Conference: Large-Scale Land-Use Transformations: Implications for Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience

该项目汇集了来自不同学科的研究人员，研究与生态和社会变化相关的大规模土地利用变化对环境和社会经济可持续性的影响，这些变化与种植农业和水坝建设等发展有关。该项目将重点关注奥莫-图尔卡纳盆地，并支持举办一个研讨会，使当地和国际研究人员能够利用社会生态复原力框架分享经验，并综合有关该地区发展的现有知识。该研讨会将通过支持为该地区正在进行的研究建立一个伞形组织、加强研究人员之间的联系以及允许成员制定合作研究议程，为未来的多学科研究开辟机会。国际学生和早期职业研究人员也有很好的代表，增强了网络未来发展的能力。讲习班和网络的一个更广泛的成果将是向该地区的决策者通报正在进行的研究的结果，提供科学上可靠的证据，以便更好地为决策者和公众之间的辩论提供信息。除了多学科、景观规模的情况分析外，讲习班还将编制一系列政策简报，以便利向非学术听众传播产出。该项目涉及复原力的概念，并将利用研讨会来推进复原力评估的概念。讲习班和研究网络的一个目标是确定奥莫-图尔卡纳地区发生的大规模土地利用变化是否支持项目规划者宣布的经济和社会目标，或者经济增长是否优先于环境和社会系统的质量和复原力。鉴于奥莫-图尔卡纳盆地的发展对整个景观的影响，需要一个理论基础，综合多个学科的贡献，从而代表社会-生态系统的所有要素。弹性就是这样一种理论，该项目将通过在网络中使用社会和政治科学的强大代表性来更好地解决弹性框架内的公平和权力关系，从而为文献做出贡献。这样的框架对其他情况具有普遍的相关性，因此，对科学和社会的帮助应该远远超出手头的具体情况。

This project brings together researchers from various disciplines working on linked ecological and social change to examine the effects of large-scale land-use change associated with developments such as plantation agriculture and the construction of dams on environmental and socio-economic sustainability. The project will focus on the Omo-Turkana Basin and support a workshop allowing local and international researchers to share experiences and synthesize existing knowledge about developments in the region using a social-ecological resilience framework. The workshop will open up opportunities for future multi-disciplinary research by supporting the formation of an umbrella organization for ongoing research in the region, strengthening linkages between researchers, and allowing members to develop collaborative research agendas. International students and early career researchers are also well represented, enhancing the network's capacity for future growth. A wider outcome of the workshop and network will be to inform decision-makers in the region of the results of on-going research, contributing scientifically robust evidence to better inform debate among policymakers and the public. In addition to a multi-disciplinary, landscape-scale situation analysis, the workshop will generate a series of policy briefs to facilitate the dissemination of outputs to non-academic audiences.The project engages the concept of resilience and will use the workshop to advance the idea of resilience assessment. An objective of the workshop and research network will be to ascertain whether the large-scale land-use change occurring in the Omo-Turkana region supports the economic and social goals declared by project planners, or whether economic growth is being prioritized over the quality and resilience of environmental and social systems. Given the landscape-wide impact of development in the Omo-Turkana Basin, a theoretical basis is required that integrates contributions from multiple disciplines and therefore represents all elements of a social-ecological system. Resilience is one such theory, and this project will contribute to the literature by using the strong representation of social and political sciences in the network to better address equity and power relations within a resilience framing. Such a framing has generalizable relevance for other contexts, and as such, should be useful to science and society well beyond the specific case at hand.