Sensitivity in transdisciplinary projects: A case of reindeer management in Finland

Sarkki, Simo; Heikkinen, Hannu I.

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.03.004

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“…O 'Farrell & Anderson 2010). This represents a holistic approach to planning, where environmental values and cultural ESs are also sec ured by planning the use of adjacent areas, thus controlling spillover effects (Sarkki et al 2013). Spillover effects need to be identified in a participatory manner to enhance procedural equity and to ensure that re levant issues are recognized [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The themes related to procedural equity of the ES decision-making processes addressed in this study include transparency and openness of the ES related decision-making processes for local people (Heikkinen et al 2010); problems relating to stakeholders' ability to take part in ES decision-making processes (Reed 2008); conflict resolution measures for enhancing relationships between the stakeholders (Agrawal & Gibson 1999, Redpath et al 2013; enhancement or establishment of decision-making forums linking governance levels, from local to global (Jordan 2000, Rauschmayer et al 2009, Ostrom 2010; transdisciplinarity, linking local stakeholders to knowledge production and encouraging a holistic view on a particular issue that informs governance (Sarkki et al 2013); and environmental or ES education that helps people to understand the value of nature and increases respect towards local stakeholders (Lundholm 2011).…”

Section: Procedural and Distributional Equitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social equity in governance of ecosystem services: synthesis from European treeline areas

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Jokinen²,

Nijnik³

et al. 2017

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Achieving social equity among local stakeholders should be a key objective for ecosystem service (ES) governance in Europe's ecologically fragile treeline areas. The ES literature tends to be biased towards distributional equity and market-based instruments when assessing social equity of ES governance. In this study, we analyze a wide range of social equity procedures that have been applied in Europe, using 11 synthesized case studies of governance-related challenges and 75 proposals for governance enhancement from 8 European countries provided by researchers with expertise on treeline area governance. The proposals were grouped by inductive clustering into 10 procedural or distributional equity-related policy recommendations: (1) increase stakeholder collaboration, (2) balance interactions between horizontal and vertical governance levels, (3) increase ES education, (4) use science to guide decisions, (5) start collaboration at an early stage, (6) enhance transparency, (7) aim to mitigate negative impacts, (8) use an ES approach to identify synergistic goals for governance, (9) enhance balanced multi-functional land use, and (10) use market-based instruments to balance benefits and costs deriving from governance decisions. Finally, we discuss 5 more general proposals on how regulatory and market-based ap proa ches could be linked to enhance both procedural and distributional equity of treeline area governance.

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Section: Procedural and Distributional Equitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social equity in governance of ecosystem services: synthesis from European treeline areas

Sarkki¹,

Jokinen²,

Nijnik³

et al. 2017

Clim. Res.

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“…Looking only at internal Pressures has sometimes led to stigmatizing herders in public discussions by accusing them of over exploiting the pastures for bigger profits. This can marginalize reindeer herders by seriously questioning their credibility as neutral providers of policy-relevant knowledge on their livelihood (Sarkki et al 2013a). Thus, considering only internal Pressures and neglecting external Pressures is not an apolitical act, as shown by critiques of Hardin's (1968) tragedy of the commons thinking (Dietz et al 2003, Kyllönen et al 2006).…”

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“…DPSIR factors are productive in the holistic assessment of livelihood resilience, particularly by also focusing on the social and policy side of the SES. These DPSIR factors build forward from bio-economic reindeer-pasture research (e.g., Pekkarinen et al 2015) and help overcome a bias in older research that stigmatizes herders as the sole reason for pasture degradation (see Sarkki et al 2013a). Such an approach has had implications on reindeer herding governance, since the maximum number of reindeer for each RHC is defined by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry based on the expected carrying capacity of pastures.…”

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“…We aim to narrow this gap by providing a social science-oriented synthesis of the interactions between reindeer herding and other land uses. Furthermore, the application of the DPSIR approach will provide the means to approach reindeer herding and the surrounding SES with a holistic view, one which takes into account factors that are insufficiently recognized in current land use governance (e.g., the effects of other land uses on condition, fragmentation, and availability of pastures for herders) (e.g., Sarkki et al 2013a). …”

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Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood

Sarkki¹,

Komu²,

Heikkinen³

et al. 2016

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Benefits from and threats to European treeline ecosystem services: an exploratory study of stakeholders and governance

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The concept of ecosystem services (ES) is being increasingly applied in environmental governance and science. To safeguard key ES in changing and complex social-ecological systems such as treeline areas, we need to (1) map key ES in different types of treeline landscapes, (2) identify the stakeholders benefiting from and threatening ES, and (3) examine how ES could be governed more sustainably. We explore these questions in European treeline areas by using quantitative and qualitative social science techniques to analyse responses from a survey of local scientific experts in 20 altitudinal and polar treeline areas in 15 European countries. In contrast to the prevalent consideration of treeline areas as a single type of a socialecological system, we show that European treeline areas can be divided into two types that significantly differ in the delivery of ES. Our analyses allowed us to categorize stakeholders according to their benefits from and threats to ES; ''Green key players'' formed the most numerous group, while smaller number of stakeholder groups was categorized as ''Harmless crowd'', ''Occasional stressors'', and ''Risky users''. However, behaviour of stakeholders is very much site-specific. Of 595 pairs of stakeholders analysed, we found \5 EU-wide ''Allies'' and ''Opponents''. Recommendations for improved governance include adjusting governance instruments to specific problems in divergent treeline systems and creating participatory structures where stakeholders better interact with scientists and can genuinely influence management decisions.

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Sensitivity in transdisciplinary projects: A case of reindeer management in Finland

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Social equity in governance of ecosystem services: synthesis from European treeline areas

Social equity in governance of ecosystem services: synthesis from European treeline areas

Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood

Benefits from and threats to European treeline ecosystem services: an exploratory study of stakeholders and governance

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