The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as Method

Popper, Deborah E.; Popper, Frank

doi:10.2307/216099

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“…Callenbach 1996;Matthews 2002;Popper and Popper 2006). Nevertheless, their article catapulted the issue of the sustainability of the GP to a level of discourse previously unseen, even though Popper and Popper (1999) later stated that the "buffalo commons" concept was meant as a metaphor for land management, not as advocacy for government seizure of property. In 1994, former…”

Section: 5: Perspectives On the Future Of The Great Plainsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

2013

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The conversion of land from existing uses to biofuel cultivation is expected to increase given concerns about the sustainability of fossil fuel supplies. Nonetheless, research into the environmental impacts of biofuel crops, primarily the hydrological impacts of their cultivation, is in its infancy. To investigate such issues, the response of a 1,649 km2 semiarid basin to the incremental substitution of the widely discussed biofuel candidate switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) for native land uses was modeled using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Median discharges decreased by 5.6–20.6% during the spring and by 6.4–31.2% during the summer, depending on the quantity of acreage converted. These were driven by an increased spring and summer evapotranspiration of 3.4–32.0% and 1.5–18.9%, respectively, depending on the quantity of switchgrass biomass produced. The substitution of switchgrass also resulted in larger quantities of water stress days than in baseline scenarios. The authors encourage the exploration of alternative biofuel crops in semiarid areas to mitigate such negative impacts.

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Section: 5: Perspectives On the Future Of The Great Plainsmentioning

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Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

2013

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“…The results of the project inform policy makers but also serve to bring to the fore processes of community and culture that are more typically treated as secondary concerns by the institutions of fisheries management (Hall-Arber, 2006b). In this and other projects, communities exceed their boundaries and become more than just sites of impact; they, in short, are beginning to 'take on the muscle of reality' (Popper and Popper, 1999).…”

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Communities, knowledge and fisheries of the future

Martin

McCay

Murray

et al. 2007

IJGENVI

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The 'human dimension' in fisheries management has historically been incorporated via a specific economic understanding of fisheries wedded to a single-species approach. Meeting the challenge of fisheries, however, will require a broadening of fisheries science towards an ecosystems-based approach. There is also the need for a parallel shift in social science understandings of fishing towards context and interrelationships amongst and between fishermen and fishing communities. While the move towards ecosystems is well underway, a corresponding movement in fisheries social science is less well established. The latter will require a commitment to new sources of data, methods and forms and scales of analysis. Promising initiatives that align with ecosystem-based approaches include the documentation and incorporation of Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK), cooperative research that bridges communicative and epistemological gaps between fishermen and scientists and community-level data collections and analyses emerging from legislative mandates and community-based advocacy. These examples suggest a reorientation of fisheries social science in step with ecosystem approaches.

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“…Debate is ongoing about the agricultural value of native grasses compared to the exotic forage grasses used to reseed range and community pastures in the past. Some ecologists take an extreme position in calling for the removal of livestock (Donahue 1999) or the return to a kind of idealistic 'buffalo commons' (Popper and Popper 1999). However, the economic viability of the prairie livestock industry depends on exotic grass SHARED VISIONS, SHARED WILDERNESSES 99 species.…”

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Shared Visions, Shared Wildernesses: Wilderness Conservation in the Grasslands of Southern Saskatchewan

Atkinson¹

2009

British Journal of Canadian Studies

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The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as Method

Cited by 21 publications

References 5 publications

Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

Simulating the hydrologic response of a semiarid watershed to switchgrass cultivation

Communities, knowledge and fisheries of the future

Shared Visions, Shared Wildernesses: Wilderness Conservation in the Grasslands of Southern Saskatchewan

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