A Social–Ecological Odyssey in Fisheries and Wildlife Management

Carlson, Andrew K.; Taylor, William W.; Cronin, Melissa R.; Eaton, Mitchell J.; Eckert, Lauren; Kaemingk, Mark A.; Reid, Andrea J.; Trudeau, Ashley

doi:10.1002/fsh.10439

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“…Since every ecosystem is affected by human actions (Vitousek et al, 1997), ecosystems are best understood and managed by integrating social dimensions into these biophysical domains and seeing natural resources as embedded in complex social–ecological systems (Collins et al, 2011; Ostrom, 2009). Applying interdisciplinary, systems‐thinking approaches creates a necessary shift away from viewing humans as merely agents of change and toward seeing them in more complex, reciprocal relationships as agents that also depend on resources spanning multiple scales and feedback cycles (Carlson et al, 2020; Collins et al, 2011; Liu et al, 2007; Mace, 2014; Mahajan et al, 2019).…”

Section: Capacities To Address Contemporary Wildlife Conservation Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reenvisioning the university education needs of wildlife conservation professionals in the United States

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Dayer

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Conservat Sci and Prac

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The future viability of wildlife conservation in the United States hinges on the field's ability to adapt to changing social–ecological conditions including shifting societal values and mounting pressures to engage a greater diversity of voices in decision‐making. As wildlife agencies respond to calls to broaden their relevance amid such changes, there is a need to consider the role of university education programs in preparing future wildlife professionals to meet the challenges of this new era. We identify four core areas of competency (technical, leadership, administrative, and adaptive) for universities to consider integrating into new or existing programs to support the emergent needs of the wildlife profession. We focus on undergraduate degree programs as a critical foundation for wildlife‐related careers but also recommend consideration of these skill sets in other areas of professional development including graduate education. Our approach acknowledges the importance of building on traditional areas of expertise such as biology and expanding them to include more interdisciplinary training in areas such as systems approaches, the social sciences, and organizational change. We conclude with recommendations for implementation, highlighting several successful examples, for universities to contemplate as they explore programmatic changes to help build greater capacity for wildlife conservation in the 21st century.

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Section: Capacities To Address Contemporary Wildlife Conservation Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reenvisioning the university education needs of wildlife conservation professionals in the United States

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Bruyere

Dayer

et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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From fragments to connections to restoration: A case history of emergent sociocultural services in the Clark Fork River and Lake Pend Oreille fishery

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Wallen

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Aquatic Ecosystem Health &Amp; Management

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Lake Pend Oreille and the Clark Fork River provide essential ecosystem services, including fisheries and hydroelectric power, to residents of Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Although conflicts exist, these services are maintained in concert by emergent sociocultural services created by a multi-institutional, transboundary collaboration. This has been enabled by an innovative Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license settlement agreement among a multitude of stakeholders. The consensus-based agreement promotes connections among people, projects, waterways, and fish populations. Collaborative management efforts allow stakeholders to address controversial issues, such as invasive fish suppression. We demonstrate how reciprocal cultural ecosystem services and services to ecosystems can enable ecosystem-scale restoration that addresses invasive species, habitat protection, and water quality management. Continued ecosystem management success relies on sustaining the relationship-building and shared knowledge services that have emerged over the past 25 years.

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More than ponds amid skyscrapers: Urban fisheries as multiscalar human–natural systems

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Boonstra

Joosse

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Aquatic Ecosystem Health &Amp; Management

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Although social-ecological fisheries research is growing, comparatively little attention is paid to fisheries in urban environments. We aim to address this imbalance, because as cities expand worldwide, we expect urban fisheries to become more widespread and important in providing food/nutrition security, recreation, community well-being, and other benefits to fisheries stakeholders and urban dwellers across spatiotemporal scales. This paper contains a first analysis of the economic and sociocultural provisions, trade-offs, and dilemmas associated with urban fisheries to yield insights for sustainable management and planning of urban blue space. To address these objectives, we use the metacoupling framework, a method for assessing human–nature interactions within and across adjacent and distant fisheries systems. We use examples from multiple countries and data from the United States to illustrate how urban fisheries encompass flows of people, money, and information across multiple spatiotemporal scales and provide nutritional, recreational, social, and cultural benefits to fisheries stakeholders. Throughout the world, urban fisheries are influenced by wide-ranging human needs (e.g. food provisioning, recreation, aquatic resource education) that generate social-ecological effects within and beyond cities. Our analysis yields insights for developing holistic, metacoupling-informed management approaches that address the diverse social-ecological objectives and trade-offs involved in sustainable development of urban fisheries.

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A Social–Ecological Odyssey in Fisheries and Wildlife Management

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Reenvisioning the university education needs of wildlife conservation professionals in the United States

Reenvisioning the university education needs of wildlife conservation professionals in the United States

From fragments to connections to restoration: A case history of emergent sociocultural services in the Clark Fork River and Lake Pend Oreille fishery

More than ponds amid skyscrapers: Urban fisheries as multiscalar human–natural systems

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