Resilience-based perspectives to guiding high-nature-value farmland through socioeconomic change

Abstract: Global environmental challenges require approaches that integrate biodiversity conservation, food production, and livelihoods at landscape scales. We reviewed the approach of conserving biodiversity on “high-nature-value” (HNV) farmland, covering 75 million ha in Europe, from a resilience perspective. Despite growing recognition in natural resource policies, many HNV farmlands have vanished, and the remaining ones are vulnerable to socioeconomic changes. Using landscape-level cases across Europe, we considered the following social-ecological system properties and components and their integration into HNV farmland management: (1) coupling of social and ecological systems, (2) key variables, (3) adaptive cycles, (4) regime shifts, (5) cascading effects, (6) ecosystem stewardship and collaboration, (7) social capital, and (8) traditional ecological knowledge. We argue that previous conservation efforts for HNV farmland have focused too much on static, isolated, and monosectoral conservation strategies, and that stimulation of resilience and adaptation is essential for guiding HNV farmland through rapid change

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Ecology and society. 18, 4 (2013), 20, DOI 10.5751/ES-05877-180420, issn: 1708-3087 ; IN COPYRIGHT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0 rs

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt
• Keyword: Landwirtschaftliche Nutzfläche ; Agrarökonomie ; Ökosystemmanagement ; Lebensraum ; Landschaftsplanung ; Europa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2013
• Creator: Plieninger, Tobias ; Bieling, Claudia
• Contributor: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Professur für Landespflege ; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Fakultät für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen ; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Further information

• DOI: 10.5751/ES-05877-180420
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-119387
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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