LTSER platforms as a place-based transdisciplinary research infrastructure: learning landscape approach through evaluation

Angelstam, Per; Manton, Michael; Elbakidze, Marine; Sijtsma, Frans; Adamescu, Mihai; Avni, Noa; Beja, Pedro; Bezák, Peter; Zyablikova, Iryna; Souza, Fátima Cruz; Bretagnolle, Vincent; Dı́az-Delgado, Ricardo; Ens, Bruno J.; Федоряк, Марія; Flaim, Giovanna; Gingrich, Simone; Lavi-Neeman, Miri; Medinets, Sergiy; Melecis, Viesturs; Muñoz-Rojas, José; Schäckermann, Jessica; Stocker-Kiss, Andrea; Setälä, Heikki; Stryamets, Nataliya; Taka, Maija; Tallec, Gaëlle; Tappeiner, Ulrike; Törnblom, Johan; Yamelynets, Taras

doi:10.1007/s10980-018-0737-6

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“…Long‐Term Social–Ecological Research (LTSER) platforms can provide dedicated infrastructures to develop a network of social–ecological experiments. Indeed they have been set up to investigate socio‐ecosystems (Angelstam et al, ) and produce the knowledge required to support sustainable regional development (Berthet et al, ; Bretagnolle et al, ). Furthermore, in such platforms, stakeholders (farmers/fishermen, practitioners, managers and policy‐makers) work with scientists from various disciplines (e.g.…”

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“…Global change and human use of agricultural SES are creating novel socio‐ecological conditions and associated problems, such as food quality, water quality or health, that are difficult to understand and tackle. Solving these wicked problems, with complex causes and consequences, calls for a new approach in research, shifting from positivist, mono‐disciplinary, local‐scale approaches to adaptive, participatory and transdisciplinary landscape‐scale strategies (Angelstam et al, , ). This new way of performing research allows various and diverging viewpoints to be accounted for, through (a) the explicit involvement of decision‐makers and stakeholders in knowledge co‐construction and problem‐solving (Funtowicz & Ravetz, ), and (b) effective cooperation between science and society (Spangenberg, Görg, & Settele, ).…”

Section: The Multiple Challenges Of Sustainable Agriculture: Moving Fmentioning

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Social–ecological experiments to foster agroecological transition

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Bretagnolle

2020

People and Nature

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1.A paradigm shift is needed to make agriculture sustainable, and various substitutes for intensive agriculture have been proposed. However, moving from theory to practice, in the context of climate change, natural resource depletion and worldwide economic and social disorder requires a novel approach that goes beyond the confines of 'normal' scientific practice, to (a) consider ecological and socioeconomic processes within the agricultural socio-ecosystem and (b) involving stakeholders in the research process.2. We propose an innovative experimental approach for identifying management practices that optimize multiple objectives, deliver a portfolio of ecosystem services and satisfy the social demands of key stakeholders while improving the socio-economic welfare of farmers. Social-ecological experiments are undertaken in real-field conditions, involving stakeholders explicitly, all along the experimental pathway, to help untangle the drivers of social-ecological dynamics under various practices of land management and farming. As an example, we describe a socialecological experiment to reduce the intensity of weed control.3. These 'social-ecological experiments' go further, to participatory action research by not only involving stakeholders in the research process but also by manipulating simultaneously socioeconomic and ecological processes under real-field conditions to foster agroecological transition. Such experiments are distinct from adaptive management, participatory agricultural research and scenario-planning approaches as they highlight the interactions between ecological and social processes, manipulate the processes shaping the system and show causal links between patterns and processes. 4. Social-ecological experiments offer great opportunities for increasing stakeholders' acceptance of environmental policies or sustainable agriculture programmes implemented through adaptive management. These experiments may help to identify management practices that deliver a portfolio of ecosystem services and satisfy key stakeholders. K E Y W O R D S

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Section: The Multiple Challenges Of Sustainable Agriculture: Moving Fmentioning

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Social–ecological experiments to foster agroecological transition

Gaba

Bretagnolle

2020

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“…Financing a suite of cross border landscape strategies with the purpose of gaining experiences with such collaborative processes would be valuable. Recent reviews about the landscape approach concepts model forest [147] and Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) platform [150] provide systematic analyses of barriers and bridges [151].…”

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Landscape Approach towards Integrated Conservation and Use of Primeval Forests: The Transboundary Kovda River Catchment in Russia and Finland

Angelstam

Manton

Yamelynets

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Regional clear-felling of naturally dynamic boreal forests has left remote forest landscapes in northern Europe with challenges regarding rural development based on wood mining. However, biodiversity conservation with higher levels of ambition than what is possible in regions with a long forest history, and cultural heritage, offer opportunities for developing new value chains that support rural development. We explored the opportunities for pro-active integrated spatial planning based on: (i) landscapes’ natural and cultural heritage values in the transboundary Kovda River catchment in Russia and Finland; (ii) forest canopy loss as a threat; and (iii) private, public and civil sector stakeholders’ views on the use and non-use values at local to international levels. After a 50-year history of wood mining in Russia, the remaining primeval forest and cultural heritage remnants are located along the pre-1940 Finnish-Russian border. Forest canopy loss was higher in Finland (0.42%/year) than in Russia (0.09%/year), and decreased from the south to the north in both countries. The spatial scales of stakeholders’ use of forest landscapes ranged from stand-scale to the entire catchment of Kovda River in Russia and Finland (~2,600,000 ha). We stress the need to develop an integrated landscape approach that includes: (i) forest landscape goods; (ii) other ecosystem services and values found in intact forest landscapes; and (iii) adaptive local and regional forest landscape governance. Transboundary collaboration offers opportunities for effective knowledge production and learning.

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“…Dichas iniciativas surgen vinculadas a redes y organizaciones internacionales, tales como, Reservas de la Biosfera, Geoparques de la UNESCO y Red Internacional de Bosques Modelo, entre otras. Son estructuras y procesos que buscan promover la sostenibilidad y la dinamización de amplios territorios rurales (Angelstam et al, 2019b), implicando alianzas entre personas e instituciones, tanto rurales como urbanas, de sectores diversos y a diferentes niveles administrativos (local, regional, nacional e internacional). Sobre todo, están promoviendo procesos participativos con toma de decisiones que impliquen a las personas y agentes sociales en la búsqueda de soluciones alternativas a las dificultades, identificadas por los propios interesados, relacionados con los recursos naturales en un territorio determinado.…”

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Vínculos socio-espaciales y gobernanza local: apego al lugar y participación en la iniciativa Bosque Modelo Palencia

Cruz¹,

García-Bengochea²

2020

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Este estudio tiene como objetivos analizar cómo los vínculos afectivos entre las personas y los lugares pueden influir en la sostenibilidad rural y de qué manera la participación en iniciativas colectivas de gobernanza local con enfoque paisaje pueden fortalecer el apego al lugar en el medio rural. En 2015 un grupo de agentes sociales del centro-norte de la provincia de Palencia empezó a reunirse para identificar las problemáticas locales y elaborar propuestas colectivas para la sostenibilidad rural. Como resultado de ese proceso, en 2017 crearon la Asociación Bosque Modelo Palencia, que constituye el presente caso de estudio. La investigación se llevó a cabo con metodología cualitativa y la realización de 16 entrevistas en profundidad a miembros de la junta directiva de la asociación y personas directamente implicadas en los procesos de dinamización del territorio estudiado. Del análisis de las entrevistas, realizado con procedimientos de codificación y categorización propios del tratamiento de datos cualitativos, destacamos en este artículo dos categorías temáticas: las referencias de identidad de lugar y la participación y vínculo con el lugar. Los resultados muestran que, además de razones socio-económicas, la despoblación del medio rural y los procesos de arraigo tienen relación con procesos subjetivos y que los significados atribuidos a la ruralidad influyen en el apego al lugar. Por otro lado, se observa que las personas más implicadas en iniciativas de gobernanza local presentan fuertes vínculos con el lugar, que se retroalimentan en las dinámicas colectivas. Dichos vínculos tienen relación con valoraciones positivas de la ruralidad y refuerzan la decisión de permanecer en el territorio.

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LTSER platforms as a place-based transdisciplinary research infrastructure: learning landscape approach through evaluation

Abstract: Context Place-based transdisciplinary research involves multiple academic disciplines and non-academic actors. Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER) platform is one concept with * 80 initiatives globally.

Cited by 37 publications

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Social–ecological experiments to foster agroecological transition

Social–ecological experiments to foster agroecological transition

Landscape Approach towards Integrated Conservation and Use of Primeval Forests: The Transboundary Kovda River Catchment in Russia and Finland

Vínculos socio-espaciales y gobernanza local: apego al lugar y participación en la iniciativa Bosque Modelo Palencia

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