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| Evely, Anna C.; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; anna_evely@abdn.ac.uk; Fazey, Ioan; University of Wales, Aberystwyth; irf@aber.ac.uk; Pinard, Michelle; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; m.a.pinard@abdn.ac.uk; Lambin, Xavier; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk. |
| The benefits of increasing the contribution of the social sciences in the fields of environmental and conservation science disciplines are increasingly recognized. However, integration between the social and natural sciences has been limited, in part because of the barrier caused by major philosophical differences in the perspectives between these research areas. This paper aims to contribute to more effective interdisciplinary integration by explaining some of the philosophical views underpinning social research and how these views influence research methods and outcomes. We use a project investigating the motivation of volunteers working in an adaptive co-management project to eradicate American Mink from the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland as a... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive co-management; Interdisciplinarity; Philosophy; Social– Ecological resilience. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Abidi-Habib, Mehjabeen; Government College University Lahore; mamie@wol.net.pk; Lawrence, Anna; Oxford University; anna.lawrence@eci.ox.ac.uk. |
| The Shimshal Nature Trust is an indigenous institution rooted in a thriving and dynamic culture that links the local ecology and society. It has deployed identity, traditional knowledge, science, and institutional innovation to adapt to outside challenges without destroying local commons management. This paper reviews scholarly debate on natural resource management and uses resilience theory to examine this complex adaptive system. Two disturbances to Shimshal resilience prompted by a national park and a new road are traced. Shimshali responses include social processes of learning, knowledge systems, and renewal. Ways in which adaptive renewal cycles involve Revolt, a short, fast reaction, and Remember, a larger, slower cascade, are put in perspective.... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Pakistan; Indigenous institution; Local commons management; Ecological resilience; Complex adaptive systems; Social learning; Renewal; National park; New road; Community participation. |
| Ano: 2007 |
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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... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Catastrophe theory; Complex systems science; Dynamical systems analysis; Ecological resilience; Non-equilibrium ecology; Self-organization; Thresholds; Time-scale calculus. |
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| Although several frameworks for assessing the resilience of social-ecological systems (SESs) have been developed, some practitioners may not have sufficient time and information to conduct extensive resilience assessments. We have presented a simplified approach to resilience assessment that reviews the scientific, historical, and social literature to rate the resilience of an SES with respect to nine resilience properties: ecological variability, diversity, modularity, acknowledgement of slow variables, tight feedbacks, social capital, innovation, overlap in governance, and ecosystem services. We evaluated the effects of two large-scale projects, the construction of a major dam and the implementation of an ecosystem recovery program, on the resilience... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecological resilience; Platte River; Resilience assessment; Social-ecological system; Social resilience. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Wagner, Sven; Chair of Silviculture, TU-Dresden; wagner@forst.tu-dresden.de; Nocentini, Susanna; Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems, University of Florence; susanna.nocentini@unifi.it; Huth, Franka; Chair of Silviculture, TU-Dresden; mario@forst.tu-dresden.de; Hoogstra-Klein, Marjanke; Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University; Marjanke.Hoogstra@wur.nl. |
| The issue of rapid change in environmental conditions under which ecosystem processes and human interventions will take place in the future is relatively new to forestry, whereas the provision of ecosystem services, e.g., timber or fresh water, is at the very heart of the original concept of forest management. Forest managers have developed ambitious deterministic approaches to provide the services demanded, and thus the use of deterministic approaches for adapting to climate change seem to be a logical continuation. However, as uncertainty about the intensity of climate change is high, forest managers need to answer this uncertainty conceptually. One may envision an indeterministic approach to cope with this uncertainty; but how the services will be... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem services; Forest management strategies; Flexibility; Forest structure; Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Johnson, Barry L; USGS, Upper Midwest Enviromental Sciences Center; barry_johnson@usgs.gov. |
| In making resource management decisions, agencies use a variety of approaches that involve different levels of political concern, historical precedence, data analyses, and evaluation. Traditional decision-making approaches have often failed to achieve objectives for complex problems in large systems, such as the Everglades or the Colorado River. I contend that adaptive management is the best approach available to agencies for addressing this type of complex problem, although its success has been limited thus far. Traditional decision-making approaches have been fairly successful at addressing relatively straightforward problems in small, replicated systems, such as management of trout in small streams or pulp production in forests. However, this success... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem management; Flexibility; Replicated systems; Resource management agencies; Stakeholders.. |
| Ano: 1999 |
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| Briske, David D.; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University; dbriske@tamu.edu; Washington-Allen, Robert A.; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University; washington-allen@tamu.edu; Johnson, Craig R.; School of Zoology, University of Tasmania; craig.johnson@utas.edu.au; Lockwood, Jeffrey A.; Department of Philosophy, University of Wyoming; lockwood@uwyo.edu; Lockwood, Dale R.; Biology Department, Colorado State University; dale.lockwood@colostate.edu; Stringham, Tamzen K.; Department of Animal Biotechnology, University of Nevada-Reno; tstringham@cabnr.unr.edu; Shugart, Herman H; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia; hhs@virginia.edu. |
| Research reported in this feature identifies a convergence of interpretations regarding the threshold dynamics of complex ecological systems. This convergence has arisen from a diverse set of investigations addressing rangeland ecosystem dynamics, disease transmission, and fluctuations in the populations of insect pests. Effective application of the threshold concept to ecosystem management will require development of more robust linkages between non-equilibrium theory and protocols to identify triggers that initiate threshold conditions, feedback loops that establish system resilience, and developmental trajectories and attributes of potential alternative stable states. Successful implementation of these theory/application linkages has the potential to... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Complexity science; Ecological resilience; Non-equilibrium ecology; Self-organized systems; Systems theory. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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