Petrescu-Mag Ruxandra Malina, Hartel Tibor, Reti Kinga Olga, Mocanu Cornel, Petrescu-Mag Ioan Valentin, Macicasan Vlad, Petrescu Dacinia Crina
Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 30 Fantanele Street, 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 2 Passage des Déportés, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium.
Heliyon. 2024 Sep 13;10(18):e37891. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37891. eCollection 2024 Sep 30.
Land degradation (LD) is driven by many factors resulting from the intricate interplay between natural and socio-economic systems, which adds dynamism and complexity to this phenomenon. The study highlights LD as a source of social vulnerability in the Baragan Plain (Romania), often called the "granary of Europe" due to its century-long history of industrial crop production. We explore the community's perceptions of vulnerability due to LD and the community-based solutions to sustainable transformations through governance using a community-based causal-effect analysis (CBCEA). CBCEA is a participatory approach that uses systems thinking, engages key informants, and generates qualitative causal-effect diagrams to illustrate the system structure. Two workshops with local key informants revealed their views on the direct and indirect causes and effects of LD, strategies they proposed to reduce the community's vulnerability, and the conditions for making the agricultural land decision-making integrative, inclusive, adaptive, and participatory (IIAP). IIAP decision-making was considered a key to transformative governance. Key informants identified "Windbreaks construction" and "(Resilient) Irrigation system" as two effective, context-specific measures to address the causes and effects of LD. We advise caution when implementing the "Irrigation system" measure, as it may risk constraining the system to an undesirable state, commonly referred to as a "trap".
土地退化(LD)是由自然和社会经济系统之间复杂相互作用产生的多种因素驱动的,这为这一现象增添了活力和复杂性。该研究强调土地退化是罗马尼亚巴拉干平原社会脆弱性的一个来源,由于其长达一个世纪的工业作物生产历史,该平原常被称为“欧洲粮仓”。我们通过基于社区的因果效应分析(CBCEA),探讨了社区对土地退化导致的脆弱性的认知以及通过治理实现可持续转型的基于社区的解决方案。CBCEA是一种参与式方法,它运用系统思维,让关键信息提供者参与进来,并生成定性因果效应图以说明系统结构。与当地关键信息提供者举行的两次研讨会揭示了他们对土地退化的直接和间接原因及影响的看法、他们提出的降低社区脆弱性的策略,以及使农业土地决策具有综合性、包容性、适应性和参与性(IIAP)的条件。IIAP决策被认为是变革性治理的关键。关键信息提供者将“防风林建设”和“(有弹性的)灌溉系统”确定为应对土地退化的原因和影响的两项有效且因地制宜的措施。我们建议在实施“灌溉系统”措施时要谨慎,因为它可能会使系统面临陷入不良状态的风险,通常称为“陷阱”。