Resilience 2011 -- Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating the Complexities of Global Change -- Second International Science and Policy Conference -- March 11-16, 2011
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Introduction by Dale Blahna
- Combining research across country
Different models on stewardship
All Lands, All Owners approach: The management of public lands alone will not be sufficient
- Most of panelists are with the U.S. Forestry Service, recent mission shift is towards all lands approach
- Director points to all lands
- New proposed planning rules, on a regional approach, linking forests with all lands and all owners, including urban areas that are much more dense than previously looked at
- Cities: how do they plan, now
- Polycentric
Papers
1. From Sanitary to Sustainable Cities: An emerging role and reevaluation of environmental governance and polycentric networks in cities - Michele Romolini, Kathleen Wolf, Dale Blahna
2. Causes and consequences of urban stewardship footprints over time: a socio-spatial approach - Morgan Grove, Dexter Locke, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Lynn Westphal
3. Understanding urban environmental stewardship networks: Findings from citywide stewardship research in New York City, Seattle, Baltimore, and Chicago - Erika Svendsen, Dana Fisher, Lindsay Campbell, James Connolloy, Lynn Westphal, Michelle Romolini, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Alaka Wali
[1. From Sanitary to Sustainable Cities: An emerging role and reevaluation of environmental governance and polycentric networks in cities - Michele Romolini, Kathleen Wolf, Dale Blahna]
Will talk about the why of our work, on research into cities
Baltimore ecosystem study over the last century
Urban context
- Rapid urbanization of the 1900s
- Global changes in population from 14% in 1900 to over 50%
- In the U.S., 81% of population, on 20% of total land
- Living in the city may be a sustainable strategy: density, mass transit
- NYC residen has 29% of CO2 emissions of average American
Urban accords
Past research assumed few ownership types
- In Philadelphia, greater variety of land ownership
The Sanitary City, of the 19th century
- Concern with health
The Sustainable City:
- Goals will include more self-regulating
Key principles
Governance principles
Governing the Sanitary City: First Generation Environmental Governance
- Policies with public health concerns
- Centralized, top-down, single media (air, water, land)
- Assumes private ownership
- Some success in air and watier policies
Enviornmental governance reconsidered: principles need for new governnance
1. Property
2. Reconnecting with stakeholders and resource manager: equity in benefits and burdens
3. Defining administrative rationality: institutions, regulatory rigidity of snaitary isn't what's needed
In the next century, will have mixed form polycentric networks
Research questions
- a. Pattern = Structure of the network
- b. Process = Interactions in the network
- ...
[2. Causes and consequences of urban stewardship footprints over time: a socio-spatial approach - Morgan Grove, Dexter Locke, Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne, Lynn Westphal
Adding spacial and temporal complexity to network analyses
- Causes and consequences, how did networks occur, are they acheiving their goals?
- Spatial and temporal facts
Dimensions of complexity
- Heterogeneity
- Connectivity
- Contingency (links)
Relationship between spatial structure and network structure
- Factors endogenous to stewardship: (i) social; (ii) ecological
- Factors exogenous to stewardship: spatial characteristics of patches: overlap, adjacency, size
Relationship between temporal structure and network structure?
- Fast/slow
- Lags
- Legacies
Characterizing causes and consequences
- They don't archive, they overwrite, so need to archive for research
[3. Understanding urban environmental stewardship networks: Findings from citywide stewardship research in New York City, Seattle, Baltimore, and Chicago - Erika Svendsen, Dana Fisher, Lindsay Campbell, James Connolloy, Lynn Westphal, Michelle Romolini, Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Alaka Wali]
Presentation switches from city to city
STEW-MAP Chicago http://stewamap.cnt.org
OasisNYC.net for New York
Seattle: http://detpsw.washington.edu/gcra/index.shtml
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