regional development is to be sustainable, goals for biodiversity must be set in relation to the actual and demanded patterns of ecosystems. We infer a set of prerequisites for the effective... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity targets; Ecosystem networks; Landscape ecology; Metapopulation persistence; Multifunctional landscapes; Multi-stakeholder decision making; Regional planning; Sustainable development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Loorbach, Derk; DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; loorbach@drift.eur.nl; Avelino, Flor; DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; avelino@drift.eur.nl; Haxeltine, Alex; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK; alex.haxeltine@uea.ac.uk; Wittmayer, Julia M.; DRIFT, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; wittmayer@drift.eur.nl; O'Riordan, Tim; School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK; t.oriordan@uea.ac.uk; Weaver, Paul; ICIS, Maastricht University, NL; LUCSUS, Lund University, Sweden; paul.weaver@maastrichtuniversity.nl. |
| Continuing economic turbulence has fuelled debates about social and political reform as much as it has stimulated actions and initiatives aimed at a more fundamental transition of dominant economic systems. This paper takes a transition perspective to explore, from a Western European viewpoint, how the economic crisis is actually viewed through a variety of interpretations and responded to through a range of practices. We argue that framing societal phenomena such as the economic crisis as "symptoms of transition" through alternative narratives and actions can give rise to the potential for (seemingly) short-term pressures to become game changers. Game changers are then defined as the combination of: specific events, the subsequent or parallel framing of... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Economic crisis; Game changers; Narratives of change; Practices of change. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Delgado, Luisa E.; Universidad de Chile ; ldelgado@antar.uchile.cl; Bachmann, Pamela L; Universidad de Chile;; Torres-Gomez, Marcela; Universidad de Chile;. |
| In 2004, the emigration and death of black-necked swans (Cygnus melancoryphus) from the Río Cruces wetland (Valdivia, Chile) triggered one of the largest ecosocial conflicts in Chilean history. The main local social actors of this still unsolved conflict are the Chilean government, a pulp-mill company, and a local nongovernmental organization. The central issues of the conflict are disagreement over the reason for the swans’ migration, the need to restore the black-necked swan population in the wetland, and the relationship between economic development and wetland conservation. We applied a physical, ecological, and social system approach to generate conceptual or qualitative ecosystem models representing the perceptions of all social... |
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Palavras-chave: Cygnus melancoryphus; Black-necked swans; Conceptual ecosystem models; Conflict; Social actors; Wetlands. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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| Cook, Hadrian; School of Natural and Built Environments, Kingston University, London; h.cook@kingston.ac.uk; Benson, David; Environment and Sustainability Institute, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Cornwall; d.i.benson@exeter.ac.uk; Couldrick, Laurence; Westcountry Rivers Trust, Stoke Climsland, Callington, Cornwall; Laurence@wrt.org.uk. |
| The adoption of bioregionalism by institutions that are instrumental in river basin management has significant potential to resolve complex water resource management problems. The Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) in England provides an example of how localized bioregional institutionalization of adaptive comanagement, consensus decision making, local participation, indigenous technical and social knowledge, and “win-win” outcomes can potentially lead to resilient partnership working. Our analysis of the WRT’s effectiveness in confronting nonpoint source water pollution, previously impervious to centralized agency responses, provides scope for lesson-drawing on institutional design, public engagement, and effective operation,... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Bioregionalism; Bioregional planning; Institutions; Lesson-drawing; Partnership. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Fiedler, Carl E.; College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana; carl.fiedler@umontana.edu; Friederici, Peter; School of Communication, Northern Arizona University; peter.friederici@nau.edu; Petruncio, Mark; Forestry Program, Yakama Nation; petruncio@yakama.com. |
| In this article, we discuss how to monitor the structural and functional attributes of old growth, as well as its associated plant communities and wildlife, both to determine the possible need for treatment and to assess post-treatment progress toward desired conditions. Monitoring can be used to detect conditions (or agents) that threaten existing old growth and also to document indicators of healthy, functioning old-growth systems. |
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Palavras-chave: Disturbance agents; Monitoring; Physiological/functional indicators; Risk assessment; Structural indicators. |
| Ano: 2007 |
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