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Developing approaches and indicators to assess social and ecological outcomes
Anastasia Yang, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, et al.
Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics
FLARE conference, Edinburgh 2 – 5th December
A social-ecological perspective for improving livelihoods, sustainable forest management and conservation
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Productive Social-ecological systems (SES)
Social system
Ecological system
Why is an SES approach needed? How to research SES?
Multi-scale
Qualitative data
Quantitative data SES
Fig 1. Core subsystems in a SES framework (Ostrom et al. 2009)
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Socio-ecological systems Framework (SESF):Nestedness of SES
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International
National
Regional
Landscape
Household
Individual
Community
Pan
archicalre
lation
s
Resource system
Resource unit
Past
present
Future
Inter-generational
Spatial Temporal
Governance system
Resource user
Name des WissenschaftlersAnastasia Yang Thünen-Institut für Internationale
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Ecuador Zambia Philippines
Country (x3)
Region (x3)
Landscape (1)
SES SES
Landscape (2)
SES SES
Landscape (3)
SES SES
Landscape (4)
SES SES
“Towards policy approaches for improving livelihoods, sustainable forest management and conservation".
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LaForeT: Mixed methods“
Methods of data collection
Livelihood & opportunity
costs
Household survey (mostly quant. & qual.)
Forest use and conditions
Forest inventories
(quant.)
Multilevel Governance assessment
Semi structured interviews
(quant. & qual.)
Focus group discussion
(FGD) (quant. & qual.)
Drivers of land/ forest cover
change
National level spatial analysis
(quant.)
Landscape level (quant & qual.)
Linkages in social &
ecological outcomes
Participatory mapping (quant
& qual.)
Key informant interviews
(quant. & qual.)
FGD
(quant. & qual.)
Social, economic, and
political settings
Resource Systems
Governance systems (GS)
Resource units (RU)
Actors (A)
Action situations:
Interactions (I) → Outcomes
(O)
SES Framework
Spatial modelling and policy scenarios Triangulation and interpretation
Data Analysis
(Ostrom et al. 2009)
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Source: Forest Watch
LaForeT: Mixed scales of analysis
PhilippinesLandscape level
10 x 10 km²
1
2
31
2
Gradient of scales
Governance assessment
national, meso & local level (community)
Household survey
Forest dependent communities (5+ per
landscape)
PRA assessment
2 x forest dependent communities
Forest inventories
Primary, secondary, plantations and
agroforestry (12 x 40x 40m plots)
Ground Truthing
landscape 20-50 GCPs will be collected per
land cover type
Sampling
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UrbanFoodPlus: Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture
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Urban FoodPlusUrban FoodPlus
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UrbanFoodPlus: Mixed methods & Scales Sampling decisions…
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3 categories of farms in each city
10 cells (100 x 100m) in each landscape zone
Ghana: Tamale Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou Mali: Bamako
10 farmers in each cell
Soil sampling Randomised Household
surveysFocus Group discussions
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UrbanFoodPlus: Sampling choices…
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Bush field belonging to 1 HH member, fertility gradient
Family field managed by HH, worked by all household members
Backyard field, applied manure
Soil sample
Soil sample
Soil sample
Our respondent
Household Head
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Interdisciplinary challenges
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Qualitative, quantitative + participatory data
Overlapping, interlocking, complementary scales
Suitable methodologies
Processes not outcomes
Inter-disciplinary
methods
Multiple scales
Mixed methods
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Lessons: Linking social & ecological outcomes
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Identify processual links between quantitative variables
Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
Statistical treatment of data
Advance exploratory data collection
Ordering of qualitative and quantitative data collection
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Urban FoodPlusUrban FoodPlus
PublicationsBellwood-Howard, I., et al. 2015. Characteristics of
urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: results of an exploratory survey conducted in Tamale, Ghana, and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Working Paper 163).
Cumming, G.S.,et al. 2006. Scale mismatches in social-ecological systems: causes, consequences, and solutions. Ecology and society, 11(1), p.14.
McGinnis, M.D. and Ostrom, E., 2014. Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges. Ecology and Society, 19(2), p.30.
Sharma, D., et al. 2016. A comparison of influences on the landscape of two social-ecological systems. Land Use Policy, 57, pp.499-513.
Walker, B. Het al. 2006. A handful of heuristics and some propositions for understanding resilience in social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11 (1): 13. [online] URL:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art1
Gunderson, L. H., and C.S. Holling, editors. 2002. Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems, Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA
Thank you for listening https://www.thuenen.de/en/wf/forschungsprojekt-laforet/ http://www.urbanfoodplus.org/index.php?id=83