Uncertainties in the adaptation of alpine pastures to climate change based on remote sensing products and modelling

Brilli, Lorenzo; Martin, Raphaël; Argenti, Giovanni; Bassignana, M.; Bindi, Marco; Bonet, Richard; Choler, Philippe; Cremonese, Edoardo; Vedova, Marco L. Della; Dibari, Camilla; Filippa, Gianluca; Galvagno, Marta; Leolini, Luisa; Moriondo, Marco; Piccot, A.; Stendardi, Laura; Targetti, Stefano; Bellocchi, Gianni

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117575

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“…The framework concerned three dimensions of analysis to assess diverse potential climate change impacts on the local pastoral system and to identify the more relevant factors that enhance (or reduce) its adaptive capacity (Fraser et al 2011;Metzger et al, 2006). These are: 1) climate change impacts on the local agroecosystem resources (Brilli et al, 2023); 2) a stakeholder-based assessment of socioeconomic sensitivity, directly or indirectly linked to those changes. This was based on a step-by-step system mapping development (Dentoni et al 2022); and 3) an exploration of the 'pro-active' adaptation practices that local farmers could mobilize.…”

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“…Important dynamics in mountain pastures relate to grassland conditions as these are the main forage resources on which the management of pastoral systems depends (Dibari et al 2016). Nonetheless, accurate projections of climate change impacts on forage resources are di cult to assess and may be debated in terms of their level or nature (Choler et al, 2021;Brilli et al, 2023). Also, the dynamics affecting grasslands and their impact on local pastoral systems is debated.…”

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Alpine pastoral systems are examples of human-managed landscapes where farming practices are traditionally adapted to semi-natural forage resources. Climate change effects will likely drive farming management with relevant socioeconomic and environmental impacts on pastoral systems and mountain communities. However, pastoral systems are complex socio-ecological systems driven by a range of drivers such as policies and institutions that trigger a range of direct and indirect feedbacks and influence the adaptation response to climate change. We present a participatory approach based on different sources and types of knowledge, building of cognitive maps with local farmers, and testing of scenarios featuring different impacts on the local pastoral system. The approach is aimed at identifying the drivers of vulnerability, understanding the cause-effect relationships between the main stress factors affecting the local pastoral system and at discerning the “concurrent” factors that enable or constrain farmers’ adaptation capacity. Our results outline that unpredictability linked to climate variability is relevant for farmers’ decisions. Nonetheless, predation is clearly the most important threat hindering the utilization of upland grasslands. The results discussed with local stakeholders point to an attentive consideration of the expected increase in farmers’ workload linked to predation, climate variability stresses, and agricultural policy. Strategies aimed at enhancing the availability of skilled shepherds result as the most effective to decrease the workload for farmers, increase the adaptive capacity of the local pastoral system, and thus contribute effectively in contrasting the abandonment of mountain grasslands.

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