Knowledge Brokerage for Impact Assessment of Land Use Scenarios in Inner Mongolia, China: Extending and Testing the FoPIA Approach

König, Hannes; Podhora, Aranka; Zhen, Lin; Helming, Katharina; Yan, Huimin; Du, Binyang; Wübbeke, Jost; Wang, Chao; Klinger, Julie Michelle; Chen, Cheng; Uthes, Sandra

doi:10.3390/su7055027

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“…Xu et al 2013 and socio-economic conditions (e.g. Brown et al 2013, Zhen et al 2014, Koenig et al 2015, Zhen and Du 2017, in order to better understand the coupled human-earth system (e.g. Folke et al 2002, Chen et al 2015, Lee et al 2015, Monier et al 2017, Tong et al 2017.…”

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Assessing the effects of ecological restoration approaches in the alpine rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Zhen

Wei

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Ecological restoration has increased in prominence since the last century as an active way to reverse ecosystem deterioration derived from human interventions. The goal of this study was to assess the impact of restoration approaches on ecological and economic conditions of typical regions in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Data were collected using structured questionnaires delivered to 195 herders living in areas with average elevation above 3773 m. Land use maps, MODIS images, and government statistics were also used for the study. It was found that local herders have adopted five major approaches, i.e. enclosure, grazing prohibition, enclosure+deratization, enclosure+deratiza-tion+grass seeding, and enclosure+deratization+crop-forage cultivation+warm sheds, to ensure success of the restoration programs initiated by the government. The results show that vegetation coverage, especially for high and very high coverage grasslands, increased across the study sites and across approaches used, with a high grassland recovery rate observed in the areas where either grazing is prohibited or grassland management was dominated by integration approaches. Furthermore, households who employed integrated approaches tended to have more animals to rear, higher capability of resisting risks, and higher income than those who did not. These findings imply that balanced ecological and economic development is possible when appropriate management approaches are adopted. However, evaluation and monitoring of grassland conditions are needed to readjust restoration policy and associated approaches in a timely manner.

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Assessing the effects of ecological restoration approaches in the alpine rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Zhen

Wei

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Typical steppes, meadows and semi-desert and desert steppes are the major grassland types [29]. Grasslands were traditionally used for grazing and animal production before 1995 [30]. Frequent drought was the major natural disaster, although severe winter weather was also a frequent problem [31]; Inner Mongolia has suffered from decades of climate fluctuation that have exacerbated the effects of human disturbance (e.g., over-grazing, excessive reclamation of grasslands for agriculture), so grassland degradation is a widely-observed problem.…”

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Effects of Government Grassland Conservation Policy on Household Livelihoods and Dependence on Local Grasslands: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China

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Yan

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Abstract:Grassland degradation intensifies human-environment conflicts and adversely affects local residents' livelihoods. To reduce grassland degradation in Inner Mongolia, China, the government has enforced (since 1998) a series of grassland conservation and management policies that restrict the use of grasslands. To ease the impact on the residents' livelihoods, the national and regional governments have offered a series of top-down arrangements to stimulate sustainable use of the grasslands. Simultaneously, local households spontaneously developed bottom-up countermeasures. To determine the effects of these processes, we interviewed members of 135 households using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. We analyzed the effects on household dependence on local grasslands and on perceptions of the future of grassland use. Our findings show that the implementation of the grassland conservation policies significantly affected household livelihoods, which in turn affected household use of natural assets (primarily the land), their agricultural assets (farming and grazing activities) and their financial assets (income and consumption), resulting in fundamental transformation of their lifestyles. The households developed adaptation measures to account for the dependence of their livelihood on local ecosystems by initializing strategies, such as seeking off-farm work, leasing pasture land, increasing purchases of fodder for stall-fed animals and altering their diet and fuel consumption to compensate for their changing livelihoods.

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“…Considering stakeholder needs is crucial for achieving a high level of acceptance of a proposed coping strategy and undertaking policy action solutions (Reed, 2008); moreover, research has taken on a new role in facilitating stakeholder participation processes in the domain of research‐based decision support (König et al, 2015; La Rosa, Lorz, König, & Fürst, 2014; Spyra et al, 2018). Communicating the necessity of respective measures to stakeholders and citizens alike has been shown to be important for the success and acceptance of conservation measures, for example, species recovery.…”

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Integrated framework for stakeholder participation: Methods and tools for identifying and addressing human–wildlife conflicts

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Ceauşu

Reed

et al. 2021

Conservat Sci and Prac

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As wild areas disappear and agricultural lands expand, understanding how people and wildlife can coexist becomes increasingly important. Human–wildlife conflicts (HWCs) are obstacles to coexistence and negatively affect both wildlife populations and the livelihood of people. To facilitate coexistence, a number of frameworks have been developed to both understand the drivers of conflict and then to find solutions that mitigate conflict. However, each framework has different foci and strengths in particular stages of analysis. Here, we propose an integrated framework that leverages the individual strengths of previously fairly isolated methodologies, allowing for holistic HWC analysis. The framework for participatory impact assessment (FoPIA) provides a toolset for developing wildlife scenarios, selecting assessment indicators and assessing the impact of different scenarios. The social‐ecological framework of ecosystem services and disservices (SEEDS) analyzes the ecosystem services trade‐offs related to scenarios, and the 3i stakeholder analysis approach, supports the identification of stakeholders and provides a mechanism to explore, in detail stakeholders' interests, relative influence, and how outcomes of research are likely to impact different stakeholders. We apply these approaches to eastern Germany, where the increase in several wildlife populations (i.e., wild boar, common crane, gray wolf, and European bison) has contributed to conflict with people. We demonstrate the complementarity of FoPIA, SEEDS, and 3i in identifying stakeholder needs and showing how wildlife dynamics may affect coexistence and create imbalanced ecosystem service and disservice distributions. The integrated framework introduced here provides guidelines for analyzing the multistage process of stakeholder participation and enables a comprehensive approach to the complex challenge of HWCs.

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Knowledge Brokerage for Impact Assessment of Land Use Scenarios in Inner Mongolia, China: Extending and Testing the FoPIA Approach

Cited by 19 publications

References 65 publications

Assessing the effects of ecological restoration approaches in the alpine rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Assessing the effects of ecological restoration approaches in the alpine rangelands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Effects of Government Grassland Conservation Policy on Household Livelihoods and Dependence on Local Grasslands: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China

Integrated framework for stakeholder participation: Methods and tools for identifying and addressing human–wildlife conflicts

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