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Tytuł:
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How do biosphere stewards actively shape trajectories of social-ecological change?
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Autorzy:
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Plummer R; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. Electronic address: .
Baird J; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada; Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. Electronic address: .
Farhad S; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada; Social and Participatory Action Research Group, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. Electronic address: .
Witkowski S; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. Electronic address: .
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Źródło:
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Journal of environmental management [J Environ Manage] 2020 May 01; Vol. 261, pp. 110139. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 03.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Original Publication: London ; New York, Academic Press.
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MeSH Terms:
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Conservation of Natural Resources*
Ecology*
Canada ; Humans ; Social Change ; Sweden
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Contributed Indexing:
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Keywords: Adaptive co-management; Biosphere stewardship; Collaboration; Governance; Learning; Sustainability
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20200310 Date Completed: 20200310 Latest Revision: 20200310
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Update Code:
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20240105
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DOI:
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10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110139
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PMID:
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32148254
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The biosphere faces an uncertain future! Embracing change, uncertainty and complexity calls for creative transformative pathways. Biosphere stewardship provides a novel multi actor approach towards sustainability. Despite the critical role of individual environmental stewards, biosphere stewardship emphasizes the importance of collective action, and therefore governance. Biosphere stewardship denotes novel governance configurations with the capacity to effectively approach to sustainability transformation. In this paper we seek to advance understanding of how biosphere stewardship actively shapes trajectories of change to foster social-ecological resilience and human wellbeing. Considering the crucial role of governance and more specifically its two pillars of collaboration and learning, we conduct our study of biosphere stewardship through the lens of adaptive co-management. We first set out a framework for diagnosing and analyzing the process of biosphere stewardship. Secondly, we provide evidenced-based insights from applying the framework in four UNESCO biosphere reserves situated in Canada and Sweden to shed light on how active collective shaping of biosphere stewardship occurs and what it produces. In view of the lack of framework for environmental stewardship, we suggest that the present study makes a considerable contribution by providing an appropriate holistic and systemic framework with operational measures. The study also highlights how the comprehensive and consensual understanding of stewardship is proving to be a means of catalyzing biosphere stewardship by enabling effective crafting of policy design and strategic interventions. Moreover, the application of the framework to four case studies reveals the importance of the governance process attributes (collaboration and learning) in mediating outcomes from biosphere stewardship. Finally, the framework provides the basis to address new stewardship enquiries, which require further research in this field.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest None.
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