Long-Term Governance for Social-Ecological Change

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernd Siebenhüner
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Change ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals The Paradox of Long-term Planning for Social-Ecological Change

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Büscher ◽  
Elna De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Development Intervention ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Transfrontier Conservation

Long-term planning for social-ecological change is a paradox in the current neoliberal era. This paradox is illustrated through combining critical research and practical experience in a transfrontier conservation and development intervention in Southern Africa.

Thematic Section: Conservation Implications of Social-ecological Change in Southern Africa Exploring the alignment between the bottom-up and top-down objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Samantha Mc Culloch-Jones ◽  
Peter Novellie ◽  
Dirk J Roux ◽  
Bianca Currie
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Management ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Trade Offs

Summary Globally, there is a trend towards conserving biodiversity by promoting co-management with multiple stakeholders at landscape scales. Environmental policies emphasize stakeholder engagement in decision-making, yet landscape conservation is typically a bureaucratic–scientific endeavour. Building trusting relationships with stakeholders is key to negotiations that minimize trade-offs and maximize synergies. Incorporating shared stakeholder objectives improves co-management, as they act as incentives for participation and trust development. We explored the degree of alignment between the bottom-up stakeholder objectives and top-down management objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative on the West Coast of South Africa. We categorized stakeholders into six affiliations representing governmental, private and community organizations, and using a social-ecological inventory we identified ten shared objectives. Of these objectives, three were shared between all affiliations, namely biodiversity conservation, socioeconomic development and coordination of the landscape approach. The first two aligned with the top-down landscape management objectives and the latter did not. The importance of coordinating landscape approaches in multi-stakeholder landscape-scale initiatives is crucial to long-term success, and we recommend that it be formally included as a landscape management objective. Exploring the alignment between bottom-up and top-down objectives can highlight overlooked functions of co-management and can reduce the transaction costs of sustaining conservation efforts in the long term.

scholarly journals Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erle C. Ellis ◽  
Nicholas R. Magliocca ◽  
Chris J. Stevens ◽  
Dorian Q. Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Change ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Multi Level

Long-Term Ecological Change in the Northern Wadden Sea

2010 ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justus E. E. van Beusekom ◽  
Christian Buschbaum ◽  
Martina Loebl ◽  
Peter Martens ◽  
Karsten Reise
Keyword(s):  
Wadden Sea ◽  
Ecological Change
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