Drivers of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes: Implications for Better Management

Gu, Hongyan; Subramanian, Suneetha M.

doi:10.5751/es-06283-190141

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“…People have a great responsibility not to damage the environment, keep it in a good condition to be fit for human habitation and leave it in a good state for subsequent generations [72]. However, the area that is put under conservation is limited in reducing the loss of biodiversity and satisfying human needs as the area is always restricted due to population pressure [27,45,73]. One of the major reasons of the fast track land reform program in Zimbabwe was to decongest the communal areas; hence there was noticeable movement into the resettlement areas (formerly large-scale commercial farming area), but this has not resolved the question of pressure on land.…”

Section: Discussion: Institutional Bricolage Towards Effective Landscmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This will allow for the integration of biodiversity conservation with the support of local people's livelihoods since they are the core users of the forests [83]. There is need to consider the socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPLs) as an alternative approach which is premised on the integration of social and ecological systems as they are mutually exclusive [40,43,73,75] and as part of 'forest transition' that exceeds focus on tree cover [68,89].…”

Section: Discussion: Institutional Bricolage Towards Effective Landscmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

Kamuti¹

2018

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The increase in tobacco production while ameliorating the condition of the participant households has caused challenges to stakeholders particularly those in the governance of forest resources upon which the sector is hinged. Massive deforestation has proceeded at an alarmingly high level, in a way that threatens the long term viability of the tobacco sector and sustainability of natural forest resources. The entrance of previously disadvantaged majority into the once minority-dominated tobacco sector (and economy) in a quest to improving their livelihoods, is driving forest landscape changes that pose inherent environmental challenges including climate change. This article adopts institutional and landscape approaches to explore and explain the drivers, nexus and implications of smallholder tobacco as a livelihood strategy to the forest landscape changes and the subsequent imperative for governance of the sustainable utilization of forest resources in Zimbabwe. Drawing on documentary evidence the paper concludes that this situation poses a dilemma to forest and livelihood policies, hence the need to examine new institutional and livelihood initiatives.

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Section: Discussion: Institutional Bricolage Towards Effective Landscmentioning

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Section: Discussion: Institutional Bricolage Towards Effective Landscmentioning

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The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

Kamuti¹

2018

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“…Landscapes are often seen as a societal outcome of land-use decisions (Ostrom et al 2007). They may also be viewed as cultural (Haberl et al 2006), as well as social-ecological products, emerging from coevolutionary interactions between people and ecosystems in ways that maintain biodiversity and provide humans with goods and services necessary for their well-being (Gu and Subramanian 2014). In the Rhône River LTSER, thanks to strong interactions among multiple stakeholders over decades, models were run to predict the ecological impacts of a unique river restoration program while taking into account social values and public expectations in several riverine landscapes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network

Bretagnolle¹,

Benoît²,

Bonnefond³

et al. 2019

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Many social-ecological system(SES)-based approaches have been proposed to address environmental problems. Most social-ecological frameworks developed to date, however, lack clear operational linkages between humans and nature to efficiently guide SESs toward resilience. A conceptual framework designed to be operational is therefore necessary, as well as a network of research platforms with which to apply it. We defined explicit coupling processes that can be used as leverages to pilot an SES toward sustainability. We proposed to formalize an SES as a dynamic entity composed of two coupling interfaces, i.e., adaptive management and ecosystem services, both set within a landscape context to provide an actionable framework. These interfaces describe the way various actors, including scholars, benefit from and manage complex and changing interactions between the biophysical and social templates. Understanding the key processes underlying the interaction dynamics, especially those leveraging adaptive management processes, would help identify adaptive pathways for practices and collective actions, provide a crucial knowledge base for policy makers, and foster operationality as a requisite of an SES research agenda. Using several examples, we explained why long-term social-ecological research platforms provide an ideal operational network of research infrastructures to conduct place-based action-orientated research targeting the sustainability of SESs.Ecology and Society 24(3): 10 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art10/

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“…Several authors challenge this notion head-on, providing through their assessment of cultural landscapes the evidence that such a dichotomy of supply and demand does no justice to the complex and dynamic characteristics of human-nature relations. For example, Gu and Subramanian (2014) and Huntsinger and Oviedo (2014) examine ecosystem services in cultural landscapes as social-ecological systems. Gu and Subramanian take us through the origins of the Satoyama Initiative and the emergence of the concept of socio-ecological production landscapes (SEPL), which they illustrate across a wide range of different production systems.…”

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Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Plieninger¹,

Horst²,

Schleyer³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the socialecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments. Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are under pressure from agricultural intensification, land abandonment, and urbanization. In recent years, the cultural landscapes concept has been broadly adopted in science, policy, and management. The interest in both outstanding and vernacular landscapes finds expression in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, the European Landscape Convention, and the IUCN Protected Landscape Approach. These policies promote the protection, management, planning, and governance of cultural landscapes. The ecosystem services approach is a powerful framework to guide such efforts, but has rarely been applied in landscape research and management. With this paper, we introduce a special feature that aims to enhance the theoretical, empirical and practical knowledge of how to safeguard the resilience of ecosystem services in cultural landscapes. It concludes (1) that the usefulness of the ecosystem services approach to the analysis and management of cultural landscapes should be reviewed more critically; (2) that conventional ecosystem services assessment needs to be complemented by socio-cultural valuation; (3) that cultural landscapes are inherently changing, so that a dynamic view on ecosystem services and a focus on drivers of landscape change are needed; and (4) that managing landscapes for ecosystem services provision may benefit from a social-ecological resilience perspective.

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Drivers of Change in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes: Implications for Better Management

Cited by 55 publications

References 18 publications

The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network

Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

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