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

牧场覆盖了世界陆地面积的一半以上，在碳固存、支持生物多样性、供应淡水方面发挥着至关重要的作用，并在全球范围内维持着数十亿人以广泛的畜牧业生产为基础的生计。虽然有努力扩大自然为基础的解决方案（NBS）在牧场，标准的方法往往进行生态稳定性和线性演替动态的假设不符合极端的“非平衡”动态特性的许多牧场环境，特别是在撒哈拉以南非洲。到目前为止，只有有限的研究解决了NbS在社区治理和生产性非平衡社会生态系统中面对气候变化加强复原力的适宜性和可行性。因此，需要新的证据，知识和实用工具才能使NbS在这种情况下取得成功。REPAiR旨在通过共同制作新的比较证据来解决这些差距，以背景化和重新思考NbS，从而更好地适应不确定和动态的非平衡景观。REPAiR的地理重点是南部非洲（SA），这是因为认识到在社区管理的干旱和半干旱牧场（也称为“旱地”）上的小规模畜牧业是广大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，并有潜力作为确定和发展公平的、社区主导的NBS的空间，但它们经常被误判为“没有解决方案的问题”空间，库存过多，使用效率低下，最终退化。深入的社会生态案例研究和国际知识交流，以测试和完善一个框架，该框架整合了呼吁的优先主题，即NBS的情境化，可扩展性和社区主导的治理，以及公平和时间可持续性的交叉问题。这是基于这样一种想法，即支持气候弹性发展途径，包括在任何环境下对NBS进行可扩展，公平和有效的治理，需要一种关系型的整体系统方法，整合多种形式的知识，从而可以在空间，时间和政策尺度上更好地支持NBS。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。它汇集了跨越社会科学，自然科学和人文学科的学科和主题专业知识，包括艺术从业者，研究传播专家和两个充满活力的南非合作伙伴组织。Cape Climate Collective（CcliC）和Meat Naturally Africa（MNA）分别带来了使用参与式艺术方法的经验，以及将创新和环境敏感方法应用于社区主导的NbS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，直接有助于UKRI，联合王国政府和FCDO战略以及更广泛的全球努力，以建立气候和灾害风险抵御能力，增强生物多样性，并支持与气候适应相关的区域政策进程。通过有针对性的产出，该项目将以直接使世界自然保护联盟全球标准中体现的现有NBS原则与可持续发展目标更加一致的方式应用证据，确定，启用和激活对环境敏感，公正和公平的气候弹性发展途径。

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.