Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

Aurélio Padovezi; Laura Secco; Cristina Adams; Robin Chazdon

doi:10.1002/eet.2023

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Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

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Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

Aurélio Padovezi, Laura Secco, Cristina Adams and Robin Chazdon

Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol.32(6), pp.520-531

2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2023

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Abstract

ecosystem stewardship

governance

landscape approach

livelihood resilience

nature-based solutions

nature's contribution to people

social-ecological innovation

social-ecological system

Mitigating climate change, preventing mass species extinctions, improving rural livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction are among today's most urgent challenges. To meet these challenges, a large number of social actors need to agree to engage and act collectively on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR), ensuring its dual goal of restoring ecological functionality and improving people's wellbeing. Although FLR has gained momentum globally, the experiences so far continue to face socioeconomic and governance challenges associated with the design and realization of effective efforts. Social Innovation (SI) can be seen contemporarily as the process and the result of interaction between stakeholders in the construction of solutions to social needs and problems, including those tackled by FLR. Here, using a content analysis approach applied to existing literature, we propose five possible conceptual bridges between FLR and SI. The Social Innovative – Forest and Landscape Restoration (SI-FLR) process advocates that sustainable livelihood needs should be attended first to ensure the Social-Ecological Systems' resilience. These bridges are: (1) " Landscape as the main context " ; (2) " Nature as social need " ; (3) " Landscape stewardship groups " ; (4) " Governance capabilities " ; (5) " Adapting and transforming to enhance resilience. " Identifying these bridges, will help decision-makers and project managers to improve the FLR initiatives by supporting the potential of SI and sparking the interest of other researchers to explore the many possibilities of SI-FLR.

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Title: Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration
Authors: Aurélio Padovezi (Corresponding Author) - University of Padua
Laura Secco (Author) - University of Padua
Cristina Adams (Author) - University of Sao Paulo
Robin Chazdon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Publication details: Environmental Policy and Governance, Vol.32(6), pp.520-531
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Date published: 2022
DOI: 10.1002/eet.2023
ISSN: 1756-9338; 1756-932X
Copyright note: © 2022 The Authors. Environmental Policy and Governance published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99659496502621
Output Type: Journal article