Integrating Insights from Social-Ecological Interactions into Sustainable Land Use Change Scenarios for Small Islands in the Western Indian Ocean
Integrating Insights from Social-Ecological Interactions into Sustainable Land Use Change Scenarios for Small Islands in the Western Indian Ocean
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10.3390/su12041340
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发表时间：
2020-02
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3.9
通讯作者：
R. Newman;C. Capitani;Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi;J. Thorn;Rebecca W. Kariuki;Charis Enns;R. Marchant
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作者：
R. Newman;C. Capitani;Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi;J. Thorn;Rebecca W. Kariuki;Charis Enns;R. Marchant
小岛屿由于面积小、地理位置偏僻、生态环境敏感、人口迅速增长和发展以及面临海平面和气候变化的影响，容易受到气候变化和人为干扰的协同效应的影响。这些变化对生态系统服务，如资源的供应，造成压力，因此威胁到生计的可持续性。我们回顾了主要的可持续发展和生计文献，汇集了跨时空尺度的环境生计弹性和稳定性的概念，并将其整合为动态环境生计可持续性（DESL）的新概念框架。这一框架旨在促进将地方社区的观点纳入关于可持续土地利用的水、能源和粮食关系的思考，以支持地方生计。最后，我们提供的见解，从这个案例研究，以评估的有效性，DESL框架在解决现有框架的差距。我们认为，这种框架提供了一种机制，以加强社区的机构，以产生更有凝聚力和包容性的土地利用管理计划，可以导致增强环境可持续性的途径。
Small islands are vulnerable to the synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances due to the fact of their small area, geographical isolation, responsive ecologies, rapidly growing and developing populations and exposure to sea level and climate change. These changes exert pressures on ecosystem services, such as the provisioning of resources, and therefore threaten the sustainability of livelihoods. We reviewed key sustainability and livelihoods literature to bring together concepts of environmental livelihood resilience and stability across temporal and spatial scales and integrated them to produce a new conceptual framework for dynamic environmental livelihood sustainability (DESL). This framework aims to facilitate the incorporation of local community perspectives into water, energy and food nexus thinking about sustainable land use to support local livelihoods. Finally, we provide insights from this case study to evaluate the effectiveness of the DESL framework in addressing gaps in existing frameworks. We suggest this framing provides a mechanism for enhancing the agency of communities to produce more cohesive and inclusive land use management plans that can lead to enhanced environmental sustainability pathways.