Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada.
Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada; Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada.
J Environ Manage. 2020 May 1;261:110139. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110139. Epub 2020 Feb 3.
The biosphere faces an uncertain future! Embracing change, uncertainty and complexity calls for creative transformative pathways. Biosphere stewardship provides a novel multi actor approach towards sustainability. Despite the critical role of individual environmental stewards, biosphere stewardship emphasizes the importance of collective action, and therefore governance. Biosphere stewardship denotes novel governance configurations with the capacity to effectively approach to sustainability transformation. In this paper we seek to advance understanding of how biosphere stewardship actively shapes trajectories of change to foster social-ecological resilience and human wellbeing. Considering the crucial role of governance and more specifically its two pillars of collaboration and learning, we conduct our study of biosphere stewardship through the lens of adaptive co-management. We first set out a framework for diagnosing and analyzing the process of biosphere stewardship. Secondly, we provide evidenced-based insights from applying the framework in four UNESCO biosphere reserves situated in Canada and Sweden to shed light on how active collective shaping of biosphere stewardship occurs and what it produces. In view of the lack of framework for environmental stewardship, we suggest that the present study makes a considerable contribution by providing an appropriate holistic and systemic framework with operational measures. The study also highlights how the comprehensive and consensual understanding of stewardship is proving to be a means of catalyzing biosphere stewardship by enabling effective crafting of policy design and strategic interventions. Moreover, the application of the framework to four case studies reveals the importance of the governance process attributes (collaboration and learning) in mediating outcomes from biosphere stewardship. Finally, the framework provides the basis to address new stewardship enquiries, which require further research in this field.
生物圈面临着不确定的未来！接受变化、不确定性和复杂性需要创造性的变革途径。生物圈管理提供了一种新颖的多行为者方法，以实现可持续性。尽管个人环境管理者发挥了关键作用，但生物圈管理强调了集体行动的重要性，因此也强调了治理的重要性。生物圈管理表示具有有效实现可持续性转型能力的新型治理配置。在本文中，我们试图深入了解生物圈管理如何积极塑造变革轨迹，以促进社会生态弹性和人类福祉。考虑到治理的关键作用，特别是其合作和学习的两个支柱，我们通过适应性共同管理的视角来研究生物圈管理。我们首先提出了一个用于诊断和分析生物圈管理过程的框架。其次，我们提供了在加拿大和瑞典的四个联合国教科文组织生物圈保护区应用该框架的基于证据的见解，以阐明如何积极集体塑造生物圈管理以及它产生了什么。鉴于缺乏环境管理框架，我们建议本研究通过提供具有操作性措施的适当整体和系统框架做出了相当大的贡献。该研究还强调了全面和共识性的管理理解如何通过促进政策设计和战略干预的有效制定来成为生物圈管理的催化剂。此外，该框架在四个案例研究中的应用揭示了治理过程属性（合作和学习）在调解生物圈管理成果方面的重要性。最后，该框架为解决该领域的新管理问题提供了依据，这些问题需要进一步研究。
