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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
The spread and maturation of strategic adaptive management within and beyond South African national parks
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| Autores: |
Freitag, Stefanie; Scientific Services, South African National Parks; stef.freitag@sanparks.org
Biggs, Harry; Conservation Services, South African National Parks; biggs@sanparks.org
Breen, Charles; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal; breenc@telkomsa.net
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| Data: |
2014-08-21
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| Ano: |
2014
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| Palavras-chave: |
Adaptive management
Colearning
Kruger National Park
Protected area stewardship
Social-ecological systems
Systems thinking
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| Resumo: |
Natural resource management is embedded within social-ecological environments and requires decisions to be taken within this broad context, including those that pertain to protected areas. This realization has led to South African National Parks adopting a strategic adaptive management approach to decision making. Through narrative, we show why and how this practice has progressively spread and evolved both within the organization and beyond, over the past two decades. A number of catalytic events and synergies enabled a change from reactive tactical management approaches to more inclusive forward-looking approaches able to embrace system complexity and associated uncertainty and change. We show how this long period of innovation has lead to an increased appreciation for the heterogeneous social-ecological system, and for the importance of constructing relationships and colearning, such that organizational transformation has enabled more legitimate and effective operation within an expanding and diversifying constituency.
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| Tipo: |
Peer-Reviewed Reports
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
vol19/iss3/art25/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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| Formato: |
text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 19, No. 3 (2014)
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