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Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands
Rangelands comprise 40% of the conterminous United States and they supply essential ecosystem services to society. A scenario assessment was conducted to determine how accelerating biophysical and societal dri...
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Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation
Understanding what motivates farmers to adopt “climate-smart” regenerative practices is critical for develo** the right policies, incentives, outreach, and support mechanisms. This article explores factors t...
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A half century of Holistic Management: what does the evidence reveal?
Holistic Management (HM) is a decision-making framework based on triple bottom line thinking and a proactive approach to managing complexity. Primarily associated with an approach to managing livestock, it has...
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Stability and Flexibility in the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance
One of the goals of adaptive governance is to increase management flexibility in the face of a changing social-ecological system. In contrast, one of the key functions of governance systems is to provide stabi...
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Cross-Basin Patterns of Systemic-Change Drivers and Adaptive Governance Features
Features of adaptive governance and drivers of systemic change were derived using qualitative textual analysis of six North American basin resilience assessments. This meta-analysis sought new knowledge that t...
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Survey of Beaver-related Restoration Practices in Rangeland Streams of the Western USA
Poor condition of many streams and concerns about future droughts in the arid and semi-arid western USA have motivated novel restoration strategies aimed at accelerating recovery and increasing water resources...
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Legal Pathways to Adaptive Governance in Water Basins in North America and Australia
Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of governmental barriers to adaptation as ...
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Finding Flexibility in Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act Through Adaptive Governance
The US Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits federal agency actions likely to jeopardize listed species or adversely modify critical habitat. Scholarship on the application of the ESA characterizes the proces...
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The Emergence of Adaptive Governance in the Klamath River Basin
The Klamath River Basin of south-central Oregon and northern California has been the locus of historic conflict over the governance of water situated at the spiritual, cultural, and economic confluence of fish...
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Arts and humanities inquiry in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: empathy, relationships, and interdisciplinary collaborations
The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collection of 25 National Science Foundation-funded sites committed to long-term, place-based investigation of the natural world. While activities primaril...
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Enhancing Public Trust in Federal Forest Management
The connections between social and biophysical sciences are being forged in new ways as researchers and practitioners of natural resources seek to understand how lands can be managed for the benefit of human s...
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Measuring Success of Adaptive Management Projects
Examples linking natural resource management with improved ecological health are few compared to the dominant narrative of environmental degradation—more robust evaluation and reporting of these successes may ...
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Arts and Humanities Efforts in the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Understanding Perceived Values and Challenges
Calls for interdisciplinary approaches to environmental problem-solving are common across the biophysical and social sciences. Recently, some of these collaborations have incorporated the creative arts and hum...
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Amenity migration: diverse conceptualizations of drivers, socioeconomic dimensions, and emerging challenges
Rural communities throughout the postindustrial world are in the midst of a significant transition, sometimes referred to as rural restructuring, as traditional land uses, economic activities, and social arran...
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Mitigating Climate Change Through Small-Scale Forestry in the USA: Opportunities and Challenges
Forest management for carbon sequestration is a low-cost, low-technology, relatively easy way to help mitigate global climate change that can be adopted now while additional long-term solutions are developed. ...
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Agricultural Land Ownership Change and Natural Resource Management: Comparing Australian and US Case Studies
Rural areas throughout the developed world are undergoing significant restructuring due to a number of socio-economic factors. One aspect of recent rural change has to do with shifts and in-migration to rura...
