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Abstract
Participatory ‘assessment workshops’ were held in 2018 in Yanuo Village, Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. The ‘Indicators of Resilience in Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS)’ tool was used to provide the community with a framework for discussion and analysis of socio-ecological processes essential for resilience. Workshops were planned and implemented by local people together with researchers from outside the community. Discussion, including a scoring process, was undertaken using a subset of twenty indicators designed to capture the communities’ perceptions of factors affecting the resilience of their landscapes. The indicators were also used to provide the local community with a framework to discuss both current conditions of resilience and potential areas for improvement. A key result was that the existing community management approach did not include loss of traditional knowledge as a factor that would impact on the livelihoods and well-being of the community. A mechanism to encourage young people to inherit and actively use traditional knowledge was agreed to be necessary and included in economic activities. In addition, the socio-economic infrastructure in the community needs further improvement. This community management assessment framework in Yanuo Village can be scaled out to other communities in tropical montane regions with similar socio-economic environments by supporting stakeholders (policymakers, NGOs and development agencies, etc.).
Highlights
Complex links exist between humans and ecosystems [1]
As a relatively new term, Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (SEPLS) refers to mosaics of production landscapes, which have been shaped through the interaction of humans and nature over time, and which simultaneously maintain biodiversity and provide ecosystem services [5]
In addition to the resilience status of the SEPLS, the stakeholder consultation process reached a consensus on the following issues: inconvenient transportation and low diversity in economic activities, and urbanization leading to a decrease in the transmission of traditional knowledge are negatively affecting resilience in SEPLS in Yanuo Village
Summary
Complex links exist between humans and ecosystems [1]. The majority of ecosystems worldwide, e.g., agriculture, grassland, forest and marine ecosystems, have been impacted by humans through production activities. Over the past 100 years, rapid social and economic development has disrupted these human–ecosystem links, threatening the survival of these unique and productive landscapes [2]. In response to this challenge, the Satoyama Initiative, started jointly by MOEJ (the Ministry of the Environment of Japan) and UNU-IAS (the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability) was created to support harmonious development of societies and nature. The SEPLS framework evaluates ecosystem services along with the resilience and harmony of societies with nature, resulting in recommended actions for optimizing the sustainable management of the landscape being evaluated [6,7,8,9,10]
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