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Transforming conservation science and practice for a postnormal world.
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Title: | Transforming conservation science and practice for a postnormal world. |
Authors: | Colloff, MJ Lavorel, S Van Kerkhoff, LE Wyborn, CA Fazey, I Gorddard, R Mace, GM Foden, WB Dunlop, M Prentice, IC Crowley, J Leadley, P Degeorges, P |
Item Type: | Journal Article |
Abstract: | We examine issues to consider when reframing conservation science and practice in the context of global change. New framings of the links between ecosystems and society are emerging that are changing peoples' values and expectations of nature, resulting in plural perspectives on conservation. Reframing conservation for global change can thus be regarded as a stage in the evolving relationship between people and nature rather than some recent trend. New models of how conservation links with transformative adaptation include how decision contexts for conservation can be reframed and integrated with an adaptation pathways approach to create new options for global-change-ready conservation. New relationships for conservation science and governance include coproduction of knowledge that supports social learning. New processes for implementing adaptation for conservation outcomes include deliberate practices used to develop new strategies, shift world views, work with conflict, address power and intergenerational equity in decisions, and build consciousness and creativity that empower agents to act. We argue that reframing conservation for global change requires scientists and practitioners to implement approaches unconstrained by discipline and sectoral boundaries, geopolitical polarities, or technical problematization. We consider a stronger focus on inclusive creation of knowledge and the interaction of this knowledge with societal values and rules is likely to result in conservation science and practice that meets the challenges of a postnormal world. |
Issue Date: | 9-Jun-2017 |
Date of Acceptance: | 17-Feb-2017 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/56664 |
DOI: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12912 |
ISSN: | 0888-8892 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Start Page: | 1008 |
End Page: | 1017 |
Journal / Book Title: | Conservation Biology |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 5 |
Copyright Statement: | © 2017 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
Sponsor/Funder: | AXA Research Fund |
Funder's Grant Number: | AXA Chair Programme in Biosphere and Climate Impacts |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biodiversity Conservation Ecology Environmental Sciences Biodiversity & Conservation Environmental Sciences & Ecology adaptation pathways adaptation services adaptive governance coproduction global change learning transformation values-rules-knowledge TRANSFORMATIONAL CLIMATE-CHANGE BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ADAPTATION SERVICES ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES MONTANE FORESTS MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES aprendizaje cambio global co-producción conocimiento-reglas-valores gobernanza adaptativa servicios de adaptación transformación vías de adaptación Conservation of Natural Resources Ecosystem Humans 05 Environmental Sciences 06 Biological Sciences 07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences |
Publication Status: | Published |
Conference Place: | United States |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Life Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences |