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| Resource type | Journal Article |
| Title(s) | Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia |
| DOI | 10.48548/pubdata-1444 |
| Handle | 20.500.14123/1513 |
| Creator | Shumi, Girma  0000-0001-7386-6815Wahler, Hannah Riechers, Maraja 0000-0003-3916-8102Senbeta, Feyera 0000-0002-6502-4797Abson, David J. 0000-0003-3755-785XSchultner, Jannik 0000-0002-5865-7975Fischer, Joern 0000-0003-3187-8978 |
| Abstract | Addressing ecosystem destruction and unsustainable development requires appropriate frameworks to comprehensively investigate social-ecological systems. Focusing on woody plant management in southwestern Ethiopia, we combined social-ecological resilience and a leverage points perspective to (1) assess how stakeholders perceive and operationalize resilience principles; (2) investigate resilience challenges and solutions across different levels of systemic depth; and (3) assess how different stakeholder groups noted challenges and solutions at different levels of system depth. Data were collected in focus group discussions with multiple types of stakeholders and analyzed via quantitative content and descriptive analysis. All stakeholder groups identified two principles currently applied in the landscape, while other principles were not currently applied widely. In total, we identified 37 challenges and 44 solutions to resilience, mainly focused on “deeper” systemic change. This trend was noted across stakeholder groups, but particularly by local people. Based on our work, we suggest to foster bottom-up changes in system goals, rules, paradigms, and intent, drawing explicitly on local people and their knowledge. More broadly, we suggest that further research on combining social-ecological resilience and leverage points perspectives could be helpful to better navigate and transform social-ecological systems. |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Leverage Points; Resilience; Smallholder Structures; Social-ecological System; Sustainability; Transformation; Woody Plants; Vegetation; Biodiversity; Management |
| Year of publication in PubData | 2024 |
| Publishing type | Parallel publication |
| Publication version | Published version |
| Date issued | 2023-06-01 |
| Creation context | Research |
| Notes | This publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg. |
| Published by | Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg |
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Resource type | Journal |
| Title of the resource type | Ecology and Society |
| Identifier | DOI: 10.5751/ES-14209-280234 |
| Publication year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Number | 34 |
| Number type | Article |
| Publisher | The Resilience Alliance |
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