Is Adaptive Co-management Delivering? Examining Relationships Between Collaboration, Learning and Outcomes in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

Plummer, Ryan; Baird, Julia; Dzyundzyak, Angela; Armitage, Derek; Bodin, Örjan; Schultz, Lisen

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.04.028

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“…While initially a top-down approach may be necessary to kick-start the process (or re-invigorate those already in place), participation, engagement, and empowerment of local communities to expand their awareness and their role in management is vital. Such an approach can be described as adaptive comanagement, where collaboration is encouraged between communities, policymakers, and multiple levels of governance (Armitage et al, 2008), and a shared process of learning leads to adaptive, cohesive decision making to successfully deliver positive ecological and social outcomes (Plummer et al, 2017).…”

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Rapid land use change threatens provisioning ecosystem services in miombo woodlands

Jew

Burdekin²,

Dougill

et al. 2019

Natural Resources Forum

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Rural communities in sub‐Saharan Africa rely upon provisioning ecosystem services (ES) to support their livelihoods, yet in areas where rapid land use change is occurring the relationship between environmental change, provisioning ES availability and livelihoods is not fully understood. This relationship is explored here within a typical rural miombo woodland landscape in south‐west Tanzania, which is undergoing rapid land use change due to expanding tobacco cultivation. The types of provisioning ES used, who uses them, changes in their availability, and the possible future impacts of these changes were explored using a mixed‐method approach. Our findings identify 19 provisioning ES used by households regardless of economic status. Firewood, building materials, and fresh water are used by almost all households, and these are perceived to be declining in availability. Households identified this as a negative environmental impact of land use change and that provisioning ES loss would be ‘bad’ for their households. Given the multi‐purpose nature of miombo woodlands, an adaptive co‐management approach, which can achieve multiple objectives through encouraging participation, learning, and empowerment of local communities, could be an appropriate strategy to achieve sustainable land use management and maintain the provision of ES within miombo woodland landscapes of sub‐Saharan Africa.

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Rapid land use change threatens provisioning ecosystem services in miombo woodlands

Jew

Burdekin²,

Dougill

et al. 2019

Natural Resources Forum

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“…But these aspects are also recognized as important in environmental management further afield. Though adaptive management has some well-recognized limitations (see e.g., [61]) it is still widely regarded, at least in modified guise of adaptive co-management (ACM) as playing a valuable role in good environmental governance [62]. At the same time, outcomes-based approaches are increasingly seen as best practice in environmental assessment, decision-making and stakeholder engagement [63].…”

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What Do Users Really Need? Participatory Development of Decision Support Tools for Environmental Management Based on Outcomes

Hewitt¹,

Macleod²

2017

Environments

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Abstract:There is increasing demand from stakeholders for tools to support outcomes-based approaches in environmental management. For such tools to be useful, understanding user requirements is key. In Scotland, UK, stakeholders were engaged in the development of an Environmental Decision Support System (EDSS) to support the management of land and freshwater resources for multiple policy outcomes. A structured participatory engagement process was employed to determine stakeholder requirements, establish development principles to fulfil these requirements and road-test prototypes. The specification that emerged from this bottom-up process was for an EDSS to be spatially-explicit, free at the point of use, and mobile device compatible. This application, which is under development, does not closely resemble most existing published EDSS. We suggest that there is a mismatch between the way scientists typically conceptualise EDSS and the kinds of applications that are likely to be useful to decision-makers on the ground. Interactive mobile and web-based geospatial information services have become ubiquitous in our daily lives, but their importance is not reflected in the literature on EDSS. The current focus in environmental management on adaptive, stakeholder-centred strategies based on outcomes offers an opportunity to make better use of these new technologies to aid decision-making processes.

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“…While many excellent examples of learning research have sought to describe learning processes, there is still a dearth of theorizing about what factors are known to support or hinder under particular environmental governance contexts (Gerlak et al, 2017;Gerlak et al, 2019;Plummer et al, 2017). In the social sciences, theory typically involves some effort to explain why or how a particular phenomenon arises or what it leads to.…”

Section: Meeting Challenge 3: Building and Testing Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tackling key challenges around learning in environmental governance

Gerlak

Heikkila

2019

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Is Adaptive Co-management Delivering? Examining Relationships Between Collaboration, Learning and Outcomes in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves

Cited by 85 publications

References 38 publications

Rapid land use change threatens provisioning ecosystem services in miombo woodlands

Rapid land use change threatens provisioning ecosystem services in miombo woodlands

What Do Users Really Need? Participatory Development of Decision Support Tools for Environmental Management Based on Outcomes

Tackling key challenges around learning in environmental governance

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