Landowners' perceptions of risk in grassland management: woody plant encroachment and prescribed fire

Harr, Ryan N.; Morton, Lois Wright; Rusk, Shannon R.; Engle, David M.; Miller, James R.; Debinski, Diane M.

doi:10.5751/es-06404-190241

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“…Nevertheless, O'Brien and Wolf 2010 (Brandt et al, online;Pretty and Smith, 2004). Further, we found that when led by knowledge-related constraints, values-related constraints appear more tangible, consistent with Pannell et al (2006) (Harr et al, 2014).…”

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“…Even then, monitoring, eradicating or containing these exotics would require concerted community effort, investment, consensus and support (R) (Marshall et al 2016). Harr et al, 2014;Howden et al, 2008;Pannell et al, 2006;Pelling, 2011) Evidence that local populations are best adapted to local conditions has led to a strong focus on using local provenances (including local species and genotypes) for environmental plantings (Broadhurst et al, 2008). In a changing climate, principles of local provenancing may no longer apply.…”

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Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

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Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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An emerging planning framework for climate adaptation focuses on interactions among societal values, institutional rules and scientific and experiential knowledge about biophysical impacts of climate change and adaptation options. These interactions shape the decision context that can enable or constrain effective adaptation. To illustrate the connect the biophysical knowledge-based view of adaptation with a perspective on the need for changes in social systems, enabling targeting of constraints to adaptation. Our focus on pathways and decision points in different sectors of the multi-use landscape highlighted the importance of group and higher level planning and policy for balancing the collective outcomes of multiple decisions by many land managers.

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Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

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“…Examples include narrative scenario planning (Swart et al 2004), concept mapping (Harr et al 2014 consider. As these approaches become more mainstream, it is important to select participatory modeling methods based on the community involved in the modeling process, research questions or management goals, and how each tool differs across dimensions such as ease of use with stakeholders, model inputs and outputs, and the degree of spatial or temporal extent.…”

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Using fuzzy cognitive mapping as a participatory approach to analyze change, preferred states, and perceived resilience of social-ecological systems

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ABSTRACT. There is a growing interest in the use of fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) as a participatory method for understanding social-ecological systems (SESs). In recent years, FCM has been used in a diverse set of contexts ranging from fisheries management to agricultural development, in an effort to generate transparent graphical models of complex systems that are useful for decision making, illuminate the core presumptions of environmental stakeholders, and structure environmental problems for scenario development. This increase in popularity is because of FCM's bottom-up approach and its ability to incorporate a range of individual, community-level, and expert knowledge into an accessible and standardized format. Although there has been an increase in the use of FCM as an environmental planning and learning tool, limited progress has been made with regard to the method's relationship to existing resilience frameworks and how the use of FCM compares with other participatory modeling/approaches available. Using case study data developed from community-driven models of the bushmeat trade in Tanzania, we examine the usefulness of FCM for promoting resilience analysis among stakeholders in terms of identifying key state variables that comprise an SES, evaluating alternative SES equilibrium states, and defining desirable or undesirable state outcomes through scenario analysis.

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“…Juniper invasion also reduces wildfire suppression potential and has been implicated as a major reason for the increase in the frequency and size of wildfires at the wildland-urban interface (Pierce and Reich, 2010). Fire, especially uncontrolled wildfire, is perceived negatively, even though the natural fire regime provides an ecosystem service in controlling cedar invasions (Morton et al, 2010;Harr et al, 2014). The transition between grasslands and cedar forests is non-linear, and both system regimes are generally resilient to change (Pierce and Reich, 2010).…”

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“…This generally involves experimental approaches such as cutting, fire, herbicides, grazing domestic goats and combinations thereof. The plan recognizes that cedar invasion in the ecosystem is not simply a biological problem, but has as much to do with how people perceive the landscape and structuring processes such as fire (e.g, Morton et al, 2010;Harr et al, 2014). Therefore, the Nebraska Wildlife Action Plan has also provided for scenario-building exercises with a landscape-level group of stakeholders (e.g., ranchers, local communities, land management agencies, local researchers), such that alternative future states of landscapes can be envisioned, and pathways to attain desirable future states are identified collaboratively.…”

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Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance

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Journal of Environmental Management

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a b s t r a c tIn a world of increasing interconnections in global trade as well as rapid change in climate and land cover, the accelerating introduction and spread of invasive species is a critical concern due to associated negative social and ecological impacts, both real and perceived. Much of the societal response to invasive species to date has been associated with negative economic consequences of invasions. This response has shaped a war-like approach to addressing invasions, one with an agenda of eradications and intense ecological restoration efforts towards prior or more desirable ecological regimes. This trajectory often ignores the concept of ecological resilience and associated approaches of resilience-based governance. We argue that the relationship between ecological resilience and invasive species has been understudied to the detriment of attempts to govern invasions, and that most management actions fail, primarily because they do not incorporate adaptive, learning-based approaches. Invasive species can decrease resilience by reducing the biodiversity that underpins ecological functions and processes, making ecosystems more prone to regime shifts. However, invasions do not always result in a shift to an alternative regime; invasions can also increase resilience by introducing novelty, replacing lost ecological functions or adding redundancy that strengthens already existing structures and processes in an ecosystem. This paper examines the potential impacts of species invasions on the resilience of ecosystems and suggests that resilience-based approaches can inform policy by linking the governance of biological invasions to the negotiation of tradeoffs between ecosystem services.

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Landowners' perceptions of risk in grassland management: woody plant encroachment and prescribed fire

Cited by 45 publications

References 43 publications

Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

Using fuzzy cognitive mapping as a participatory approach to analyze change, preferred states, and perceived resilience of social-ecological systems

Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance

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