Newman, R.J.S., Capitani, C., Courtney-Mustaphi, C. et al. (4 more authors) (2020) Integrating insights from social-ecological interactions into sustainable land use change scenarios for small islands in the Western Indian Ocean. Sustainability, 12 (4). 1340. ISSN 2071-1050
Abstract
Small islands are vulnerable to the synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances due to the fact of their small area, geographical isolation, responsive ecologies, rapidly growing and developing populations and exposure to sea level and climate change. These changes exert pressures on ecosystem services, such as the provisioning of resources, and therefore threaten the sustainability of livelihoods. We reviewed key sustainability and livelihoods literature to bring together concepts of environmental livelihood resilience and stability across temporal and spatial scales and integrated them to produce a new conceptual framework for dynamic environmental livelihood sustainability (DESL). This framework aims to facilitate the incorporation of local community perspectives into water, energy and food nexus thinking about sustainable land use to support local livelihoods. Finally, we provide insights from this case study to evaluate the effectiveness of the DESL framework in addressing gaps in existing frameworks. We suggest this framing provides a mechanism for enhancing the agency of communities to produce more cohesive and inclusive land use management plans that can lead to enhanced environmental sustainability pathways.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | climate change; decision making; human well-being; nexus; participatory methods; poverty alleviation; Zanzibar |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Economic and Social Research Council ES/J500215/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Mar 2020 15:59 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2020 15:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI AG |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su12041340 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158363 |