Name des Wissenschaftlers

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

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