Resilient and Equitable Nature-based Pathways in Southern African Rangelands (REPAiR)

南部非洲牧场弹性且公平的基于自然的途径 (REPAiR)

• 批准号: NE/Z503459/1
• 负责人: Amber Huff
• 金额: $ 236.19万
• 依托单位: Institute of Development Studies
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FZ503459%2F1
• 关键词: Resilient; Equitable; Nature; based; Pathways

Rangelands cover over half of the world's land surface, play a vital role in carbon sequestration, support biodiversity, supply freshwater, and sustain billions of livelihoods based on extensive livestock production globally. While there are efforts to extend Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in rangelands, standard approaches often carry assumptions of ecological stability and linear successional dynamics which do not align with the extreme 'non-equilibrium' dynamics characteristic of many rangeland environments, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. To date, only limited research addresses the suitability and feasibility of NbS to strengthen resilience in the face of climate change in the context of communal governance and in productive non-equilibrium socio-ecological systems. New evidence, knowledge and practical tools are therefore needed for NbS to be successful in such contexts.REPAiR aims to address these gaps by co-producing new, comparative evidence to contextualise and rethink NbS to provide a better fit for uncertain and dynamic non-equilibrium landscapes. REPAiR's geographic focus Southern Africa (SA) is in recognition that small-scale livestock farming on communally managed arid and semi-arid rangelands - also called 'drylands' - forms the backbone of vast informal agrarian economies that provide social, economic, cultural and environmental values and benefits for broader society, including ecosystem services, employment and food security. Although Southern African rangelands have clear local, national and global importance to sustainable development and potential as spaces to identify and develop equitable, community-led NbS, they are frequently misjudged to be spaces of 'problems without solutions', overstocked, inefficiently used, and ultimately degraded.The project will use evidence from Participatory Arts-Based Research (PABR), in-depth socio-ecological case studies and international knowledge exchanges to test and refine a framework that integrates the call's priority themes of contextualisation, scalability and community-led governance of NbS, as well as crosscutting concerns of equity and temporal sustainability. This builds on the idea that supporting climate resilient development pathways involving scalable, equitable, and effective governance of NbS in any setting requires a relational, whole systems approach that integrates multiple forms of knowledge, and can thus better situate NbS across spatial, temporal and policy scales. Our transdisciplinary UK-South Africa knowledge consortium builds upon long-term research and practitioner collaborations. It brings together disciplinary and thematic expertise spanning the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities, and includes arts-based practitioners, research communication specialists and two dynamic South Africa-based partner organisations. Cape Climate Collective (CcliC) and Meat Naturally Africa (MNA) bring experience, respectively, in using participatory arts-based methods, and social and ecological data from applying innovative and context-sensitive approaches to community-led NbS.REPAiR will co-produce knowledge, tools and broader policy and societal outcomes that directly contribute to UKRI, UK government and FCDO strategies and broader global efforts to build climate and disaster risk resilience, enhance biodiversity, and to support regional policy processes related to climate adaptation. Through targeted outputs, the project will apply evidence in ways that directly bring existing NbS principles embodied in the IUCN Global Standard into greater alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals by identifying, enabling and activating context-sensitive, just and equitable climate resilient development pathways.

牧场覆盖世界一半以上的土地表面，在碳固存中发挥至关重要的作用，支持生物多样性，供应淡水以及基于全球广泛的牲畜生产，维持数十亿个生计。尽管有一些努力在牧场上扩展基于自然的解决方案（NBS），但标准方法通常具有生态稳定性和线性延伸动力学的假设，这些动力与许多牧场环境的极端“非平衡”动力学不符，尤其是在撒哈拉以南非洲。迄今为止，只有有限的研究涉及在公共治理和生产性非平衡社会生态系统中，面对气候变化，NBS在气候变化方面的适当性和可行性。因此，需要新的证据，知识和实用工具才能使NB在这种情况下取​​得成功。修复旨在通过共同创建新的，比较的证据来解决这些差距，以使情境化并重新考虑NB，以更好地适合不确定和动态的非平衡景观。维修的地理重点南部非洲（SA）认识到，小规模的牲畜耕作在公共管理的干旱和半干旱的牧场上（也称为“旱地”）构成了广泛非正式农业经济体的骨干，这些经济体提供了社会，经济，经济，文化和环境价值观，包括对更广泛的社会，包括生态系统服务，包括生态系统服务，就业和食品，就业和食品，就业和食品安全。尽管南部非洲的牧场对可持续发展和潜力是识别和发展公平的，以社区为主导的NBS的空间清晰的重要性，但经常被误认为是“没有解决方案的问题”的空间，该空间是“解决方案”的空间。框架结合了呼叫的优先级主题，即NBS的背景化，可伸缩性和社区主导的治理，以及对公平和时间可持续性的跨越关注。这是基于这样一个想法，即在任何情况下，支持气候弹性的发展途径涉及NBS的可扩展，公平和有效的治理，需要一种联系，整个系统方法，可以整合多种形式的知识，因此可以更好地在空间，时间和政策量表中更好地将NBS置于NBS。我们的跨学科英国非洲知识财团建立在长期研究和从业者合作的基础上。它汇集了跨越社会科学，自然科学和人文科学的纪律和主题专业知识，其中包括基于艺术的从业人员，研究传播专家和两个基于南非动态的合作伙伴组织。 Cape Climate Collective (CcliC) and Meat Naturally Africa (MNA) bring experience, respectively, in using participatory arts-based methods, and social and ecological data from applying innovative and context-sensitive approaches to community-led NbS.REPAiR will co-produce knowledge, tools and broader policy and societal outcomes that directly contribute to UKRI, UK government and FCDO strategies and broader global efforts to build climate and disaster risk resilience,增强生物多样性，并支持与气候适应有关的区域政策过程。通过有针对性的产出，该项目将以直接将IUCN全球标准中现有NBS原则的方式应用于与可持续发展目标更加一致的证据，通过识别，启用和激活上下文敏感，公正和公平的气候弹性发展途径。