Incorporating the Social–Ecological Approach in Protected Areas in the Anthropocene

Palomo, Ignacio; Montes, Carlos; Martín‐López, Berta; González, José A.; García‐Llorente, Marina; Alcorlo, Paloma; Mora, María Rosario García

doi:10.1093/biosci/bit033

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“…Bring people in: codesigning anthromes and multifunctional landscapes.-The future of nonhuman nature depends both on meeting human needs and inspiring human desires toward greater efforts at Earth stewardship (Chan et al 2007, Chapin et al 2011, Marris 2011, Felson et al 2013, Mooney et al 2013, Ives and Kendal 2014, Mace 2014, Palomo et al 2014. To accomplish this, it is more necessary than ever to integrate sociocultural understanding into conservation (WaltnerToews et al 2003, Mooney et al 2013, Redpath et al 2013, Ives and Kendal 2014, Kueffer and KaiserBunbury 2014, Mace 2014, Palomo et al 2014, Poe et al 2014, and to consider flexible strategies enabling the sustained integration of nonhuman species into the novel habitats of anthromes as part of multifunctional landscape management approaches (Antrop 2006, Bennett et al 2006, Kleijn et al 2011, Tomich et al 2011, van Noordwijk et al 2012, Ellis 2013, Jantz et al 2014, Martin et al 2014, Marvier 2014, Quinn et al 2014.…”

Section: Sustaining Nonhuman Nature In An Anthropogenic Biospherementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Ellis

2015

Ecological Monographs

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Abstract. Humans, unlike any other multicellular species in Earth's history, have emerged as a global force that is transforming the ecology of an entire planet. It is no longer possible to understand, predict, or successfully manage ecological pattern, process, or change without understanding why and how humans reshape these over the long term. Here, a general causal theory is presented to explain why human societies gained the capacity to globally alter the patterns, processes, and dynamics of ecology and how these anthropogenic alterations unfold over time and space as societies themselves change over human generational time. Building on existing theories of ecosystem engineering, niche construction, inclusive inheritance, cultural evolution, ultrasociality, and social change, this theory of anthroecological change holds that sociocultural evolution of subsistence regimes based on ecosystem engineering, social specialization, and non-kin exchange, or ''sociocultural niche construction,'' is the main cause of both the long-term upscaling of human societies and their unprecedented transformation of the biosphere. Human sociocultural niche construction can explain, where classic ecological theory cannot, the sustained transformative effects of human societies on biogeography, ecological succession, ecosystem processes, and the ecological patterns and processes of landscapes, biomes, and the biosphere. Anthroecology theory generates empirically testable hypotheses on the forms and trajectories of long-term anthropogenic ecological change that have significant theoretical and practical implications across the subdisciplines of ecology and conservation. Though still at an early stage of development, anthroecology theory aligns with and integrates established theoretical frameworks including social-ecological systems, social metabolism, countryside biogeography, novel ecosystems, and anthromes. The ''fluxes of nature'' are fast becoming ''cultures of nature.'' To investigate, understand, and address the ultimate causes of anthropogenic ecological change, not just the consequences, human sociocultural processes must become as much a part of ecological theory and practice as biological and geophysical processes are now. Strategies for achieving this goal and for advancing ecological science and conservation in an increasingly anthropogenic biosphere are presented.

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Section: Sustaining Nonhuman Nature In An Anthropogenic Biospherementioning

confidence: 99%

Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere

Ellis

2015

Ecological Monographs

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“…We do not focus on already identified spatial units, but instead, embrace a wider perspective: a social-ecological approach that goes beyond the concept of enclosed conservation areas as in Palomo et al (2014). We broaden these methodologies and suggest some improvements.…”

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Using crowdsourced imagery to detect cultural ecosystem services: a case study in South Wales, UK

Gliozzo¹,

Pettorelli²,

Haklay³

2016

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ABSTRACT. Within ecological research and environmental management, there is currently a focus on demonstrating the links between human well-being and wildlife conservation. Within this framework, there is a clear interest in better understanding how and why people value certain places over others. We introduce a new method that measures cultural preferences by exploring the potential of multiple online georeferenced digital photograph collections. Using ecological and social considerations, our study contributes to the detection of places that provide cultural ecosystem services. The degree of appreciation of a specific place is derived from the number of people taking and sharing pictures of it. The sequence of decisions and actions taken to share a digital picture of a given place includes the effort to travel to the place, the willingness to take a picture, the decision to geolocate the picture, and the action of sharing it through the Internet. Hence, the social activity of sharing pictures leaves digital proxies of spatial preferences, with people sharing specific photos considering the depicted place not only "worth visiting" but also "worth sharing visually." Using South Wales as a case study, we demonstrate how the proposed methodology can help identify key geographic features of high cultural value. These results highlight how the inclusion of geographical user-generated content, also known as volunteered geographic information, can be very effective in addressing some of the current priorities in conservation. Indeed, the detection of the most appreciated nonurban areas could be used for better prioritization, planning, and management.

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“…As such, it contrasts the classical forest conservation narrative of protected areas without people ('fortress nature') (Palomo et al, 2014). Such 'coercive conservation' led to exclusion of people from their lands and violation of their forest rights in many Tropical countries, thus fuelling debates on 'doing conservation otherwise' (Dressler et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 96%