Over recent decades, environmental management
has progressed from a tenure-based process, where
each tenure is established for a single purpose, to
one that considers multiple, often conflicting, uses
across multiple tenures at the landscape scale. Stork
et al. (2014) considered the history of management,
contestation and conservation of humid forested
landscapes of Australia’s Wet Tropics and investigated
the unfolding expression of new and diverse values
attached to the region. Their analysis supported
the theory of Nested Adaptive Policy Cycles that
change in response to exogenous factors (Gunderson,
1995). They concluded that twenty-first century
environmental problems such as climate change
and biodiversity loss will lead to further major social
transformations and the path generation to increasing
complexity will continue.
History
Editor
Lewis RC; Mata JP; Connaughton C
Parent Title
Tropical forest conservation: Long-term processes of human evolution, cultural adaptations and consumption patterns