Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation

Wilson, Geoff A.; Kelly, Claire; Briassoulis, Helen; Ferrara, Agostino; Quaranta, Giovanni; Salvia, Rosanna; Detsis, Vassilis; Curfs, Michiel; Cerdà, Artémio; El-Aich, A.; Liu, Honghu; Kosmas, Costas; Alados, Concepción L.; Imeson, A.C.; Landgrebe-Trinkunaite, Ruta; Salvati, Luca; Naumann, Sandra; Danwen, Hu; Iosifides, Theodoros; Kizos, Thanasis; Mancino, Giuseppe; Nolè, Angelo; Min, Jiyoung; Ping-cang, Zhang

doi:10.1002/ldr.2669

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“…was a typical remark). This may nevertheless represent a case of path dependency on the side of farmers, as documented in other similar cases [25]. In GPMJ, knowledge transfer is more a matter of educating city residents-people with no "farming roots"-to respect farmlands and farmers' labor.…”

Section: Local Knowledge and Knowledge Transfermentioning

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Responding to Landscape Change: Stakeholder Participation and Social Capital in Five European Landscapes

Kizos

Plieninger

Iosifides

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The concept of landscape has been increasingly used, in the last decades, in policy and land use planning, both in regard to so-called "special" and to "ordinary" or "everyday" landscapes. This has raised the importance of local and public participation in all issues that refer to landscapes and the definition of the groups that "have a stake" in the landscape. In this paper, we provide insights into how stakeholders perceive the dynamics of local processes of landscape change (and continuity) and which processes of landscape change they perceive as important, in positive and negative ways, from five communities within the European Union. These landscapes involve different landscape issues "at stake", different national and local planning and decision-making traditions and practices, and varying degrees of engagement. The understanding of these complexities and the unraveling of the insights is done through the concept of social capital and its different forms. We report on three series of workshops that have been organized to discuss landscape issues and approaches or ideas for landscape management. We witnessed interactions between the different stakeholders and gained insights into how social capital affects landscape change. We found that despite differences, similarities emerged concerning the interplay between "expert" and "local" knowledge and between "insideness" and "outsideness". Social capital plays an important part, as it provides the template for personal and collective evaluation of landscape changes, who should manage these changes and how they should be managed. These findings are important to develop in-depth insights on dynamics and values of cultural landscapes and visions for re-coupling social and ecological components in cultural landscapes and translate them into policy and management options.

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Section: Local Knowledge and Knowledge Transfermentioning

confidence: 88%

Responding to Landscape Change: Stakeholder Participation and Social Capital in Five European Landscapes

Kizos

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Iosifides

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“…It is important to discover whether practices leading to environmental gains or losses were a necessary part of the respective responses. For example, in Messara, the use of modern agricultural equipment led to a runaway (plowing even more often and deeper) that was carried on further than was necessary to accomplish its purpose (increase of production), a clear indication of path dependency [39,40]. On the other hand, the expansion of irrigation is a necessary part of intensive crop management.…”

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The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human Responses in a Land Degradation-Affected Region: The Messara Valley (Crete, Greece)

Detsis

Briassoulis

Kosmas

2017

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This paper applies a resilience-and assemblage-based methodology to study the socio-ecological dynamics of human responses in the land degradation-affected Messara Valley (Crete, Greece) socio-ecological system, from 1950 to 2010. It posits that thesedynamics aredriven by changes in their effectiveness, called 'socio-ecological fit', to serve place-and time-specific goals. The socio-ecological fit expresses the degree to which the match among all the biophysical and human components of a Response Assemblage emerging in a socio-ecological system, maintains the socio-ecological resilience of this Assemblage. The socio-ecological resilience results is gauged by synthesizing three system-level properties (Resilience, Adaptability, Transformability) shaped by lower level properties that are assessed from available data. The reported application revealed that human responses (traditional land management, agricultural modernization and subsidized agriculture) and their effectiveness were driven by prioritizing economic and technological considerations that shaped the properties, socio-ecological resilience and fit of three main Response Assemblages formed over the study period, rather than combating land degradation. Agricultural modernization did not uniformly and necessarily lead to land degradation; the situated relationships among the components of the Response Assemblages determined its effects. The fit of future options can be assessed also to support rational land use planning. Refinements in the methodology include the development of techniques to: (a) assess and synthesize the properties of different components in order to improve assessments of socio-ecological resilience and fit and (b) study relationships among the properties of Response Assemblages emerging at different levels.

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“…Community resilience also draws from social resilience research [31][32][33] investigating the attributes that make communities resilient to social, economic or environmental changes. Emphasis on the potential effects and the role of collective learning and social memory to form successful mitigation strategies is particularly evident in recent studies [30,34].…”

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Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

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Resilience thinking is an appropriate framework when assessing the transitional potential of complex urban systems. The transformation of abandoned spaces into local hubs attracting new and innovative activities and events promotes a socioeconomic renaissance in urban communities, by stimulating adaptation to change, enhancing local resilience and strengthening urban–rural links. Under the conceptual umbrella of resilience thinking, the present study illustrates the outcomes of an integrated program of research-action aimed at urban regeneration in a medium-sized, economically disadvantaged city in Southern Italy (Battipaglia, Campania). The transformation of an abandoned building into an ‘Art–Food Hub’—a multi-purpose and creative cultural space—based on resilience thinking was the specific case analyzed in our study. Appropriate stakeholders were identified and involved in a series of field activities and workshops, with the final objective of informing a comprehensive strategy strengthening awareness to change and capacity building. More specifically, stakeholder involvement was carried out with two aims: first, to make stakeholders active participants in co-designing a Strategic Urban Planning Document for Battipaglia and, second, to evaluate to what extent the proposed initiative contributes to building local resilience. By explicitly considering cross-scale drivers of community resilience, the results of this study show how the concept of resilience can be practically applied to policy formulation and implementation.

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Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation

Cited by 36 publications

References 33 publications

Responding to Landscape Change: Stakeholder Participation and Social Capital in Five European Landscapes

Responding to Landscape Change: Stakeholder Participation and Social Capital in Five European Landscapes

The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human Responses in a Land Degradation-Affected Region: The Messara Valley (Crete, Greece)

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

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