Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

Mekbeb, E. T.; Lilieholm, Robert J.; Blahna, Dale J.; Kruger, Linda E.

doi:10.2495/eco090251

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“…We refer to the northern Australian rangelands as an example of a system that is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Mekbeb et al 2009, Crimp et al 2010, Dougill et al 2010 and look for ways to enhance its resilience through building the adaptive capacity of cattle producers (resource users). Adaptive capacity has been operationalized at the household (Cinner and Bodin 2010), community Wandel 2006, Cinner et al 2012), and regional scales (Brooks and Adger 2004).…”

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Influencing adaptation processes on the Australian rangelands for social and ecological resilience

Marshall¹,

Stokes²

2014

E&S

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Resource users require the capacity to cope and adapt to climate changes affecting resource condition if they, and their industries, are to remain viable. Understanding individual-scale responses to a changing climate will be an important component of designing well-targeted, broad-scale strategies and policies. Because of the interdependencies between people and ecosystems, understanding and supporting resilience of resource-dependent people may be as important an aspect of effective resource management as managing the resilience of ecological components. We refer to the northern Australian rangelands as an example of a system that is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and look for ways to enhance the resilience of the system. Vulnerability of the social system comprises elements of adaptive capacity and sensitivity to change (resource dependency) as well as exposure, which is not examined here. We assessed the adaptive capacity of 240 cattle producers, using four established dimensions, and investigated the association between adaptive capacity and climate sensitivity (or resource dependency) as measured through 14 established dimensions. We found that occupational identity, employability, networks, strategic approach, environmental awareness, dynamic resource use, and use of technology were all positively correlated with at least one dimension of adaptive capacity and that place attachment was negatively correlated with adaptive capacity. These results suggest that adaptation processes could be influenced by focusing on adaptive capacity and these aspects of climate sensitivity. Managing the resilience of individuals is critical to processes of adaptation at higher levels and needs greater attention if adaptation processes are to be shaped and influenced.

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Influencing adaptation processes on the Australian rangelands for social and ecological resilience

Marshall¹,

Stokes²

2014

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“…Such high dependency on local natural resources has often placed resource-dependent communities in conditions of instability/susceptibility (Flint and Luloff, 2005;Krannich and Luloff, 1991;Randall and Ironside, 1996). Specifically, such instability has been tied to multiple stressors/phenomena including shifts in resource demand resulting from economic or policy changes, industry fluctuations, weather and climatic change, shifts in technology causing less labor-intensive extractive processes, and shifts in the level of control of resource extraction to extralocal corporations (Flint and Luloff, 2005;Krannich and Luloff, 1991;Mekbeb et al, 2009;Randall and Ironside, 1996). Krannich and Luloff (1991) provide nationallevel data on several types of resource-dependent communities that illustrate such instability through cycles of expansion and decline reflected in employment/underemployment rates, and demographic trends.…”

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Community Resilience in Resource-Dependent Communities: A Comparative Case Study

Matarrita‐Cascante

Trejos

2013

Environ Plan A

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A limited number of studies bave been conducted to better understand community resilience in the context of cbanging resource-dependent communities. This study is intended to start bridging tbis gap by empirically examining tbree key factors associated with community resilience: local ownership of resources, residents' organizational capacities, and local institutional capacity to respond to cbange. Our objective is to deepen the understanding of sucb factors by uncovering tbe processes behind tbem in tbe context of two cbanging resource-dependent communities in Costa Rica. Findings suggest tbat community resilience is bigbly dependent on equity of resource distribution and access to financial resources, tbe quality of relationsbips between residents wbo live in the community as well as witb newcomers, and tbe ability of local institutions to adapt in order to operate efficiently in tbe ligbt of cbange.

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“…Efforts to describe resource dependence in economic approaches have usually been based on employment and income statistics, in order to measure the proportion of economic activities linked to specific industries (Mekbeb et al 2009: Stedman et al 2004Patriquin et al 2007). The most common way to capture dependence is to express it as employment in natural resource industries as a proportion of total employment (Stedman et al 2004).…”

Section: Economic Well-being Dependence On Primary Production and Gmentioning

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Root causes of rural decline in economic well-being in Finland

Lehtonen¹,

Tykkyläinen²,

Voutilainen³

2012

European Countryside

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This paper analyses how dependence on primary production, distance, climatic conditions and the intensity of land use bring about variations in economic well-being in rural areas. The conventional interpretation in Finland often concludes that economic well-being declines as dependence on primary production increases. The potential oversimplification implied by this statement was studied by testing the explanatory power of distance from the nearest large city, effective temperature sum and the proportion of fields in a comparative setting. The results revealed that economic well-being in rural Finland is best explained by the effective temperature sum, followed by distance, dependence on primary production and the proportion of fields. The only element of well-being which is determined chiefly by dependence on primary production is educational capital, causing a bottleneck preventing rural areas from becoming competitive and hence attractive to new knowledge-intensive industries. These results cast light on the spatial conditions under which the current economic evolution towards a service and knowledge society is taking place and on the spatial manifestations of remnant economic structures in disadvantageous locations. Keywords: Well-being, rural development, quantitative methods, FinlandYhteenveto: Tässä artikkelissa tutkimme, kuinka riippuvuus alkutuotannosta, etäisyydestä, ilmastosta ja maankäytöstä on yhteydessä maaseutualueiden taloudelliseen hyvinvointiin Suomessa. Tutkimuksemme pohjautuu perinteiseen näkemykseen siitä, että taloudellinen hyvinvointi vähentyy alkutuotantoriippuvuuden lisääntyessä. Tätä oletusta tutkimme eksploratiivisesti testaamalla kolmen selittävän muuttujan selitysvoimaa suhteessa alkutuotantoriippuvuuteen. Käytetyt selittävät muuttujat olivat alueen etäisyys lähimpään suureen kaupunkiin, tehoisa lämpösumma ja peltopinta-alan osuus alueen pinta-alasta. Tulokset paljastavat, että taloudellinen hyvinvointi maaseudulla on parhaiten selitetty ilmastoa kuvaavalla tehokkaalla lämpösummalla, toiseksi parhaiten alueen sijainnilla eli etäisyydellä suureen kaupunkiin, ja vasta kolmanneksi parhaiten alkutuotantoriippuvuudella. Heikoin selittäjä hyvinvoinnille oli peltopinta-alan osuus maapinta-alasta. Ainoa hyvinvoinnin osatekijä, joka määrittyi selkeästi riippuvuudesta alkutuotantoon, oli koulutuksellinen pääoma. Tuloksemme valottavat spatiaalisia olosuhteita, joissa talouden evoluutio kohti palvelu-ja tietoyhteiskuntaa tapahtuu, ja paljastavat epäsuotuisten sijaintien merkityksen taloudellisessa hyvinvoinnissa.Avainsanat: Hyvinvointi, maaseudun kehitys, kvantitatiiviset menetelmät, Suomi

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Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Influencing adaptation processes on the Australian rangelands for social and ecological resilience

Influencing adaptation processes on the Australian rangelands for social and ecological resilience

Community Resilience in Resource-Dependent Communities: A Comparative Case Study

Root causes of rural decline in economic well-being in Finland

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