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Audrey Coreau - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Environmental Science and Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Matthew Colloff, Berta Martin-lopez, Sandra Lavorel, Bruno Locatelli, Russell Gorddard, Pierre-yves Longaretti, Gretchen Walters, Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Carina Wyborn, Audrey CoreauAbstract:Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that subset of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-Knowledge Perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk Perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.
Matthew Colloff - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Environmental Science and Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Matthew Colloff, Berta Martin-lopez, Sandra Lavorel, Bruno Locatelli, Russell Gorddard, Pierre-yves Longaretti, Gretchen Walters, Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Carina Wyborn, Audrey CoreauAbstract:Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that subset of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-Knowledge Perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk Perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.
C. Neal Stewart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Climbing plants: attachment adaptations and bioinspired innovations
Plant Cell Reports, 2018Co-Authors: Jason N. Burris, Scott C. Lenaghan, C. Neal StewartAbstract:Climbing plants have unique adaptations to enable them to compete for sunlight, for which they invest minimal resources for vertical growth. Indeed, their stems bear relatively little weight, as they traverse their host substrates skyward. Climbers possess high tensile strength and flexibility, which allows them to utilize natural and manmade structures for support and growth. The climbing strategies of plants have intrigued scientists for centuries, yet our understanding about biochemical adaptations and their molecular undergirding is still in the early stages of research. Nonetheless, recent discoveries are promising, not only from a basic Knowledge Perspective, but also for bioinspired product development. Several adaptations, including nanoparticle and adhesive production will be reviewed, as well as practical translation of these adaptations to commercial applications. We will review the botanical literature on the modes of adaptation to climb, as well as specialized organs—and cellular innovations. Finally, recent molecular and biochemical data will be reviewed to assess the future needs and new directions for potential practical products that may be bioinspired by climbing plants.
Russell Gorddard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Environmental Science and Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Matthew Colloff, Berta Martin-lopez, Sandra Lavorel, Bruno Locatelli, Russell Gorddard, Pierre-yves Longaretti, Gretchen Walters, Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Carina Wyborn, Audrey CoreauAbstract:Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that subset of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-Knowledge Perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk Perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.
Gretchen Walters - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Environmental Science and Policy, 2017Co-Authors: Matthew Colloff, Berta Martin-lopez, Sandra Lavorel, Bruno Locatelli, Russell Gorddard, Pierre-yves Longaretti, Gretchen Walters, Lorrae Van Kerkhoff, Carina Wyborn, Audrey CoreauAbstract:Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that subset of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-Knowledge Perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk Perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.
