Towards regenerative landscape futures: the role of policy legacies, environmental stress, and landscape change

迈向再生景观的未来：政策遗产、环境压力和景观变化的作用

• 批准号: 2149244
• 负责人: Erica Smithwick
• 金额: $ 39.97万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149244&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Towards; regenerative; landscape; futures; role

Millions of people depend on mixed agricultural and pastoral landscapes for their livelihoods and because of these landscapes’ unique conservation value. However, many of these systems are increasingly threatened by climate extremes, including drought, and pest outbreaks such as locust plagues, which threaten agricultural productivity. As a result of these cumulative stressors, these regions are experiencing increasing conflicts with global geopolitical significance. This project aims to support landscape management approaches that enhance human and environmental well-being in agropastoral systems. The results of this project are intended to advance understanding of what landscape patterns, processes, and ecosystem services best promote regenerative capacity under contemporary and future stressors. This research also provides educational opportunities for underrepresented students, advances a citizen science app to monitor agricultural health, and promotes partnerships among scholars and practitioners to better understand and support landscape-level decision making.This research builds upon conceptual models and techniques from multiple sub-disciplines of geography (landscape ecology, remote sensing, land change science) and related frameworks (socio-ecological systems, and resilience). The research develops the concept of regenerative landscape design, in which landscape patterns and processes can be more purposely designed to lead to more desirable futures. Using case studies that span broad gradients in historical land tenure policies, biophysical settings, and contemporary or future stressors, this research explores the challenges and opportunities of landscape change and advances understanding of household adaptive capacity in the context of these historical, contemporary, and future landscape patterns. A better understanding of household and landscape level regenerative capacity can enhance agricultural and pastoral productivity and help guide landscape-level policies that support human well-being.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

数百万人依靠农业和畜牧业混合景观维持生计，因为这些景观具有独特的保护价值。然而，其中许多系统日益受到极端气候的威胁，包括干旱和蝗灾等虫害的爆发，威胁到农业生产力。由于这些压力因素的累积，这些地区正在经历越来越多的具有全球地缘政治意义的冲突。该项目旨在支持加强农牧系统中人类和环境福祉的景观管理方法。该项目的结果旨在促进了解什么样的景观格局，过程和生态系统服务最好地促进再生能力在当代和未来的压力。这项研究还为代表性不足的学生提供了教育机会，推进了公民科学应用程序，以监测农业健康，并促进学者和从业人员之间的伙伴关系，以更好地理解和支持农业决策。（景观生态学、遥感、土地变化科学）和相关框架（社会生态系统和复原力）。本研究发展再生景观设计的概念，其中景观模式和过程可以更有目的地设计，以导致更理想的未来。本研究利用跨越历史土地保有权政策、生物物理环境和当代或未来压力因素的广泛梯度的案例研究，探讨了景观变化的挑战和机遇，并在这些历史、当代和未来景观格局的背景下，推进了对家庭适应能力的理解。更好地了解家庭和景观层面的再生能力可以提高农业和畜牧业的生产力，并有助于指导支持人类福祉的社区层面的政策。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Regenerative landscape design: an integrative framework to enhance sustainability planning

再生景观设计：加强可持续性规划的综合框架

• DOI: 10.5751/es-14483-280405
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Ecology and Society
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Smithwick, Erica;Baka, Jennifer;Bird, Douglas;Blaszscak-Boxe, Christopher;Cole, Charles;Fuentes, Jose;Gergel, Sarah;Glenna, Leland;Grady, Caitlin;Hunt, Carter
• 通讯作者: Hunt, Carter