Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory

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dc.contributor.authorCumming, Graeme S
dc.contributor.authorAllen, Craig R
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T07:04:03Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T07:04:03Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractConservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics. Protected areas offer a fundamental approach to conserving ecosystems, but they are also social-ecological systems whose ecological management and sustainability are heavily influenced by people. This editorial, and the papers in the invited feature that it introduces, discuss three emerging themes in social-ecological systems approaches to understanding protected areas: (1) the resilience and sustainability of protected areas, including analyses of their internal dynamics, their effectiveness, and the resilience of the landscapes within which they occur; (2) the relevance of spatial context and scale for protected areas, including such factors as geographic connectivity, context, exchanges between protected areas and their surrounding landscapes, and scale dependency in the provision of ecosystem services; and (3) efforts to reframe what protected areas are and how they both define and are defined by the relationships of people and nature. These emerging themes have the potential to transform management and policy approaches for protected areas and have important implications for conservation, in both theory and practice.
dc.identifier.apacitationCumming, G. S., & Allen, C. R. (2017). Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory. <i>Ecological Applications</i>, 27(6), 1709 - 1717. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCumming, Graeme S, and Craig R Allen "Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory." <i>Ecological Applications</i> 27, 6. (2017): 1709 - 1717. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCumming, G.S. & Allen, C.R. 2017. Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory. <i>Ecological Applications.</i> 27(6):1709 - 1717. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1051-0761
dc.identifier.issn1939-5582
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Cumming, Graeme S AU - Allen, Craig R AB - Conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize that natural resource management is both an outcome and a driver of social, economic, and ecological dynamics. Protected areas offer a fundamental approach to conserving ecosystems, but they are also social-ecological systems whose ecological management and sustainability are heavily influenced by people. This editorial, and the papers in the invited feature that it introduces, discuss three emerging themes in social-ecological systems approaches to understanding protected areas: (1) the resilience and sustainability of protected areas, including analyses of their internal dynamics, their effectiveness, and the resilience of the landscapes within which they occur; (2) the relevance of spatial context and scale for protected areas, including such factors as geographic connectivity, context, exchanges between protected areas and their surrounding landscapes, and scale dependency in the provision of ecosystem services; and (3) efforts to reframe what protected areas are and how they both define and are defined by the relationships of people and nature. These emerging themes have the potential to transform management and policy approaches for protected areas and have important implications for conservation, in both theory and practice. DA - 2017 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town IS - 6 J1 - Ecological Applications LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2017 SM - 1051-0761 SM - 1939-5582 T1 - Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory TI - Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCumming GS, Allen CR. Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory. Ecological Applications. 2017;27(6):1709 - 1717. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34413.en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.departmentFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Science
dc.sourceEcological Applications
dc.source.journalissue6
dc.source.journalvolume27
dc.source.pagination1709 - 1717
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1584
dc.subject.othercomplexity
dc.subject.otherconnectivity
dc.subject.otherconservation
dc.subject.otherinstitution
dc.subject.othermanagement
dc.subject.othernational park
dc.subject.othernatural resources
dc.subject.otherpolicy
dc.subject.otherprotected areas as socioecological systems
dc.subject.otherscale
dc.subject.othersustainability
dc.titleProtected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory
dc.typeJournal Article
uct.type.publicationResearch
uct.type.resourceJournal Article
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