Abstract
Freitag, S., H. Biggs, and C. Breen. 2014. The spread and maturation of strategic adaptive management within and beyond South African national parks. Ecology and Society 19(3): 25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06338-190325
Highlights
Protected areas are public assets embedded in a dynamic social context constructed around beliefs, values, and understandings
This realization has led to South African National Parks adopting a strategic adaptive management approach to decision making
A number of catalytic events and synergies enabled a change from reactive tactical management approaches to more inclusive forward-looking approaches able to embrace system complexity and associated uncertainty and change. We show how this long period of innovation has lead to an increased appreciation for the heterogeneous social-ecological system, and for the importance of constructing relationships and colearning, such that organizational transformation has enabled more legitimate and effective operation within an expanding and diversifying constituency
Summary
Protected areas are public assets embedded in a dynamic social context constructed around beliefs, values, and understandings. Decision making and associated outcomes around fire, water, and elephant management in the KNP challenged these assumptions, which set the scene for new and more adaptive approaches.
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