Adaptive co-management of conservation conflicts - An interactional experiment in the context of German national parks.

ABSTRACT: Social-ecological systems are characterized by complexity, uncertainty, and change. Adaptive co-management may help to improve adaptability and resilience and to develop 'no-regret strategies' for a sustainable management. It is a dynamic, inductive, and self-organized process based on social learning and collaboration. In this regard, conservation conflicts, conflicts between humans about wildlife, are a contemporary environmental management issue. Their management may be facilitated through adaptive co-management. However, adaptive co-management typically emerges because of a crisis or changing context and is difficult to be applied intentionally. We hypothesize that it may be possible to lay the ground for an adaptive co-management process by activating stakeholders to interact experime

SUBMITTER: Ehrhart S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6218403 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature