气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers' Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing

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DOI	10.1016/j.rama.2023.11.004
	Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers' Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing
	Stanley, Paige; Sayre, Nathan; Huntsinger, Lynn
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1550-7424
EISSN	1551-5028
起始页码	93
卷号	93
英文摘要	Unprecedented climatic and economic uncertainty, in particular severe drought, calls for management that can preclude some of the costs of reactionary measures for California ranchers. Increasing adaptive capacity has been widely recommended to address such uncertainty. Within this context, holistic management (HM), a decision-making framework marketed for ranchers, is of interest because it emphasizes systems-based thinking, maximizing flexibility and adaptability, ecological monitoring, soil health, and goal setting. Many HM ranchers use adaptive multipaddock (AMP) grazing management, characterized by the combination of moderate to high animal stock densities, fast rotations, pasture rest, iterative monitoring, and adaptive management. We interviewed a small group of AMP-HM ranchers in northern California to 1) examine how their on-the-ground implementation of AMP grazing relates to mental models for rangeland grazing as shaped by HM, including embedded decision-making processes, motivations, barriers, and catalysts; and 2) understand how AMP-HM ranchers believe the strategy helps them respond to increasing challenges. Our findings suggest that first, AMP-HM shifted ranchers' mental models through its emphasis on monitoring combined with increased interaction with land and animals, changing the ways interviewees saw and understood their management. Second, through its decision-making framework and trainings, AMP-HM increased ranchers' agency to operationalize new mental models. Together, these two facets culminated in a common suite of strategies that interviewees viewed as key to ranching profitably and sustainably. These include building flexibility into herd sizes and structures to increase temporal and spatial mobility, diversifying ranch enterprises to increase financial flexibility, building soil health, and reducing input costs-all of which have been recommended in rangeland management practices for decades. These findings suggest that AMP-HM, as an integrated package of rangeland management and decision-making practices, accompanied by education and training, may hold promise in helping ranchers strengthen their adaptive capacity and cope with uncertainty. (c) 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Society for Range Management. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ )
英文关键词	adaptive; adaptive capacity; adaptive multipaddock grazing; holistic management; mental models; uncertainty
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:001175306700001
来源期刊	RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/303846
作者单位	University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Colorado State University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Colorado State University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Stanley, Paige,Sayre, Nathan,Huntsinger, Lynn. Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers' Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing[J],2024,93.
APA	Stanley, Paige,Sayre, Nathan,&Huntsinger, Lynn.(2024).Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers' Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing.RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT,93.
MLA	Stanley, Paige,et al."Holistic Management Shifts Ranchers' Mental Models for Successful Adaptive Grazing".RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT 93(2024).