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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2022
Abstract: Many new models of governance are presented as offering potential to more effectively confront environmental challenges in the Anthropocene by transforming the underlying logic of decision‐making. A common feature of these models is the imperative to integrate multiple forms of knowledge, disciplinary perspectives, and erse networks of actors both within and outside the academy. These calls for pluralism are not just about it as a democratic principle, but part of improved ‘knowledge governance’ more equipped to address the multi‐faceted causes and consequences of environmental degradation. Yet the principles behind these improved practices can be lost in translation. While pluralism is elevated as ideal, when decision‐makers are faced with political and social realities of bringing in more voices, the result is often more populist than pluralist, and conflicts difficult to manage. This paper explores how these issues play out by examining co‐production in Australian wildfire governance, revealing concerns about whose knowledge is considered credible and legitimate and how knowledge is used to bolster narratives about both change and the status quo. It also contributes to debates about how populism influences the use of knowledge in policy, and how values influence interpretation and action in relation to new evidence.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-07-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S42949-021-00036-8
Abstract: Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly at the centre of urban strategies to mitigate heatwaves and flooding, improve public health and restore bio ersity. However, on-ground implementation has been slow, inconsistent and often limited to demonstration sites. A broad literature consistently highlights institutional barriers as a major reason for the observed implementation gap. In this study, we developed and deployed an assessment tool to identify barriers to NBS delivery on a European Commission Horizon 2020 project spanning seven cities. We found that practitioners were effectively navigating challenges in the areas where they had significant control, including community engagement, strategy development and technical skills. The greatest barriers were outside the influence of project teams: understaffing, a lack of intra-organisational processes, and risk-averse organisational cultures. These findings emphasise that after cities embrace NBS at the strategic and political level, it is vital that executives follow through with the necessary pragmatic reforms to enable delivery.
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 02-05-2022
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-1533962/V1
Abstract: Stacking two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets into laminar membranes to create nanochannels has attracted widespread attention at fundamental and practical levels for separation technology. Constructing space-tunable and long-term stable sub-nanometer channels provide original systems for nanofluidic investigations and accurate molecular sieving. Although proof-of-concept for nanolaminate membranes has recently been demonstrated, uncontrollable swelling and the presence of pinholes prevent the scaling up of these membranes. Here, we report a scalable strategy for the preparation of non-swelling covalently functionalized molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) membranes with tunable interlayer space. The capillary height of nanochannels was precisely tuned from 3.5 to 7.7 Å, controlled by the nature of the functional groups attached on the MoS 2 nanosheets, which exhibit minimal swelling in water. We evaluated the relationship between the capillary height, the surface chemistry, the stacking disorder and the sieving behaviors of the membranes in forwards osmosis (FO). We found that water permeation is strictly controlled by the capillary height of the nanochannels and the stacking disorder of the nanosheets. By combining experimental investigations and numerical simulations, we identified that the functionalization with aryl groups induces the formation of an interlayer space of 7.1 Å and interlayer stiffness as low as 5.6 eV Å -2 , leading to controlled stacking defects. We report the fabrication of membranes up to 45 cm 2 , which demonstrate a salt rejection as high as 94.2% for a continuous operating time of 7 days. Our work presents a desalination strategy in FO with a specific energy consumption (SEC) of 4 × 10 -3 kWh m -3 , which compares favorably with commercial FO membranes. We anticipate that this opens avenues for the development of FO membranes for desalination based on nanolaminated structure.
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-11-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2019.109662
Abstract: Conventional approaches to environmental governance and management are limited in their responses to uncertainty and complexity of social-ecological system (SES) change. Prevailing neoliberal and efficiency-based mindsets tend to focus on avoiding risk and creating "fail-safe" systems. In the last decade, resilience thinking has emerged as a means to transition from risk-averse, and command-and-control governance approaches towards those that are more adaptive, innovative and collaborative. To examine the practical usefulness of a resilience thinking approach, we used a complex, multi-layered case study of Tasmanian coastal governance. Drawing on the erse expertise and a variety of key governance actors, we identified crucial problems being experienced with the Tasmanian coastal governance regime and discussed potential contributions of resilience thinking to address them. Thematic analysis of the results revealed three major contributions: resilience thinking (1) provides a way to think about change and uncertainty (2) is compatible with proactive and entrepreneurial leadership and (3) effectively considers issues of scale in the decision-making process. We conclude by offering practical suggestions towards devolved leadership and improved cross-scale collaboration, and consider the possibility of a hybrid resilience and risk-based approach to coastal management and governance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-02-2019
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 03-10-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-03-2017
Publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
Date: 20-09-2022
DOI: 10.12688/WELLCOMEOPENRES.18175.1
Abstract: Natural environments, such as parks, woodlands and lakes, have positive impacts on health and wellbeing. Urban Green and Blue Spaces (UGBS), and the activities that take place in them, can significantly influence the health outcomes of all communities, and reduce health inequalities. Improving access and quality of UGBS needs understanding of the range of systems (e.g. planning, transport, environment, community) in which UGBS are located. UGBS offers an ideal exemplar for testing systems innovations as it reflects place-based and whole society processes , with potential to reduce non-communicable disease (NCD) risk and associated social inequalities in health. UGBS can impact multiple behavioural and environmental aetiological pathways. However, the systems which desire, design, develop, and deliver UGBS are fragmented and siloed, with ineffective mechanisms for data generation, knowledge exchange and mobilisation. Further, UGBS need to be co-designed with and by those whose health could benefit most from them, so they are appropriate, accessible, valued and used well. This paper describes a major new prevention research programme and partnership, GroundsWell , which aims to transform UGBS-related systems by improving how we plan, design, evaluate and manage UGBS so that it benefits all communities, especially those who are in poorest health. We use a broad definition of health to include physical, mental, social wellbeing and quality of life. Our objectives are to transform systems so that UGBS are planned, developed, implemented, maintained and evaluated with our communities and data systems to enhance health and reduce inequalities. GroundsWell will use interdisciplinary, problem-solving approaches to accelerate and optimise community collaborations among citizens, users, implementers, policymakers and researchers to impact research, policy, practice and active citizenship. GroundsWell will be shaped and developed in three pioneer cities (Belfast, Edinburgh, Liverpool) and their regional contexts, with embedded translational mechanisms to ensure that outputs and impact have UK-wide and international application.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 08-07-2023
DOI: 10.3390/LAND12071371
Abstract: Nature-based solutions (NBS) have been central to the European Union’s drive to address climate change, ecological degradation, and promote urban prosperity. Via an examination of the Horizon 2020-funded URBAN GreenUP project in Liverpool, this paper explores mainstreaming NBS in city planning. It uses evidence from pre- and post-intervention surveys with Liverpool residents and interviews with local business, environmental, government, and community sector experts to illustrate how a complex interplay of scale, location, focus, and visibility of NBS influences perceptions of the added value of NBS. This paper highlights the requirement that NBS interventions be bespoke and responsive to the overarching needs of residents and other stakeholders. Moreover, we underscore the importance of expert input into the design, location, and maintenance of NBS and call for these key drivers of successful delivery to be better integrated into work programs. This paper also notes that the type and size of NBS interventions impact perceptions of their value, with smaller projects being viewed as less socially and ecologically valuable compared to larger investments. We conclude that while small-scale NBS can support climatic, health, or ecological improvements in specific instances, strategic, larger-scale, and more visible investments are required to accrue substantive benefits and gain acceptance of NBS as a legitimate and effective planning tool.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2020
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 28-03-2018
DOI: 10.2196/JMIR.7763
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 27-11-2020
Abstract: The Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) concept is the most recent entry to discussions around how “nature” can be mobilized to render urban areas more resilient to the threat of climate change. The concept has been ch ioned by the European Commission (EC) as a tool that can transform contemporary environmental, social and economic challenges into opportunities for innovation, bolstering Europe's position as a leader in climate change mitigation and adaptation. With its current research and innovation programme—Horizon 2020—the EC looks to position itself as the global NBS frontrunner, providing funding to cities to act as NBS demonstrator projects across the continent. These are expected to provide best-practice ex les that can be replicated globally. This paper focuses on three Horizon 2020-funded NBS demonstrator projects: Connecting Nature, URBAN GreenUP and Grow Green , each of which brings together a suite of urban partners from both within and outside the European Union (EU). It examines the internal “politics” i.e., the aims and internal governance and implementation issues associated with these projects, and analyses how partners perceive the NBS concept. To engage with these aims, interviews were conducted with a erse set of NBS “practitioners” working within the three projects. Analysis showed that the projects aim to influence climate-change resilient and sustainable urbanism through the process of retrofitting cities with small-scale green and blue interventions, as well as help the EU secure stronger diplomatic relations with neighboring non-EU countries and key international trade partners. It also illustrated that for many project partners, NBS is perceived to be a novel concept, because it re-frames pre-existing terms such as Green and Blue Infrastructure (GBI) and Ecosystem Services (ES) in a way that makes principles of urban greening more understandable to lay audiences and more politically palatable for urban governments. However, partners also warn that this framing of NBS has led to a narrow and idealized representation of nature one that simultaneously undervalues bio ersity and oversells the capacity of natural processes to provide “solutions” to urban climate vulnerability and broader patterns of unsustainable urbanism.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-07-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-05-2019
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-04-2023
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1071/PC15032
Abstract: Bio ersity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species-based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape-scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for bio ersity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance ‘ideal’. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of bio ersity as a ‘policy problem’ in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organisational environments and public administration. Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in bio ersity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the bio ersity problem and the involved players the political context and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an ex le of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design. Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of, and factors influencing, key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self-organising and buffering.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2017.12.013
Abstract: Meeting conservation objectives in an era of global environmental change has precipitated debate about where and how to intervene. Ecological and social values of novel ecosystems are particularly contested. Governance has a role to play, but this role is underexplored. Here, we critically review the novel ecosystems literature to identify challenges that fall within the realm of governance. Using a conceptual framework for analysing adaptive governance, we consider how governance could help address five challenges. Specifically, we argue that reforming governance can support the re-framing of policy objectives for ecosystems where transformation is likely, and in doing so, it could highlight the tensions between the emergence of novel ecosystems on the one hand and cultural expectations about how ecosystems should look on the other. We discuss the influence of power, authority and administrative competence on conservation efforts in times of environmental change. We consider how buffering can address translational mismatch between conventional conservation policy and modern ecological reality. This review provides insights into how governance reform could enable more adaptive responses to transformative changes, such as novel ecosystems, while remaining committed to achieving conservation outcomes. Indeed, at their best, adaptive responses would encompass the reality of ecological transformation while being sympathetic to concerns about undesirable outcomes. Connections between researchers in the fields of governance, ecology and conservation could help to achieve these twin aims. We provide ex les of governance and policy-making techniques that can support context-specific governance reform that supports more effective conservation in the Anthropocene.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 28-03-2017
Abstract: he secondary use of health data for research raises complex questions of privacy and governance. Such questions are ill-suited to opinion polling where citizens must choose quickly between multiple-choice answers based on little information. he aim of this project was to extend knowledge about what control informed citizens would seek over the use of health records for research after participating in a deliberative process using citizens’ juries. wo 3-day citizens’ juries, of 17 citizens each, were convened to reflect UK national demographics from 355 eligible applicants. Each jury addressed the mission “To what extent should patients control access to patient records for secondary use?” Jurors heard from and questioned 5 expert witnesses (chosen either to inform the jury, or to argue for and against the secondary use of data), interspersed with structured opportunities to deliberate among themselves, including discussion and role-play. Jurors voted on a series of questions associated with the jury mission, giving their rationale. In idual views were polled using questionnaires at the beginning and at end of the process. t the end of the process, 33 out of 34 jurors voted in support of the secondary use of data for research, with 24 wanting in iduals to be able to opt out, 6 favoring opt in, and 3 voting that all records should be available without any consent process. When considering who should get access to data, both juries had very similar rationales. Both thought that public benefit was a key justification for access. Jury 1 was more strongly supportive of sharing patient records for public benefit, whereas jury 2 was more cautious and sought to give patients more control. Many jurors changed their opinion about who should get access to health records: 17 people became more willing to support wider information sharing of health data for public benefit, whereas 2 moved toward more patient control over patient records. he findings highlight that, when informed of both risks and opportunities associated with data sharing, citizens believe an in idual’s right to privacy should not prevent research that can benefit the general public. The juries also concluded that patients should be notified of any such scheme and have the right to opt out if they so choose. Many jurors changed their minds about this complex policy question when they became more informed. Many, but not all, jurors became less skeptical about health data sharing, as they became better informed of its benefits and risks.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13671
Abstract: Decades of research and policy interventions on bio ersity have insufficiently addressed the dual issues of bio ersity degradation and social justice. New approaches are therefore needed. We devised a research and action agenda that calls for a collective task of revisiting bio ersity toward the goal of sustaining erse and just futures for life on Earth. Revisiting bio ersity involves critically reflecting on past and present research, policy, and practice concerning bio ersity to inspire creative thinking about the future. The agenda was developed through a 2‐year dialogue process that involved close to 300 experts from erse disciplines and locations. This process was informed by social science insights that show bio ersity research and action is underpinned by choices about how problems are conceptualized. Recognizing knowledge, action, and ethics as inseparable, we synthesized a set of principles that help navigate the task of revisiting bio ersity. The agenda articulates 4 thematic areas for future research. First, researchers need to revisit bio ersity narratives by challenging conceptualizations that exclude ersity and entrench the separation of humans, cultures, economies, and societies from nature. Second, researchers should focus on the relationships between the Anthropocene, bio ersity, and culture by considering humanity and bio ersity as tied together in specific contexts. Third, researchers should focus on nature and economies by better accounting for the interacting structures of economic and financial systems as core drivers of bio ersity loss. Finally, researchers should enable transformative bio ersity research and action by reconfiguring relationships between human and nonhuman communities in and through science, policy, and practice. Revisiting bio ersity necessitates a renewed focus on dialogue among bio ersity communities and beyond that critically reflects on the past to channel research and action toward fostering just and erse futures for human and nonhuman life on Earth.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.
Date: 10-2022
Abstract: A growing body of research is examining how nature-based solutions (NBS) are offering planners, politicians and engineers options to promote responses to a wide range of biophysical and socio-economic problems. However, despite the increasing popularity of NBS, there is limited analysis available on how these ‘solutions’ align with urban problems, at what scale they are most effective and what costs are associated with investment in urban nature. This paper analyses current approaches to urban sustainability through an examination of the EU Horizon 2020-funded project Urban GreenUP, in Liverpool (UK), to deconstruct how rhetoric translates to practical applications of NBS interventions. It interrogates the interactions of projects, policies and political buy-in for NBS and argues that an integrated understanding of scale, function and location is needed to successfully address issues of urban climate change vulnerability. This is contextualised against the wider discussions of NBS associated with other EU-funded projects. It concludes that although investment in NBS offers a useful approach to development, they cannot overcome existing barriers to investment in environmental improvements without attention to the same barriers that have always existed. Moreover, the paper argues that the promotion of NBS as solutions to problems is effective only when the problems are transparently and collaboratively defined.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 20-12-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2014.11.013
Abstract: Current policy interventions are having limited success in addressing the ongoing decline in global bio ersity. In part, this is attributable to insufficient attention being paid to the social and governance processes that drive decisions and can undermine their implementation. Scenario planning that draws on social-ecological systems (SES) analysis provides a useful means to systematically explore and anticipate future uncertainties regarding the interaction between humans and bio ersity outcomes. However, the effective application of SES models has been limited by the insufficient attention given to governance influences. Understanding the influence governance attributes have on the future trajectory of SES is likely to assist choice of effective interventions, as well as needs and opportunities for governance reform. In a case study in the Australian Alps, we explore the potential of joint SES and scenario analyses to identify how governance influences landscape-scale bio ersity outcomes. Novel aspects of our application of these methods were the specification of the focal system's governance attributes according to requirements for adaptive capacity, and constraining scenarios according to the current governance settings while varying key social and biophysical drivers. This approach allowed us to identify how current governance arrangements influence landscape-scale bio ersity outcomes, and establishes a baseline from which the potential benefits of governance reform can be assessed.
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Date: 03-2018
Abstract: A strong foundation in physical conditioning and sport-specific experience, in addition to a bespoke and periodized training and nutrition program, are essential for athlete development. Once these underpinning factors are accounted for, and the athlete reaches a training maturity and competition level where marginal gains determine success, a role may exist for the use of evidence-based performance supplements. However, it is important that any decisions surrounding performance supplements are made in consideration of robust information that suggests the use of a product is safe, legal, and effective. The following review focuses on the current evidence-base for a number of common (and emerging) performance supplements used in sport. The supplements discussed here are separated into three categories based on the level of evidence supporting their use for enhancing sports performance: (1) established (caffeine, creatine, nitrate, beta-alanine, bicarbonate) (2) equivocal (citrate, phosphate, carnitine) and (3) developing. Within each section, the relevant performance type, the potential mechanisms of action, and the most common protocols used in the supplement dosing schedule are summarized.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 28-03-2017
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-05-2021
DOI: 10.3390/PATHOGENS10050577
Abstract: Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a major respiratory pathogen that initiates infection by colonising the upper airways. Strategies that interfere with this interaction may therefore have a clinically significant impact on the ability of NTHi to cause disease. We have previously shown that strains of the commensal bacterium Haemophilus haemolyticus (Hh) that produce a novel haem-binding protein, haemophilin, can prevent NTHi growth and interactions with host cells in vitro. We hypothesized that natural pharyngeal carriage of Hh strains with the hpl open reading frame (Hh-hpl+) would be associated with a lower prevalence and/or density of NTHi colonisation in healthy in iduals. Oropharyngeal swabs were collected from 257 healthy adults in Australia between 2018 and 2019. Real-time PCR was used to quantitatively compare the oropharyngeal carriage load of NTHi and Hh populations with the Hh-hpl+ or Hh-hpl− genotype. The likelihood of acquiring/maintaining NTHi colonisation status over a two- to six-month period was assessed in in iduals that carried either Hh-hpl− (n = 25) or Hh-hpl+ (n = 25). Compared to carriage of Hh-hpl− strains, adult (18–65 years) and elderly ( years) participants that were colonised with Hh-hpl+ were 2.43 or 2.67 times less likely to carry NTHi in their oropharynx, respectively. Colonisation with high densities of Hh-hpl+ correlated with a low NTHi carriage load and a 2.63 times lower likelihood of acquiring/maintaining NTHi colonisation status between visits. Together with supporting in vitro studies, these results encourage further investigation into the potential use of Hh-hpl+ as a respiratory probiotic candidate for the prevention of NTHi infection.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-12-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-021-27456-5
Abstract: The conversion of CO 2 into desirable multicarbon products via the electrochemical reduction reaction holds promise to achieve a circular carbon economy. Here, we report a strategy in which we modify the surface of bimetallic silver-copper catalyst with aromatic heterocycles such as thiadiazole and triazole derivatives to increase the conversion of CO 2 into hydrocarbon molecules. By combining operando Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopy with electrocatalytic measurements and analysis of the reaction products, we identified that the electron withdrawing nature of functional groups orients the reaction pathway towards the production of C 2+ species (ethanol and ethylene) and enhances the reaction rate on the surface of the catalyst by adjusting the electronic state of surface copper atoms. As a result, we achieve a high Faradaic efficiency for the C 2+ formation of ≈80% and full-cell energy efficiency of 20.3% with a specific current density of 261.4 mA cm −2 for C 2+ products.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-08-2023
DOI: 10.1111/GEC3.12723
Abstract: As calls grow for relational approaches to nature and wellbeing research that consider reciprocity in human‐environment interactions, the concept of affordances is gaining importance as a useful way of thinking about nature experiences. Affordances provide a framework to enable in idualised conceptions of nature by focusing on what is functionally meaningful to people. However, affordance thinking is currently limited in its ability to help us understand how peoples' background, culture and circumstances shape interactions with nature ‐ a critical issue with respect to inclusivity and the under‐representation of some sections of society. Bourdieu's theory of practice is a well‐established set of ‘thinking tools’ which potentially help addresses these influences. It examines how our social environment may pattern our practices, attitudes, and perceptions. In this paper, we review the various applications of affordances before providing an overview of how Bourdieu's concepts of habitus , capital and field can complement, and be integrated with, affordance thinking for novel applications to greenspace research. Bridging these areas of thinking will facilitate development of a more intersectional and complete understanding of nature experiences, including the quality and inclusivity of green and natural spaces.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-04-2023
DOI: 10.1002/EET.2056
Abstract: Effective governance of social‐ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable framing to re‐orient governance and management, the literature includes many different, and sometimes conflicting, definitions and ideas that influence how the concept is applied, especially in coastal environments. This study combines discourse analysis of the coastal governance literature and key informant interviews in Tasmania, Australia, demonstrating inconsistencies and confusion in the way that resilience is framed in coastal governance research and practice. We find that resilience is most often framed as (1) a rate of recovery from disturbance or (2) the process of acting in response to, or anticipation of, a disturbance. A third framing considers resilience as an emergent property of SESs. This framing, social‐ecological resilience , accounts for multiple configurations of SES, which necessitates adaptation and transformation strategies to address changes across temporal and spatial scales. Coastal managers recognised the value of this third framing for governing coastal SESs, yet the confusion and inconsistency in the literature was also evident in how they understood and applied resilience in practice. Expanding the use of social‐ecological resilience is essential for more effective coastal governance, given the dynamics of coastal SESs and the intensity of social, economic, and environmental drivers of change these systems face. However, this requires addressing the unclear, confused, and superficial use of resilience‐oriented concepts in research and policy discourse.
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 05-11-2021
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.7275/0N91-XQ04
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-02-2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 12-2021
End Date: 11-2024
Amount: $351,948.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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