1. Mustering the power of ecosystems for adaptation to climate change
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Bruno Locatelli, Denis Laforgue, Caroline Devaux, Sandra Lavorel, Russell Gorddard, Marine Gabillet, Matthew J. Colloff, Suzanne M. Prober, Véronique Peyrache-Gadeau, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA ), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (ANU), Forêts et Sociétés (UPR Forêts et Sociétés), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR), CSIRO Land and Water, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Referent HAL Edytem, Christine Maury
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F40 - Écologie végétale ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,P40 - Météorologie et climatologie ,[SHS.GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,Geography, Planning and Development ,adaptation aux changements climatiques ,010501 environmental sciences ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,01 natural sciences ,Ecosystem services ,11. Sustainability ,Agricultural productivity ,Adaptation (computer science) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,2. Zero hunger ,Utilisation des terres ,Adaptive capacity ,Nature-based solutions Mountain socio-ecosystem Ecosystem services Decision context Values-rules-knowledge interactions Long-term transdisciplinary research ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,business.industry ,Corporate governance ,Environmental resource management ,Pâturages ,[SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography ,15. Life on land ,Livelihood ,[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society ,services écosystémiques ,[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,E11 - Économie et politique foncières ,[SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,13. Climate action ,[SDE.IE] Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,[SDE.ES] Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society ,Biodiversité ,Business ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,Nexus (standard) ,Tourism - Abstract
International audience; Mountain social-ecological systems (SES) supply important ecosystem services that are threatened by climate change. In mountain SES there is a paradox between high community capacity to cope with extremes, and governance structures and processes that constrain that capacity from being realised. Climate adaptation that maintains livelihoods and supply of ecosystem services can catalyse this innate adaptive capacity if new adaptive governance arrangements can be created. Using the French Alps as a case study, we outline a participative framework for transformative adaptation that links adaptive capacity and governance to provide social innovation and ecosystem-based adaptation solutions for mountain SES. Grassland management was the main entry point for adaptation: bundles of adaptation services supplied by the landscape mosaic of biodiverse grassland types can maintain agricultural production and tourism and facilitate income diversification. Deliberate management for core adaptation services like resilient fodder production, erosion control, shade or aesthetic value generates co-benefits for future transformation ability. People activate bundles of adaptation services along adaptation pathways and realise benefits via co-production with other forms of capital including traditional knowledge or social networks. Common and distinctive adaptation services in each pathway create options for transformation if barriers from interactions between values and rules across scales can be overcome. For example conserving mown terraces which is a critical adaptation nexus reflects a complex interplay of values, markets and governance instruments from local to European scales. We conclude that increasing stakeholders capacity to mobilise adaptation services is critical for empowering them to implement adaptation to global change.
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- 2019
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