The farmer as a landscape steward: Comparing local understandings of landscape stewardship, landscape values, and land management actions

Raymond, Christopher M.; Bieling, Claudia; Fagerholm, Nora; Martín‐López, Berta; Plieninger, Tobias

doi:10.1007/s13280-015-0694-0

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“…Both the SES and resilience approach and the pathways approach recognise the importance of diversity for resilience and sustainability [140]. Recent literature on stewardship points to the diversity of values and ideologies which the concept carries for different actors and stakeholders, in different contexts [12,27,67]. Yet, existing literature on collaboration (Table 2) often emphasises consensus-building as a key process of collaboration [85], implying a reduction or 'flattening' of diversity as an outcome of collaborative deliberations.…”

Section: The Pathways Approach: a Theoretical Waymark To Deepen Reseamentioning

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Towards Place-Based Research to Support Social–Ecological Stewardship

2018

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Concerns about ecological degradation and social inequalities have prompted increasing calls for stewardship in the social-ecological systems and sustainability science literature. However, how can the ideals of stewardship be realised in practice? The links between the theory and practice of stewardship are under-developed, and research to support place-based stewardship practice is limited. We therefore bring together complementary perspectives to guide research on place-based stewardship practice in the context of multifunctional landscapes. We unpack and synthesise literature on stewardship, landscapes, and collaboration for natural resource management, and highlight the ways in which the pathways approach can deepen research on collaboration and stewardship practice. We propose landscapes as a suitable level of analysis and action for stewardship. Since all landscapes are multifunctional, we argue that collaboration among multiple stakeholders is a necessary focus of such research. Our analysis reveals that existing theory on collaboration could be deepened by further research into the agency of individual human actors, the complex social-relational dynamics among actors, and the situatedness of actors within the social-ecological context. These factors mediate collaborative processes, and a better understanding of them is needed to support place-based stewardship practice. To this end, the pathways approach offers a waymark to advance research on collaboration, particularly in the complex, contested social-ecological systems that tend to characterize multifunctional landscapes.

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Section: The Pathways Approach: a Theoretical Waymark To Deepen Reseamentioning

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Towards Place-Based Research to Support Social–Ecological Stewardship

2018

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“…Place attachment, defined as "the emotional bond between a person and a particular place" [19] (p. 443), is considered a driver of landscape stewardship [15,33]. This emotional bonding can be complemented by functional bonding, resulting from the dependence of people on the functions a landscape provides to their well-being [19,34], and is therefore connected to the specific biophysical and social characteristics of particular places (see natural and social bonding in Raymond et al [20]).…”

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Dimensions of Landscape Stewardship across Europe: Landscape Values, Place Attachment, Awareness, and Personal Responsibility

2018

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Improved perceptions towards landscape stewardship, at the local level, could help achieve more sustainable futures. However, little research has been done on the dimensions of landscape stewardship underlying such perceptions. Here we look at the perception of landscape values, place attachment, awareness of the adverse consequences human action might have on landscapes, and ascription of personal responsibility across Europe as well as how these dimensions are connected and influenced by personal capabilities and socio-cultural contexts. We conducted a cross-site comparison study, in six European municipalities, using a survey to capture residents' levels of awareness, responsibility, and attachment as derived from a set of statements. Respondents were also asked to indicate the values they perceive in the local landscape from a given list. The data was analysed by combining frequency analysis, factor analysis, and contingency tables. In our sample of 726 respondents, stronger awareness was related to stronger ascription of personal responsibility, but a connection to place attachment was not clear. Perception of multiple landscape values was related to stronger awareness, responsibility, and place attachment. Meanwhile, awareness and responsibility were influenced by respondents' occupation, levels of income and education, and socio-cultural context, whereas place attachment was linked to their relationship to the local area. We conclude that enhancing commitment towards landscape stewardship, at the local level, requires efforts focused on making environmental education more universal, implementing green options accessible to everyone, and people experientially engaging more actively with their local landscapes.

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“…Soil P fertility is a valuable resource and farmers recognise the important stewardship role of 'keeping the land in good heart' for their livelihood, and for producing food for future generations (Raymond et al 2016). However, building up soil P fertility for agronomic benefit has also proved to be a serious eutrophication threat because of soil P release to land runoff during storm events, and subsequent delivery to rivers, lakes, groundwaters, reservoirs and the coastal zone (Carpenter 2005, King et al 2017.…”

Section: Assessing the Trade-off Between Soil P Fertility And Water Qmentioning

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Reducing soil phosphorus fertility brings potential long-term environmental gains: A UK analysis

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Soil phosphorus (P) fertility arising from historic P inputs is a major driver of P mobilisation in agricultural runoff and increases the risk of aquatic eutrophication. To determine the environmental benefit of lowering soil P fertility, a meta-analysis of the relationship between soil test P (measured as Olsen-P) and P concentrations in agricultural drainflow and surface runoff in mostly UK soils was undertaken in relation to current eutrophication control targets (30-35 mg P L À1 ). At agronomic-optimum Olsen P (16-25 mg kg À1 ), concentrations of soluble reactive P (SRP), total dissolved P (TDP), total P (TP) and sediment-P (SS-P) in runoff were predicted by linear regression analysis to vary between 24 and 183 mg L À1 , 38 and 315 mg L À1 , 0.2 and 9.6 mg L À1 , and 0.31 and 3.2 g kg À1 , respectively. Concentrations of SRP and TDP in runoff were much more sensitive to changes in Olsen-P than were TP and SS-P concentrations, which confirms that separate strategies are required for mitigating the mobilisation of dissolved and particulate P forms. As the main driver of eutrophication, SRP concentrations in runoff were reduced on average by 60 mg L À1 (71%) by lowering soil Olsen-P from optimum (25 mg kg À1 ) to 10 mg kg À1 . At Olsen-P concentrations below 12 mg kg À1 , dissolved hydrolysable P (largely organic) became the dominant form of soluble P transported. We concluded that maintaining agronomic-optimum Olsen-P could still pose a eutrophication risk, and that a greater research focus on reducing critical soil test P through innovative agro-engineering of soils, crops and fertilisers would give long-term benefits in reducing the endemic eutrophication risk arising from legacy soil P. Soil P testing should become compulsory in priority catchments suffering, or sensitive to, eutrophication to ensure soil P reserves are fully accounted for as part of good fertiliser and manure management.

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The farmer as a landscape steward: Comparing local understandings of landscape stewardship, landscape values, and land management actions

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Cited by 91 publications

References 41 publications

Towards Place-Based Research to Support Social–Ecological Stewardship

Towards Place-Based Research to Support Social–Ecological Stewardship

Dimensions of Landscape Stewardship across Europe: Landscape Values, Place Attachment, Awareness, and Personal Responsibility

Reducing soil phosphorus fertility brings potential long-term environmental gains: A UK analysis

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