Скачать или смотреть Assessing Socio-Ecological Resilience in Southern Africa: Kavango-Zambezi TFCA, Zimbabwe Case Study

Protected Areas are embedded in and interact within a dynamic social-ecological context at multiple scales in space and time. As complex social-ecological systems, Protected Areas are increasingly expected to justify their existence in both conserving biodiversity and contributing to human well-being. As such, assessing their likely effectiveness requires an assessment of their social-ecological resilience. The concept of social-ecological resilience is gaining traction in both research and policy arenas, yet it remains challenging to quantify. Using the seven principles for enhancing resilience in social-ecological systems, Bekezela developed a case study in the south-eastern part of KAZA in Zimbabwe, of how these principles could be used to develop an approach to measure social-ecological resilience in Protected Area systems.