Resist-accept-direct (RAD)—a framework for the 21st-century natural resource manager

Schuurman, Gregor W.; Hoffman, Cat Hawkins; Cole, David N.; Lawrence, David; Morton, John M.; Magness, Dawn R.; Cravens, Amanda E.; Covington, Scott; O’Malley, Robin; Fisichelli, Nicholas A.

doi:10.36967/nrr-2283597

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“…It is also clear that developing planning tools alone is not enough to ensure the implementation of climate-adaptive actions on the ground [14,15]. New frameworks are emerging but have not been tested extensively in real-world situations [12,13]. To further advance adaptation, effective climate services will need to help managers identify the planning tools that work best for them, and to use them to develop and implement climate adaptation actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is often a mismatch between broad-scale climate impacts information and finer scale management decisions in natural resources management [1][2][3][4]. From 2010-2020, several publications, handbooks, guides, and frameworks were designed to bridge this gap and help professionals integrate climate science into their planning processes [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. These resources help managers develop, evaluate, and implement climate change adaptation strategies, rather than solely providing information on climate impacts and vulnerabilities.…”

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Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices

Schmitt

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Handler

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In the past decade, several dedicated tools have been developed to help natural resources professionals integrate climate science into their planning and implementation; however, it is unclear how often these tools lead to on-the-ground climate adaptation. Here, we describe a training approach that we developed to help managers effectively plan to execute intentional, climate-informed actions. This training approach was developed through the Climate Change Response Framework (CCRF) and uses active and focused work time and peer-to-peer interaction to overcome observed barriers to using adaptation planning tools. We evaluate the effectiveness of this approach by examining participant evaluations and outlining the progress of natural resources projects that have participated in our trainings. We outline a case study that describes how this training approach can lead to place and context-based climate-informed action. Finally, we describe best practices based on our experience for engaging natural resources professionals and helping them increase their comfort with climate-informed planning.

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Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices

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“…Dynamic thinking is increasingly widespread, but the challenge is to identify what actions to take, and when. Several recent frameworks have moved in this direction (Table 1), including the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) change framework adopted by the US National Parks Service (Schuurman and others 2020). Although these frameworks differ in their details and wording, they all recognise the tension between trying to prevent or embrace change.…”

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Facilitating dynamic and inclusive biodiversity conservation in Britain: an Anthropocene perspective

Thomas¹,

Hill²,

Ward³

et al. 2021

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SummaryWe propose an approach to conservation centred on achieving positive future trajectories of dynamic change, applied to all locations and species, and based on societal inclusiveness. Strategies to facilitate change. We take an Anthropocene perspective, in which human society and biodiversity have been inextricably linked for over 10,000 years, and continuing biodiversity change is inevitable. The challenge is to identify circumstances under which change is acceptable or beneficial, without being tied to specific historic baselines. We outline a Resist-Accept-Facilitate (RAF) framework that could be applied to all conservation activities, from high-level planning and measurement (indicators) through to practical land and species management, to ensure that the facilitation of future biodiversity benefits receives as much attention as the resistance of change.Everywhere is important. Different places are important for different things, such as particular species or ecosystem services, and people vary in how they value these features. We suggest a perspective whereby we evaluate what every area is most important for, and what they could be most important for in future by considering possible trajectories of biodiversity and ecosystem change. We propose zoning any region of interest, such as the UK, and applying the RAF framework in an inclusive manner to develop conservation strategies that are appropriate in each location and zone. This RAF approach will reconcile different conservation philosophies (such as traditional management, land-sharing/sparing, rewilding, novel ecosystems, ecosystem services, human wellbeing) because different conservation outcomes will emerge in different zones.Enabling species to move. Genes and species undertake changes to their abundances and distributions in response to climatic and other environmental changes. We suggest that trans situ conservation be developed as a complement to traditional in situ (sites in the wild) and ex situ (in captivity) conservation. Trans situ conservation primarily involves Accept and Facilitate interventions within the RAF framework. It requires consideration of the connectedness and permeability of regions (facilitating colonisation for a majority of species and genes) and the value of new populations of colonising species and novel communities that arise from species range shifts. Trans situ conservation also considers the potential to translocate (assisted colonisation) species and genes that are unable to shift their distributions without direct intervention, highlighting the transnational needs of globally-threatened species rather than locally-rare ones whose future is secure elsewhere.For everyone. The justification for conservation commonly focuses attention on the benefits that individuals and society derive from the natural world, yet the benefits are not shared equitably. The RAF approach asks people from a wide range of backgrounds ‘what they want’ from local landscapes so as to inform the development of more inclusive approaches to conservation both now and in the future. We identify ways in which the processes of conservation could incorporate an increased diversity of perspectives, whilst continuing to be informed by data and professional expertise.

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“…Various frameworks are applied to provide guidance for incorporating impacts of future climate change into natural resource management. These frameworks include approaches such as Scenario Planning [10][11][12][13], Structured Decision Making [14], the Climate-Smart Conservation Cycle [15], the Adaptation for Conservation Targets framework [16], and the Resist-Accept-Direct framework [17]. However, one of the major challenges in the application of these approaches is our limited understanding of the relationships between climate and biological processes, which impedes robust prediction of plausible biological responses (both how and when) under specific future climate scenarios [5,6].…”

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Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses Under a Rapidly Changing Climate?

Rangwala¹,

Moss²,

Wolken³

et al. 2021

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How robust is our assessment of impacts to ecosystems and species from a rapidly changing climate during the 21st century? We examine the challenges of uncertainty, complexity and constraints associated with applying climate projections to understanding future biological responses. This includes an evaluation of how to incorporate the uncertainty associated with different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios and climate models, and constraints of spatiotemporal scales and resolution of climate data into impact assessments. We describe the challenges of identifying relevant climate metrics for ecological models and evaluate the usefulness and limitations of different methodologies of applying climate change to both quantitative and qualitative ecological response models. We discuss the importance of incorporating extreme climate events and their stochastic tendencies in assessing ecological impacts and transformation, and provide recommendations for better integration of complex climate-ecological interactions at relevant spatiotemporal scales. We further recognize the compounding nature of uncertainty when accounting for our limited understanding of the interactions between climate and biological processes. Given the inherent complexity in ecological processes and their interactions with climate, we recommend integrating quantitative modeling with expert elicitation from diverse disciplines and experiential understanding of recent climate-driven ecological processes to develop more robust understanding of ecological responses under different scenarios of future climate change. Inherently complex interactions between climate and biological systems also provide an opportunity to develop wide-ranging strategies that resource managers can employ to prepare for the future.

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Resist-accept-direct (RAD)—a framework for the 21st-century natural resource manager

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Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices

Beyond Planning Tools: Experiential Learning in Climate Adaptation Planning and Practices

Facilitating dynamic and inclusive biodiversity conservation in Britain: an Anthropocene perspective

Uncertainty, Complexity and Constraints: How do We Robustly Assess Biological Responses Under a Rapidly Changing Climate?

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