TY - JOUR
T1 - A Science Agenda to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions in an Era of Ecological Transformation
AU - Crausbay, Shelley D.
AU - Sofaer, Helen R.
AU - Cravens, Amanda E.
AU - Chaffin, Brian C.
AU - Clifford, Katherine R.
AU - Gross, John E.
AU - Knapp, Corrine N.
AU - Lawrence, David J.
AU - Magness, Dawn R.
AU - Miller-Rushing, Abraham J.
AU - Schuurman, Gregor W.
AU - Stevens-Rumann, Camille S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward ecosystems facing unprecedented and lasting change, a new management paradigm is forming, supported by a decision-oriented framework that presents three distinct management choices: resist, accept, or direct the ecological trajectory. To make these choices strategically, managers seek to understand the nature of the transformation that could occur if change is accepted while identifying opportunities to intervene to resist or direct change. In this article, we seek to inspire a research agenda for transformation science that is focused on ecological and social science and based on five central questions that align with the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. Development of transformation science is needed to apply the RAD framework and support natural resource management and conservation on our rapidly changing planet.
AB - Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially intensifying climate change. To better steward ecosystems facing unprecedented and lasting change, a new management paradigm is forming, supported by a decision-oriented framework that presents three distinct management choices: resist, accept, or direct the ecological trajectory. To make these choices strategically, managers seek to understand the nature of the transformation that could occur if change is accepted while identifying opportunities to intervene to resist or direct change. In this article, we seek to inspire a research agenda for transformation science that is focused on ecological and social science and based on five central questions that align with the resist-accept-direct (RAD) framework. Development of transformation science is needed to apply the RAD framework and support natural resource management and conservation on our rapidly changing planet.
KW - climate change adaptation
KW - ecological scenarios
KW - ecological trajectories
KW - ecological transformation
KW - resist-accept-direct framework
KW - transformation science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130504165&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/biosci/biab102
DO - 10.1093/biosci/biab102
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130504165
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 72
SP - 71
EP - 90
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 1
ER -
