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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.004
	Applying historical ecology to natural resource management institutions: Lessons from two case studies of landscape fire management
	Petty A.M.; Isendahl C.; Brenkert-Smith H.; Goldstein D.J.; Rhemtulla J.M.; Rahman S.A.; Kumasi T.C.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	31
英文摘要	Understanding the linkages between social and ecological systems is key to developing sustainable natural resource management (NRM) institutions. Frequently, however, insufficient attention is paid to the historical development of NRM institutions. Instead, discussion largely focuses on models of economic efficiency at the expense of the cultural, historical, and ecological contexts within which institutions develop. Here we use the research program of historical ecology to explore the development, maintenance, and change of two contemporary fire management institutions in northern Australia and Colorado, USA, to demonstrate how social institutions and ecological systems change and resist change over time and how institutions interact across scales to negotiate contrasting goals and motivations. We argue that these NRM institutions are not strictly speaking evolutionary or adaptive, and that historical context is critical when evaluating how and why particular institutions and institutional relationships develop. As with ecosystems, the present characteristics of the NRM institutions are dependent on what has happened before and their efficacy can only be evaluated retrospectively. Therefore, an understanding of history is essential to questions of the desirability and feasibility of institutional change where such shifts are required from an ecological, social, or economic perspective. We further propose that institutional conflict arises from the differing goals and motives of resource management institutions at different scales. Our cases reveal that larger-scale institutions can be successful at achieving narrowly defined goals but often fall short of achieving socially desirable sustainable outcomes. Our findings support the use of narratives of community history, place, and being in considering the resilience and sustainability of social-ecological systems. We offer that historical ecology is complementary with institutional and economic approaches to the analysis of NRM institutions, and possesses a particular strength in linking ecology to the values and norms of small social groups. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptive management; Fire ecology; Institutional studies; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability
学科领域	fire management; historical ecology; institutional development; natural resource; research program; resource management; sustainability; Australia; Colorado; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	fire management; historical ecology; institutional development; natural resource; research program; resource management; sustainability; Australia; Colorado; United States
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/117554
作者单位	Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA, United States; Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; United States National Park Service, Christiansted, VI, United States; Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom; Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor Barat, 16115, Indonesia; Triple-S Project Ghana, Community Water and Sanitation Agency (Head Office), Accra, Ghana
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Petty A.M.,Isendahl C.,Brenkert-Smith H.,et al. Applying historical ecology to natural resource management institutions: Lessons from two case studies of landscape fire management[J],2015,31.
APA	Petty A.M..,Isendahl C..,Brenkert-Smith H..,Goldstein D.J..,Rhemtulla J.M..,...&Kumasi T.C..(2015).Applying historical ecology to natural resource management institutions: Lessons from two case studies of landscape fire management.Global Environmental Change,31.
MLA	Petty A.M.,et al."Applying historical ecology to natural resource management institutions: Lessons from two case studies of landscape fire management".Global Environmental Change 31(2015).