Data/hora: 12/06/2024 05:10:01

Provedor de dados: 	7	
País: 	Canada	
Título: 	Network approaches for understanding rainwater management from a social-ecological systems perspective	
Autores: 	Prager, Steven D.; International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); s.prager@cgiar.org; Pfeifer, Catherine; International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); c.pfeifer@cgiar.org.	
Data: 	2015-10-28	
Ano: 	2015	
Palavras-chave: 	Network theory; Social-ecological network; Social-ecological systems; Spatial data; Spatial resilience; Watershed management.	
Resumo: 	The premise of this research is to better understand how approaches to implementing rainwater management practices can be informed by understanding how the people living and working in agroecosystems are connected to one another. Because these connections are via both social interactions and functional characteristics of the landscape, a social-ecological network emerges. Using social-ecological network theory, we ask how understanding the structure of interactions can lead to improved rainwater management interventions. Using a case study situated within a small sub-basin in the Fogera area of the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia, we build networks of smallholders based both on the biophysical and social-institutional landscapes present in the study site, with the smallholders themselves as the common element between the networks. In turn we explore how structures present in the networks may serve to guide decision making regarding both where and with whom rainwater management interventions could be developed. This research thus illustrates an approach for constructing a social-ecological network and demonstrates how the structures of the network yield insights for tailoring the implementation of rainwater management practices to the social and ecological setting.	
Tipo: 	NON-REFEREED	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	vol20/iss4/art13/	
Editor: 	Resilience Alliance	
Formato: 	text/html application/pdf	
Fonte: 	Ecology and Society; Vol. 20, No. 4 (2015)