Learning Landscape Approach Through Evaluation: Opportunities for Pan-European Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research

  1. Angelstam, Per 2
  2. Manton, Michael 1
  3. Cruz, Fatima 3
  4. Fedoriak, Mariia 4
  5. Pautov, Yurij 5
  1. 1 Vytautas Magnus University
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    Vytautas Magnus University

    Kaunas, Lituania

    ROR https://ror.org/04y7eh037

  2. 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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    Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Upsala, Suecia

    ROR https://ror.org/02yy8x990

  3. 3 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

  4. 4 Chernivtsi National University
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    Chernivtsi National University

    Chernivtsi, Ucrania

    ROR https://ror.org/044n25186

  5. 5 Silver Taiga Foundation for Sustainable Development
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Llibre:
Current Trends in Landscape Research. Innovations in Landscape Research

ISSN: 2524-5155,  2524-5163

ISBN: 9783030300685,  9783030300692

Any de publicació: 2019

Pàgines: 303-319

Tipus: Capítol de llibre

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30069-2_12 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccés obert editor

Resum

Sustainable development as a societal process aimed at securing sustainability is challenging. To encourage the necessary knowledge production and learning in different social-ecological contexts requires a place-based networking research infrastructure that involves multiple academic disciplines and non-academic actors. Long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platform is one approach with ~80 initiatives globally. To encourage transdisciplinary learning through evaluation we defined a normative model for ideal performance at both local platform and network levels. Four surveys were then sent out to 67 self-reported LTSER platforms. Focusing on the network level, we analyzed the spatial distribution of both long-term ecological monitoring sites within LTSER platforms, and LTSER platforms across the European continent. Finally, narrative biographies about 18 LTSER platforms in different stages of development were analyzed. While the siting of LTSER platforms represented biogeographical regions well, variations in land-use history and governance arrangements were poorly represented. Ecosystem research (72%) dominated social system research (28%). Maintenance of a platform required 3–5 staff members, was based mainly on national funding and had 1–2 years of future funding secured. Networking with other landscape approach concepts was common. Individually, and as a network, LTSER platforms have good potential for transdisciplinary knowledge production and learning about sustainability challenges. To benefit from the large range of variation among Pan-European social-ecological systems, we encourage collaboration among different landscape approach concepts such as LTSER platform and Model Forest, ecological reference landscapes like zapovedniks as well as traditional systems for landscape stewardship.

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