Relational Hubs for Collaborative Landscape Stewardship. Issue 5 (3rd May 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Relational Hubs for Collaborative Landscape Stewardship. Issue 5 (3rd May 2020)
- Main Title:
- Relational Hubs for Collaborative Landscape Stewardship
- Authors:
- Cockburn, Jessica
Cundill, Georgina
Shackleton, Sheona
Cele, Ayanda
Cornelius, Susanna Francina (Ancia)
Koopman, Vaughan
le Roux, Jean-Pierre
McLeod, Nicky
Rouget, Mathieu
Schroder, Samantha
Van den Broeck, Dieter
Wright, Dale R.
Zwinkels, Marijn - Abstract:
- Abstract: Landscape stewardship is considered an important place-based approach to addressing sustainability challenges. Working at landscape-level requires collaboration between diverse landscape stakeholders. In this study, we partnered with local stewardship practitioners across six cases in South Africa to investigate how they facilitate collaboration towards social-ecological sustainability outcomes. We found that practitioners facilitate collaboration among stakeholders by operating as relational hubs in the landscape. Through these hubs, they build new inter-personal relationships among stakeholders, creating social networks which enable stewardship practice. The hubs deepen human-nature relationships by creating enabling conditions for stewards to put stewardship ethics into action. Drawing on insights from these cases, we call for a relational approach to landscape stewardship which focuses on human-to-human and human-to-nature relationships. Moreover, we argue that landscape stewardship initiatives need to re-focus stewardship on stewards, recognizing them as key agents of change in addressing the conflict between agriculture and conservation inherent in many landscapes.
- Is Part Of:
- Society and natural resources. Volume 33:Issue 5(2020)
- Journal:
- Society and natural resources
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Issue 5(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 5 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0033-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 681
- Page End:
- 693
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05-03
- Subjects:
- Integrated landscape approaches -- knowledge co-production -- multistakeholder collaboration -- practice-based knowledge -- social-ecological systems -- South Africa -- sustainable landscapes
Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
333.7 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/usnr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/08941920.2019.1658141 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0894-1920
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8319.192500
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