[MCN] How can land management agencies best respond to climate change and its effects? resisting (R), accepting (A), or directing ?

[Lance Olsen]

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The dynamic feasibility of resisting (R), accepting (A), or directing (D) ecological change
Amanda E. Cravens <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/authored-by/Cravens/Amanda+E.>, Katherine R. Clifford <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/authored-by/Clifford/Katherine+R.>, Corrine Knapp <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/authored-by/Knapp/Corrine>, William R. Travis <https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/authored-by/Travis/William+R.>
First published: 17 July 2024 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14331 <https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14331>
Article impact statement: Deciding to resist, accept, or direct means grappling with the dynamic social factors that shape whether choices are considered feasible.
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Ecological transformations are occurring as a result of climate change, challenging traditional approaches to land management decision-making. The resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework helps managers consider how to respond to this challenge. We examined how the feasibility of the choices to resist, accept, and direct shifts in complex and dynamic ways through time. We considered 4 distinct types of social feasibility: regulatory, financial, public, and organizational. Our commentary is grounded in literature review and the examples that exist but necessarily has speculative elements because empirical evidence on this newly emerging management strategy is scarce. We expect that resist strategies will become less feasible over time as managers encounter situations where resisting is ecologically, by regulation, financially, or publicly not feasible. Similarly, we expect that as regulatory frameworks increasingly permit their use, if costs decrease, and if the public accepts them, managers will increasingly view accept and direct strategies as more viable options than they do at present. Exploring multiple types of feasibility over time allows consideration of both social and ecological trajectories of change in tandem. Our theorizing suggested that deepening the time horizon of decision-making allows one to think carefully about when one should adopt different approaches and how to combine them over time

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"More than a century of ecological research on ecosystem responses to biotic and abiotic conditions has made clear that the effects of climate change can only be understood in synergy with other human‐caused stressors, including habitat fragmentation, roads, urbanization, and disease. The waterfowl example, in particular, centers on the fact that ducks have for millennia dealt with drought conditions by moving to other wetlands; however, the plowing under of sites in the PPR [Prairie Pothole Region] interacts with climate change to leave few avenues ... "

Steve Running and Scott Mills. (2009) "Terrestrial Ecosystem Adaption," a book chapter in Adaption: An Initiative of the Climate Policy Program at Resources for the Future.



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"More than a century of ecological research on ecosystem responses to biotic and abiotic conditions has made clear that the effects of climate change can only be understood in synergy with other human‐caused stressors, including habitat fragmentation, roads, urbanization, and disease. The waterfowl example, in particular, centers on the fact that ducks have for millennia dealt with drought conditions by moving to other wetlands; however, the plowing under of sites in the PPR [Prairie Pothole Region] interacts with climate change to leave few avenues ... "

Steve Running and Scott Mills. (2009) "Terrestrial Ecosystem Adaption," a book chapter in Adaption: An Initiative of the Climate Policy Program at Resources for the Future.

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