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.

牧场覆盖了世界一半以上的陆地表面，在碳固存、支持生物多样性、供应淡水以及维持全球数十亿人基于广泛畜牧生产的生计方面发挥着至关重要的作用。虽然人们努力在牧场中扩展基于自然的解决方案（NbS），但标准方法通常带有生态稳定性和线性演替动态的假设，这些假设与许多牧场环境的极端“非平衡”动态特征不符，特别是在亚热带地区。 -撒哈拉非洲。迄今为止，只有有限的研究探讨了 NbS 在社区治理和生产性非平衡社会生态系统中增强应对气候变化的抵御能力的适宜性和可行性。因此，NbS 要想在这种背景下取得成功，就需要新的证据、知识和实用工具。REPAiR 旨在通过共同产生新的比较证据来解决这些差距，以背景化和重新思考 NbS，从而更好地适应不确定和动态的非均衡风景。 REEPAiR 的地理重点是南部非洲 (SA)，它认识到公共管理的干旱和半干旱牧场（也称为“旱地”）上的小规模畜牧业构成了巨大的非正规农业经济的支柱，为社会、经济、文化和环境提供了保障。为更广泛的社会带来价值和利益，包括生态系统服务、就业和粮食安全。尽管南部非洲牧场对地方、国家和全球的可持续发展具有明显的重要性，并且具有作为确定和发展公平的、社区主导的 NbS 空间的潜力，但它们经常被误判为“问题无法解决”、库存过多、利用效率低下的空间。最终退化。该项目将利用基于参与式艺术的研究（PABR）、深入的社会生态案例研究和国际知识交流的证据来测试和完善整合呼吁优先主题的框架NbS 的情境化、可扩展性和社区主导的治理，以及公平性和时间可持续性的交叉关注。其基础是，支持气候适应型发展路径，涉及在任何环境下对 NbS 进行可扩展、公平和有效的治理，需要一种关系性的、整体系统的方法，整合多种形式的知识，从而可以更好地跨空间、时间和政策定位 NbS秤。我们的跨学科英国-南非知识联盟建立在长期研究和从业者合作的基础上。它汇集了社会科学、自然科学和人文学科的学科和主题专业知识，包括艺术从业者、研究传播专家和两个充满活力的南非合作伙伴组织。 Cape Climate Collective (CcliC) 和 Meat Naturally Africa (MNA) 分别带来了使用基于参与性艺术的方法的经验，以及将创新和情境敏感的方法应用于社区主导的 NbS 中获得的社会和生态数据。REPAiR 将共同制作知识、工具以及更广泛的政策和社会成果，直接有助于 UKRI、英国政府和 FCDO 战略以及更广泛的全球努力，以建立气候和灾害风险抵御能力、增强生物多样性并支持与气候适应相关的区域政策进程。通过有针对性的产出，该项目将通过确定、启用和激活环境敏感、公正和公平的适应气候变化的发展路径，以直接将 IUCN 全球标准中体现的现有 NbS 原则与可持续发展目标更加一致的方式应用证据。