Résumé
Place-based social-ecological research is often designed to improve local environmental governance, but it can also inform decisions at larger scales or in other places. However, the focus on local perspectives in such research creates challenges for transferring insights to other locations, and for aggregating understanding to larger scales. In this paper, we discuss how ResNet, a new pan-Canadian network of researchers working on place-based social-ecological case studies via ecosystem services, will face (and hopefully overcome) these challenges while taking advantage of the unique benefits of a place-based approach. Drawing on insights from the literature and from the first 10 years of the Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), we outline solutions to six key challenges to multi-scale knowledge integration across place-based cases, and explore how ResNet is employing some of these solutions.
| Langue d'origine | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (de-à) | 574-589 |
| Nombre de pages | 16 |
| Journal | Ecosystems and People |
| Volume | 17 |
| Numéro de publication | 1 |
| DOI | |
| Statut de publication | Published - 2021 |
Note bibliographique
Funding Information:We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), [funding reference number NSERC NETGP 523374-18]. Cette recherche a été financée par leConseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG), [numéro de référence NSERC NETGP 523374-18]. We thank the many NSERC ResNet collaborators and partners with whom we had discussions that led to the ideas presented here. This is an NSERC ResNet publication.
Funding Information:
Building on existing efforts in place-based social-ecological science, including networks like PECS, a new network of Canadian scientists designed to integrate place-based research across six exemplar sea- and landscapes will develop data and knowledge relevant to managing those and other Canadian working landscapes for sustainability. This network, known as ResNet and funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), will explore how networks of place-based studies can draw on lessons from the first ten years of PECS and help fill gaps in our understanding about how to scale up place-based social-ecological research. The motivating question at the heart of the ResNet network is: how can we effectively employ ecosystem services to improve governance of working sea- and landscapes through a series of place-based studies across Canada?
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law