Adaptive capacity of local indigenous institutions: the case of the taboo forests of southern Madagascar

Tengö, Maria; Heland, Jacob von

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139017237.006

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“…It seems like the ancestral contract has played a critical role in keeping the Tandroy together across generations, surviving recurring climatic shocks and guiding their history and culture (von Heland and Folke 2014). But the adaptations of the social-ecological system is challenged by climatic change and pressures of globalization (Tengö and von Heland 2012). The Maine lobster fishery is tied to global markets.…”

Section: Intertwined Social-ecological Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

Folke¹,

Biggs²,

Norström³

et al. 2016

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ABSTRACT. Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social justice, economic development, and sustainability. In this article, we exemplify the intertwined nature of social-ecological systems and emphasize that they operate within, and as embedded parts of the biosphere and as such coevolve with and depend on it. We regard social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems and use a social-ecological resilience approach as a lens to address and understand their dynamics. We raise the challenge of stewardship of development in concert with the biosphere for people in diverse contexts and places as critical for long-term sustainability and dignity in human relations. Biosphere stewardship is essential, in the globalized world of interactions with the Earth system, to sustain and enhance our lifesupporting environment for human well-being and future human development on Earth, hence, the need to reconnect development to the biosphere foundation and the need for a biosphere-based sustainability science.

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Section: Intertwined Social-ecological Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science

Folke¹,

Biggs²,

Norström³

et al. 2016

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“…Place has been implicitly invoked in studies linking ecosystem resilience to community well-being (Berkes and Folke 1998), especially in the coevolution of local and traditional ecological knowledge, adaptive institutions, and responding to changes in nature and landscape dynamics (Berkes et al 2000, Olsson and Folke 2001, Tengö and von Heland 2011. Chapin and Knapp (2015) argue that stewardship can be fostered by the place attachments produced through repeated personal experiences filtered through identity and social context.…”

Section: Stewardship Practices and Knowledge Are Embedded In Placementioning

confidence: 99%

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socialecological systems perspective, assume an interconnected social and biophysical reality. However, these fields of research are only recently beginning to converge, and we see great potential for further engagement. Here, we present an approach and conceptual tools for how the sense of place perspective can contribute to social-ecological systems research. A brief review focuses on two areas where relation to place is particularly relevant: stewardship of ecosystem services, and responses to change in social-ecological systems. Based on the review, we synthesize specific ways in which sense of place may be applied by social-ecological systems researchers to analyze individual and social behaviors. We emphasize the importance of descriptive place meanings and evaluative place attachment as tools to study the patterned variation of sense of place within or among populations or types of places and the implications for resilience and transformative capacity. We conclude by setting out an agenda for future research that takes into account the concerns of resilience thinking such as the effects of dynamic ecology, interactions between temporal and spatial scales, and the interplay of rapid and incremental change on sense of place and place-related behaviors. This future research agenda also includes concerns from the broader sense of place literature such as the importance of structural power relationships on the creation of place meanings and how scaling up a sense of place may influence pro-environmental behavior.

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“…Forest patches, ranging in size from <1 to more than 90 ha, are scattered across the studied agricultural landscape of small fields and pastures. The landscape has been well preserved in spite of strong pressures on land and forest resources (Tengö et al, 2007;Tengö and von-Heland, 2011). The forest patches are protected by taboos restricting access and use, and the patches generate essential ecosystem services such as micro-climate regulation and crop pollination .…”

Section: Studying Social-ecological Interdependencies In Southern Madmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The forest patches are protected by taboos restricting access and use, and the patches generate essential ecosystem services such as micro-climate regulation and crop pollination . Furthermore, the forests are culturally important as ancestral burial grounds, sites for ceremonies, and as symbols of the link between people and the land (Tengö and von-Heland, 2011).…”

Section: Studying Social-ecological Interdependencies In Southern Madmentioning

confidence: 99%