The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks

Roux, Dirk J.; Foxcroft, Llewellyn C.

doi:10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.1049

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“…Together, the objectives hierarchy and TPCs connect science, monitoring, and management to facilitate structured colearning between research and management (Biggs and Rogers 2003). A recent evaluation of SAM suggests that the process has prompted a substantial amount of experimentation and learning (Roux and Foxcroft 2011), and despite challenges that have arisen in operationalizing the TPCs, the approach has proven practical in many contexts and has revolutionized the management philosophy in the park (Biggs et al 2011). In particular, it has shifted thinking away from managing for fixed targets, e.g., 7500 elephants, to managing for a range of variation, focusing on landscape-scale impacts and outcomes.…”

Section: Elephant and Fire Management In The Kruger Park South Africamentioning

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“…Schematic summary of the steps in the strategic adaptive management process. From Roux and Foxcroft (2011).…”

Section: Elephant and Fire Management In The Kruger Park South Africamentioning

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“…TPCs are a set of operational goals that together define the hypothesized boundaries of the social-ecological regime that park management aims to maintain to meet its objectives of biodiversity preservation and benefits to people (Roux and Foxcroft 2011). Operationally, TPCs are defined in terms of upper and lower levels of acceptable change in a selected set of environmental indicators.…”

Section: Thresholds Of Potential Concern (Tpcs) Kruger National Parkmentioning

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Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond

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ABSTRACT. Improving our ability to manage complex, rapidly changing social-ecological systems is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. This is particularly crucial if large-scale poverty alleviation is to be secured without undermining the capacity of the environment to support future generations. To address this challenge, strategies that enable judicious management of socialecological systems in the face of substantive uncertainty are needed. Several such strategies are emerging from the developing body of work on complexity and resilience. We identify and discuss four strategies, providing practical examples of how each strategy has been applied in innovative ways to manage turbulent social-ecological change in South Africa and the broader region: (1) employ adaptive management or comanagement, (2) engage and integrate different perspectives, (3) facilitate self-organization, and (4) set safe boundaries to avoid system thresholds. Through these examples we aim to contribute a basis for further theoretical development, new teaching examples, and inspiration for developing innovative new management strategies in other regions that can help address the considerable sustainability challenges facing society globally.

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“…Schematic summary of the steps in the strategic adaptive management process. From Roux and Foxcroft (2011).…”

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“…Conservation currently adopts a modest position (Roux and Foxcroft 2011). Debates around, for instance, elephant, fire, river, and ecosystem management emphasize that learning about these effectively requires a diversity of opinions and approaches.…”

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Complexity, Modeling, and Natural Resource Management

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Blignaut³

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT. This paper contends that natural resource management (NRM) issues are, by their very nature, complex and that both scientists and managers in this broad field will benefit from a theoretical understanding of complex systems. It starts off by presenting the core features of a view of complexity that not only deals with the limits to our understanding, but also points toward a responsible and motivating position. Everything we do involves explicit or implicit modeling, and as we can never have comprehensive access to any complex system, we need to be aware both of what we leave out as we model and of the implications of the choice of our modeling framework. One vantage point is never sufficient, as complexity necessarily implies that multiple (independent) conceptualizations are needed to engage the system adequately. We use two South African cases as examples of complex systems-restricting the case narratives mainly to the biophysical domain associated with NRM issuesthat make the point that even the behavior of the biophysical subsystems themselves are already complex. From the insights into complex systems discussed in the first part of the paper and the lessons emerging from the way these cases have been dealt with in reality, we extract five interrelated generic principles for practicing science and management in complex NRM environments. These principles are then further elucidated using four further South African case studies-organized as two contrasting pairs-and now focusing on the more difficult organizational and social side, comparing the human organizational endeavors in managing such systems.

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“…The classic learning by doing is a mantra seldom realized for many ecosystems. There are some exceptions around the world, advocating and demonstrating structured learning for conservation management (see Roux and Foxcroft 2011). Measuring the success or otherwise of our adaptations will provide much needed knowledge about responses of organisms to climate change and other threats and guide future efforts that are more cost effective.…”

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Climate Change in Oceania – A synthesis of biodiversity impacts and adaptations.

Watson¹

2011

Pac. Conserv. Biol.

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Climate change is already affecting many of the world's ecosystems with far-reaching impacts. In this special issue, contributors focus on the current and projected impacts of climate change across different geographical regions of Oceania (Australia, Pacific Islands and New Zealand). In this synthesis, we examine how climate change is affecting the three main realms: terrestrial, freshwater (broadly including estuarine and inland saline systems) and marine. Within this context, we also examine general strategies for climate adaptation including reducing other threats (e.g., habitat loss and degradation), expanding protected areas, increasing connectivity, restoring habitat and translocations. We show that many of these general strategies will not overcome all the threats caused by climate change and specific solutions are likely to be necessary. Beyond the implementation of these strategies, there are significant future challenges which will hamper effective adaptation that need to be overcome by the scientific community. Our current understanding of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity remains poor; this is particularly true for poor nations in the region. There is also considerable uncertainty in forecasts of climate change, particularly at the local scale, and this uncertainty impacts pro-active planning. This makes effective implementation particularly challenging. Considerable focus is needed into ecosystem-based adaptation where local communities are integrally involved, allied with more active and accountable management of conservation, through adaptive management processes. The world is experiencing far reaching and long-term changes to ecosystems with major impacts on human communities, particularly in relation to ecosystem services. Our ability to develop effective adaptation strategies from the broad scale policy (e.g., emissions control) to local scale management (e.g., building resilience in ecosystems) will be significantly tested but the world is in an important period and scientists and practitioners need to keep trying different approaches and reporting their successes and failures to the wider community.

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The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks

Abstract: <strong>How to cite this article:</strong> Roux, D.J. & Foxcroft, L.C., 2011, ‘The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks’, <em>Koedoe </em>53(2), Art. #1049, 5 pages. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.104

Cited by 80 publications

References 29 publications

Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond

Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond

Complexity, Modeling, and Natural Resource Management

Climate Change in Oceania – A synthesis of biodiversity impacts and adaptations.

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The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks

Abstract: <strong>How to cite this article:</strong> Roux, D.J. &amp; Foxcroft, L.C., 2011, ‘The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks’, <em>Koedoe </em>53(2), Art. #1049, 5 pages. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.104

Cited by 80 publications

References 29 publications

Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond

Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond

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Climate Change in Oceania – A synthesis of biodiversity impacts and adaptations.

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Abstract: <strong>How to cite this article:</strong> Roux, D.J. & Foxcroft, L.C., 2011, ‘The development and application of strategic adaptive management within South African National Parks’, <em>Koedoe </em>53(2), Art. #1049, 5 pages. doi:10.4102/koedoe.v53i2.104