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Audrey Cosson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • What the Ecosystem Approach does to conservation practices
    Biological Conservation, 2018
    Co-Authors: Isabelle Arpin, Audrey Cosson
    Abstract:

    The Ecosystem Approach has not had the rapid and massive success that could be expected from its support by prominent biodiversity institutions, notably in national parks. We seek to explain this situation by analysing the effects of the shift from a focus on species to a focus on Ecosystems on the conservation practitioners' work. Drawing on the case of a programme adopting the EA in the French Alps - the Sentinel Mountain Pastures Programme -, we show that the EA has profound effects on the cognitive, interactional, and affective dimensions of the practitioners' work, and that these effects vary according to the trajectories and positions of institutions and individuals. We recommend that tailored multidimensional support be provided to practitioners yet unfamiliar with the EA.

F. Bréchignac - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Using an Ecosystem Approach to complement protection schemes based on organism-level endpoints
    Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2014
    Co-Authors: Clare Bradshaw, Lawrence A. Kapustka, Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Justin Brown, Philippe Ciffroy, Ulrik Kautsky, V. Forbes, S. Geras'kin, F. Bréchignac
    Abstract:

    Radiation protection goals for ecological resources are focussed on ecological structures and functions at population-, community-, and Ecosystem-levels. The current Approach to radiation safety for non-human biota relies on organism-level endpoints, and as such is not aligned with the stated overarching protection goals of international agencies. Exposure to stressors can trigger non-linear changes in Ecosystem structure and function that cannot be predicted from effects on individual organisms. From the ecological sciences, we know that important interactive dynamics related to such emergent properties determine the flows of goods and services in ecological systems that human societies rely upon. A previous Task Group of the IUR (International Union of Radioecology) has presented the rationale for adding an Ecosystem Approach to the suite of tools available to manage radiation safety. In this paper, we summarize the arguments for an Ecosystem Approach and identify next steps and challenges ahead pertaining to developing and implementing a practical Ecosystem Approach to complement organism-level endpoints currently used in radiation safety. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

Isabelle Arpin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • What the Ecosystem Approach does to conservation practices
    Biological Conservation, 2018
    Co-Authors: Isabelle Arpin, Audrey Cosson
    Abstract:

    The Ecosystem Approach has not had the rapid and massive success that could be expected from its support by prominent biodiversity institutions, notably in national parks. We seek to explain this situation by analysing the effects of the shift from a focus on species to a focus on Ecosystems on the conservation practitioners' work. Drawing on the case of a programme adopting the EA in the French Alps - the Sentinel Mountain Pastures Programme -, we show that the EA has profound effects on the cognitive, interactional, and affective dimensions of the practitioners' work, and that these effects vary according to the trajectories and positions of institutions and individuals. We recommend that tailored multidimensional support be provided to practitioners yet unfamiliar with the EA.

Clare Bradshaw - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Using an Ecosystem Approach to complement protection schemes based on organism-level endpoints
    Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2014
    Co-Authors: Clare Bradshaw, Lawrence A. Kapustka, Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Justin Brown, Philippe Ciffroy, Ulrik Kautsky, V. Forbes, S. Geras'kin, F. Bréchignac
    Abstract:

    Radiation protection goals for ecological resources are focussed on ecological structures and functions at population-, community-, and Ecosystem-levels. The current Approach to radiation safety for non-human biota relies on organism-level endpoints, and as such is not aligned with the stated overarching protection goals of international agencies. Exposure to stressors can trigger non-linear changes in Ecosystem structure and function that cannot be predicted from effects on individual organisms. From the ecological sciences, we know that important interactive dynamics related to such emergent properties determine the flows of goods and services in ecological systems that human societies rely upon. A previous Task Group of the IUR (International Union of Radioecology) has presented the rationale for adding an Ecosystem Approach to the suite of tools available to manage radiation safety. In this paper, we summarize the arguments for an Ecosystem Approach and identify next steps and challenges ahead pertaining to developing and implementing a practical Ecosystem Approach to complement organism-level endpoints currently used in radiation safety. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.

  • Using an Ecosystem Approach to complement protection schemes based on organism-level endpoints.
    Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2014
    Co-Authors: Clare Bradshaw, Lawrence A. Kapustka, Lawrence W. Barnthouse, Justin Brown, Philippe Ciffroy, Valery E. Forbes, Stanislav A. Geras’kin, Ulrik Kautsky, François Bréchignac
    Abstract:

    Radiation protection goals for ecological resources are focussed on ecological structures and functions at population-, community-, and Ecosystem-levels. The current Approach to radiation safety for non-human biota relies on organism-level endpoints, and as such is not aligned with the stated overarching protection goals of international agencies. Exposure to stressors can trigger non-linear changes in Ecosystem structure and function that cannot be predicted from effects on individual organisms. From the ecological sciences, we know that important interactive dynamics related to such emergent properties determine the flows of goods and services in ecological systems that human societies rely upon. A previous Task Group of the IUR (International Union of Radioecology) has presented the rationale for adding an Ecosystem Approach to the suite of tools available to manage radiation safety. In this paper, we summarize the arguments for an Ecosystem Approach and identify next steps and challenges ahead pertaining to developing and implementing a practical Ecosystem Approach to complement organism-level endpoints currently used in radiation safety.

Didier Gascuel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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