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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.101965
	Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture
	Gosnell H.; Gill N.; Voyer M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	59
英文摘要	Regenerative agriculture, an alternative form of food and fiber production, concerns itself with enhancing and restoring resilient systems supported by functional ecosystem processes and healthy, organic soils capable of producing a full suite of ecosystem services, among them soil carbon sequestration and improved soil water retention. As such, climate change mitigation and adaptation are incidental to a larger enterprise that employs a systems approach to managing landscapes and communities. The transformative potential of regenerative agriculture has seen growing attention in the popular press, but few empirical studies have explored the processes by which farmers enter into, navigate, and, importantly, sustain the required paradigm shift in their approach to managing their properties, farm businesses, and personal lives. We draw on theories and insights associated with relational thinking to analyze the experiences of farmers in Australia who have undertaken and sustained transitions from conventional to regenerative agriculture. We present a conceptual framework of “zones of friction and traction” occurring in personal, practical, and political spheres of transformation that both challenge and facilitate the transition process. Our findings illustrate the ways in which deeply held values and emotions influence and interact with mental models, worldviews, and cultural norms as a result of regular monitoring; and how behavioral change is sustained through the establishment of self-amplifying positive feedbacks involving biophilic emotions, a sense of well-being, and an ever-expanding worldview. We conclude that transitioning to regenerative agriculture involves more than a suite of ‘climate-smart’ mitigation and adaptation practices supported by technical innovation, policy, education, and outreach. Rather, it involves subjective, nonmaterial factors associated with culture, values, ethics, identity, and emotion that operate at individual, household, and community scales and interact with regional, national and global processes. Findings have implications for strategies aimed at facilitating a large-scale transition to climate-smart regenerative agriculture. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Communities of practice; Earth stewardship; Holistic Management; Relational thinking; Transformative learning
学科领域	adaptation; carbon sequestration; climate change; conceptual framework; ecosystem service; holistic approach; learning; paradigm shift; soil carbon; soil water; strategic approach; Australia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; carbon sequestration; climate change; conceptual framework; ecosystem service; holistic approach; learning; paradigm shift; soil carbon; soil water; strategic approach; Australia
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/116992
作者单位	College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 CEOAS Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States; Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society & Space, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave., Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Northfields Ave., Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gosnell H.,Gill N.,Voyer M.. Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture[J],2019,59.
APA	Gosnell H.,Gill N.,&Voyer M..(2019).Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture.Global Environmental change,59.
MLA	Gosnell H.,et al."Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture".Global Environmental change 59(2019).