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Resource typeJournal Article
Title(s)Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1444
Handle20.500.14123/1513
CreatorShumi, Girma  0000-0001-7386-6815
Wahler, Hannah
Riechers, Maraja  0000-0003-3916-8102
Senbeta, Feyera  0000-0002-6502-4797
Abson, David J.  0000-0003-3755-785X
Schultner, Jannik  0000-0002-5865-7975
Fischer, Joern  0000-0003-3187-8978
AbstractAddressing 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.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsLeverage Points; Resilience; Smallholder Structures; Social-ecological System; Sustainability; Transformation; Woody Plants; Vegetation; Biodiversity; Management
Year of publication in PubData2024
Publishing typeParallel publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2023-06-01
Creation contextResearch
Faculty / departmentFakultät Nachhaltigkeit
NotesThis publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Date of Availability2024-11-11T14:16:11Z
Archiving Facility Medien- und Informationszentrum (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  02w2y2t16)
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Resource typeJournal
Title of the resource typeEcology and Society
IdentifierDOI: 10.5751/ES-14209-280234
Publication year2023
Volume28
Issue2
Number34
Number typeArticle
PublisherThe Resilience Alliance
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