Private land manager capacity to conserve threatened communities under climate change

Raymond, Christopher M.; Lechner, Alex M.; Lockwood, Michael; Carter, O.; Harris, Rebecca M. B.; Gilfedder, Louise

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.04.048

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“…Research on private landowner management practices and values are limited, however, a survey of private landowners within the floodplain of the Missouri River in central Missouri identified rowcrop production, leaving land for children and grandchildren, soil conservation, and scenic beauty as the most important short-and long-term goals (Treiman and Dwyer 2004). Understanding the values of private land owners in the floodplain, as well as the larger community of people who live near rivers and their floodplains, could help natural resource managers communicate the optimal management actions to implement on public lands to support those values and also aid in developing novel approaches to encourage conservation practices on private lands (Raymond et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Stakeholder-led science: engaging resource managers to identify science needs for long-term management of floodplain conservation lands

Bouska¹,

Lindner²,

Paukert³

et al. 2016

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Section: Follow-up Surveymentioning

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Stakeholder-led science: engaging resource managers to identify science needs for long-term management of floodplain conservation lands

Bouska¹,

Lindner²,

Paukert³

et al. 2016

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“…For instance, Bardsley et al ( 2018 ) identified adaptive management and innovation as contributing to farm viability and business continuity. Lockwood et al ( 2015 ) and Raymond et al ( 2015 ) recognised that farm management competencies and change orientation were essential adaptation capacities. Literature on CCA has developed a generalised understanding of adaptive capacities in exemplar farmers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eastern Australian Farmers Managing and Thinking Differently: Innovative Adaptation Cycles

McKenzie,

Joyce,

Zander

et al. 2023

Environmental Management

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The uncertainty of climate change is a significant challenge prompting Australian farmers to create different thinking and different management systems that ensure sustained farm business viability and continuity, particularly in extreme environments. The purpose of this study was to explore the conditions and adaptive processes for managing farm resilience and cyclic adaptation pathways, in response to climate change. A positive deviance sample of farmers was interviewed, and data was collected from a cohort of twenty-two climate change innovators across Eastern Australia. Grounded theory analysis of data identified three processes and two transactional maps of climate change adaptation, in this under studied farmer cohort. The development of the transactional maps found the resilience and preparedness processes as adaptive learning responses to the stressors of climate change. The processes of managing the business and resources were identified as markers of preparedness and resilience that ensured business viability and continuity. Farmers prepared for climate change through transforming make-over processes as an adaptive learning response to climate challenges. Mapping the cycle of adaptation identified the processes of socio-cognitive agency, learning from feedback and consequences, and contextual variables as critical elements of adaptation. The intervening socio-ecological processes of intelligence gathering and influencing, and socio-cognitive precursors, were found to regulate the adaptation cycle. The cycle was found to have both incremental and transformative transmission processes, and intervening processes of climate and contextual variables. The changing patterns and extremes of climate change were found to impact the growing season, and its potential, as unique variables that demand farm adaptation. Ultimately, this study identified potential points of influence for leveraging preparedness behaviours.

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“…Species conservation programs on agricultural land have employed various incentives, such as results‐based payments and tax benefits, to promote program engagement by farmers and ranchers (Sorice et al 2013; Raymond et al 2015; Zabala et al 2017; McDonald et al 2018; Yeiser et al 2018; Arnott et al 2019; Brown 2019; Schilling et al 2020). Yet, effective incentives are challenging to develop because the diverse needs and perspectives of land managers creates wide differences in their willingness to engage in conservation programs (Yeiser et al 2018; Cortés Capano et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Lessons learnt from multiple private land conservation programs in Canada to inform species at risk conservation

Reiter

Pittman

Ayambire

et al. 2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Action at local scales is needed to reduce documented declines in global biodiversity. Agricultural land constitutes 6.8% of the surface area of Canada, including more than 20 million hectares of grazing pasture alone, providing habitat to many species at risk of extinction. In Canada, where a voluntary stewardship approach is the main strategy for species at risk conservation on privately owned and managed lands, the challenge is to create conservation programs that maximize participation. We reviewed research on voluntary conservation programs on agricultural lands from five Canadian provinces to understand which approaches were most effective in maximizing participation. The objective of this paper is to contribute to policy development for conservation on private lands in Canada. We highlight common themes from all five regions. Key findings include the value of establishing a local delivery agent for the program, and the importance of designing the program to be in alignment with existing agricultural operations. Private landowners may build trust with local program managers, and are more open to making subtle adjustments to their land management rather than major changes. We conclude with eight recommendations to support the development of high impact species at risk stewardship programs on agricultural lands in Canada.

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Private land manager capacity to conserve threatened communities under climate change

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Stakeholder-led science: engaging resource managers to identify science needs for long-term management of floodplain conservation lands

Stakeholder-led science: engaging resource managers to identify science needs for long-term management of floodplain conservation lands

Eastern Australian Farmers Managing and Thinking Differently: Innovative Adaptation Cycles

Lessons learnt from multiple private land conservation programs in Canada to inform species at risk conservation

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