The United States Forest Service 2012 Planning Rule prioritizes making lands resilient to climate change. Although researchers have investigated the history of “resilience” and its multiple interpretations, few have examined perceptions or experiences of resource staff tasked with implementing resilience. We interviewed Forest Service staff in the Southwestern Region to evaluate how managers and planners interpret resilience as an agency strategy, execution of resilience in management, and climate change’s impact on perception of resilience. Interviewees identified resilience as a main driver of agency response to land management but, when applying the concept, experienced barriers including ambiguity; scale; management specificity versus broad, adaptive landscape approach; and lack of metrics or examples. Interviewees found restoring ecosystem function to promote resilience while planning for future changed landscapes difficult. They desired landscape-scale collaboration to understand how to operationalize the resilience directive. Our findings revealed obstacles and opportunities for resilience in a managerial context.

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管理弹性？研究西南国家森林的复原力的管理意义

美国森林服务局2012年规划规则优先考虑使土地具有抵御气候变化的能力。尽管研究人员调查了“弹性”的历史及其多种解释，但很少有人研究负责执行弹性的资源人员的看法或经验。我们采访了西南地区的林务局工作人员，以评估管理人员和规划人员如何将抵御能力解释为一种机构战略，在管理中执行抵御能力的执行情况以及气候变化对抵御能力感知的影响。受访者认为，抵御能力是机构对土地管理做出反应的主要驱动力，但在采用这一概念时，遇到了障碍，包括模糊性；规模; 管理专长与广泛的适应性景观方法；缺乏指标或示例。受访者发现，恢复生态系统功能以增强适应力，同时计划未来变化的景观非常困难。他们希望进行横向协作，以了解如何实施弹性指令。我们的发现揭示了在管理环境中恢复的障碍和机会。