Policy strategies to foster the resilience of mountain social-ecological systems under uncertain global change

Brunner, Sibyl Hanna; Grêt‐Regamey, Adrienne

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.09.003

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“…As displayed in Figure 1c, most of the forest regrowth has taken place in an altitude between 1400-1800 m above sea level, which is where summer pastures are typically located ( Figure 1c). These land cover changes indicate that Switzerland faces major challenges to avoid the underuse of CPPs [8] and to maintain the diverse set of ecosystem services associated with sustainably used summer pastures [48].…”

Section: Federal Subsidies To Avoid Underusementioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Baur

Nax

2018

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The use of summer pastures in the European Alps provides much evidence against Hardin’s prediction of the tragedy of the commons. For centuries, farmers have kept summer pastures in communal tenure and avoided its overuse with self-designed regulations. During the past decades, however, summer pastures have become less intensely used, which has reduced its agronomic value and the by-production of public goods. However, very little is known about how the various governance incentives affect farmers’ use of summer pasture to result in below-sustainable activity. In this study, we develop an empirically informed game theoretical model of farmers’ land use decisions, which we validate with survey data from a case study in Switzerland. Our results reveal that farmers weigh the benefit of resource use against the costs of maintaining it and that all major sectoral developments, such as increasing livestock endowment, increasing opportunity costs, and decreasing land use intensity on private plots, result in the reduced use of summer pastures. Based on these insights, we suggest adapting the incentive structure at the local and federal governance levels to increase incentives for stocking at the margin. Our study shows how game theory combines with field validation to identify the contextual behavioral drivers in common pool resource dilemmas for informed and improved policy making.

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Section: Federal Subsidies To Avoid Underusementioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Baur

Nax

2018

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“…To facilitate the adoption of the proposed framework, we call for a change of perspective, shifting from a reactive to a precautionary stance [21] based on the concepts of resilience and SES. In order to develop an efficient risk management strategy, the resilience concept should be deployed at the landscape level, assuming the SES boundaries as the reference scale for the implementation of the strategy [22][23][24]. The adoption of SES would allow us to take into account the vast interactions that disturbances trigger: the alteration of some components of society may also impact the environment and, vice versa, elements that foster the potential recovery of the community may be present in the ecosystem [25].…”

Section: Risk Management Through the Lens Of Resilience And Sesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the development of risk management strategies should consider the positive effects in risk mitigation provided by the environment, such as protection forests. Indeed, the adoption of nature-based solutions would support territorial resilience and strengthen the Social-Ecological connections of the area [24,33].…”

Section: Risk Management Through the Lens Of Resilience And Sesmentioning

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A Framework for the Integration of Nature-Based Solutions into Environmental Risk Management Strategies

2019

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Mountainous areas are expected to face increasing societal pressure due to mass tourism and the rising intensity and frequency of natural hazards triggered by climate change. Therefore, the development of proper strategies for the management of environmental risks will be crucial to ensure their liveability. Against this backdrop, concepts such as territorial resilience and Social–Ecological Systems (SES) can support the prioritisation of protective efforts. This paper presents a conceptual framework to be applied to areas subject to natural hazards. Its aim is to support the integration of different measures, with a special focus on protection forests and other Nature-based Solutions, into current risk management strategies. The framework considers (i) the definition of SES boundaries; (ii) the identification of the main goals to be achieved; (iii) the quantification of the supply and demand of the ecosystem protection service; and (iv) the development of risk management strategies able to include the management of protection forests among the adopted solutions. This framework is intended as a tool to be adopted by local and regional decision-makers as a tool to identify the areas at risk, to recognise the potential role of protection forests, and to operationalise the concept of resilience through the deployment of “grey-green” strategies.

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“…The identification of ecosystem services therefore depends on careful assessment of which ecosystem structures and processes contribute to a population's needs and desires (Harrington et al 2010, Hauck et https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art11/ al. 2013, Spangenberg et al 2015, Brunner and Grêt-Regamey 2016-which implies engaging with this population to understand their needs and desires. As such, it would make sense for the identification of ecosystem services to go hand in hand with the identification of the stakeholders who rely on and appreciate these services.…”

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Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: a practical framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies

Schoonover¹,

Grêt‐Regamey

Metzger

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Ecosystem services inherently involve people, whose values help define the benefits of nature's services. It is thus important for researchers to involve stakeholders in ecosystem services research. However, a simple and practicable framework to guide such engagement, and in particular to help researchers anticipate and consider key issues and challenges, has not been well explored. Here, we use experience from the 12 case studies in the European Operational Potential of Ecosystem Research Applications (OPERAs) project to propose a stakeholder engagement framework comprising three key elements: creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust. We argue that involving stakeholders in research demands thoughtful reflection from the researchers about what kind of space they want to create, including if and how they want to bring different interests together, how much space they want to allow for critical discussion, and whether there is a role for particular stakeholders to serve as conduits between others. In addition, understanding their own motivations-including values, knowledge, goals, and desired benefits-will help researchers decide when and how to involve stakeholders, identify areas of common ground and potential disagreement, frame the project appropriately, set expectations, and ensure each party is able to see benefits of engaging with each other. Finally, building relationships with stakeholders can be difficult but considering the roles of existing relationships, time, approach, reputation, and belonging can help build mutual trust. Although the three key elements and the paths between them can play out differently depending on the particular research project, we suggest that a research design that considers how to create the space in which researchers and stakeholders will meet, align motivations between researchers and stakeholders, and build mutual trust will help foster productive researcher-stakeholder relationships.

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Policy strategies to foster the resilience of mountain social-ecological systems under uncertain global change

Cited by 66 publications

References 54 publications

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures

A Framework for the Integration of Nature-Based Solutions into Environmental Risk Management Strategies

Creating space, aligning motivations, and building trust: a practical framework for stakeholder engagement based on experience in 12 ecosystem services case studies

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