Collaborative Approaches to Strengthen the Role of Science in Rangeland Conservation

Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.; Burkett, Laura M.; Lister, Leticia; Brown, Joel R.; Schooley, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/j.rala.2019.08.001

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“…Ranchers, farmers, and land managers have access to new, tele‐connected knowledge and peer‐support networks, collaborative efforts are becoming more mainstream. Climate and grazing researchers are developing new ways to improve the applicability of their research to the real‐world context through collaborative or “co‐produced” research efforts (Bestelmeyer et al., 2019; Derner et al., 2021b; Fernández‐Giménez et al., 2019) that address new technologies and tools for adoption, communities of practice, and learning opportunities.…”

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Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

Derner

Wilmer

Stackhouse-Lawson

et al. 2023

Agrosystems Geosci & Env

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We outline practical considerations for grazing land adaptations with a changing climate, with an emphasis on the ranch operation scale and specific attention to directional climate changes and increased climate variability. These adaptive strategies fall into two themes: flexibility and learning under uncertainty. Ranches and livestock operations with greater land, social, or other capital resources may have more flexibility. Risk can be reduced for managers (ranchers, farmers, operators, and livestock managers) through participation in conservation or farm policy programs and/or market-based approaches. Bolstering adaptive capacity across landscapes and time can originate from social capital of operators and strategic collaborations among managers and scientists. As climate diverges from historical baselines and the realm of managers' experiential knowledge, new conceptual frameworks are needed to structure conversations, influence research relevancy and impact, and drive imaginative solutions among researchers, managers, and local communities for socioecological systems. We provide simplified frameworks to help guide conversation, future research, and new imaginative solutions for systems-scale knowledge needs and adaptation to address increasingly uncertain and complex change at multiple scales. Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by grazing land managers with a changing climate will be accelerated through (1) collaborative efforts among managers and explicitly with science-management partnerships becoming more mainstream, (2) co-produced research with managers and researchers at ranch scales, (3) development of communities of practice and associated learning opportunities, and (4) continued co-development and advancement of technologies and tools that result in high uptake adoption by ranch managers.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

Derner

Wilmer

Stackhouse-Lawson

et al. 2023

Agrosystems Geosci & Env

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“…We acknowledge that there are other respected sources of advice (e.g. livestock, merchandise and property agents; agribusiness consultants, accountants, rural lenders, traditional owners), and that the three occupations focussed on are increasingly blurring with the growth of participatory action research (Coppock 2016), co-design of research (Galvin et al 2016) and collaborative science (Bestelmeyer et al 2019;Williams and Bellgard 2019).…”

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“…As with advisors, this can be managed by open communication and community engagement (Campbell 2010), openly valuing experience, and using an immediate problem or need for context (Mealor and Frost 2012). Poor uptake of R&D is a major concern (Chilcott et al 2020), and various strategies that engage a diversity of stakeholders in co-design, co-production and co-dissemination of results (Galvin et al 2016;Bestelmeyer et al 2019) are being adopted to address complex problems through transdisciplinary research. Identification of relevant stakeholders and their effective engagement are critical to success in these endeavours.…”

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“…This includes working with internal and external stakeholders to define the problem(s) and possible solution(s). Understanding and applying knowledge, attitude, skills and aspirations (Bennett 1975) and strategies like the adaptive pathways framework (Marshall 2015) and co-design, co-production and co-dissemination of research (Galvin et al 2016;Bestelmeyer et al 2019) will ensure one's work is adopted, has a positive impact and benefits rangeland enterprises and communities. This stage will probably run for longer than Stage 1.…”

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Building human capacity, capability and future leaders for Australia’s rangelands

Taylor¹,

Erkelenz²,

Churchill

2020

Rangel. J.

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Maintaining a skilled, knowledgeable and adaptable workforce in Australian rangeland enterprises and research, development and extension/adoption (RD&E/A) organisations is a varied and challenging task, compounded by trends of sustained losses of human capacity through senior retirements and short-term appointments over the last decade. Concerns for how to fill these gaps while gaining the skills and knowledge needed for a successful career and leadership roles were raised by students and young professionals in the World Cafe session and throughout Early Career workshops and activities at the 2019 Biennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society (ARS). This paper responds to these expressed information needs through drawing on literature, experiences shared by session participants, and existing ARS members currently working in the rangelands in diverse roles to provide insights into two main areas: (i) skills and knowledge for personal development and future success in the rangelands across three broad classes of occupation/careers (i.e. advisors, researchers, and producers), and (ii) skills and knowledge that will be expected of future leaders in the rangelands. We outline a variety of options for professional development in the early stage(s) of a career working on aspects of sustainable production systems and pathways to leadership throughout a career in the rangelands. We note the apparent lack of formal rangeland-specific education in Australia, and suggest that this is a major impediment to efforts to build skills and knowledge to ensure the viability of the livelihoods and the integrity of our rangelands. Finally, we believe that the ARS has the potential to play a more central role in inspiring interest and passion for the rangelands, in providing current information on (i) range science and management-relevant education and training opportunities in Australia and internationally, and (ii) leadership development and training opportunities; and in facilitating and supporting mentoring to develop and retain human capacity for a resilient future.

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“…Without simultaneous monitoring of sites with similar ecological potential and ambient conditions, it is difficult to discriminate true treatment effects from coincident noise (Larsen et al 2019). While some management efforts do integrate experimental elements such as replication, randomization or basic controls into their design (e.g., Karl et al 2014, Bestelmeyer et al 2019), the logistical cost of such designs make them rare in application settings. With the growing availability of large observational environmental data sets and spatially explicit records of management activities, there is both opportunity for new ecological insight and a simultaneous need for tools to effectively parse intervention effects from confounding signals.…”

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Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land treatments

Fick

Nauman

Brungard

et al. 2021

Ecological Applications

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Collaborative Approaches to Strengthen the Role of Science in Rangeland Conservation

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

Building human capacity, capability and future leaders for Australia’s rangelands

Evaluating natural experiments in ecology: using synthetic controls in assessments of remotely sensed land treatments

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