Looking Ahead

Oldfield, Sara; Olwell, Peggy; Shaw, Nancy L.; Havens, Kayri

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96974-9_7

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“…While federal policies and national directives, like executive orders, provide guidance for restoration actions on federal lands, each land management agency operates under unique directives included in priorities, handbooks, manuals, and strategies. To address this complexity, we compiled existing federal policy in the United States described in academic literature (e.g., Oldfield et al 2019), from government resources (e.g., http://www.federalregister.gov), and from conversations with legal scholars and peer review experts. We focused our search on federal policies that guide restoration on a broader scale in the United States, identifying 83 policies, orders, and directives that guide much of the restoration happening on federally managed lands in the United States today (Table S1).…”

Section: Challenges At the Restoration‐policy Interfacementioning

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Perspectives on challenges and opportunities at the restoration‐policy interface in the U.S.A.

Samuel

Mitchell

Winker

2022

Restoration Ecology

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As we advance into the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, understanding the relationship between science, management, and policy is increasingly important given the paucity of research evaluating the ability of existing policy to address contemporary environmental challenges. Despite their inherent interdependence, restoration ecology as a scientific discipline, ecological restoration as a practice, and the policies driving restoration efforts do not always represent a unified force. Accenting the policies and practices within the United States, we present our perspective on challenges associated with this disunion, including those linked to social dimensions of restoration and limitations associated with existing policy. We provide a review of existing federal policy in the United States and synthesize suggestions that have emerged in the literature to fortify connections between restoration science and policy. We also describe social challenges to meeting restoration goals, including barriers surrounding power dynamics, trust, and communication, as well as divergent incentives, perspectives, and values. We propose potential solutions that exist in transdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing, and evidence-based, balanced decision-making that equally considers varying perspectives. With the understanding that current conservation practices are not enough to mitigate environmental degradation, we focus on streamlining problem-solving strategies to support restoration and face the widespread ecological issues of today.

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Section: Challenges At the Restoration‐policy Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%