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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; Denton, Charles; Ecological Restoration Institute; Charles.Denton@nau.edu; Hacker, W. David; Forestry Department, New Mexico Highlands University; david_hacker@nmhu.edu. |
| There is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing frequent-fire, old-growth forests. However, there are general guidelines to follow: 1) set objectives for both structure (tree density, diameter distribution, tree species composition, spatial arrangement, amount of coarse woody debris) and function (nutrient cycling, desired tree species regeneration); 2) prioritize treatments according to ecological, economic, and social needs and risks; 3) identify the potential treatments (natural fire, prescribed fire, silvicultural cutting) that best meet the objectives and scale of the project; and 4) implement the treatment(s). We discuss each of these guidelines in this article. |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Fire; Forest management; Function; Silvicultural treatments; Structure; Thinning. |
| Ano: 2007 |
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| Hargrove, Eugene C; University of North Texas; hargrove@unt.edu; Arroyo, Mary T. K.; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity; southern@uchile.cl; Raven, Peter H; Missouri Botanical Garden; peter.raven@mobot.org; Mooney, Harold; Stanford University; hmooney@stanford.edu. |
| The biocultural conservation and research initiative of Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve was born in a remote part of South America and has rapidly expanded to attain regional, national, and international relevance. The park and the biosphere reserve, led by Ricardo Rozzi and his team, have made significant progress in demonstrating the way academic research supports local cultures, social processes, decision making, and conservation. It is a dynamic hive of investigators, artists, writers, students, volunteers, and friends, all exploring ways to better integrate academia and society. The initiative involves an informal consortium of institutions and organizations; in Chile, these include the University of Magallanes,... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Sustainable development; Environmental ethics; Philosophy; Chile; Cape Horn. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Krause, Torsten; Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability; torsten.krause@lucid.lu.se; Collen, Wain; International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics; awcollen@gmail.com; Nicholas, Kimberly A.; Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; kimberly.nicholas.academic@gmail.com. |
| Critics suggest that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) may not generate improvements in well-being for participating stakeholders, and may in fact undermine indigenous rights. To ensure positive social benefits from REDD+ projects, the United Nations REDD Programme has proposed core safeguards, including local stakeholder participation; free, prior, and informed consent; and equitable distribution of benefits. However, there is little experience to date in implementing and evaluating these safeguards. We apply these core safeguards as a framework to study how people in indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon perceive and benefit from Programa Socio Bosque, a conservation incentive program in Ecuador’s... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Benefit distribution; Deforestation; Ecuador; Forest governance; Payment for Ecosystem Services; Programa Socio Bosque; REDD+; Safeguards. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Merlinsky, Maria G.; University of Buenos Aires; merlinsk@retina.ar; LaValle, Alicia; University of British Columbia; av_lavalle@yahoo.com; Morales, Margaret; University of British Columbia; margaret.c.morales@gmail.com; Tobias, Melina M.; University of Buenos Aires; melina.tobias@gmail.com. |
| The need for a radical shift to more iterative and adaptive solutions in sewage management is increasingly recognized, but our ability to achieve such a shift is constrained by inertia to change. Here, we describe planning in two metropolitan areas that are upgrading their sewage systems, based on interviews with central actors and official documents. Using new institutionalism and concentrating on changes in normative, regulative, and cognitive patterns, we analyze if obstacles to the uptake of innovations can be understood in light of how these patterns counteract institutional change. Our aim is to understand obstacles to reformers implementing a wider vision of sewage management. Our study suggests that even though both Buenos Aires and Vancouver... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Inertia to change; Sewage management; Waste vs. resource; Wastewater; Water management. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Washington-Allen, Robert A; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University; washington-allen@tamu.edu; Briske, David D.; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University; dbriske@tamu.edu; Shugart, Herman H.; W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences & Director, Center for Regional Environmental Studies, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; hhs@virginia.edu; Salo, Lucinda F.; Sage Ecosystem Science; csalo11@hotmail.com. |
| The contributions to this special feature focus on several conceptual and operational applications for understanding non-linear behavior of complex systems with various ecological criteria at unique levels of organization. The organizing theme of the feature emphasizes alternative stable states or regimes and intervening thresholds that possess great relevance to ecology and natural resource management. The authors within this special feature address the conceptual models of catastrophe theory, self-organization, cross-scale interactions and time-scale calculus; develop operational definitions and procedures for understanding the occurrence of dynamic regimes or multiple stable states and thresholds; suggest diagnostics tools for detection of states and... |
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Palavras-chave: Catastrophe theory; Complex systems science; Dynamical systems analysis; Ecological resilience; Non-equilibrium ecology; Self-organization; Thresholds; Time-scale calculus. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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| McAlpine, Clive A.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; c.mcalpine@uq.edu.au; Seabrook, Leonie M.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; l.seabrook@uq.edu.au; Ryan, Justin G.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; justin.ryan@uq.edu.au; Feeney, Brian J.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; bjfeeney@gmail.com; Ripple, William J.; Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; bill.ripple@oregonstate.edu; Ehrlich, Anne H.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; aehrlich@stanford.edu; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; pre@stanford.edu. |
| Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth’s systems beyond sustainable levels. The world urgently needs global society to redirect itself toward a more sustainable future: one that moves intergenerational equity and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda, and to the core of personal and societal belief systems. Scientific and technological innovations are not enough: the global community, individuals, civil society, corporations, and governments, need to adjust their values and beliefs to one in which sustainability becomes the new global paradigm society. We argue that the... |
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Palavras-chave: Behavioral change; Connectedness; Innovative leadership; Societal values; Transformational change; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Hussey, Karen; Senior Lecturer, Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; karen.hussey@anu.edu.au. |
| Water and energy are each recognized as indispensable inputs to modern economies. And, in recent years, driven by the three imperatives of security of supply, sustainability, and economic efficiency, the energy and water sectors have undergone rapid reform. However, it is when water and energy rely on each other that the most complex challenges are posed for policymakers. Despite the links and the urgency in both sectors for security of supply, in existing policy frameworks, energy and water policies are developed largely in isolation from one another—a degree of policy fragmentation that is seeing erroneous developments in both sectors. Examples of the trade-offs between energy and water security include: the proliferation of desalination... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Energy policy; Energy– Water nexus; Integrated planning; Policy integration; Water policy. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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| Baird, Julia; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; jbaird@brocku.ca; Plummer, Ryan; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; Stockholm Resilience Centre; ryan.plummer@brocku.ca; Pickering, Kerrie; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; kpickering@brocku.ca. |
| Climate change adaptation presents a challenge to current top-down governance structures, including the tension between provision of public goods and actions required by diverse stakeholders, including private actors. Alternative governance approaches that facilitate participation and learning across scales are gaining attention for their ability to bring together diverse actors across sectors and to foster adaptive capacity and resilience. We have described the method and outcomes from the application of a social-ecological inventory to “prime,” i.e., hasten the development of, a regional climate change adaptation network. The social-ecological inventory tool draws on the social-ecological systems approach in which social and... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Climate change adaptation; Local knowledge; Social-ecological system. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Andersson, Erik; Stockholm University; erik.andersson@ecology.su.se. |
| Ecological research targeting sustainable urban landscapes needs to include findings and methods from many lines of ecological research, such as the link between biodiversity and ecosystem function, the role of humans in ecosystems, landscape connectivity, and resilience. This paper reviews and highlights the importance of these issues for sustainable use of ecosystem services, which is argued to be one aspect of sustainable cities. The paper stresses the need to include social and economic factors when analyzing urban landscapes. Spatially explicit data can be used to assess the roles different green areas have in providing people with ecosystem services, and whether people actually have access to the services. Such data can also be used to assess... |
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Palavras-chave: Ecosystem function; Landscape scale; Sustainable development; Urban ecology. |
| Ano: 2006 |
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| von Korff, Yorck; Lisode; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; yorck.von-korff@lisode.com; Daniell, Katherine A; The Australian National University; Cemagref / Irstea UMR G-EAU; k.a.daniell@gmail.com; Moellenkamp, Sabine; University of Osnabrueck; sabine.moellenkamp@gmx.de; Bots, Pieter; Delft University of Technology; p.w.g.bots@tudelft.nl; Bijlsma, Rianne M; University of Twente; Deltares; r.m.bredenhoff@gmail.com. |
| Many current water planning and management problems are riddled with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, and conflict, so-called “messes” or “wicked problems.” The realization that there is a need to consider a wide variety of values, knowledge, and perspectives in a collaborative decision making process has led to a multitude of new methods and processes being proposed to aid water planning and management, which include participatory forms of modeling, planning, and decision aiding processes. However, despite extensive scientific discussions, scholars have largely been unable to provide satisfactory responses to two pivotal questions: (1) What are the benefits of using participatory approaches?; (2) How exactly... |
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Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative decision making; Evaluation; Interactive planning; Participatory modeling; Participatory research; Process design; Public participation; Social learning; Stakeholder participation; Water resources management. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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