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Provedor de dados: | 7
País: | Canada
Título: | Resilience and adaptability of rice terrace social-ecological systems: a case study of a local community&amp;#8217;s perception in Banaue, Philippines
Autores: | Castonguay, Adam C; University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Department of Ecosystem Management; Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering; adam.charette.castonguay@monash.edu; Burkhard, Benjamin; University of Kiel, Institute for Natural Resource Conservation, Department of Ecosystem Management; Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); bburkhard@ecology.uni-kiel.de; Horgan, Finbarr G; Crop and Environmental Science Division, International Rice Research Institute; f.horgan@irri.org; Settele, Josef; UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig; josef.settele@ufz.de.
Data: | 2016-05-03
Ano: | 2016
Palavras-chave: | Adaptive capacity; Agroecosystems; Complex adaptive systems; Ecosystem services; Human well-being; Ifugao Rice Terraces.
Resumo: | The social-ecological systems of rice terraces across Southeast Asia are the result of centuries of long-term interactions between human communities and their surrounding ecosystems. Processes and structures in these systems have evolved to provide a diversity of ecosystem services and benefits to human societies. However, as Southeast Asian countries experience rapid economic growth and related land-use changes, the remaining extensive rice cultivation systems are increasingly under pressure. We investigated the long-term development of ecosystem services and the adaptive capacity of the social-ecological system of rice terrace landscapes using a case study of Banaue (Ifugao Province, Northern-Luzon, Philippines). A set of indicators was used to describe and assess changes in the social-ecological state of the study system. The resilience of the rice terraces and the human communities that maintain them was examined by comparing the current state of the system with results from the literature. Our findings indicate that, although the social-ecological system has not yet shifted to an alternative state, pressures are increasing and some cultural ecosystem services have already been lost.
Tipo: | Peer-Reviewed Reports
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | vol21/iss2/art15/
Editor: | Resilience Alliance
Formato: | text/html application/pdf
Fonte: | Ecology and Society; Vol. 21, No. 2 (2016)