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Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: What matters for community wildlife conservation? Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Herbert Ntuli; Aksel Sundström; Martin Sjöstedt; Edwin Muchapondwa; Sverker Jagers; Amanda Linell
Although subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservation in Southern Africa, this behavior is seldom researched. Our understanding of individual and community level factors that drive such behavior is limited because of both lack of data and the literature’s predominant focus on commercial poaching. The main objective of this study is to contribute to this scanty literature by examining
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Indigenous peoples and salmon stewardship: a critical relationship Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Courtney Carothers; Jessica Black; Stephen Langdon; Rachel Donkersloot; Danielle Ringer; Jesse Coleman; Erika Gavenus; Wilson Justin; Mike Williams; Freddie Christiansen; Jonathan Samuelson; Carrie Stevens; Brooke Woods; S. Jeanette Clark; Patricia Clay; Liza Mack; Julie Raymond-Yakoubian; Andrea Sanders; Benjamin Stevens; Alex Whiting
Indigenous Peoples and salmon in the lands now called Alaska have been closely entwined for at least 12,000 years. Salmon continue to be central to the ways of life of Alaska Natives, contributing to physical, social, economic, cultural, spiritual, psychological, and emotional well-being. Salmon have also become important to Alaskan settlers. Our research and advisory team conducted a synthesis of
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Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Michael Cox; Georgina Gurney; John Anderies; Eric Coleman; Emily Darling; Graham Epstein; Ulrich Frey; Mateja Nenadovic; Edella Schlager; Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
A generalized knowledge of social-ecological relationships is needed to address current environmental challenges. Broadly comparative and synthetic research is a key method for establishing this type of knowledge. To date, however, most work on social-ecological systems has applied idiosyncratic methods to specific systems. Several projects, each based on the frameworks developed by Elinor Ostrom and
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Grasping darkness: the dark ecological network as a social-ecological framework to limit the impacts of light pollution on biodiversity Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Samuel Challéat; Kévin Barré; Alexis Laforge; Dany Lapostolle; Magalie Franchomme; Clélia Sirami; Isabelle Le Viol; Johan Milian; Christian Kerbiriou
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is nowadays recognized as a major anthropogenic pressure on the environment on a global scale and as such is called light pollution. Through its attractive or deterrent effects, and its disruption of the biological clock for many animal and plant taxa, ALAN is increasingly recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity, which ultimately alters the amount, the quality
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Socioeconomic impacts of resource diversification from small-scale fishery development Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-12 Steven Purcell; Alejandro Tagliafico; Brian Cullis; Beverley Gogel
The predicted future shortfall in seafood production from tropical small-scale fisheries demands support to help diversify income streams and food production for coastal communities. Livelihood diversification can comprise the enhancement or addition of components to existing fisheries, yet the likely socioeconomic impacts are unclear. With a long history of nondeleterious introductions, the marine
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Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Hampus Eriksson; Jessica Blythe; Henrik Österblom; Per Olsson
This Special Feature is motivated by the rigorous, and growing, theoretical and empirical body of literature on social-ecological traps. Building on the foundational literature, which describes the context in many of the places where we work, we now look forward and ask how we can better understand and enable the breaking and escaping of social-ecological traps. In this Special Feature we focus on
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Nature’s contributions to people: coproducing quality of life from multifunctional landscapes Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Enora Bruley; Bruno Locatelli; Sandra Lavorel
Nature’s contributions to human well-being within social-ecological systems have been widely studied using multiple conceptual frameworks, yet there is a growing need to better articulate how both humans and nature contribute to quality of life. We present an operationalization of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) conceptual framework with an in-depth analysis
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Toward an urgent yet deliberate conservation strategy: sustaining social-ecological systems in rangelands of the Northern Great Plains, Montana Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Kathleen Epstein; David Wood; Kelli Roemer; Bryce Currey; Hannah Duff; Justin Gay; Hannah Goemann; Sasha Loewen; Megan Milligan; John Wendt; E. N. J. Brookshire; Bruce Maxwell; Lance McNew; David McWethy; Paul Stoy; Julia Haggerty
Urgency and deliberateness are often at odds when executing conservation projects, especially as the scale and complexity of objectives increases. The pace of environmental degradation supports immediate and measurable action. However, best practices for adaptive governance and building resilient social-ecological systems call for more deliberate efforts and participatory processes, which can be slow
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Meeting places and social capital supporting rural landscape stewardship: A Pan-European horizon scanning Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-05 Per Angelstam; Mariia Fedoriak; Fatima Cruz; José Muñoz-Rojas; Taras Yamelynets; Michael Manton; Carla-Leanne Washbourne; Denis Dobrynin; Zita Izakovičova; Nicklas Jansson; Bogdan Jaroszewicz; Robert Kanka; Marika Kavtarishvili; Leena Kopperoinen; Marius Lazdinis; Marc Metzger; Deniz Özüt; Dori Pavloska Gjorgjieska; Frans Sijtsma; Nataliya Stryamets; Ahmet Tolunay; Turkay Turkoglu; Bert van der Moolen;
Achieving sustainable development as an inclusive societal process in rural landscapes, and sustainability in terms of functional green infrastructures for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services, are wicked challenges. Competing claims from various sectors call for evidence-based adaptive collaborative governance. Leveraging such approaches requires maintenance of several forms of social
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Combining biophysical optimization with economic preference analysis for agricultural land-use allocation Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Andrea Kaim; Bartosz Bartkowski; Nele Lienhoop; Christoph Schröter-Schlaack; Martin Volk; Michael Strauch
Agricultural production provides food, feed, and renewable energy, generates economic profits, and contributes to social welfare in many ways. However, intensive farming is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity. Although current market forces and regulations such as the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy, seem to foster agricultural intensification, a socially and ecologically optimal
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Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Lucas Dawson; Marine Elbakidze; Marie Schellens; Anton Shkaruba; Per Angelstam
Wetlands are complex social-ecological systems, which provide both important habitat for species, and multiple tangible and intangible benefits for people. Sustaining long-term benefits through restoration, conservation, and sustainable use is often linked to integrative and adaptive approaches to wetlands management. Such approaches assume democratic ideals, and require multilevel, multisector, and
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Promises and limits of community-based organizations in bridging mismatches of scale: a case study on collaborative governance on federal lands Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Jean Lee; Jacopo Baggio
Federal land managers in the United States are tasked with managing a vast array of resources for current and future generations. However, coordinating action among multiple stakeholders across diverse landscapes is challenging given that the organizations and institutions set up to govern federal lands are often unable to overcome scale-related challenges. Unconventional oil and gas development is
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A decision support tool for assessing cumulative effects on an Arctic migratory tundra caribou population Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Don Russell; Anne Gunn; Robert White
As large migratory caribou herds decline globally and regional climate trends point to a warmer future, there is a need and a legislative requirement to ensure impacts of industrial development are fully assessed, particularly with respect to cumulative effects. In this paper we use a current proposal, the potential leasing of the 1002 lands on the Alaskan Arctic coastal plain of the Arctic National
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Soils, landscapes, and cultural concepts of favor and disfavor within complex adaptive systems and ResourceCultures: human-land interactions during the Holocene Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Bruce James; Sandra Teuber; Jan Miera; Sean Downey; Jessica Henkner; Thomas Knopf; Fabio Correa; Benjamin Höpfer; Sascha Scherer; Adriane Michaelis; Barret Wessel; Kevin Gibbons; Peter Kühn; Thomas Scholten
We review and contrast three frameworks for analyzing human-land interactions in the Holocene: the traditional concept of favored and disfavored landscapes, the new concept of ResourceCultures from researchers at University of T?bingen, and complex adaptive systems, which is a well-established contemporary approach in interdisciplinary research. Following a theoretical integration of fundamental concepts
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Social learning for building community resilience to cyclones: role of indigenous and local knowledge, power, and institutions in coastal Bangladesh Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury; C. Haque; Ainun Nishat; Sean Byrne
Despite wide recognition of the role of social learning in building community resilience, few studies have thus far analyzed how the power–knowledge–institution matrix shapes social learning processes that in turn foster resilience outcomes. Drawing insights from the biopolitical lens of resilience, we take a critical stance on programmatic interventions for community resilience and social learning
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Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Nicholas Cradock-Henry
Agriculture is a major economic driver in Aotearoa-New Zealand (New Zealand), led by export earnings from dairy farming. Dairying is uniquely exposed to climatic- and nonclimatic socioeconomic stressors, which have their greatest effects on production and yield. The growing need to consider these and other changes is accelerating efforts aimed at ensuring greater resilience, adaptability, and flexibility
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Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Coowe Walker; Dennis Whigham; I. Syverine Bentz; Jacob Argueta; Ryan King; Mark Rains; Charles Simenstad; Chris Guo; Steven J. Baird; Conrad Field
While Pacific salmon are economically and culturally important worldwide, Alaska, USA is one of the few remaining places on earth where sustainable management of salmon is possible, even in the face of wide-ranging threats, including overharvesting and the impacts of climate change. A continuing challenge that we face is to understand the ecological processes that result in sustainable salmon populations
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Measuring rural community resilience: case studies in New Zealand and Vermont, USA Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2021-01-12 Penny Payne; William Kaye-Blake; Amy Kelsey; Margaret Brown; Meredith Niles
To date, methods for assessing community resilience have focused predominantly on disaster recovery. Those that do focus on broader social-ecological and psychological contexts tend to be qualitative and have not been validated at the community scale. This situation reveals a need for quantitative measurement tools for assessing community resilience to slow-moving change such as rural depopulation
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Telecoupling visualizations through a network lens: a systematic review Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Gabi Sonderegger; Christoph Oberlack; Jorge Llopis; Peter Verburg; Andreas Heinimann
Telecoupling is an integrative social-ecological framework that has made important contributions to understanding land change processes in a hyperconnected world. Visualizations are a powerful tool to communicate knowledge about telecoupling phenomena. However, little is known about current practices of telecoupling visualization and the challenges involved in visually displaying connections between
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The Flow of Peasant Lives: a board game to simulate livelihood strategies and trajectories resulting from complex rural household decisions Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Luis García-Barrios; Tlacaelel Rivera-Núñez; Juana Cruz-Morales; Jorge Urdapilleta-Carrasco; Elizabeth Castro-Salcido; Ivett Peña-Azcona; Oscar Martínez-López; Angelita López-Cruz; Merci Morales; Jorge Espinoza
Since the 1990s, many of neoliberalism’s policies for growth and development have contributed to the deterioration of living conditions for rural peasants who are marginalized and unwilling or unable to abandon their lands. In every nation in which this phenomenon is prevalent, the resulting impoverishment of rural peasants has motivated numerous academic studies and poverty-alleviation programs. Concurrently
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Putting machine learning to use in natural resource management—improving model performance Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Ulrich Frey
Machine learning models have proven to be very successful in many fields of research. Yet, in natural resource management, modeling with algorithms such as gradient boosting or artificial neural networks is virtually nonexistent. The current state of research on existing applications of machine learning in the field of social-ecological systems is outlined in a systematic literature review. For this
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Toward the development of sustainable ecotourism in Italian national parks of the Apennines: insights from hiking guides Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Stefano Poponi; Jordan Palli; Sonia Ferrari; Goffredo Filibeck; T'ai Forte; Cinzia Franceschini; Alessandro Ruggieri; Gianluca Piovesan
National parks in mountain areas are biodiversity hotspots in which implementing the sustainability goals of Agenda 2030 is particularly urgent. Ecotourism provides an opportunity to convey bio-ecological and economic sustainability principles to the public, focusing on nature conservation and a reduction of the negative impacts of tourism. We investigated four national parks in the Apennines, Italy
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Climate change, shifting threat points, and the management of transboundary fish stocks Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 U. Rashid Sumaila; Juliano Palacios-Abrantes; William Cheung
We apply the concept of threat points in game theory to explore the stability of current joint management arrangements for shared transboundary fish stocks between Canada and the United States. We use three examples to explore the effects of projected impacts of climate change on the productivity and distribution of these stocks between the exclusive economic zones of the two countries. The three stocks
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Challenges to transboundary fisheries management in North America under climate change Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Juliano Palacios-Abrantes; U. Rashid Sumaila; William Cheung
Climate change is shifting the distribution of fish stocks that straddle between exclusive economic zones (EEZ), challenging transboundary fisheries management. Here, we examine the projected sharing of jointly managed transboundary fish stocks between Canada and the United States. We hypothesize that ocean warming will alter the sharing of fish stocks between the two countries, and that such changes
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Are transboundary fisheries management arrangements in the Northwest Atlantic and North Pacific seaworthy in a changing ocean? Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Olga Koubrak; David VanderZwaag
Climate change is affecting physical and biological components and processes of marine ecosystems in many ways. Resulting changes in abundance and distribution of commercially valuable species are anticipated to create or exacerbate challenges for fisheries management across national boundaries by raising questions around catch allocation, membership in the management organizations, and forms of cooperation
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Transboundary fisheries, climate change, and the ecosystem approach: taking stock of the international law and policy seascape Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Cecilia Engler
The ecosystem approach to fisheries management is a conceptual and practical framework consistent with, and supportive of, climate change adaptation at the national and regional level. Implementing an ecosystem approach can contribute to climate change adaptation by improving ecosystem resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, by providing planning strategies and tools to monitor and
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Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 U. R. Sumaila; David VanderZwaag
This article is the Introduction to the Special Feature entitled: Canada and Transboundary Fisheries Management in Changing Oceans: Taking Stock, Future Scenarios. We summarize the research context of the four papers in the Special Feature.
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Institutions and inequality interplay shapes the impact of economic growth on biodiversity loss Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 M. Usman Mirza; Andries Richter; Egbert van Nes; Marten Scheffer
The latest global assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity loss can make ecosystems more vulnerable to the effects of climate change and other stressors. Economic growth has been identified as one of the key drivers of these losses, however, the impact pathway may depend on how society organizes economic activity
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The effects of urban development and current green infrastructure policy on future climate change resilience Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Charlotte Shade; Peleg Kremer; Julia Rockwell; Keith Henderson
Governments around the world are beginning to plan for the effects of climate change. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, the city is implementing a variety of green infrastructure practices through the program Green Cities, Clean Waters to meet state and federal stormwater regulations. Though not a current goal of the program, when implemented effectively, a cobenefit of green infrastructure is increased
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Assessing livelihood vulnerability using a Bayesian network: a case study in northern Laos Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Victoria Junquera; Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
Agricultural transitions from subsistence to export-oriented production make households more reliant on volatile agricultural commodity markets and can increase households’ exposure to crop price and yield shocks. At the same time, subsistence farming is also highly vulnerable to crop failures. In this work, we define household livelihood vulnerability as the probability of falling under an income
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Trade-offs between benefits and costs of forest proximity: farmers' practices and strategies regarding tree–crop integration and ecosystem disservices management Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Mulatu Osie; Sileshi Nemomissa; Simon Shibru; Gemedo Dalle
The impact of ecosystem disservices is among the issues that farmers have to consider in management of livelihoods and local landscapes. We investigated distinct practices developed within local communities in tree–crop integration and strategies to offset disservices. Forty-eight transects (24 at ≤1 km and 24 at ≥3 km from forest edges) were laid in the study sites. Woody and crop species were recorded
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Evaluating water quality regulation as a driver of farmer behavior: a social-ecological systems approach Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Courtney Hammond Wagner; Suzie Greenhalgh; Meredith Niles; Asim Zia; William Bowden
Water quality policy for agricultural lands seeks to improve water quality by changing farmer behavior. We investigate farmer behavior in three water quality regimes that differ by rule structure to examine the fit and interplay of each policy within its social-ecological context, important aspects for improving water quality. Vermont, USA’s practice-based policy requires the adoption of specific practices
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The adaptive cycle and the ecosystem services: a social-ecological analysis of Chilo? Island, southern Chile Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Daniela Pérez-Orellana; Luisa Delgado; Victor Marin
We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chilo? Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a social-ecological system. We generated hypothetical relationships between services and phases based on literature articles, testing them with secondary databases for 1826–2016 and interviews
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Perceived availability and access limitations to ecosystem service well-being benefits increase in urban areas Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Marie Lapointe; Georgina Gurney; Graeme Cumming
Access mechanisms can determine the benefits that people derive from a given ecosystem service supply. However, compared to ecosystem service availability, access has received little research attention. The relative importance of availability compared to access in limiting ecosystem service benefits is even less well understood. In cities, the observed disconnect between people and nature might result
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“Like the plains people losing the buffalo”: perceptions of climate change impacts, fisheries management, and adaptation actions by Indigenous peoples in coastal British Columbia, Canada Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-09 Charlotte Whitney; Alejandro Frid; Barry Edgar; Jennifer Walkus; Peter Siwallace; Iris Siwallace; Natalie Ban
Rapidly developing and complex climate change impacts have profound implications for coastal communities, demanding adaptation actions for both social and ecological systems. Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, Indigenous peoples developed a tightly coupled social-ecological system that was interrupted by the arrival of settler colonialism in the 1800s. Although both climate change adaptation
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The role of collaborative research in learning to incorporate values of the public in social–ecological system governance: case study of bushfire risk planning Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Kathryn Williams; Rebecca Ford; Andrea Rawluk
Values of the public are a key and dynamic component of bushfire governance SES. Learning to work with these values is a significant challenge for government and environmental managers and an important aspect of policy transition in many contexts. During such transitions, collaborative research can play a key role in social learning, but this may be particularly challenging for agencies with dominant
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Beyond fixes that fail: identifying sustainable improvements to tree seed supply and farmer participation in forest and landscape restoration Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Michel Valette; Barbara Vinceti; Nestor Gregorio; Arwen Bailey; Evert Thomas; Riina Jalonen
Growing evidence suggests that constraints to the availability and quality of tree seed can undermine the success of forest and landscape restoration efforts and the delivery of associated benefits such as mitigating climate change and halting biodiversity loss. Past experiences to promote tree seed supply have frequently shown limited outcomes over time, partly because of unexpected, deleterious dynamics
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Supporting stakeholders to anticipate and respond to risks in a Mekong River water-energy-food nexus Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Louise Gallagher; Birgit Kopainsky; Andrea Bassi; Andrea Betancourt; Chanmeta Buth; Puthearath Chan; Simon Costanzo; Sarah St. George Freeman; Chandet Horm; Sandab Khim; Malyne Neang; Naroeun Rin; Ken Sereyrotha; Kimchhin Sok; Chansopheaktra Sovann; Michele Thieme; Karina Watkins; Carina Wyborn; Christian Bréthaut
The water-energy-food nexus concept is criticized as not yet fit for deeply integrated and contested governance agendas. One problem is how to achieve equitable risk governance and management where there is low consensus on priorities, poor inclusion and coordination of risk assessment procedures, and a weak emphasis placed on cross-scale and sectoral interactions over time. Participatory system dynamics
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Actor network analysis to leverage improvements in conservation and development outcomes in Cambodia Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Rebecca Riggs; James Langston; Sithan Phann
Network analysis has emerged as a useful practice for characterizing governance relationships and providing insights to the power relations that affect landscapes. We applied actor network analysis in two rural Cambodian landscapes to examine decision-making structures that affect conservation and development systems. Using questionnaire data, we analyze structural features of networks of cooperation
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Experts and elephants: local ecological knowledge predicts landscape use for a species involved in human-wildlife conflict Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Erin Buchholtz; Lee Fitzgerald; Anna Songhurst; Graham McCulloch; Amanda Stronza
Local ecological knowledge (LEK) has been increasingly invoked in biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts. Although methods involving LEK have become more widespread in ecology, it remains an undervalued source of information in understanding the ecology of wildlife in the context of human-wildlife conflict. People who regularly interact with wildlife, and often with notable consequences,
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Where elephants roam: perceived risk, vulnerability, and adaptation in the Okavango Delta Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Lauren Redmore; Amanda Stronza; Anna Songhurst; Graham McCulloch
Where people and elephants share space, the chance of human-elephant interactions (HEI) shape how people make livelihood decisions, including where and when to harvest resources. In the Eastern Panhandle of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, elephant populations have doubled in the past 10 years. Currently 16,000 men and women from different ethnic backgrounds share woodlands with 18,000 elephants. People
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Restricting pesticides on a traditional crop: the example of khat (Catha edulis) and the Njuri Ncheke of Meru, Kenya Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 James Krueger; Daniel Mutyambai
Rampant increase and diversification of synthetic pesticides poses health, environmental, and livelihood risks especially to smallholder farmers who dominate agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. Legal mechanisms for regulating pesticides, although important, have not fully addressed the dangers of ecological services disruptions due to accumulation of different pesticides over time. Legal mechanisms
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Knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary disaster risk management initiatives: cocreation insights and experience from New Zealand Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Tyler Barton; Sarah Beaven; Nicholas Cradock-Henry; Thomas Wilson
Decision making in complex contexts such as disaster risk management requires collaborative approaches to knowledge production. Evidence-based disaster risk management and pre-event planning relies on robust and relevant disaster risk knowledge. We report on a case study of Project AF8, a “cocreation” collaboration involving local- and central-government disaster risk management agencies and groups
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Navigating the chaos of an unfolding global cycle Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Brian Walker; Stephen Carpenter; Carl Folke; Lance Gunderson; Garry Peterson; Marten Scheffer; Michael Schoon; Frances Westley
There are many calls to use the COVID 19 crisis as an opportunity for transforming to a future trajectory that is more equitable and environmentally sustainable. What is lacking is a cohesive framework for bringing these calls together. We propose that such transitions could be informed by lessons from three decades of scholarship on abrupt and surprising change in systems of humans and nature. Over
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Intangible links between household livelihoods and food security in Solomon Islands: implications for rural development Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Hampus Eriksson; Reuben Sulu; Jessica Blythe; Jan van der Ploeg; Neil Andrew
Livelihood diversification has been the heartbeat of rural development projects over the past two decades. Many livelihood diversification programs are based on the often implicit assumption that introducing livelihood activities will translate into improved livelihood outcomes. In this study we analyze survey data from 235 households in Langalanga Lagoon, Solomon Islands. We explore relationships
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Environmental governance theories: a review and application to coastal systems Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Stefan Partelow; Achim Schlüter; Derek Armitage; Maarten Bavinck; Keith Carlisle; Rebecca Gruby; Anna-Katharina Hornidge; Martin Le Tissier; Jeremy Pittman; Andrew Song; Lisa Sousa; Natașa Văidianu; Kristof Van Assche
This article synthesizes and compares environmental governance theories. For each theory we outline its main tenets, claims, origin, and supporting literature. We then group the theories into focused versus combinatory frameworks for comparison. The analysis resonates with many types of ecosystems; however, to make it more tangible, we focus on coastal systems. First, we characterize coastal governance
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Enriching perspectives: experienced ecosystem services in rural Mozambique and the importance of a gendered livelihood approach to resist reductionist analyses of local culture Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Juliana Porsani; Lowe Börjeson; Rickard Lalander; Kari Lehtilä; Angelina Martins
Based on a case study from rural Mozambique, we stress that ecosystem services research may be enriched through gendered livelihood approaches, particularly in terms of experienced ecosystem services. Ecosystem services studies have been accused of being gender blind. We argue for the value of open narratives that are attentive to the gender dynamics underpinning the production and reproduction of
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Governing global telecoupling toward environmental sustainability Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Jens Newig; Edward Challies; Benedetta Cotta; Andrea Lenschow; Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Telecoupling constitutes a particular class of globalized environmental issues that are neither local-cumulative, nor transboundary, nor concerning global commons, but that arise because of specific linkages between distal regions. Such telecoupled issues, e.g., associated with global commodity chains, waste flows, or migration patterns, have been receiving increasing attention from scholars of global
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Socio-hydrology: an interplay of design and self-organization in a multilevel world Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-19 David Yu; Heejun Chang; Taylor Davis; Vicken Hillis; Landon Marston; Woi Sok Oh; Murugesu Sivapalan; Timothy Waring
The emerging field of socio-hydrology is a special case of social-ecological systems research that focuses on coupled human-water systems, exploring how the hydrologic cycle and human cultural traits coevolve and how such coevolutions lead to phenomena of relevance to water security and sustainability. As such, most problems tackled by socio-hydrology involve some aspects of engineering design, such
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Oral history and traditional ecological knowledge in social innovation and smallholder sovereignty: a case study of erva-mate in Southern Brazil Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Evelyn Nimmo; Alessandra Carvalho; Robson Laverdi; André Lacerda
We outline preliminary results of an ongoing research project conducted in collaboration with traditional erva-mate (yerba mate) producers in Southern Paran? and Northern Santa Catarina, Brazil. The multidisciplinary project includes researchers in the natural and social sciences, forest engineers, historians, rural outreach workers, and farmers and is the result of a long-term engagement with smallholder
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Using socioeconomic system analysis to define scientific needs: a reverse engineering method applied to the conversion of a coal-fired to a wood biomass power plant Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-13 Hendrik Davi; Laetitia Tuffery; Emanuel Garbolino; Bernard Prévosto; Bruno Fady
One of the greatest challenges when addressing issues in complex social-ecological systems (SES), is the need for an efficient interdisciplinary framework when large-magnitude social and ecological disturbances occur. Teams comprising of scientists from different backgrounds and disciplines are frequently called upon to propose research methods and results that can be useful for policy and decision
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Collaborative research to inform adaptive comanagement: a framework for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research Reserve Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Kawika Winter; Yoshimi Rii; Frederick Reppun; Katy Hintzen; Rosanna Alegado; Brian Bowen; Leah Bremer; Makena Coffman; Jonathan Deenik; Megan Donahue; Kim Falinski; Kiana Frank; Erik Franklin; Natalie Kurashima; Noa Lincoln; Elizabeth Madin; Margaret McManus; Craig Nelson; Ryan Okano; Anthony Olegario; Pua'ala Pascua; Kirsten Oleson; Melissa Price; Malia Ana Rivera; Kuulei Rodgers; Tamara Ticktin;
Globally, an increasing recognition of the importance of ecosystem-based management (EBM), Indigenous resource management (IRM), and Indigenous-led research and management is emerging; yet, case studies within scholarly literature illustrating comprehensive application of these theories and philosophies are scarce. We present the collaborative management model for the Heʻeia National Estuarine Research
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Risk of encounters between North Atlantic right whales and recreational vessel traffic in the southeastern United States Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 Nancy Montes; Robert Swett; Timothy Gowan
Collisions with and disturbance from watercraft represent significant threats to endangered North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis). Although several studies have investigated whale cooccurrence with commercial vessels, none has considered recreational vessels. We estimated an index between relative encounter risk of North Atlantic right whales and recreational vessel traffic in the southeastern
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Indigenous climate adaptation sovereignty in a Zimbabwean agro-pastoral system: exploring definitions of sustainability success using a participatory agent-based model Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-11 M. V. Eitzel; Jon Solera; K. Wilson; Kleber Neves; Aaron Fisher; André Veski; Oluwasola Omoju; Abraham Mawere Ndlovu; Emmanuel Mhike Hove
Indigenous peoples are experiencing a wide range of negative impacts due to climate change and should have the right to determine for themselves how to adapt to these changes and define successful adaptation. These adaptations can then be culturally appropriate and grounded in Indigenous knowledge systems; however, the accelerating rate of change in social-ecological systems can be a challenge for
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Indigenous fire management: a conceptual model from literature Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 William Nikolakis; Emma Roberts
Culture influences how fire is perceived and managed in societies. An increasing risk of catastrophic wildfire has shifted political and academic attention on the use of Indigenous fire management (IFM) as an alternative to the common fire suppression paradigm. However, what is IFM? Here we conduct a conceptual framework analysis of scientific and scholarly literature to enhance our understanding of
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From risk behavior to perceived farm resilience: a Dutch case study Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-06 Thomas Slijper; Yann de Mey; P. Marijn Poortvliet; Miranda P. M. Meuwissen
In an era where farmers face considerable levels of intertwined risks and uncertainties, farm resilience is developing into a focal point for agricultural policies. Using survey data from 916 Dutch farmers, we explore how risk behavior relates to perceived resilience. We capture the dynamics of resilience thinking by investigating past risk-management portfolios, current risk preferences, future risk
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Cross-scale risk perception: differences between tribal leaders and resource managers in Arctic Alaska Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Berill Blair; Gary Kofinas
Communities of Alaska’s North Slope are affected by concurrent, rapid changes due to climate change and industrial activities. Because these impacts are expected to shape community planning agendas into the foreseeable future, increased attention has been paid to decision-making processes that support adaptation. The planning and development decisions that shape adaptation outcomes in North Slope communities
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Gardener demographics, experience, and motivations drive differences in plant species richness and composition in urban gardens Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Stacy Philpott; Monika Egerer; Peter Bichier; Hamutahl Cohen; Roseann Cohen; Heidi Liere; Shalene Jha; Brenda Lin
Urban agriculture has received considerable attention for its role in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and health and well-being for growing urban populations. Urban gardens managed with agroecological practices and higher plant diversity support more biodiversity and may support higher crop production. Plant selection in gardens is a function of temperature and environmental conditions
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Seeing the forest for more than the trees: aesthetic and contextual malleability of preferences for climate change adaptation strategies Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Jeffrey Jenkins; Brett Milligan; Yiwei Huang
Climate change is still addressed largely through expert-driven processes that rely on large-scale scenarios to transmit knowledge of anticipated trends to land managers and the lay public who are forced to confront and adapt to impacts at the local level. Thus, there is a disconnect between large-scale scenarios and the top-down management paradigm that decision-makers use, and local scenarios and
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Pathways out of poverty through the lens of development resilience: an agent-based simulation Ecol. Soc. (IF 3.89) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Yue Dou; Peter Deadman; Marta Berbés-Blázquez; Nathan Vogt; Oriana Almeida
Poverty alleviation for smallholders must consider the increasingly varied and intertwined impacts of climate change and globalization. This calls for a resilience perspective that includes eradication of poverty and resilience enhancement under extreme events and shocks. Applying the framework of development resilience, we constructed an agent-based model based on small farming households in the Amazon
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