Melinda Harm Benson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3709508 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melinda Harm Benson |
| NOMBRES | Melinda Harm |
| APELLIDO | Benson |
| FIRMA | BENSON M H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance
Gosnell, H., B. C. Chaffin, J. B. Ruhl, C. A. (T.) Arnold, R. K. Craig, M. H. Benson, and A. Devenish. 2017. Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance: a case of Endangered Species Act implementation. Ecology and Society 22(4):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09887-220442
Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience
Arnold, C. A. (T.) , H. Gosnell, M. H. Benson, and R. K. Craig. 2017. Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience. Ecology and Society 22(4):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09734-220414
Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems
In this article we summarize histories of nonlinear, complex interactions among societal, legal, and ecosystem dynamics in six North American water basins, as they respond to changing climate. These case studies were chosen to explore the conditions for emergence of adaptive governance in heavily regulated and developed social-ecological systems nested within a hierarchical governmental system. We summarize resilience assessments conducted in eac…
The role of law in adaptive governance
The term "governance" encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place, and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of barriers to adaptation as the effects of climate change are felt. Adaptive governance must therefore contemplate a level of flexibility and evolution in governm…
Transformative Environmental Governance
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative governance is to actively shift degraded SESs to alternative, more desirable, or more functional regimes by altering the structures and processes that define the system. Transformative governance is rooted in ecological…
Five ways to support interdisciplinary work before tenure
Rules of Engagement
Enforcing Traditional Cultural Property Protections
There are many challenges associated with enforcing the protections afforded Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This paper examines how the rules and procedures that animate the law can create a striking disconnect between what the law appears to provide and what it actually delivers. After providing some brief background regarding the literature of legal geography and the protections offer…
The End of Sustainability
The continued invocation of sustainability in international talks, development goals, and other policy discussions ignores the emerging realities of the Anthropocene –unprecedented and irreversible rates of human-induced biodiversity loss, exponential increases in per-capita resource consumption, and global climate change. The concept of sustainability dates back to early United Nations conferences in the 1970s and has become increasingly difficu…
Reintroduction of Conservation Reliant Species
The concept of “conservation reliance” offers an alternative way of thinking about recovery of species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by placing endangered species along a recovery continuum. In this article, we argue that the management of species can be improved by employing the concept of a recovery continuum and extend the concept of conservation reliance to an often controversial topic: the reintroduction of species under the ESA. We…
A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal refo…
Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States
Adaptive management is a growing trend within environment and natural resource management efforts in the United States. While many proponents of adaptive management emphasize the need for collaborative, iterative governance processes to facilitate adaptive management, legal scholars note that current legal requirements and processes in the United States often make it difficult to provide the necessary institutional support and flexibility for suc…
A Classification Framework for Running Adaptive Management Rapids
While adaptive management (AM) is becoming a preferred natural resource management approach, the conditions necessary to engage in AM are not always present. In order for AM to work, there must be an ability to engage in experimentation and then incorporate what is learned. Just as few rivers are unequivocally either "runnable" or "unrunnable" by a whitewater boater, successful AM depends on a number of factors, including legal frameworks and req…
Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience
Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behavior of ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict…
Mining Sacred Space
Current controversies regarding uranium mining in the American West are about more than competing legal requirements; they are about competing conceptualizations of space that are grounded in different ontologies. Laws-in this case the General Mining Law of 1872 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966-play a performative role by enacting and materializing these ontologies. The occupation of New Mexico's Mt. Taylor both by 'old' and by …
Intelligent Tinkering
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful and controversial environmental laws in the United States. As a result of its uncompromising position against biodiversity loss, the ESA has become the primary driver of many ecological restoration efforts in the United States. This article explains why the ESA has become the impetus for so many of these efforts and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the ESA as a primary driver fr…
Regional Initiatives
In the absence of a coherent national policy to address global climate change, there was an emergence of new scales of environmental governance in the United States. They include regional initiatives that configure binding agreements between individual states within the United States that in some instances also involve cross-border collaborations with Canadian provinces. There are currently three such initiatives: the Northeastern Regional Greenh…
Mining Sacred Space
Current controversies regarding uranium mining in the American West are about more than competing legal requirements; they are about competing conceptualizations of space that are grounded in different ontologies. Laws-in this case the General Mining Law of 1872 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966-play a performative role by enacting and materializing these ontologies. The occupation of New Mexico's Mt. Taylor both by 'old' and by …
A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal refo…
The End of Sustainability
The continued invocation of sustainability in international talks, development goals, and other policy discussions ignores the emerging realities of the Anthropocene –unprecedented and irreversible rates of human-induced biodiversity loss, exponential increases in per-capita resource consumption, and global climate change. The concept of sustainability dates back to early United Nations conferences in the 1970s and has become increasingly difficu…
Regional Initiatives
In the absence of a coherent national policy to address global climate change, there was an emergence of new scales of environmental governance in the United States. They include regional initiatives that configure binding agreements between individual states within the United States that in some instances also involve cross-border collaborations with Canadian provinces. There are currently three such initiatives: the Northeastern Regional Greenh…
Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems
In this article we summarize histories of nonlinear, complex interactions among societal, legal, and ecosystem dynamics in six North American water basins, as they respond to changing climate. These case studies were chosen to explore the conditions for emergence of adaptive governance in heavily regulated and developed social-ecological systems nested within a hierarchical governmental system. We summarize resilience assessments conducted in eac…
The role of law in adaptive governance
The term "governance" encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place, and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of barriers to adaptation as the effects of climate change are felt. Adaptive governance must therefore contemplate a level of flexibility and evolution in governm…
Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance
Gosnell, H., B. C. Chaffin, J. B. Ruhl, C. A. (T.) Arnold, R. K. Craig, M. H. Benson, and A. Devenish. 2017. Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance: a case of Endangered Species Act implementation. Ecology and Society 22(4):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09887-220442
Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience
Arnold, C. A. (T.) , H. Gosnell, M. H. Benson, and R. K. Craig. 2017. Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience. Ecology and Society 22(4):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09734-220414
Enforcing Traditional Cultural Property Protections
There are many challenges associated with enforcing the protections afforded Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This paper examines how the rules and procedures that animate the law can create a striking disconnect between what the law appears to provide and what it actually delivers. After providing some brief background regarding the literature of legal geography and the protections offer…
Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States
Adaptive management is a growing trend within environment and natural resource management efforts in the United States. While many proponents of adaptive management emphasize the need for collaborative, iterative governance processes to facilitate adaptive management, legal scholars note that current legal requirements and processes in the United States often make it difficult to provide the necessary institutional support and flexibility for suc…
Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience
Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behavior of ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict…
Intelligent Tinkering
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful and controversial environmental laws in the United States. As a result of its uncompromising position against biodiversity loss, the ESA has become the primary driver of many ecological restoration efforts in the United States. This article explains why the ESA has become the impetus for so many of these efforts and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the ESA as a primary driver fr…
Regional Initiatives
In the absence of a coherent national policy to address global climate change, there was an emergence of new scales of environmental governance in the United States. They include regional initiatives that configure binding agreements between individual states within the United States that in some instances also involve cross-border collaborations with Canadian provinces. There are currently three such initiatives: the Northeastern Regional Greenh…
Mining Sacred Space
Current controversies regarding uranium mining in the American West are about more than competing legal requirements; they are about competing conceptualizations of space that are grounded in different ontologies. Laws-in this case the General Mining Law of 1872 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966-play a performative role by enacting and materializing these ontologies. The occupation of New Mexico's Mt. Taylor both by 'old' and by …
Intelligent Tinkering
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful and controversial environmental laws in the United States. As a result of its uncompromising position against biodiversity loss, the ESA has become the primary driver of many ecological restoration efforts in the United States. This article explains why the ESA has become the impetus for so many of these efforts and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the ESA as a primary driver fr…
Reintroduction of Conservation Reliant Species
The concept of “conservation reliance” offers an alternative way of thinking about recovery of species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by placing endangered species along a recovery continuum. In this article, we argue that the management of species can be improved by employing the concept of a recovery continuum and extend the concept of conservation reliance to an often controversial topic: the reintroduction of species under the ESA. We…
A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adaptation. In this paper, we suggest expansive legal refo…
Practitioner Perceptions of Adaptive Management Implementation in the United States
Adaptive management is a growing trend within environment and natural resource management efforts in the United States. While many proponents of adaptive management emphasize the need for collaborative, iterative governance processes to facilitate adaptive management, legal scholars note that current legal requirements and processes in the United States often make it difficult to provide the necessary institutional support and flexibility for suc…
A Classification Framework for Running Adaptive Management Rapids
While adaptive management (AM) is becoming a preferred natural resource management approach, the conditions necessary to engage in AM are not always present. In order for AM to work, there must be an ability to engage in experimentation and then incorporate what is learned. Just as few rivers are unequivocally either "runnable" or "unrunnable" by a whitewater boater, successful AM depends on a number of factors, including legal frameworks and req…
Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience
Law plays an essential role in shaping natural resource and environmental policy, but unfortunately, many environmental laws were developed around the prevailing scientific understanding that there was a "balance of nature" that could be managed and sustained. This view assumes that natural resource managers have the capacity to predict the behavior of ecological systems, know what its important functional components are, and successfully predict…
Rules of Engagement
Enforcing Traditional Cultural Property Protections
There are many challenges associated with enforcing the protections afforded Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This paper examines how the rules and procedures that animate the law can create a striking disconnect between what the law appears to provide and what it actually delivers. After providing some brief background regarding the literature of legal geography and the protections offer…
The End of Sustainability
The continued invocation of sustainability in international talks, development goals, and other policy discussions ignores the emerging realities of the Anthropocene –unprecedented and irreversible rates of human-induced biodiversity loss, exponential increases in per-capita resource consumption, and global climate change. The concept of sustainability dates back to early United Nations conferences in the 1970s and has become increasingly difficu…
Five ways to support interdisciplinary work before tenure
Transformative Environmental Governance
Transformative governance is an approach to environmental governance that has the capacity to respond to, manage, and trigger regime shifts in coupled social-ecological systems (SESs) at multiple scales. The goal of transformative governance is to actively shift degraded SESs to alternative, more desirable, or more functional regimes by altering the structures and processes that define the system. Transformative governance is rooted in ecological…
Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance
Gosnell, H., B. C. Chaffin, J. B. Ruhl, C. A. (T.) Arnold, R. K. Craig, M. H. Benson, and A. Devenish. 2017. Transforming (perceived) rigidity in environmental law through adaptive governance: a case of Endangered Species Act implementation. Ecology and Society 22(4):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09887-220442
Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience
Arnold, C. A. (T.) , H. Gosnell, M. H. Benson, and R. K. Craig. 2017. Cross-interdisciplinary insights into adaptive governance and resilience. Ecology and Society 22(4):14. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09734-220414
Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems
In this article we summarize histories of nonlinear, complex interactions among societal, legal, and ecosystem dynamics in six North American water basins, as they respond to changing climate. These case studies were chosen to explore the conditions for emergence of adaptive governance in heavily regulated and developed social-ecological systems nested within a hierarchical governmental system. We summarize resilience assessments conducted in eac…
The role of law in adaptive governance
The term "governance" encompasses both governmental and nongovernmental participation in collective choice and action. Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place, and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of barriers to adaptation as the effects of climate change are felt. Adaptive governance must therefore contemplate a level of flexibility and evolution in governm…
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