Navigating ecological transformation: Resist-accept-direct as a path to a new resource management paradigm
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Abstract
Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Intensifying global change increasingly propels ecosystems toward irreversible ecological transformations. This nonstationarity challenges traditional conservation goals and human well-being. It also confounds a longstanding management paradigm that assumes a future that reflects the past. As once-familiar ecological conditions disappear, managers need a new approach to guide decision-making. The resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework, designed for and by managers, identifies the options managers have for responding and helps them make informed, purposeful, and strategic choices in this context. Moving beyond the diversity and complexity of myriad emerging frameworks, RAD is a simple, flexible, decision-making tool that encompasses the entire decision space for stewarding transforming ecosystems. Through shared application of a common approach, the RAD framework can help the wider natural resource management and research community build the robust, shared habits of mind necessary for a new, twenty-first-century natural resource management paradigm.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Navigating ecological transformation: Resist-accept-direct as a path to a new resource management paradigm |
| Series title | BioScience |
| DOI | 10.1093/biosci/biab067 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Contributing office(s) | Fort Collins Science Center, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center |
| Description | 14 p. |
| First page | 16 |
| Last page | 29 |
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