Strategic Spatial Governance: Deriving Social–Ecological Frameworks for Managing Landscapes and Regions

Climate Change Mitigation Through Reduced-Impact Logging and the Hierarchy of Production Forest Management

“…The authors believe the opposite is actually taking place. This exercise is a direct result of the greater understanding of holistic sustainable forest management which takes into account broader forest uses, the incorporation of community forests and forest stewards, the integration of agroforestry and agriculture land management schemes, the prospect of micro-financing as well as the unique biophysical characteristics forests intrinsically possess to host "additional" investment and financing strategies [69][70][71]. Similarly, this needs to be applied to the production forestry market.…”

Landscapes Shaped by People and Place Institutions Require a New Conservation Agenda

“…Scientists from diverse disciplines are now recognizing that human history and policy are critically entwined with ecosystems and should be examined as social-ecological systems. Human institutions influencing resource use (e.g., accepted behavior, property concepts, decisionmaking, policy, rules, and governance) shape landscape patterns, processes, and perceptions, and subsequent human and societal responses (Brunckhorst et al 2008). In practice, all human activities, including conservation actions and resource management, combine with ecological functions as dynamic processes that cross boundaries.…”

“…If conservation science and policy are to work effectively in this new environment, they need to become more sophisticated in their syntheses of social and community characteristics when planning and implementing biodiversity protection across multiple tenures. Likewise, landscape ecology needs to meld with environmental sociology to more seamlessly understand the spatial and temporal dimensions of human institutions interacting across "places"-spaces with meaning to local residents for civic engagement-termed "eco-civic" regions (Brunckhorst et al 2006(Brunckhorst et al , 2008.…”

“…To understand the dimensions of regional landscape contexts that might assist the integration of conservation and natural resource management, three defining characteristics are necessary (Brunckhorst et al 2006(Brunckhorst et al , 2008. First, as in ecoregional approaches, the biophysical characteristics of the localto-regional landscape should possess a relatively high level of homogeneity.…”

“…Brunckhorst (dbrunckh@une. edu.au; www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au (Brunckhorst et al 2006(Brunckhorst et al , 2008. The approach optimizes the social-ecological landscape contexts with which local residents (including private landowners) and their communities identify, and therefore would be more likely than other approaches to engage residents in conservation actions.…”