Gretchen Walters
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 160472 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gretchen Walters |
| PRENOMES | Gretchen |
| SOBRENOME | Walters |
| ASSINATURA | WALTERS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0244-4858 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Navigating the FPIC Traps in Gabon’s Protected Area Expansion
Exclusive conservation has developed over thousands of years through protected area creation. Today, in order to achieve global conservation targets it is recognised that exclusive conservation can no longer be used. Rather, inclusive conservation has now become a rallying cry, and has been integrated into the Global Biodiversity Framework and the policies of various conservation NGOs. However, shrugging off thousands of years of baggage is hard.…
Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests
Global conservation maps often overlook community lands, impacting decision-making and reducing local agency. We focus on the high-profile and regionally important case of Massaha’s ancestral territory (Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha). In Gabon, the forest is largely gazetted into logging concessions and described as an Eden-like wilderness despite long-term human presence. We compare Massaha’s biocultural maps to global, colonial, and post-colonial m…
Analysing perceptions of nature and nature's contributions to people for a Swiss ecological infrastructure
Understanding how a population perceives nature and nature's contributions to people is key to designing a society's ecological infrastructure. Narrative‐based research can capture how people perceive and value nature. Using the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) framework, through a survey, we capture narratives to assess the value and perceptions of nature and its contributions of Swiss resi…
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four typ…
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance
The trajectory of global biodiversity governance, culminating in the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), reflects a pivot toward transformative change through a “whole-of-society” (WoS) approach. This approach integrates traditional multilateral negotiations with various self-organizing governance initiatives across the public, civil, and business spheres, forming additional layers within a biodiversity regime complex. Wh…
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration
Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest
How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance and landscape domestication. From the perspective of disturbance, humans - whether ancient or modern - are a priori negative for tropical forests, outside of and alien to nature. From this view, the Anthropocene is a planetary scale aggregation of disturbance. A more just visi…
Territories of life as key to global environmental sustainability
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Covid-19, Indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance
We report on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), especially those who govern, manage and conserve their lands and waters. We explore the themes of access and use of natural resources, solidarity, decision-making, the role of governments and IPLCs in managing COVID-19, and the uptake of traditional medicine. These themes are explored through a global online survey in English, Spanish and French.…
There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics
In many industrialised societies, the COVID-19 pandemic has been painted as an unprecedented moment caused by human abuse of nature. Responses to it have, in turn, temporarily slowed down human impacts upon nature. This has led to a rallying cry against human encroachment into what are claimed to be pristine wildernesses. Reflecting upon historic, archaeological and palaeoecological evidence relating to the impacts of past epidemics within a wide…
Stuck in the Colonial Past
This contribution challenges representations of landscapes and communities within zoos in Europe that may amplify colonial narratives of local people through a racialised and often static lens. Instead of a holistic portrayal of the relationship between humans and nature that the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) stipulates within its guidelines, some European zoos continue to perpetuate a narrow view of foreign landscapes within th…
The power of choice
Implementing a landscape approach in the Agoro‐Agu region of Uganda
Landscape approaches are intended to resolve conflicts and address land and resource scarcity and competition. Often guided by 10 principles, numerous examples exist in the field but remain poorly documented. As a result, it remains difficult to learn about their implementation. This paper provides an example of the implementation of a landscape approach in a protected area landscape. We ask: How were landscape approach principles used in the imp…
Identifying governance problems and solutons for forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes
Governance challenges -including ownership, decision-making, accountability, and sharing of costs and benefitscan impede forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes. Understanding and addressing these challenges can improve the outcomes of forest landscape restoration. We tested the utility of applying an existing framework that focuses on three actions to understand governance -mapping stakeholders, contextualising and rescaling. T…
Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Despite substantial increases in the scope and magnitude of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, there remains ongoing degradation of natural resources that adversely affects both biodiversity and human well-being. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be an effective framework for reversing this trend, by increasing the alignment between conservation and sustainable development objectives. However, unless there is clarity on its evol…
Deciphering African tropical forest dynamics in the Anthropocene
Getting ready for Redd
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions, Deforestation and forest Degradation+) is a United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) process through which governments reduce the impacts of climate change through forest conservation in a results-based payments scheme. Distinct from international negotiations about the REDD+ framework under the UNFCCC, there are also REDD+ projects that help governments to set up the institutional architecture, p…
Governance of restoration and institutions
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
Changing Fire Governance in Gabon′s Plateaux Bateke Savanna Landscape
In many African savannas, anthropogenic fire regimes are changing for reasons that are poorly understood. However, these changes will likely impact landscapes. Using the case of the Teke-Alima people of Gabon's savannas, the transition from communal, annual hunting fires, organised by land chiefs, to semi-annual, hunting fires lit by individuals is explored through a fire governance analysis. The centralisation of authority over natural resources…
Evolving hunting practices in Gabon
Walters, G., J. Schleicher, O. Hymas, and L. Coad. 2015. Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions. Ecology and Society 20(4):31.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08047-200431
Fire management in a changing landscape
A key management goal in Lop National Park, Gabon, is to protect regionally-rare savannah ecosystems within the continuous rainforest block. In order to evaluate the impact of existing protection efforts, data on burning season environmental conditions, burning effort and current woody values for savannahs were examined between 1995 and 2008. Results showed (a) spatial heterogeneity in woody values to be correlated with grassy vegetation type (b)…
Customary Fire Regimes and Vegetation Structure in Gabon's Bateke Plateaux
Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Despite substantial increases in the scope and magnitude of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, there remains ongoing degradation of natural resources that adversely affects both biodiversity and human well-being. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be an effective framework for reversing this trend, by increasing the alignment between conservation and sustainable development objectives. However, unless there is clarity on its evol…
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
Governance of restoration and institutions
Territories of life as key to global environmental sustainability
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Evolving hunting practices in Gabon
Walters, G., J. Schleicher, O. Hymas, and L. Coad. 2015. Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions. Ecology and Society 20(4):31.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08047-200431
Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest
How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance and landscape domestication. From the perspective of disturbance, humans - whether ancient or modern - are a priori negative for tropical forests, outside of and alien to nature. From this view, the Anthropocene is a planetary scale aggregation of disturbance. A more just visi…
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
Deciphering African tropical forest dynamics in the Anthropocene
Customary Fire Regimes and Vegetation Structure in Gabon's Bateke Plateaux
The power of choice
Customary Fire Regimes and Vegetation Structure in Gabon's Bateke Plateaux
Fire management in a changing landscape
A key management goal in Lop National Park, Gabon, is to protect regionally-rare savannah ecosystems within the continuous rainforest block. In order to evaluate the impact of existing protection efforts, data on burning season environmental conditions, burning effort and current woody values for savannahs were examined between 1995 and 2008. Results showed (a) spatial heterogeneity in woody values to be correlated with grassy vegetation type (b)…
Changing Fire Governance in Gabon′s Plateaux Bateke Savanna Landscape
In many African savannas, anthropogenic fire regimes are changing for reasons that are poorly understood. However, these changes will likely impact landscapes. Using the case of the Teke-Alima people of Gabon's savannas, the transition from communal, annual hunting fires, organised by land chiefs, to semi-annual, hunting fires lit by individuals is explored through a fire governance analysis. The centralisation of authority over natural resources…
Evolving hunting practices in Gabon
Walters, G., J. Schleicher, O. Hymas, and L. Coad. 2015. Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions. Ecology and Society 20(4):31.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08047-200431
Governance of restoration and institutions
An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation
Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements…
Getting ready for Redd
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions, Deforestation and forest Degradation+) is a United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) process through which governments reduce the impacts of climate change through forest conservation in a results-based payments scheme. Distinct from international negotiations about the REDD+ framework under the UNFCCC, there are also REDD+ projects that help governments to set up the institutional architecture, p…
Identifying governance problems and solutons for forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes
Governance challenges -including ownership, decision-making, accountability, and sharing of costs and benefitscan impede forest landscape restoration in protected area landscapes. Understanding and addressing these challenges can improve the outcomes of forest landscape restoration. We tested the utility of applying an existing framework that focuses on three actions to understand governance -mapping stakeholders, contextualising and rescaling. T…
Core principles for successfully implementing and upscaling Nature-based Solutions
Despite substantial increases in the scope and magnitude of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration, there remains ongoing degradation of natural resources that adversely affects both biodiversity and human well-being. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) can be an effective framework for reversing this trend, by increasing the alignment between conservation and sustainable development objectives. However, unless there is clarity on its evol…
Deciphering African tropical forest dynamics in the Anthropocene
Implementing a landscape approach in the Agoro‐Agu region of Uganda
Landscape approaches are intended to resolve conflicts and address land and resource scarcity and competition. Often guided by 10 principles, numerous examples exist in the field but remain poorly documented. As a result, it remains difficult to learn about their implementation. This paper provides an example of the implementation of a landscape approach in a protected area landscape. We ask: How were landscape approach principles used in the imp…
Covid-19, Indigenous peoples, local communities and natural resource governance
We report on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs), especially those who govern, manage and conserve their lands and waters. We explore the themes of access and use of natural resources, solidarity, decision-making, the role of governments and IPLCs in managing COVID-19, and the uptake of traditional medicine. These themes are explored through a global online survey in English, Spanish and French.…
There’s nothing new under the sun – lessons conservationists could learn from previous pandemics
In many industrialised societies, the COVID-19 pandemic has been painted as an unprecedented moment caused by human abuse of nature. Responses to it have, in turn, temporarily slowed down human impacts upon nature. This has led to a rallying cry against human encroachment into what are claimed to be pristine wildernesses. Reflecting upon historic, archaeological and palaeoecological evidence relating to the impacts of past epidemics within a wide…
Stuck in the Colonial Past
This contribution challenges representations of landscapes and communities within zoos in Europe that may amplify colonial narratives of local people through a racialised and often static lens. Instead of a holistic portrayal of the relationship between humans and nature that the EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) stipulates within its guidelines, some European zoos continue to perpetuate a narrow view of foreign landscapes within th…
The power of choice
Territories of life as key to global environmental sustainability
Glocal woodlands – The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland
As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustain…
In danger of co-option
Community ownership and management of land has gained prominence in environmental policy discussions, especially within land restoration debates. Within Scotland, community land ownership is promoted as a means to give communities greater say over land use decisions, receive a greater share of the benefits from land, and help deliver a just transition to the government of Scotland’s net-zero targets. These goals are supported by legal mechanisms …
Reconciling global and local benefits of forest restoration
Defining the Anthropocene tropical forest
How natural and cultural forces shaping tropical forested landscapes are conceptualised is of vital importance to Anthropocene debates. We examine two concepts: disturbance and landscape domestication. From the perspective of disturbance, humans - whether ancient or modern - are a priori negative for tropical forests, outside of and alien to nature. From this view, the Anthropocene is a planetary scale aggregation of disturbance. A more just visi…
Analysing perceptions of nature and nature's contributions to people for a Swiss ecological infrastructure
Understanding how a population perceives nature and nature's contributions to people is key to designing a society's ecological infrastructure. Narrative‐based research can capture how people perceive and value nature. Using the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) framework, through a survey, we capture narratives to assess the value and perceptions of nature and its contributions of Swiss resi…
Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four typ…
Local-global linkages in biodiversity governance
The trajectory of global biodiversity governance, culminating in the 2022 Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF), reflects a pivot toward transformative change through a “whole-of-society” (WoS) approach. This approach integrates traditional multilateral negotiations with various self-organizing governance initiatives across the public, civil, and business spheres, forming additional layers within a biodiversity regime complex. Wh…
Navigating the FPIC Traps in Gabon’s Protected Area Expansion
Exclusive conservation has developed over thousands of years through protected area creation. Today, in order to achieve global conservation targets it is recognised that exclusive conservation can no longer be used. Rather, inclusive conservation has now become a rallying cry, and has been integrated into the Global Biodiversity Framework and the policies of various conservation NGOs. However, shrugging off thousands of years of baggage is hard.…
Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests
Global conservation maps often overlook community lands, impacting decision-making and reducing local agency. We focus on the high-profile and regionally important case of Massaha’s ancestral territory (Ibola Dja Bana Ba Massaha). In Gabon, the forest is largely gazetted into logging concessions and described as an Eden-like wilderness despite long-term human presence. We compare Massaha’s biocultural maps to global, colonial, and post-colonial m…
Geography (18 obras) · Environmental resource management (17 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (14 obras) · Ecology (14 obras) · Environmental planning (12 obras) · Environmental Science (11 obras) · Business (10 obras) · Biology (9 obras) · Corporate governance (8 obras) · Economics (8 obras)