Culture as a means to contextualize policy

Negotiating the Democratic Paradox: Approaches Drawn From Governance Efforts on Yellowstone River

“…It flows 670 miles from its source in Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming) through scenic Paradise Valley, Montana, and then easterly through Montana's productive irrigated agricultural lands to its confluence with the Missouri River just inside the North Dakota border (McKenzie County). Approximately 84% of the riparian lands are privately owned (Hall et al, 2012) and provide home sites for vacation homeowners and irrigation opportunities for agriculture producers. Additionally, its scenic amenities attract retirees and recreationalists.…”

“…The river's floodplain is experiencing moderate to significant land-use changes including increased recreational pressure upstream (fly-fishing), riverfront development to accommodate suburban growth in Billings, Montana, and downstream ranch land purchased for leased hunting. Many Montanans fear that unplanned riverfront development and growth of the recreation industry threaten the attractive qualities of the river (Herring, 2006;Hall et al, 2012).…”

An evolving research agenda for human–coastal systems

“…A 341 typical approach in assessments of coastal vulnerability -the exposure of valued 342 infrastructure to natural hazard -is to convert socio-economic data into 343 qualitative indices, which can raise complicated issues regarding methodological 344 subjectivity and how to account for temporal change (Gornitz et clean-up, despite the ubiquity of these interventions (Nordstrom, 1994). translate their knowledge into the research for greater insight (Hall et al, 2012; 520 Hall and Lazarus, 2015), but also to translate research insights into real societal 521 relevance: "Once society has become a laboratory -and the citizens objects of 522 the experiment -the door morally and politically opens to the public voice. In thissituation, discovering truth becomes both public and polyvocal….The traditional 524 technocratic concept of science has to give way to a more 'reflexive' or self-525 critical concept of science" (Fischer, 2000).…”

Relationship‐scale conservation

“…Many scientists, managers, and other conservation professionals have instead focused their attention on human ecological factors such as population growth and human‐caused impacts and perturbations to protected areas and larger ecosystems. However, to successfully mitigate these threats, managers and other conservation professionals need to more fully integrate a broader range of human dimensions (e.g., cultural values and traditional knowledge) within their analyses of ecosystem viability and conservation practices (McNeely , Vitousek et al , Michaelidou et al , Hall et al ). This includes integrating relationships that develop between stakeholders and protected places (Dvorak et al , Dvorak and Brooks ).…”

“…Protected‐area managers and other conservation professionals require data‐driven assessments to implement relationship‐scale conservation (Hall et al ). Dvorak and Brooks () identified 3 target areas of information that provide the tools necessary to document, sustain, and monitor stakeholder relationships: 1) place narratives (following Glover [] and Sarbin [], we make no distinction between narratives, stories, and storytelling, and we may use these terms interchangeably throughout the paper), 2) trust and commitment between stakeholders and managers, and 3) threats to stakeholder relationships and appropriate mitigation strategies.…”