An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 64, С. 101301 - 101301

Опубликована: Сен. 19, 2023

Achieving the intertwined goals of justice and sustainability requires transformative changes to meaningfully engage diverse perspectives. Therefore, scholars policymakers need new ways recognising addressing nature's multiple values across cultures, disciplines other knowledge traditions. By reviewing academic publications, policy documents Indigenous local community sources, we developed an inclusive typology clarify value concepts guide their consideration in decisions. Through case studies, illustrate how navigating 'horizontal' 'vertical' interactions within this can help confront plural-value challenges, such as enhancing participation environmental research practice, effective management socio-environmental conflicts. We conclude by exploring further leverage change decision-making contexts.

Язык: Английский

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Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ roles in conserving biodiversity

One Earth, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 7(6), С. 1007 - 1021

Опубликована: Май 11, 2024

As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples' local communities' (IPs' LCs') extend beyond participation more equitable based on relative control recognition their values institutions, but relationship with outcomes unclear. We review 648 empirical studies develop a typology IP LC and, subsample 170, analyze relationships reported The findings reveal that governance, equal partnership or primary IPs LCs, are associated significantly positive This carries important implications, including actions toward Global Biodiversity Framework targets, suggesting need elevate role LCs leaders while respecting rights customary institutions.

Язык: Английский

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Avoiding an impending collision in international conservation

Conservation Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 10, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Advancing environmental justice in cities through the Mosaic Governance of nature-based solutions

Cities, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 147, С. 104799 - 104799

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2024

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are championed for providing co-benefits to cities and residents, yet their environmental justice impacts increasingly debated. In this paper, we explore whether how hybrid governance approaches, such as Mosaic Governance, may contribute just transformations sustainable through fostering long-term collaborations between local governments, communities, grassroots initiatives. Based on case studies in three major European cities, propose then exemplify six possible pathways increase justice: greening the neighborhood, diversifying values practices, empowering people, bridging across linking institutions, scaling of inclusive discourses practices. Despite diversity outcomes cases, our results consistently show that Governance particularly contributes recognition NBS practices alignment with community aspirations. The demonstrate importance a wider framing development NBS, sensitive social, cultural, economic political inequities well understanding potential enhance not only justice, but also social at large. Especially marginalised holds much advance by enabling empowering, bridging, diverse communities

Язык: Английский

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Exploring residents' perceptions of ecosystem services in nature reserves to guide protection and management

Ecological Indicators, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 158, С. 111535 - 111535

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Understanding residents' perceptions of ecosystem services (ESs) is important for modern management. However, these are often overlooked in managing nature reserves, leading to decreased participation policy implementation. This study proposes investigate the and ecological concepts contained ESs among residents using a questionnaire survey. The results showed that: (1) Residents prioritize supporting they value "leisure recreation" most, followed by "air purification" "habitat animals plants". (2) Perceptions different have significant spatial differences, distance significantly affects perceptions. (3) Most types correlated with each other, indigenous concept has profound impact on their (4) Education livelihood play positive effect ESs, while nationality, gender, age, distance, relief show negative influence. Improving education levels, establishing community rules regulations, strengthening humans connections, environmental management, integrating into regional development planning some suggested solutions. research provides valuable insights incorporating knowledge management at local levels.

Язык: Английский

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Transformative research for sustainability: characteristics, tensions, and moving forward

Global Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 7

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Abstract Technical summary The question of how science can become a lever in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals permeates most recent sustainability research. Wide-ranging literature calling for transformative approach has emerged years. This ‘transformative turn’ is fueled by publications from fields such as science, social-ecological research, conservation transitions, or governance studies. However, there lack shared understanding specifically what meant research to be this developing discourse around doing differently tackle problems. We aim advance sustainability. define and outline six its characteristics: (1) interventional nature theory change focus; (2) collaborative modes knowledge production, experimentation learning; (3) systems thinking literacy contextualization; (4) reflexivity, normative inner dimensions; (5) local agency, decolonization, reshaping power; (6) new quality criteria rethinking impact. highlight three tensions between traditional paradigms academic research: process- output-orientation; accountability toward society science; methodologies rooted scientific traditions post-normal methodologies. conclude with future directions on academia could reconcile these support promote Non-technical Dominant ways are not enough achieve UN Goals. typical response dealing current global crises produce accumulate more knowledge. Transformative seeks couple production co-creating change. paper defines way pro-actively society's fight against pressing societal environmental present characteristics reflect challenges related implementing practice play part. Social media Sustainability transformation needs reflected but makes transformative?

Язык: Английский

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Whose conservation, revisited: how a focus on people–nature relationships spotlights new directions for conservation science

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 380(1917)

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2025

Georgina Mace introduced a compelling perspective on the major shifts in conservation science’s framing and purpose from 1960 to 2010. A decade ago, she proposed that community had begun move into new of ‘people nature’ based changes perspectives relationships between people nature interdisciplinary concepts methods used conservation. Progress using this frame is clear as ‘two-way dynamic have since taken centre stage science, practice policy. Now, responding concerns raised current approaches are still not meeting scale complexity challenges Anthropocene, we explore newly emerging with nature’—an inextricably intertwined people–nature relationships. This builds Mace’s recognition interconnections change, well directions offered by conservation’s recent transdisciplinary engagements, go beyond notion two-way flows connecting emphasize inseparability nature’. suggests for science make visible, improve reimagine degraded needed bend curve biodiversity loss. article part discussion issue ‘Bending towards recovery: building Mace's legacy biodiverse future’.

Язык: Английский

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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands

Global Environmental Change, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 86, С. 102849 - 102849

Опубликована: Май 1, 2024

Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering diversity land-use actors activities in conservation assessments planning challenging. As result, top-down policy are often criticized lack contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required effective just action. To address these challenges, we have developed conceptually consistent, scalable land system typology demonstrated usefulness world's tropical dry woodlands. Our identifies that represent typical threats opportunities We identified systems hierarchical way, with global level allowing broad-scale comparative work. Nested within it, regionalized provides social-ecological specificity context. showcase this regionalization five hotspots change loss woodlands Argentina, Bolivia, Mozambique, India, Cambodia. Unlike other approaches present use, our accounts complexity overlapping uses. This allows, example, assessment how measures conflict uses, understanding co-benefits trade-offs area-based conservation, mapping threats, or targeting actor-based measures. Moreover, framework enables cross-regional learning by revealing both commonalities differences, as demonstrate here By bridging gap between global, top-down, regional, bottom-up initiatives, more contextually appropriate sustainability across scales targeted social-ecologically nuanced interventions.

Язык: Английский

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Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

People and Nature, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(2), С. 458 - 473

Опубликована: Фев. 14, 2024

Abstract The concept of ‘peopled landscapes’ is based on the notion that it not possible, nor socially or politically desirable, to remove people from environment in era Anthropocene. As such, necessary document and develop ways coexist flourish. This review examines emergent scholarship about peopled landscapes biodiversity conservation by considering invasive plant management rewilding as social processes. While are often understood separate, thinking through scientific research examples Australia UK, we demonstrate how both forms human action can be more usefully relations with nature involving change action. Drawing attention agency, practices capacity, show diverse nonhuman actions recognised, attributed acknowledged landscapes. In practice, centring idea (rather than conceiving where impact minimised) shows related responses environmental problems. Flourishing coexistence require recognition agencies shape politics acceptable action, illustrate inseparability justice. Read free Plain Language Summary for this article Journal blog.

Язык: Английский

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Identifying where nature-based solutions can offer win-wins for carbon mitigation and biodiversity across knowledge systems

npj Urban Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2023

Abstract Managing nature-based solutions (NBS) in urban areas for carbon mitigation and biodiversity outcomes is a global policy challenge, yet little known about how to both assess weave diverse knowledge systems values into carbon-biodiversity trade-off assessments. This paper examines the spatial relationships between biophysical social sequestration potential (measured as dioxide, CO 2 , flux) Helsinki, Finland, using integrated valuation. The approach combines methods from modelling, expert scoring approaches assessment public participation geographic information (PPGIS). Results indicate strong associations of flux priorities, weaker values. Integration leads multiple pathways protection NBS achieve outcomes, well options targeting education capacity building programs local concern.

Язык: Английский

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