Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden

Olsson, Per; Folke, Carl; Hahn, Thomas P.

doi:10.5751/es-00683-090402

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“…However, agency clearly plays a role at each stage of the process. Key persons can play pivotal roles in such learning processes including providing leadership, building trust, developing visions, and sense-making (Westley 2002;Olsson et al 2004;Huitema and Meijerink 2009;Gutiérrez et al 2011). These individuals can be important brokers for connecting people and networks (Bebbington 1997;Crona 2006;Ernstson et al 2010) and also play a key role as nodes in learning networks (Manring 2007).…”

Section: Connecting the Two: The Role Of Agency In Transformationmentioning

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

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This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and largescale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in. Large-scale transformations in information technology, nano-and biotechnology, and new energy systems have the potential to significantly improve our lives; but if, in framing them, our globalized society fails to consider the capacity of the biosphere, there is a risk that unsustainable development pathways may be reinforced. Current institutional arrangements, including the lack of incentives for the private sector to innovate for sustainability, and the lags inherent in the path dependent nature of innovation, contribute to lock-in, as does our incapacity to easily grasp the interactions implicit in complex problems, referred to here as the ingenuity gap. Nonetheless, promising social and technical innovations with potential to change unsustainable trajectories need to be nurtured and connected to broad institutional resources and responses. In parallel, institutional entrepreneurs can work to reduce the resilience of dominant institutional systems and position viable shadow alternatives and niche regimes.

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“…4). Meanwhile, they nurture innovative alternatives, through sensemaking, building, and brokering partnerships between unusual suspects, selling the innovations to secure resources and creating disturbances in existing regimes and landscapes (Westley 2002;Olsson et al 2004;Westley et al 2006).…”

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

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“…The participation of all of the subjects involved in the realization and management of school gardens together with experts, including those outside the academic world, in various phases of the methodology has, furthermore, carried out a fundamental role in the development of SAEMETH-G, the importance of which has already been shown in other works, such as that of Olsson and Folke [37].…”

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An Interpretive Framework for Assessing and Monitoring the Sustainability of School Gardens

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School gardens are, increasingly, an integral part of projects aiming to promote nutritional education and environmental sustainability in many countries throughout the world. In the late 1950s, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) had already developed projects to improve the dietary intake and behavior through school and community gardens. However, notwithstanding decades of experience, real proof of how these programs contribute to improving sustainability has not been well-documented, and reported findings have mostly been anecdotal. Therefore, it is important to begin a process of collecting and monitoring data to quantify the results and possibly improve their efficiency. This study's primary goal is to propose an interpretive structure-the "Sustainable Agri-Food Evaluation Methodology-Garden" (SAEMETH-G), that is able to quantifiably guide the sustainability evaluation of various school garden organizational forms. As a case study, the methodology was applied to 15 school gardens located in three regions of Kenya, Africa. This application of SAEMETH-G as an assessment tool based on user-friendly indicators demonstrates that it is possible to carry out sustainability evaluations of school gardens through a participatory and interdisciplinary approach. Thus, the hypothesis that the original SAEMETH operative framework could be tested in gardens has also been confirmed. SAEMETH-G is a promising tool that has the potential to help us understand school gardens' sustainability better and to use that knowledge in their further development all over the world.

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“…As the scale of the challenge increases, it is being recognized that along with nesting, the organizational scale of governance institutions must match the spatial sale at which the environmental externalities occur. Several applications of multiscale adaptive comanagement of natural resources have emerged in Sweden, building upon resilient indigenous community models that foster and "scale up" local knowledge (16,17). For example, in a successful adaptation for resilient, multiscale management of wetlands in Sweden, a new municipal organization was formed at the intermediate scale specifically to serve as a bridge between local actors and larger governmental agencies (16).…”

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“…Several applications of multiscale adaptive comanagement of natural resources have emerged in Sweden, building upon resilient indigenous community models that foster and "scale up" local knowledge (16,17). For example, in a successful adaptation for resilient, multiscale management of wetlands in Sweden, a new municipal organization was formed at the intermediate scale specifically to serve as a bridge between local actors and larger governmental agencies (16). Other adaptations in industrialized nations include the use of low-cost monitoring of commons resources and increasing the use of structured analytic deliberations between communities, scientists, and decision-makers to build trust and social capital, with the goal of achieving consensus for sustainable solutions to commons management challenges (4).…”

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Integrating Developed and Developing World Knowledge into Global Discussions and Strategies for Sustainability. 2. Economics and Governance

Ramaswami

Zimmerman

Mihelcic

2007

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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Knowledge transfer from the developing to the developed world is described in the domain of economics and governance for sustainable development. Three system areas are explored: the structure of commons governance institutions, the process of community-based participatory action research, and the role of microfinance and microenterprise for the development, adoption, and diffusion of sustainable technologies. Case studies from both the developed and developing world demonstrate the effectiveness of social networks and community cooperative strategies in a wide range of sectors. Developing world experiences are shown to be particularly rich in the application of local knowledge and social capital toward sustainable development.

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Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden

Cited by 722 publications

References 22 publications

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

An Interpretive Framework for Assessing and Monitoring the Sustainability of School Gardens

Integrating Developed and Developing World Knowledge into Global Discussions and Strategies for Sustainability. 2. Economics and Governance

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