Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?

Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Allen, Craig R.; Benson, Melinda Harm

doi:10.5751/es-05927-180237

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“…There is also work on resilience in relation to legal structures, principles, and processes (e.g., Garmestani et al 2013), as well as core concepts of the rule of law (e.g., Ebbesson 2010) and to the making of normative choices of public interest, public and private responsibilities, and individual rights including equality before the law and nondiscrimination (e.g., Ebbesson and Hey 2013). West and Schultz (2015) conclude that the European Court of Human Rights constitutes an important site of learning for governance of social-ecological systems, because it situates knowledge and experience of environmental change in the context of discussions about the relative rights, duties, and responsibilities of social actors, facilitating the mutually adaptive evolution of truth and justice across scales.…”

Section: Capturing Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience (Republished)

Folke¹

2016

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ABSTRACT.Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain development in the face of expected and surprising change and diverse pathways of development and potential thresholds between them. The evolution of resilience thinking is coupled to socialecological systems and a truly intertwined human-environment planet. Resilience as persistence, adaptability, and transformability of complex adaptive social-ecological systems is the focus, clarifying the dynamic and forward-looking nature of the concept. Resilience thinking emphasizes that social-ecological systems, from the individual, to community, to society as a whole, are embedded in the biosphere. The biosphere connection is an essential observation if sustainability is to be taken seriously. In the continuous advancement of resilience thinking there are efforts aimed at capturing resilience of social-ecological systems and finding ways for people and institutions to govern social-ecological dynamics for improved human well-being, at the local, across levels and scales, to the global. Consequently, in resilience thinking, development issues for human well-being, for people and planet, are framed in a context of understanding and governing complex social-ecological dynamics for sustainability as part of a dynamic biosphere.This invited article is a republication of Folke, C. 2016. "Resilience" of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

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Section: Capturing Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience (Republished)

Folke¹

2016

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“…Although US policy is now using the word "resilience", legal and policy instruments needed to provide local government with authority to manage, do not exist (Benson & Garmestani, 2011). Garmestani et al, (2013) suggest extensive legal reform based on the principles of reflexive law to enable resilience-based responses to environmental change.…”

Section: Resilience Reflectionsmentioning

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Wallowa County, Oregon, USA: Restoration of forest systems and rural livelihoods. A partial resilience assessment of a work in progress

Jones¹,

Christoffersen²

2016

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“…Next, we identified cyclical activities taking place in the conservation organizations regarding the identified habitat network dynamics and asked what set the tempo and phase of these activities. We also examined how these organizations applied formal legal framework versus adaptive governance in conservation (Garmestani et al 2013). Finally, we asked the following questions to evaluate the institutional fit of conservation: Are conservation institutions able to identify and respond to decreasing habitat quality and availability within such time frames that can prevent habitat discontinuities for false heath fritillary metapopulations?…”

Section: Thematic Interviews and Conservation Reportsmentioning

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Metapopulation perspective to institutional fit: maintenance of dynamic habitat networks

Fabritius¹,

Jokinen²,

Cabeza³

2017

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ABSTRACT. Species living in metapopulations depend on connected habitat networks for their survival. If habitat networks experience fast temporal dynamics, species conservation requires preventing habitat discontinuities that could lead to metapopulation extinctions. However, few institutional solutions exist for the maintenance of spatiotemporally dynamic habitat networks outside of protected areas. To explore this often neglected problem, we studied the institutional fit of false heath fritillary (Melitaea diamina) conservation in Finland from the perspective of conservation institutions' ability to manage early successional habitat availability for this endangered species. We identified four institutional arrangements that enable effective conservation management of dynamic habitat networks: (1) acknowledgment of habitat dynamics, (2) monitoring of and responding to changes in the habitat network, (3) management of resources for fluctuating resource needs, and (4) scaling of activities through flexible collaborations. These arrangements provide the institutional flexibility needed for responding to temporal changes in habitat availability.

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Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience?

Cited by 63 publications

References 32 publications

Resilience (Republished)

Resilience (Republished)

Wallowa County, Oregon, USA: Restoration of forest systems and rural livelihoods. A partial resilience assessment of a work in progress

Metapopulation perspective to institutional fit: maintenance of dynamic habitat networks

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