Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/896
Title: Integration Research for Shaping Sustainable Regional Landscapes
Contributor(s): Brunckhorst, DJ  (author)
Publication Date: 2005
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/896
Abstract: Ecological and social systems are complex and entwined. Complex social-ecological systems interact in a multitude of ways at many spatial scales across time. Their interactions can contribute both positive and negative consequences in terms of sustainability and the context in which they exist affecting future landscape change. Non-metropolitan landscapes are the major theatre of interactions where large-scale alteration occurs precipitated by local to global forces of economic, social, and environmental change. Such regional landscape effects are critical also to local natural resource and social sustainability. The institutions contributing pressures and responses consequently shape future landscapes and in turn influence how social systems, resource users, governments, and policy makers perceive those landscapes and their future. Science and policy for "sustainable" futures need to be integrated at the applied "on-ground" level where products and effects of system interactions are fully included, even if unobserved. Government agencies and funding bodies often consider such research as "high-risk." This paper provides some examples of interdisciplinary research that has provided a level of holistic integration through close engagement with landholders and communities or through deliberately implementing integrative and innovative on-ground experimental models. In retrospect, such projects have to some degree integrated through spatial (if not temporal) synthesis, policy analysis, and (new or changed) institutional arrangements that are relevant locally and acceptable in business, as well as at broader levels of government and geography. This has provided transferable outcomes that can contribute real options and adaptive capacity for suitable positive futures.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Research Practice, 1(2), p. 1-24
Publisher: Athabasca University
Place of Publication: Canada
ISSN: 1712-851X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050209 Natural Resource Management
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/16
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