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DOI	10.1088/1748-9326/ab4033
	Framing management of social-ecological systems in terms of the cost of failure: The Sierra Nevada, USA as a case study
	Wood C.M.; Jones G.M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	17489318
卷号	14 期号:10
英文摘要	Managing complex social-ecological systems in an era of rapid climate change and changing human pressures represents a major challenge in sustainability science. The Sierra Nevada, USA is a large social-ecological system facing a tipping point that could result in major ecosystem changes. A century of fire suppression and climate change have set the stage for mega-disturbances that threaten biodiversity, human life and values, ecosystem services, and forest persistence. Stakeholders face multidimensional and often contentious trade-offs with costs and benefits that can be mismatched in space and time. If compromises cannot be reached, the status quo is likely to continue, resulting in the conversion of large portions of a 100 000 km2 predominately mixed-conifer forest ecosystem to a chaparral-dominated ecosystem. We describe the outcomes of a continuation of the ecological status quo on biodiversity, cultural history, fire management, recreational value, and climate control, including indirect effects on water and food security and recreation. The social-ecological ramifications of such a future are undesirable for most stakeholders. Therefore, we contend that forest management conflicts should be framed in terms of the cost of failure of negotiations among stakeholders. Specifically, negotiations may benefit from (1) stakeholders quantifying their definitions of success and failure, (2) quantification of trade-offs and recognition of their multidimensionality, and (3) allowing for solutions that are heterogeneous in space and time. This approach may help stakeholders navigate the wicked problem of managing Sierra Nevada forests and other complex social-ecological systems. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd.
英文关键词	ecosystem services; resilience; social-ecological systems; tradeoffs
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Air navigation; Biodiversity; Commerce; Economic and social effects; Ecosystems; Food supply; Forestry; History; Costs and benefits; Ecological status; Ecosystem services; Mixed-conifer forests; Multidimensionality; Rapid climate change; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science; Climate change; anthropogenic effect; biodiversity; climate change; cost analysis; cost-benefit analysis; disturbance; food security; forest ecosystem; forest management; management practice; stakeholder; sustainability; California; Sierra Nevada [California]; United States; Coniferophyta
来源期刊	Environmental Research Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/154367
作者单位	Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wood C.M.,Jones G.M.. Framing management of social-ecological systems in terms of the cost of failure: The Sierra Nevada, USA as a case study[J],2019,14(10).
APA	Wood C.M.,&Jones G.M..(2019).Framing management of social-ecological systems in terms of the cost of failure: The Sierra Nevada, USA as a case study.Environmental Research Letters,14(10).
MLA	Wood C.M.,et al."Framing management of social-ecological systems in terms of the cost of failure: The Sierra Nevada, USA as a case study".Environmental Research Letters 14.10(2019).