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Challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation: International experience and implications for adaptation research
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257868 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science, 2021.
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Abstract
- Maintaining the functional integrity of ecosystems as climate pressures exceed natural rates of adaptation requires new knowledge and new approaches to governance and management. However, research into management interventions to assist regional ecosystem adaptation has generated both scientific and ethical debate. This paper reviews experience to date in order to identify the challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation and reflect on the implications for ongoing adaptation research. The review was informed by a database and structured analysis of some 450 reports, peer-reviewed manuscripts and books on participation theory and experience with novel technology development and assisted ecosystem adaptation. We identified five classes of challenges to adaptation research: 1) scientific conflicts and debates over the “facts”, 2) social challenges, 3) governance challenges, 4) epistemic challenges, and 5) ontological conflicts. We argue that engagement strategies linked to the multiple objectives of adaptation research provide opportunities for ecosystem adaptation.
- Subjects :
- Science and Technology Workforce
Atmospheric Science
Internationality
Acclimatization
Psychological intervention
Marine and Aquatic Sciences
Social Sciences
Reef Ecosystems
Careers in Research
Ethical debate
Cognition
Order (exchange)
Psychology
Climatology
Marine Ecosystems
Multidisciplinary
Collection Review
Ecology
Coral Reefs
Corporate governance
Professions
Community Ecology
Government
Medicine
Structured analysis
Conservation of Natural Resources
Science Policy
Science
Climate Change
Decision Making
Ecological Risk
Marine Biology
Ecosystems
Political science
Humans
Ecosystem
Adaptation (computer science)
Environmental planning
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
Functional integrity
People and Places
Earth Sciences
Reefs
Scientists
Cognitive Science
Population Groupings
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bb983d3eb726c7be5fcdd4890ba8e2c7