Abstract
Dawson, L., M. Elbakidze, M. Schellens, A. Shkaruba, and P. K. Angelstam. 2021. Bogs, birds, and berries in Belarus: the governance and management dynamics of wetland restoration in a state-centric, top-down context. Ecology and Society 26(1):8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12139-260108
Highlights
Wetlands are complex coupled social-ecological systems (SES) that provide a range of benefits for biodiversity and human livelihoods (Verhoeven 2014)
The dynamics of each of the core processes and relationships with drivers are unpacked in greater detail in Appendix 3
Opportunities Environmental crises are increasingly recognized as a potential trigger for institutional adaptations toward sustainability, by calling command-control management approaches into question and fragmenting political authority (Kronsell and Bäckstrand 2010, Bond et al 2015, Pahl-Wostl 2015, Abson et al 2017, IPBES 2018)
Summary
Wetlands are complex coupled social-ecological systems (SES) that provide a range of benefits for biodiversity and human livelihoods (Verhoeven 2014). In Europe, less than 20% of original natural wetlands remain (Finlayson and Spiers 1999, Verhoeven 2014) This has led to losses of both biodiversity and ecosystem services (Roodbergen et al 2012, IPBES 2018, Manton and Angelstam 2018, Valasiuk et al 2018). The limitations of rigidly top-down, command-control environmental governance and management approaches have been increasingly highlighted in recent decades (Cilliers et al 2013, Kirschke et al 2017) This has led to a revival of holistic conceptualizations regarding SES (e.g., Folke et al 2005) and landscapes (e.g., Angelstam et al 2019), and support for evidencebased, integrative, and adaptive approaches to wetlands governance and management (Turner et al 2000, de Blaeij et al 2011, Chaffin and Gunderson 2016). This stresses the need for understanding the extent to which sustainable wetlands and their benefits, as integrated SES, can be restored in such contexts
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