Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

Barthel, Stephan; Folke, Carl; Colding, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.01.001

Cited by 431 publications

(378 citation statements)

References 65 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

358

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…For example, disasters that trigger human affinity for nature and meaningful places can also give rise to actions to rebuild environments and restore ecological function (Tidball 2012). Place attachment provides an evaluative measure (e.g., Roggenbuck 1989, Stedman 2002) for empirical studies of the role of sense of place in motivating or discouraging stewardship actions, which could expand the work of, for example, Andersson et al (2007) and Barthel et al (2010).…”

Section: Identify What Underpins Protective and Restorative Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

E&S

342

273

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ABSTRACT. To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socialecological systems perspective, assume an interconnected social and biophysical reality. However, these fields of research are only recently beginning to converge, and we see great potential for further engagement. Here, we present an approach and conceptual tools for how the sense of place perspective can contribute to social-ecological systems research. A brief review focuses on two areas where relation to place is particularly relevant: stewardship of ecosystem services, and responses to change in social-ecological systems. Based on the review, we synthesize specific ways in which sense of place may be applied by social-ecological systems researchers to analyze individual and social behaviors. We emphasize the importance of descriptive place meanings and evaluative place attachment as tools to study the patterned variation of sense of place within or among populations or types of places and the implications for resilience and transformative capacity. We conclude by setting out an agenda for future research that takes into account the concerns of resilience thinking such as the effects of dynamic ecology, interactions between temporal and spatial scales, and the interplay of rapid and incremental change on sense of place and place-related behaviors. This future research agenda also includes concerns from the broader sense of place literature such as the importance of structural power relationships on the creation of place meanings and how scaling up a sense of place may influence pro-environmental behavior.

show abstract

Section: Identify What Underpins Protective and Restorative Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

E&S

342

273

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These evolving ''civic ecology'' practices (Tidball and Krasny 2007), which are partly supported by universities and the City of New Orleans, not only seem to empower their participants, build social capital and sense of place, but also play a role in generating ecosystem services such as improved mitigation of flooding, better air quality, cooling houses (with lower energy consumption), and re-introducing habitats, and landscape ecological functions. They furthermore represent a possibility for collaborative ecosystem management as they forge social-ecological feedbacks through localized learning of ecosystem dynamics (Krasny and Tidball 2009;Barthel et al 2010;Ernstson et al 2010), and could be key collective agents in nurturing a cultural change in how residents enact the city as a culture-nature space.…”

Section: Fourth Argument: Harnessing Urban Innovation Across Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This involves stakeholders like urban planners and housing companies, but also housing, squatter and urban social movements, along with those influencing and/or have knowledge about urban ecological processes. The latter group importantly includes, apart from conservation managers, also user groups engaged in local level socialecological interactions such as urban community gardening, farming, and forestry that simultaneously meet social needs while improving ecosystem function (Stanvliet et al 2004;Barthel et al 2005;Borgström et al 2006;Colding et al 2006;Andersson et al 2007;Tidball and Krasny 2007;Krasny and Tidball 2009;Barthel et al 2010;Ernstson et al 2010). The second scale, resilience of cities, involves a broader category of stakeholders, but particularly those associated not only with technical networks like water, electricity, sewage, waste disposal, and telecommunications, but also with agriculture, mining and other broader interests in society.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

Ernstson

Leeuw

Redman

et al. 2010

AMBIO

496

243

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Urbanization is a global multidimensional process paired with increasing uncertainty due to climate change, migration of people, and changes in the capacity to sustain ecosystem services. This article lays a foundation for discussing transitions in urban governance, which enable cities to navigate change, build capacity to withstand shocks, and use experimentation and innovation in face of uncertainty. Using the three concrete case citiesNew Orleans, Cape Town, and Phoenix-the article analyzes thresholds and cross-scale interactions, and expands the scale at which urban resilience has been discussed by integrating the idea from geography that cities form part of ''system of cities'' (i.e., they cannot be seen as single entities). Based on this, the article argues that urban governance need to harness social networks of urban innovation to sustain ecosystem services, while nurturing discourses that situate the city as part of regional ecosystems. The article broadens the discussion on urban resilience while challenging resilience theory when addressing human-dominated ecosystems. Practical examples of harnessing urban innovation are presented, paired with an agenda for research and policy.

show abstract

“…A combination of external and internal informal networks forms a knowledge foundation for community-based adaptive agricultural management in rural areas (Isaac et al 2007). Because peoples' experiences of environmental change and environmental memory vary by region (Barthel et al 2010;Easdale et al 2016;Isaac et al 2014), interregional social contact, in particular, has the potential to access experience with adapting to environmental change that is not locally available.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Agrarian communities in different regions develop diverse coping strategies to address the environmental changes they face. In this work, we test how to stimulate farmers' social learning across diverse regions to promote informed responses to soil degradation. We invited 117 randomly selected members of 16 randomly selected Sumatran communities to three 3-day networking and training events in regions with diverse socio-environmental histories. One event was held in the respondents' remote rural district (Tanggamus), the second was held in a more densely populated region on Sumatra Island (Kalianda), and the third was held in a heavily populated region on Java Island (Garut and Ciamis). Eighteen months later, we surveyed the information-sharing networks and agricultural practices of 370 members of these communities. The participants had become popular sources of agricultural advice, but the strength of this impact depended on the region in which their networking intervention was conducted. The participants in the event on Java had become the most central members of their communities. Although all the participants received the same formal information, those who interacted with the farmers in a region with the longest history of population pressure and land degradation management were more likely to adopt the recommended practices. The participants in this intervention doubled their odds of adopting organic fertilizers compared with those who networked only with peers in their local environment. Environmental memory of coping with change can be shared between regions through social learning, which can be stimulated by simple interventions.

show abstract

Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

Cited by 431 publications

References 65 publications

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About