Structure, agency and environment: Toward an integrated perspective on vulnerability

McLaughlin, Paul; Dietz, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2007.05.003

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“…Second, governance-including systems of institutions (i.e., laws and policies, formal and informal organizations, and decision-making processes (Lockwood et al 2010)) and structural processes related to power and politics (i.e., economic inequality, discrimination, exclusion from decision-making)-can empower or constrain the sense of agency, available options and capacity of would-be stewards (McLaughlin and Dietz 2008;Robbins 2012). For example, focusing on the context of small-scale fisheries, local stewardship efforts can be supported by national laws or policy frameworks that protect local fisher's rights and tenure, formalize local fishers' stewardship responsibilities, or that provide resources to support local community efforts to steward their own resources (Soliman 2014;FAO 2015).…”

Section: Institutional Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

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There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different contexts and how to most effectively support and enable local efforts. Here we propose such a definition and framework. First, we define local environmental stewardship as the actions taken by individuals, groups or networks of actors, with various motivations and levels of capacity, to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment in pursuit of environmental and/or social outcomes in diverse social–ecological contexts. Next, drawing from a review of the environmental stewardship, management and governance literatures, we unpack the elements of this definition to develop an analytical framework that can facilitate research on local environmental stewardship. Finally, we discuss potential interventions and leverage points for promoting or supporting local stewardship and future applications of the framework to guide descriptive, evaluative, prescriptive or systematic analysis of environmental stewardship. Further application of this framework in diverse environmental and social contexts is recommended to refine the elements and develop insights that will guide and improve the outcomes of environmental stewardship initiatives and investments. Ultimately, our aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.

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Section: Institutional Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

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“…There are a broad range of perspectives through which vulnerability can be viewed; it is beyond the scope of this paper to thoroughly review all, and, therefore, readers are referred to Eakin and Luers (2006) and McLaughlin and Dietz (2008) for comprehensive reviews. Instead, this paper will review a range of approaches from deterministic (geocentric) to political economy (anthropocentric) which incorporate a breadth of associated research methods and application (Füssel 2007).…”

Section: Framing Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of research methods, this approach relies on modeling and measurement techniques. This has been a dominant approach to climate change vulnerability research (Pelling 2001;McLaughlin and Dietz 2008). However, this perspective neglects the factors-social, economic, and politicalwhich shape vulnerability as well as overlooking coping strategies enacted by individual and corporate actors (McLaughlin and Dietz 2008).…”

Section: Framing Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The continued salience of dichotomies in vulnerability research-for example the anthropocentric and geocentric approaches mentioned above-has been used to explain the ongoing difficulty in bringing together social and environmental variables (McLaughlin and Dietz 2008). The present research attempts to address this problem by unifying the various approaches to understanding climate change vulnerability in order to create a comprehensive climate change vulnerability framework.…”

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Applying a Comprehensive Contextual Climate Change Vulnerability Framework to New Zealand’s Tourism Industry

Hopkins

2014

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“…Through an examination of the relationships between multi-scalar socioeconomic influences on community vulnerability, Turner et al (2003) uncovered multiple constraining and enabling influences that would escape detection had vulnerability been studied at only one scale. Others have highlighted how adaptation efforts at one scale may heighten or lessen challenges at other scales McLaughlin and Dietz 2008). Eriksen and Kelly (2007), among others, also point to the importance of cross-scale interactions and potential teleconnections .…”

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Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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The framework for the new scenarios being developed for climate research calls for the development of a set of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which are meant to differ in terms of their challenges to mitigation and challenges to adaptation. In order for the scenario process to fulfill its goals, the research and policy communities need to develop a shared understanding of these concepts. This paper focuses on challenges to adaptation. We begin by situating this new concept in the context of the rich literatures related to inter alia adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. We argue that a proper characterization of challenges to adaptation requires a rich, exploration of the concept, which goes beyond mere description. This has a number of implications for the operationalization of the concept in the basic and extended versions of the SSPs. First, the elements comprising challenges to adaptation must include a wide range of socioeconomic and even some (non-climatic) biophysical factors. Second, careful consideration must be given to differences in these factors across scales, as well as cross-scale interactions. Third, any representation of the concept will require both quantitative and qualitative elements. The scenario framework offers the opportunity for the SSPs and full scenarios to be of greater value than has been the case in past exercises to both Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) and Impacts, Climatic Change (2014) 122:495-507

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Structure, agency and environment: Toward an integrated perspective on vulnerability

Cited by 231 publications

References 74 publications

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Applying a Comprehensive Contextual Climate Change Vulnerability Framework to New Zealand’s Tourism Industry

Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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