Transforming sustainability science for practice: a social–ecological systems framework for training sustainability professionals

Kliskey, Andrew; Alessa, Lilian; Griffith, David L.; Olsen, Sarah K.; Williams, Paula; Matsaw, Sammy L.; Čeněk, Martin; Gosz, James R.; Dengler, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s11625-020-00846-2

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“…Limitations within the process restrict solutions and systems-level interventions as mechanisms to address negative impacts. Within the Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) project in Magic Valley, researchers achieved this integration of solutions per each scenario as the interventions reflected stakeholder-defined values and interest [6,7,[22][23][24].…”

Section: Social Ecological Systems Solutions In Scenario Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho

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Trammell

Kliskey

2023

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As growth in the western U.S. continues to lead to the development of land, pressure is being exerted on agricultural production, and could lead to the loss of prime agricultural land. A wide array of perspectives concerning agricultural protection requires a variety of possible solutions. Diverse and plausible scenarios, driven by stakeholders, can be modeled by researchers to guide potential solutions to address key challenges within a region. This paper addresses one stakeholder-defined social-ecological system (SES) solution in the context of southern Idaho, one of the fastest-growing states in the U.S.: agricultural protection zoning. This project demonstrates a method for incorporating an Agriculture Protection Zone (APZ) within a suite of scenarios showing land protection opportunities across a range of future conditions and challenges. The results, by way of a Geodesign framework, entail suitability analyses through a series of weighted raster overlays to analyze scenario-based solutions. The suite of scenario solutions was compared to demonstrate effective proportions of the APZ. The analysis of the results, as a solution gradient, aim to inform policy makers, planners, and developers about the efficiencies of various APZ delineations as well as a methodology to demonstrate the impact of solutions based on assumptions of stakeholder-informed future scenarios.

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Section: Social Ecological Systems Solutions In Scenario Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho

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Trammell

Kliskey

2023

Land

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“…Stakeholder-defined scenarios [9,10,15] intend to acquire greater acceptance from planners and decision-makers; however, formulating said scenarios requires active stakeholder engagement [16][17][18]. Through stakeholder engagement, synthesized assumptions about systems of the region can be organized into descriptive and spatio-temporal scenarios with embedded solutions [14,19].…”

Section: Stakeholder Engagement In Fewsmentioning

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“…Current practices in science communication and visualization lack effective use of explanatory mechanisms to engage stakeholders while simultaneously providing an evaluative tool for further research development [25,26]. This research proposes an assessment through the combination of various graphic representations to address this knowledge gap by providing a means for interactive deep-mapping [13] through the co-production of knowledge in stakeholder engagement [14,16] through graphic visualizations. This project determined a ranking of compelling graphics based on a survey of our stakeholders.…”

Section: Addressing the Knowledge Gap Of Visualizations And Stakehold...mentioning

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Images to Evoke Decision-Making: Building Compelling Representations for Stakeholder-Driven Futures

2022

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Contemporary landscape planning challenges require an increasingly diverse ensemble of voices, including regional stakeholders, physical scientists, social scientists, and technical experts, to provide insight into a landscape’s past trends, current uses, and desired future. To impactfully integrate these disparate components, stakeholder-driven research must include clear lines of communication, share data transparently, and slowly develop trust. Alternative future scenario representations aim to generate conversations through discourse, evoke scenario-based stakeholder input, and ensure stakeholder-based revisions to research models. The current literature lacks a metric for gauging effectiveness and a framework for optimal evaluation for future scenario representations. We have developed and applied a metric for a ranked set of compelling scenario representations using stakeholder input from an active research project. Researchers surveyed stakeholders through a case study in Idaho’s Magic Valley to gauge the effectiveness of each representational approach. To improve future stakeholder-driven geodesign projects and gaps in the research literature, this project provides a ranking of graphic strategies based on the stakeholder survey. Additionally, we provide examples and evaluate graphic representation strategies that can stimulate meaningful conversations, create common understandings, and translate research processes and findings to a variety of audiences. The results of this study intend to provide landscape architects, landscape planners, and geodesign specialists with a framework for evaluating compelling future scenario representations for a stakeholder group.

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“…Given all these factors, a growing chorus of voices has questioned academia's capability to provide intellectual leadership at all for the sustainability transition. An entire field has emerged -sustainability science -aimed at maintaining the usefulness of science to solving real-world problems (e.g., Polk, 2014;Mooney, 2016;Clark and Harley, 2020;Rocha et al, 2020;Kliskey et al, 2021).…”

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If It Is Life We Want: A Prayer for the Future (of the) University

Moser¹,

Fazey²

2021

Front. Sustain.

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Universities are one potentially important place – albeit not the only one – to initiate the next generation into becoming the adult humans needed to navigate the difficult future of the Anthropocene. The University of the future will fail this mission, if it only prepared young people in the technical expertise required to manage accelerating climate crises and the breakdown of Earth's life support and interlocking human systems. The depth and extent of transformation that awaits society requires people skilled in coping emotionally and in effectively engaging the plethora of challenges ahead with agility, creativity, resolve, vision, and integrity. It requires universities themselves to transform into institutions of human development that cease to participate, pardon and propagate patterns of exploitation and, instead, become singularly dedicated to restoring and regenerating the conditions for life. This paper articulates a vision of a radically different future “University.” Building on others' calls for transformation-supporting education, we frame universities' role in the larger arc of inner and outer human and societal development. We spell out some of the implications and needs such a shift would entail. The paper is written in the spirit of the future University that we envision: not just from our analytical thinking brain, but drawing also on our imaginative/intuitive, emotional, and sensing/embodied ways of knowing. As such, it breaks with conventional academic writing and opens up wider possibilities for and commitment to life-affirming and restorative action.

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Transforming sustainability science for practice: a social–ecological systems framework for training sustainability professionals

Cited by 12 publications

References 67 publications

From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho

From Uncertainties to Solutions: A Scenario-Based Framework for an Agriculture Protection Zone in Magic Valley Idaho

Images to Evoke Decision-Making: Building Compelling Representations for Stakeholder-Driven Futures

If It Is Life We Want: A Prayer for the Future (of the) University

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