Appraisal of social-ecological innovation as an adaptive response by stakeholders to local conditions: Mapping stakeholder involvement in horticulture orientated green space management

Dennis, Matthew; Armitage, Richard P.; James, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2016.05.010

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“…Social innovation initiatives are an alternative to state-based governance and provide examples that can integrate local participation into a larger existing governance framework (see EC 2014; Baker and Mehmood 2015;Dennis et al 2016;Avelino et al 2017;GRAID 2017). Social innovations in forest governance are defined in the present paper as ''reconfigurations of relationships between state, market actors, civil society and science that facilitate a movement from authoritative state to participatory forest governance to better meet the concerns of local people on the use of ecosystem services''.…”

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Beyond participation! Social innovations facilitating movement from authoritative state to participatory forest governance in Ukraine

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Tuning participatory processes is often insufficient to achieve transition from authoritative state to democratic and participatory forest governance due to institutional inertia and unwillingness to truly decentralize decision-making power. Social innovations as reconfigurations of relationships between state, market actors, civil society and science can help to meet concerns of local people about forest Ecosystem Services (ES). In Ukraine, the Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development (FORZA) pilot project initiated a social innovation process complementing regional forest planning with local participatory community development plans in Transcarpathia. This paper examines what kind of changes need to accompany the succession of participatory practices in transition processes from authoritative state to democratic forest governance, and what are the lessons learned for social innovations based on the Ukrainian case study. This paper synthesizes knowledge on the FORZA case analyzed by inductive content analysis, and integrates these local level results with a national survey (N = 244) on Ukrainian forest governance. Transition processes need to go ''beyond participation'' by (i) legal reforms to better acknowledge ES ().,-volV) ( 01234567 89().,-volV) important for local people, (ii) a change from an exclusive focus on timber to acknowledging multiple ES, (iii) changed spatial and temporal rationales of state-based governance, and (iv) recognition of local people as credible experts. Social innovations can detect key barriers to the transition during the policy experiments, and need to pay significant attention on how the novel practices can be sustained after the pilot, replicated elsewhere and up-scaled. Without such considerations, social innovation projects may only remain as a marginal curiosity.

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“…New knowledge can be promoted by boosting local actors to investigate/experiment with their ideas in the same landscape (Wolfram & Frantzeskaki, 2016). A polycentric approach may increase the adaptive capacity of governance once it diversifies the perspectives and brings the local realities closer to decision making (Dennis et al, 2016a). This applies in forest landscapes too (Melnykovych et al, 2018), but its practice is very challenging, as it requires time, resources, and the right people to create the confidence, relationships, and reflections.…”

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Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

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Mitigating climate change, preventing mass species extinctions, improving rural livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction are among today's most urgent challenges. To meet these challenges, a large number of social actors need to agree to engage and act collectively on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR), ensuring its dual goal of restoring ecological functionality and improving people's wellbeing. Although FLR has gained momentum globally, the experiences so far continue to face socio-economic and governance challenges associated with the design and realization of effective efforts. Social Innovation (SI) can be seen contemporarily as the process and the result of interaction between stakeholders in the construction of solutions to social needs and problems, including those tackled by FLR. Here, using a content analysis approach applied to existing literature, we propose five possible conceptual bridges between FLR and SI. The Social Innovative -Forest and Landscape Restoration (SI-FLR) process advocates that sustainable livelihood needs should be attended first to ensure the Social-Ecological Systems' resilience. These bridges are: (1) "Landscape as the main context"; (2) "Nature as social need"; (3) "Landscape stewardship groups"; (4) "Governance capabilities"; (5) "Adapting and transforming to enhance resilience." Identifying these bridges, will help decision-makers and project managers to improve the FLR initiatives by supporting the potential of SI and sparking the interest of other researchers to explore the many possibilities of SI-FLR.

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“…In developing countries, urban agriculture plays a significant role in providing food security and, in many cases, also income [64,66]. Developed countries generally lack the desperate need for food, and income from small-scale agriculture is minimal, and so the motivation has been more ideological [66][67][68]. For these countries, it often represents a healthy lifestyle, purely therapeutic or a way to get involved for social interaction, or as part of an education program at school [54].…”

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Identifying Themes and Patterns on Management of Horticultural Innovations with an Automated Text Analysis

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This research provides an overview on horticulture innovations in the last decade through a literature review and the use of a computer qualitative data analysis. We used Leximancer text mining software to identify concepts, themes and pathways linked with horticulture innovations. The software tool enabled us to “zoom out” to gain a broad perspective of the pooled data, and it indicated which studies clustered around the dominant topic. It displays the extracted information in a visual form, to wit, an interactive concept map, which summaries the interconnected themes and demonstrates any interdependencies. The text mining analysis revealed that the themes strongly related to “innovation” are “water”, “urban”, “system”, “countries” and “technology”. The outputs identified have been interpreted to discover meaning from the content analysis, since the software can facilitate a comprehensive and transparent data coding but cannot replace researcher’s interpretive work. Furthermore, we focused on the diffusion and the barriers for the spread of innovation, pointing out the differences about developing and advanced countries. This analysis allows the researcher to have a holistic understanding of the examination area and could lead to further studies.

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Appraisal of social-ecological innovation as an adaptive response by stakeholders to local conditions: Mapping stakeholder involvement in horticulture orientated green space management

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

Beyond participation! Social innovations facilitating movement from authoritative state to participatory forest governance in Ukraine

Beyond participation! Social innovations facilitating movement from authoritative state to participatory forest governance in Ukraine

Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

Identifying Themes and Patterns on Management of Horticultural Innovations with an Automated Text Analysis

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