Futures consciousness and governance transitions for climate adaptation in South African protected areas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19585262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Múnera‐Roldán (0000-0003-0601-2312, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecosystems and People (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2639-5908 • E-ISSN: 2639-5916 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/26395916.2023.2250467 |
| OpenAlex | W4386461207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 61 |
In the context of climate change, protected areas play an important role in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and addressing resource nexus challenges. However, setting protected areas for long-term conservation is often criticised for using narratives based on political, economic, and scientific assumptions to justify which elements of nature should be conserved and what actions should be implemented, creating a sense that conservation outcomes are desirable and universally accepted. Such narratives exclude other voices, values, and practices, limiting alternative options for the future. Adapting protected areas to climate change requires innovative approaches to address societal challenges and critically examining conservation strategies to make informed decisions under scenarios of change. This article presents the case of the Garden Route National Park in South Africa and the approach used to co-create inclusive visions of the future with local stakeholders. I draw on theoretical insights and empirical data collected through interviews with the park staff to describe the use of futures consciousness as an approach to understanding how people perceive change, prepare for, and embrace the future. I explore how people’s perceptions of change mobilize action to address complex problems and create alternative imaginaries beyond spatial and temporal boundaries. Futures consciousness can contribute to understanding processes that enable or constrain transformation and identifying options for mobilising change towards desired future goals. The findings can help managers examine individual and collective assumptions about adaptation, inform future-oriented practices and advance opportunities for transformational change to build resilient, just futures for nature and people
Business · Climate change · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Futures contract · Futures studies · Geography · Management · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Scenario planning · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Vision · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Marketing
The sociology of social change
Knowledge co‐production and boundary work to promote implementation of conservation plans
Co-Producing Sustainability
Transformative Environmental Governance
Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century
Sustainability Transitions Research
Co‐exploring relational heuristics for sustainability transitions towards more resilient and just Anthropocene futures
A Panorama of Parks
States of Knowledge
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations
Nature’s contribution to adaptation
Engaging with the future
Protected areas and the sustainable development goals
Sensing, feeling, thinking
The strengths and weaknesses of future visioning approaches for climate change adaptation
Societal transformation in response to global environmental change
The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development
Crisis, transformation, and agency
Four approaches to anticipatory climate governance
Climate change governance
Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach
Re-thinking the present
A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes
Co-productive governance
Towards future-oriented conservation
Containing the Atom
Individual futures consciousness
The five dimensions of Futures Consciousness
There is no such thing as a short-term issue
Strengthening foresight for governance of social-ecological systems
Talking of space‐time
Temporal enclosures and the social production of inescapable futures for coal mining in Colombia
Conservation labour geographies
The Politics of the Anthropocene
Spaces of enclosure
Rethinking Enclosure
Entangled agencies
Can the planet be saved in Time? On the temporalities of socionature, the clock and the limits debate
The spread and maturation of strategic adaptive management within and beyond South African national parks
Three horizons
Assembling Enclosure
The Research Interview as a Dialogical Context for the Production of Social Life and Personal Narratives
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |