Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of  Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

Beier, Colin M.; Lovecraft, Amy Lauren; Chapin, F. Stuart

doi:10.5751/es-02955-140205

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“…Local knowledge of ecological and social conditions is often a critical aspect to managing for resilience, and polycentric systems are designed to allow for this knowledge to shape governance (Janssen et al 2007, Ostrom 2010. Polycentric systems are better adapted to social-ecological dynamics because these coupled systems of governance and management effectively link scales via diverse information flow capabilities (Beier et al 2009, Ostrom 2010. The dynamics of social-ecological systems make it necessary to create or nurture governance systems that utilize a suite of policy instruments (Andersson and Ostrom 2008).…”

Section: Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Garmestani¹,

Benson²

2013

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ABSTRACT. Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal reform by identifying the principles of reflexive law as a possible mechanism for achieving a shift to resilience-based governance and leveraging cross-scale dynamics to provide resilience-based responses to increasingly challenging environmental conditions.

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Section: Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Garmestani¹,

Benson²

2013

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“…Trade-offs between ecosystem services and disservices determine incentives and subsequently induce behaviors that shape people's relationship with the environment. Society has developed social institutions to manage such trade-offs (Beier et al 2009, Trainor et al 2009). These institutions create environmental policy that tries to minimize the costs of ecosystem disservices and ensure continued provision of ecosystem services.…”

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“…This growth constrains managers from allowing natural wildfires to play their ecologically critical role. Institutional constraints, either dictated by the public or from within the organization, are a common barrier to innovative management (Olsson et al 2004, Beier et al 2009). Nevertheless, transformation that ameliorates institutional constraints and fosters flexibility can occur (Olsson et al 2004, Westley et al 2011.…”

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Generalizable principles for ecosystem stewardship-based management of social-ecological systems: lessons learned from Alaska

Hansen¹

2014

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ABSTRACT. Human pressure could compromise the provision of ecosystem services if we do not implement strategies such as ecosystem stewardship to foster sustainable trajectories. Barriers to managing systems based on ecosystem stewardship principles are pervasive, including institutional constraints and uncertain system dynamics. However, solutions to help managers overcome these barriers are less common. How can we better integrate ecosystem stewardship into natural resource management practices? I draw on examples from the literature and two broadly applicable case studies from Alaska to suggest some generalizable principles that can help managers redirect how people use and view ecosystems. These include (1) accounting for both people and ecosystems in management actions; (2) considering historical and current system dynamics, but managing flexibly for the future; (3) identifying interactions between organizational, temporal, and spatial scales; (4) embracing multiple causes in addition to multiple objectives; and (5) acknowledging that there are no panaceas and that success will be incremental. I also identify next steps to rigorously evaluate the broad utility of these principles and quickly move principles from theory to application. The findings of this study suggest that natural resource managers are poised to overcome the barriers to implementing ecosystem stewardship and to develop innovative adaptations to socialecological problems.

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“…Changes in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska are described in some detail using the four phases of the adaptive cycle (Beier, Lovecraft, & Chapin, 2009). Briefly, the changes in Wallowa County were as follows:…”

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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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Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

Cited by 51 publications

References 24 publications

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Generalizable principles for ecosystem stewardship-based management of social-ecological systems: lessons learned from Alaska

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

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