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"Generality of mis-fit"? The real-life difficulty of matching scales in an interconnected world.


ABSTRACT: A clear understanding of processes at multiple scales and levels is of special significance when conceiving strategies for human-environment interactions. However, understanding and application of the scale concept often differ between administrative-political and ecological disciplines. These mirror major differences in potential solutions whether and how scales can, at all, be made congruent. As a result, opportunities of seeking "goodness-of-fit" between different concepts of governance should perhaps be reconsidered in the light of a potential "generality of mis-fit." This article reviews the interdisciplinary considerations inherent in the concept of scale in its ecological, as well as administrative-political, significance and argues that issues of how to manage "mis-fit" should be awarded more emphasis in social-ecological research and management practices. These considerations are exemplified by the case of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia. Whilst an indigenous small-scale practice, reindeer husbandry involves multi-level ecological and administrative-political complexities-complexities that we argue may arise in any multi-level system.

SUBMITTER: Keskitalo EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5012993 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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"Generality of mis-fit"? The real-life difficulty of matching scales in an interconnected world.

Keskitalo E Carina H EC   Horstkotte Tim T   Kivinen Sonja S   Forbes Bruce B   Käyhkö Jukka J  

Ambio 20160303 6


A clear understanding of processes at multiple scales and levels is of special significance when conceiving strategies for human-environment interactions. However, understanding and application of the scale concept often differ between administrative-political and ecological disciplines. These mirror major differences in potential solutions whether and how scales can, at all, be made congruent. As a result, opportunities of seeking "goodness-of-fit" between different concepts of governance shoul  ...[more]

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