Opportunities and challenges of the ecosystem approach

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2014.12.002

	Opportunities and challenges of the ecosystem approach
	Richter, Carsten H.; Xu, Jianchu; Wilcox, Bruce A.
	2015-03-01
发表期刊	FUTURES
卷号	67 页码:40-51
摘要	Humanity will continue to struggle with solving its existential problems in the future if command-and-control continues as the predominant approach to environmental and natural resources management. Recognizing the ecosystem perspective, complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory and transdisciplinary collaboration as conceptual opportunities to developing innovative and socially robust solutions is an important step in the right direction. However, because ecosystems are constantly evolving, human co-development has to account for inherent ecological uncertainty. Thus, sustainability depends on a continuous reevaluation of objectives, continuous knowledge generation, stakeholder involvement and a deeper understanding of evolving social and ecological dynamics. These requirements of continuity are hardly met by current approaches consisting of consecutive transdisciplinary projects focused on solving the most urgent problems of mismanagement at hand. Therefore, in this paper we argue for an organizational setup when pursuing an ecosystem approach and outline essential characteristics, inherent opportunities and fundamental challenges. Promising benefits of this approach include tested yet proactive interventions, public credibility, resource efficiency, long-term relationship building, community participation and ultimately sustainable development. Thereby, sustainability is aspired to and supported by a shared vision, organizational co-evolution, an organizational culture promoting innovation and an external autonomy to self-organize. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Ecosystem Approach Transdisciplinarity Adaptive Management Generative Thinking Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Social-ecological Systems
DOI	10.1016/j.futures.2014.12.002
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000352668800005
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/20680
专题	资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Richter, Carsten H.,Xu, Jianchu,Wilcox, Bruce A.. Opportunities and challenges of the ecosystem approach[J]. FUTURES,2015,67:40-51.
APA	Richter, Carsten H.,Xu, Jianchu,&Wilcox, Bruce A..(2015).Opportunities and challenges of the ecosystem approach.FUTURES,67,40-51.
MLA	Richter, Carsten H.,et al."Opportunities and challenges of the ecosystem approach".FUTURES 67(2015):40-51.

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