Learning, participation, and adaptation: exploring agri-environmental programmes

Hurlbert, Margot

doi:10.1080/09640568.2013.847823

Cited by 13 publications

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“…For instance, that includes new connections among stakeholder networks as those discussed by Moellenkamp et al (2010), in relation to the participatory process focused on the Dhuenn basin management in Germany, or as those discussed by Sol et al (2013) Many studies from our sample that refer to action relate to cognitive aspects too, as described above (category 1.1). For example, Hurlbert (2013) reports on the building of expertise to deal with complexity through learning within agri-environmental programmes in Saskatchewan, Canada. However, it is often difficult to detect exactly how learning catalyses action:…”

Section: Action-orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Suškevičs

Hahn

Rodela

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Learning is considered as a promising mechanism to cope with rapid environmental change. The implications of learning for natural resource management (NRM) have not been explored in-depth and the evidence on the topic is scattered across multiple sources. We provide a qualitative review of types of learning outcomes and consider their manifestations in NRM across selected empirical literature. We conducted a systematic search of the peer-reviewed literature (N=1223) and a qualitative meta-synthesis of included articles, with an explicit focus on learning outcomes and NRM changes (N=53). Besides social learning, we found several learning concepts used, including policy and transformative learning, and multiple links between learning and NRM reported. We observe that the development of skills, together with a systems-approach involving multilevel capacities, are decisive for implications of learning for NRM. Future reviews could systematically compare how primary research applies different learning concepts and discusses links between learning and NRM changes.

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Section: Action-orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…), resulting in decisions and NRM changes (e.g. Huntjens et al 2011;Hurlbert 2013). Direct interventions (2.1) may catalyse policy or institutional change (2.2) or have wider capacities (1.5).…”

Section: Management Changementioning

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Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Suškevičs

Hahn

Rodela

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Policy instruments that strengthen agricultural producer assets or capital reduce vulnerability and overcome barriers to adaptation (Hurlbert 2018b(Hurlbert , 2015b. Additional factors like formal education and knowledge of traditional farming systems, secure tenure rights, access to electricity and social institutions in rice-farming areas of Bangladesh have played a positive role in reducing adaptation barriers (Alam 2015).…”

Section: Barriers To Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk management and decision-making in relation to sustainable development

Hurlbert¹,

Krishnaswamy²,

Davin³

et al. 2022

Climate Change and Land

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Chapter 7 Risk management and decision-making in relation to sustainable development Risk management and decision-making in relation to sustainable development Chapter 7 7 synergies, reduce trade-offs in SLM (medium confidence), and overcomes barriers to adaptation and mitigation (high confidence). Improvements to SLM are achieved by: (i) engaging people in citizen science by mediating and facilitating landscape conservation planning, policy choice, and early warning systems (medium confidence); (ii) involving people in identifying problems (including species decline, habitat loss, land-use change in agriculture, food production and forestry), selection of indicators, collection of climate data, land modelling, agricultural innovation opportunities. When social learning is combined with collective action, transformative change can occur addressing tenure issues and changing land-use practices (medium confidence). Meaningful participation overcomes barriers by opening up policy and science surrounding climate and land decisions to inclusive discussion that promotes alternatives. {3.

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“…These strong water institutions govern water in a supply side manner, reducing water to rights holders proportionally during states extraordinary water shortage (M.A.). 2010-2014 were years of water emergency due to severe drought [65]. Demand side management, and optimization of water allocation by producers and their crop demands is impossible given the rigid supply side institutional culture [61].…”

Section: Glacier Protection Law and Water Governance In A Strong Agrimentioning

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Characteristics of Transformational Adaptation in Climate-Land-Society Interactions

Warner

Zommers²,

Wreford

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Countries across the world aspire towards climate resilient sustainable development. The interacting processes of climate change, land change, and unprecedented social and technological change pose significant obstacles to these aspirations. The pace, intensity, and scale of these sizeable risks and vulnerabilities affect the central issues in sustainable development: how and where people live and work, access to essential resources and ecosystem services needed to sustain people in given locations, and the social and economic means to improve human wellbeing in the face of disruptions. This paper addresses the question: What are the characteristics of transformational adaptation and development in the context of profound changes in land and climate? To explore this question, this paper contains four case studies: managing storm water runoff related to the conversion of rural land to urban land in Indonesia; using a basket of interventions to manage social impacts of flooding in Nepal; combining a national glacier protection law with water rights management in Argentina; and community-based relocation in response to permafrost thaw and coastal erosion in Alaska. These case studies contribute to understanding characteristics of adaptation which is commensurate to sizeable risks and vulnerabilities to society in changing climate and land systems. Transformational adaptation is often perceived as a major large-scale intervention. In practice, the case studies in this article reveal that transformational adaptation is more likely to involve a bundle of adaptation interventions that are aimed at flexibly adjusting to change rather than reinforcing the status quo in ways of doing things. As a global mosaic, transformational change at a grand scale will occur through an inestimable number of smaller steps to adjust the central elements of human systems proportionate to the changes in climate and land systems. Understanding the characteristics of transformational adaptation will be essential to design and implement adaptation that keeps society in step with reconfiguring climate and land systems as they depart from current states.

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Learning, participation, and adaptation: exploring agri-environmental programmes

Cited by 13 publications

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Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Risk management and decision-making in relation to sustainable development

Characteristics of Transformational Adaptation in Climate-Land-Society Interactions

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