Breaking the mold: Integrating participatory environmental assessments and underlying narratives to expose differences in traditional stakeholder categories

Ocampo‐Melgar, Anahí; Orr, Barron J.; Kong, Taryn; Brandau, William

doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2015.07.007

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“…Co-producing the orientation of research questions with SSNRD households themselves is a way to responsibly share that power. Seeking out and eliciting the diversity of objectives and values held by different rural households as well as policymakers, and also reflecting on how and why they differ from researchers' preconceptions, can be a revelatory and trajectory-shifting experience for researchers as well [153,154].…”

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Advancing the integration of ecosystem services and livelihood adaptation

King

Nelson

McGreevy

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Around the world today, the magnitude and rates of environmental, social, and economic change are undermining the sustainability of many rural societies that rely directly on natural resources for their livelihoods. Sustainable development efforts seek to promote livelihood adaptations that enhance food security and reduce social-ecological vulnerability, but these efforts are hampered by the difficulty of understanding the complexity and dynamism of rural livelihood systems. Disparate research avenues are strengthening our ability to grapple with complexity. But we are only just beginning to find ways to simultaneously account for problematic complexities, including multiscalar feedbacks in the ecosystems that that support livelihoods, the heterogeneous benefits garnered by different segments of society, and the complex contingencies that constrain people's decisions and capacities to adapt. To provide a more nuanced analysis of the dynamics of transformation in rural livelihood systems, we identified key complementarities between four different research approaches, enabling us to integrate them in a novel research framework that can guide empirical and modeling research on livelihood adaptation. The framework capitalizes upon parallel concepts of sequentiality in (1) ecosystem services and (2) livelihood adaptation scholarship, then incorporates principles from (3) adaptation in social-ecological systems research to account for the dynamism inherent in these often rapidly-transforming systems. Lastly, we include advances in (4) agent-based modeling, which couples human decisions and land use change and provides tools to incorporate complex social-ecological feedbacks in simulation studies of livelihood adaptation. Here we describe the new Ecosystem Services-Livelihood Adaptation (ESLA) framework, explain how it links the contributing approaches, and illustrate its application with two case studies. We offer guidance for its implementation in empirical and modeling research, and conclude with a discussion of current challenges in sustainability science and the contributions that could be gained through research guided by the ESLA framework. sustainability of small-scale natural resource-dependent (SSNRD) livelihood systems worldwide. In such rapidly transforming systems, achieving Sustainable Development Goals simultaneously for improved human well-being, poverty reduction, food security, and environmental sustainability will require effective and holistic strategies for livelihood adaptation [2].

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Section: Reflexivity and Responsibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the integration of ecosystem services and livelihood adaptation

King

Nelson

McGreevy

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Therefore, understanding what stakeholders value and why they value it in the site to be restored can help scientists and practitioners to plan appropriate management interventions (e.g. Robbins et al 2007; Harris 2009; Bixler 2013; Ocampo‐Melgar et al 2015). Addressing those perceptions in the restoration design, implementation, and subsequent communication of results can further promote consensus‐building over restoration as a common practice (Brancalion et al 2014).…”

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Restoration perceptions and collaboration challenges under severe water scarcity: the Aculeo Lake process

Ocampo‐Melgar

Barría

Chadwick

et al. 2021

Restoration Ecology

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A governmental watershed collaborative process in Aculeo, a semi‐endorheic 149 km2 sub‐basin in Chile, debated options for the water scarcity problems they were facing, including their lake desiccation. However, instead of joining forces, discussions around the possibility of recovering the lake generated further conflicts, revealing that it was not a goal shared by all. In this article, we explore the different perceptions and reasons that influenced preferences on restoring or rehabilitating the Aculeo Lake. By collecting, coding, and comparing before and during collaborative process perceptions, we analyzed the perceptions of the proposed Aculeo Lake rehabilitation that are shared among both those who oppose and those who support it. Results indicate that the underlying disagreement was primarily due to differences in shore property rights and lake access, which was also linked to different opinions about land uses in the territory. This research displays how both values and understandings of problems, along with history of a site, can impact stakeholders' restoration preferences and turn into a collaboration challenge.

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