Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems

Sendzimir, Jan; Magnuszewski, Piotr; Gunderson, Lance

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73250-3_16

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“…https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol28/iss2/art16/ Sustainability assessment as viewed in the framework of complexity highlights the sustained capacity of adaptive management. For more than 30 years the governance process of adaptive management has been evolving to address the challenges of sustainability transition, and the process has been refined in a series of on-the-ground applications to tackle issues in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, and ecosystems (Gunderson and Holling 2002, Pahl-Wostl et al 2007, Sendzimir et al 2018. What makes adaptive management critical is based on the complex nature of sustainability transition that involves fundamentally different perspectives and variable contexts embedded in sustainability problems and solutions.…”

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Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

Jia¹

2023

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Over the past two decades, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have emerged as instruments to improve social and environmental practices and to communicate sustainability standards in trade and business. However, debates about the correct assessment methodology for VSS risk causing duplication, overlaps, and fragmentation, undermining the value of VSS in sustainability transition. In this paper I propose materiality, theory of change and reflexive governance as the three building blocks of an appropriate framework for VSS and other sustainability assessment schemes in the food and agricultural sectors. Materiality is the specific criteria for defining and assessing factors that matter for sustainability, such as indicators, metrics, and rankings. Materiality is a process of social construction that enables stakeholder engagement and integrated knowledge production, going beyond just benchmarking entities against their competitors using standardized measures. Theory of change is a method that explains how interventions lead to desired outcomes and changes but is much more than a linear logic model of inputs and outputs. It sheds light on underlying assumptions, embedded contexts and long-and short-term dynamics. Reflexive evaluation consists of a single-loop process that follows a problemdetection-correction course and double-and triple-loop learning that allows assumptions and learned propositions to be challenged. It highlights unintended outcomes and offers alternatives to conducting interventions, which is different from conventional monitoring and evaluation methods, which focus on measuring the attainment of intended outcomes only. The study concludes that the semantic meaning of "standards" and "assessment" in agricultural VSS abstract the complex nature of sustainability because of overly linear meaning. In the complex construct of sustainability assessment, the role of VSS is not to conclude a success or a failure but to encourage knowledge-based learning and accountable governance because social change is an open-ended validation and adaption process. The framework proposed by this paper offers a solution by calling for integrated knowledge production resulting from interdisciplinary assessments and learning-oriented actions.

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Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

Jia¹

2023

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“…Second, this process opened up the opportunity to find interrelations between problems and solutions. Third, sharing this system of coexisting mental models with the involved actors enabled processes of social learning and double loop learning (Sendzimir et al 2018) as mutual understanding improved, and the process enabled a shift in mental models. For example, fishers were at first not interested in saving sharks, yet by the end of the process, in their agreement on seasoning for redfish, they took up a clause "not to catch sharks intentionally, and to throw unintentionally caught sharks back alive", which refers to a shift in their mental model.…”

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Using participatory action research to operationalize critical systems thinking in social-ecological systems

Eelderink¹,

Vervoort²,

Laerhoven³

2020

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We present a research approach that seeks to develop and strengthen participatory action research (PAR) when applied in social-ecological systems (SES) by combining it with critical systems thinking (CST). This research approach responds to the urgent societal need to move beyond predefined project framing in development projects. While PAR acts as a basis for operationalizing participatory research processes, CST supports PAR by including explicit questions about system and problem boundaries. We first present this approach in the context of existing approaches and then go on to illustrate it by investigating a SES case study of a marine system on the Caribbean Saba Island as part of a project to protect sharks from extinction. The case study illustrates that strengthening PAR with the explicit framing questions used by CST combines the strengths of these two approaches. This combination allows participants: (1) to (re)frame the problem definition and scope as perceived by the different stakeholders, and (2) to find, co-create, and implement viable solutions with local stakeholders to improve a SES based on local needs and diverse stakeholders' perspectives on potential solutions.

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Multivariate spatial analysis for the identification of criticalities and of the subtended causes in river ecosystems

Bellino

Alfani

Riso

et al. 2019

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Adaptive Management of Riverine Socio-ecological Systems

Cited by 7 publications

References 75 publications

Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

Using participatory action research to operationalize critical systems thinking in social-ecological systems

Multivariate spatial analysis for the identification of criticalities and of the subtended causes in river ecosystems

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