Informing climate adaptation pathways in multi-use woodland landscapes using the values-rules-knowledge framework

摘要: An emerging planning framework for climate adaptation focuses on interactions among societal values, institutional rules and scientific experiential knowledge about biophysical impacts of change options. These shape the decision context that can enable or constrain effective adaptation. To illustrate operationalisation this ‘values-rules-knowledge’ (VRK) we developed pathways agricultural landscapes south-eastern Australia, which are expected to become warmer drier under change. We used VRK identify potential constraints implementing pathways. Drawing expert knowledge, published literature, biodiversity modelling stakeholder workshops identified (1) production matrix, (2) high conservation value remnant eucalypt woodlands, (3) woodland trees. Adaptation options included shifts from mixed cropping-grazing rangeland grazing biomass enterprises; promoting re-assembly native ecological communities; maintaining ecosystem services habitat trees provide. Across all pathways, applying elucidated fifteen key implementation constraints, including limits farm viability, decreasing effectiveness environmental legislation conflicting values exotic plants. Most involved VRK; 13 rules, eight seven knowledge. Value appeared most difficult address, whereas those based were more tangible. The lower number may reflect scale our analysis (which focused points in pre-defined pathways); new participatory approaches would likely yield a richer set scenarios. conclude helps connect knowledge-based view with perspective need changes social systems, enabling targeting Our focus different sectors multi-use landscape highlighted importance group higher level policy balancing collective outcomes multiple decisions by many land managers.