Resilient and Equitable Nature-based Pathways in Southern African Rangelands (REPAiR)

牧场覆盖了世界一半以上的陆地表面，在碳固存方面发挥着至关重要的作用，支持生物多样性，供应淡水，并以全球广泛的畜牧业生产为基础维持数十亿人的生计。虽然有人努力在牧场推广基于自然的解决方案(NBS)，但标准方法往往带有生态稳定性和线性演替动态的假设，这与许多牧场环境的极端“非平衡”动态特征不一致，特别是在撒哈拉以南非洲。迄今为止，只有有限的研究探讨了国家统计局在社区治理和生产性的非平衡社会生态系统中加强应对气候变化的复原力的适宜性和可行性。因此，国家统计局需要新的证据、知识和实用工具才能在这种情况下取得成功。REPAiR旨在通过共同产生新的、可比较的证据来背景化和重新思考国家统计局，以更好地适应不确定和动态的非平衡格局，从而解决这些差距。REPAY的地理重点是南部非洲(SA)，认识到在社区管理的干旱和半干旱牧场(也称为“旱地”)上的小规模畜牧业构成了巨大的非正规农业经济的支柱，为更广泛的社会提供社会、经济、文化和环境价值和利益，包括生态系统服务、就业和粮食安全。尽管南部非洲牧场对可持续发展具有明显的地方、国家和全球重要性，并具有确定和发展公平的、社区主导的国家BS的潜力，但它们经常被误判为“没有解决方案的问题”的空间，积压、低效使用，并最终退化。该项目将使用参与性艺术研究(PABR)、深入的社会生态案例研究和国际知识交流的证据来测试和完善框架，该框架整合了呼吁的优先主题，如背景、可伸缩性和社区主导的国家BS治理，以及对公平和时间可持续性的交叉关注。这基于这样一种想法，即支持任何环境中涉及国家统计局可扩展、公平和有效治理的气候适应性发展道路，都需要一种整合多种形式知识的关系、完整的系统方法，从而可以更好地在空间、时间和政策尺度上安置国家统计局。我们的跨学科英国-南非知识联盟建立在长期的研究和实践者合作的基础上。它汇集了横跨社会科学、自然科学和人文科学的学科和专题专业知识，包括以艺术为基础的从业人员、研究传播专家和两个活跃的南非合作伙伴组织。开普敦气候集体(CCLIC)和非洲天然肉类(MNA)分别带来了使用参与性艺术方法的经验，以及通过对社区主导的NbS采用创新和对背景敏感的办法而获得的社会和生态数据。REPAiR将共同产生知识、工具和更广泛的政策和社会成果，直接促进联合王国、英国政府和FCDO战略和更广泛的全球努力，以建立气候和灾害风险抵御能力，增强生物多样性，并支持与气候适应有关的区域政策进程。通过有针对性的产出，该项目将应用证据，通过确定、启用和激活具有环境敏感性的、公正和公平的气候复原力发展路径，直接使《世界自然保护联盟全球标准》所载的现有国家统计局原则与可持续发展目标更加一致。

Rangelands cover over half of the world's land surface, play a vital role in carbon sequestration, support biodiversity, supply freshwater, and sustain billions of livelihoods based on extensive livestock production globally. While there are efforts to extend Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in rangelands, standard approaches often carry assumptions of ecological stability and linear successional dynamics which do not align with the extreme 'non-equilibrium' dynamics characteristic of many rangeland environments, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, only limited research addresses the suitability and feasibility of NbS to strengthen resilience in the face of climate change in the context of communal governance and in productive non-equilibrium socio-ecological systems. New evidence, knowledge and practical tools are therefore needed for NbS to be successful in such contexts.REPAiR aims to address these gaps by co-producing new, comparative evidence to contextualise and rethink NbS to provide a better fit for uncertain and dynamic non-equilibrium landscapes. REPAiR's geographic focus Southern Africa (SA) is in recognition that small-scale livestock farming on communally managed arid and semi-arid rangelands - also called 'drylands' - forms the backbone of vast informal agrarian economies that provide social, economic, cultural and environmental values and benefits for broader society, including ecosystem services, employment and food security. Although Southern African rangelands have clear local, national and global importance to sustainable development and potential as spaces to identify and develop equitable, community-led NbS, they are frequently misjudged to be spaces of 'problems without solutions', overstocked, inefficiently used, and ultimately degraded.The project will use evidence from Participatory Arts-Based Research (PABR), in-depth socio-ecological case studies and international knowledge exchanges to test and refine a framework that integrates the call's priority themes of contextualisation, scalability and community-led governance of NbS, as well as crosscutting concerns of equity and temporal sustainability. This builds on the idea that supporting climate resilient development pathways involving scalable, equitable, and effective governance of NbS in any setting requires a relational, whole systems approach that integrates multiple forms of knowledge, and can thus better situate NbS across spatial, temporal and policy scales. Our transdisciplinary UK-South Africa knowledge consortium builds upon long-term research and practitioner collaborations. It brings together disciplinary and thematic expertise spanning the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities, and includes arts-based practitioners, research communication specialists and two dynamic South Africa-based partner organisations. Cape Climate Collective (CcliC) and Meat Naturally Africa (MNA) bring experience, respectively, in using participatory arts-based methods, and social and ecological data from applying innovative and context-sensitive approaches to community-led NbS.REPAiR will co-produce knowledge, tools and broader policy and societal outcomes that directly contribute to UKRI, UK government and FCDO strategies and broader global efforts to build climate and disaster risk resilience, enhance biodiversity, and to support regional policy processes related to climate adaptation. Through targeted outputs, the project will apply evidence in ways that directly bring existing NbS principles embodied in the IUCN Global Standard into greater alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals by identifying, enabling and activating context-sensitive, just and equitable climate resilient development pathways.