Assessing Factors of Environmental Stewardship Success: Organizational Perceptions from the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada

Kapeller, Brooke; Plummer, Ryan; Baird, Julia; Jollineau, Marilyne

doi:10.1007/s00267-022-01669-w

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“…Studies have also shown that intrinsically motivated stewardship initiatives have a higher chance of success due to fostering a sense of belonging, encouraging personal learning, and strengthening community connections (Bramston et al 2011; Asah and Blahna 2013; Cetas and Yasué 2016). However, a companion study in Niagara Region (Kapeller et al 2022) found important factors in perceived stewardship success to be more elaborate. For example, in that study it was found that the actors involved in the work are only one of ten factors making for stewardship success, although rated as the most important.…”

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Exploring the context and elements of local environmental stewardship: An embedded case study of the Niagara Region, Canada

Kapeller

Plummer

Baird

et al. 2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Environmental stewardship—a concept that describes the relationships between humans and the environment—is gaining increased attention as an approach that can address planetary sustainability issues. In‐depth empirical investigations of local environmental stewardship are needed to understand how social‐ecological context influences stewardship, as well as the arrangement of conceptual elements in applied settings. This study addresses these needs by conducting an in‐depth exploration of environmental stewardship in the Niagara Region of Canada. A single embedded case study design is employed, with environmental stewardship initiatives constituting the individual units of analysis with the case. Analysis of the spatial arrangement of a total of 89 initiatives indicated that initiatives tended to cluster closer to the Niagara River and in more populous municipalities. The significance of collaboration, tensions between the environment and economic development, and concerns about political impacts emerged as themes across contextual factors. The configuration of stewardship elements reveals interesting discrepancies between initiatives and previous stewardship research focused on larger scales, individuals, and organizations. Further analysis is encouraged to illuminate environmental stewardship in other settings as well as advance relational understanding of conceptual elements.

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Exploring the context and elements of local environmental stewardship: An embedded case study of the Niagara Region, Canada

Kapeller

Plummer

Baird

et al. 2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems

Ying,

Egermann

2024

Sustain Sci

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The negative effects of climate change as well as the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the fragility of the current global food system. To respond to such crises, the European Union’s (EU) “Farm to Fork” strategy strives to reshape the region’s food system to be more resilient and calls for new approaches to do so. The practices connected to the concepts of both agroecology and environmental stewardship are referenced for their potential to foster a transformation toward a more sustainable food system. However, these practices have been conducted on a small scale and independent from each other. A combined and holistic view of food systems based on the practices of both concepts remains missing. To close this gap, we developed a regional agroecological stewardship framework using the current literature to explore how these concepts can be combined to generate new insights for (re)territorialization by expanding agroecological practices beyond individual initiatives. To validate and refine the key components of the framework, we used an illustrative case study (Free State of Saxony, Germany) and interviewed relevant stakeholders including an agroecology expert, farm workers, network actors, and public officials from different governance levels. We identified actors and their motivations and capacity, a stewardship network, the outcomes of agroecological activities and the amplification of (re)territorialization as key components for regional agroecological stewardship. The framework can be used as an evaluation tool to assess the status of agroecological stewardship in a region and to determine regional challenges that need to be addressed.

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Assessing Factors of Environmental Stewardship Success: Organizational Perceptions from the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada

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Exploring the context and elements of local environmental stewardship: An embedded case study of the Niagara Region, Canada

Exploring the context and elements of local environmental stewardship: An embedded case study of the Niagara Region, Canada

Regional agroecological stewardship: a framework to analyze the (re)territorialization of sustainable food systems

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