Multiscale adaptive management of social–ecological systems

Author:

Garmestani Ahjond1234ORCID,Allen Craig R5ORCID,Angeler David G5678ORCID,Gunderson Lance9ORCID,Ruhl J B10ORCID

Affiliation:

1. US Environmental Protection Agency, in Gulf Breeze , Florida, United States

2. Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans, and Sustainability Law , Utrecht University, The Netherlands

3. Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia, United States

4. Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes , in the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

5. Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes , in the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

6. Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment , at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

7. The PRODEO Institute, in San Francisco , California, United States

8. The Institute for Mental and Physical Health and Clinical Translation , Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

9. Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University , Atlanta, Georgia

10. Vanderbilt Law School, in Nashville, Tennessee , United States

Abstract

Abstract Adaptive management is an approach for stewardship of social–ecological systems in circumstances with high uncertainty and high controllability. Although they are largely overlooked in adaptive management (and social–ecological system management), it is important to account for spatial and temporal scales to mediate within- and cross-scale effects of management actions, because cross-scale interactions increase uncertainty and can lead to undesirable consequences. The iterative nature of an adaptive approach can be expanded to multiple scales to accommodate different stakeholder priorities and multiple ecosystem attributes. In this Forum, we introduce multiscale adaptive management of social–ecological systems, which merges adaptive management with panarchy (a multiscale model of social–ecological systems) and demonstrate the importance of this approach with case studies from the Great Plains of North America and the Platte River Basin, in the United States. Adaptive management combined with a focus on the panarchy model of social–ecological systems can help to improve the management of social–ecological systems.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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