Putting the “Socio” in Restoration of Socioecological Systems a story in 5 chapters

1. Putting the “Socio” in Restoration of Socioecological Systemsa story in 5 chapters Lynne M. Westphal, PhD Project Leader & Research Social Scientist Northern Research Station, US Forest Service

2. Chapter 1 Putting people in the diagrams

3. Pickett 2011

4. 0 Exogenous Variables Biophysical/Material Conditions Action Arena Action arena Interactions Attributes of community Actors Evaluative criteria Rules Outcomes Ostrom 2005

5. Chapter 2 A Quick Look at the Social Sciences

6. Social Science Disciplines • Anthropology • Economics • Geography • Psychology • Sociology • Political Science

7. Additional fields and subfields • Marketing • Organizational behavior • Political Science • Policy analysis • Communication • Landscape Architecture • Urban planning • Recreation • Environmental Psychology • Futures Research • Human dimensions of Natural Resources • Conservation psychology • Public Health • Education • Evaluation • Regional Science • Behavioral economics • Evolutionary economics

8. Approach to Research Questions

9. Approach to Research Questions

10. Chapter 3 Who Decides?

11. Who Decides what? • Whether to restore a site, landscape? • Restore to what? • Use herbicides in the process? • Use garlon or round up?

12. Institutional Analysis & Development – Ostrum et. al. • Constitutional level • Collective level • Operational level

13. 0 Exogenous Variables Biophysical/Material Conditions Action Arena Action arena Interactions Attributes of community Actors Evaluative criteria Rules Outcomes Ostrom 2005

14. A Brief History of Participation/Collaboration • Post WWII – The Expert Planning Paradigm • Social changes in the ‘60s & ‘70s – the Civil Rights movement, the Women’s movement, etc. – challenged the Expert Model. • Reflected in Arnstein’s Ladder, a seminal and still often cited piece on participation.

15. Citizen Control Delegated Power Degrees of Participation Arnstein’s “Ladder of Participation” (1969) Partnership Placation Degrees of Tokenism Consultation Informing Therapy Non participation Manipulation

16. Collaborative, Social Learning • Emphasis on shared expertise, knowledge, contributions to planning and implementation. • Better able to handle complexities, wicked problems, multiple stakeholders. • Many approaches that can work, depending on issues at hand.

17. Examples of PROCESS characteristics • Full representation of interested stakeholders • Civil discourse • Accurate info from jointfact-finding • Participants free to question assumptions/propose innovative ideas

18. 0 Exogenous Variables Biophysical/Material Conditions Action Arena Action arena Interactions Attributes of community Actors Evaluative criteria Rules Outcomes Ostrom 2005

19. Examples of OUTCOME characteristics • Produces high quality agreements (meets basic interests) • Generates feasible and practical proposals that solve problems • Creates new informal & working relationships • Produces outcomes viewed as “just”

20. No panaceas • Collaboration is not always the ticket. • Collaboration takes specific skills. Don’t have them? Find someone who does.

21. Chapter 4 A Brief Consideration of an Additional Type of Restoration Project

22. Models of Urban Restoration/Renaturing • Work I’ve done with Paul H. Gobster, US Forest Service and • Matthias Gross, Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

23. Classic model • Sensitive Species model • Habitat model • Nature Garden model • Cultural Landscape Restoration model • Rehabilitation model

24. Cultural Landscape Restoration model

25. Chapter 5 A Cute Picture & Something to Remember

27. The End