A boundary-spanning organization for transdisciplinary science on land stewardship: The Stewardship Network

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Although people and organizations in the Great Lakes region, USA take seriously their role as stewards of natural resources, many lack capacity to fulfill that role in a meaningful way. Stepping into that gap, The Stewardship Network (TSN) envisions "a world of empowered, connected communities caring for land and water, now and forever," and fulfills that vision through its mission to "connect, equip, and mobilize people and organizations to care for land and water in their communities." TSN uses a scalable model of linked local and regional capacity building, science communication, civic engagement, and on-the-ground stewardship activities to achieve these goals. The model engages local and regional groups in an ongoing process of learning around conservation and restoration that improves social and ecological knowledge. I share the story of TSN to demonstrate how transdisciplinary science can take hold locally and expand regionally to bring people from diverse disciplines and functional roles together to solve common problems. I demonstrate how researchers and practitioners can collaborate to create enduring mechanisms of social and ecological change.

Governance across the land-sea interface: A systematic review

“…Collaborative and network governance across the land-sea interface are emerging as specific modes of governance potentially useful in enhancing social-ecological fit (Ernoul and Wardell-Johnson, 2013;Guerrero et al, 2015;Hovik and Stokke, 2007;Sandström et al, 2014). Additionally, boundaryspanning organizations À or governance organizations that seek to reduce fragmentation through strategic collaborations À can be particularly useful to improve the capacity of governance to deal with social and ecological problems (Berdej and Armitage, 2016;O'Mahony and Bechky, 2008;Paige Fischer, 2015). 4.)…”

Percepção ambiental como subsídio para gestão costeira da Baía do Araçá, Litoral Norte do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil

“…De acordo com Gama et al (2011) e Martinez (2012, analisando o senso de responsabilidade, a maioria dos entrevistados tem uma visão de que a responsabilidade deve ser compartilhada por todos e reconhece a educação 1 Serviços Ecossistêmicos são considerados os benefícios diretos e indiretos obtidos pelo homem a partir do funcionamento dos ecossistemas (Andrade & Romeiro, 2009). como meio de tomada de consciência e sensibilização. Essas informações, todas adquiridas por meio do uso da percepção ambiental como ferramenta metodológica, servem de subsídio no processo de gestão ambiental local (Martinez, 2012) e auxiliam na criação de mecanismos duradouros de mudança social e ecológica (Fischer, 2015).…”

“…A baía é uma área de grande complexidade ambiental e alta diversidade biológica (Amaral et al, 2010;2015 (Amaral et al, 2010;Turra et al, 2016).…”

Collaborative Approaches to Flow Restoration in Intermittent Salmon-Bearing Streams: Salmon Creek, CA, USA

“…Feminist, indigenous, and postcolonial scholars have challenged narrow or token collaborations among experts and other knowledge-holders, drawing attention to power relations, epistemic violence, and the partial perspective of all science, including western science [11,[40][41][42][43][44][45]. These critiques apply to many cases of transdisciplinary science, a field that emerged in landscape ecology in the 1990s [46] and has expanded to include global sustainability science and the study of social ecological systems [47][48][49][50]. Researchers have developed participatory, action-based, and justice-seeking methodologies as alternatives to outsider investigations of environmental and environmental health problems [38,[51][52][53][54].…”