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Adaptation and Resilience in Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems August 2004

CSIRO SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS. Adaptation and Resilience in Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems August 2004. Ryan McAllister , Yiheyis Maru, Nick Abel, Iain Gordon, *Art Langston. Research foci. Social networks and social capital

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Adaptation and Resilience in Rangeland Social-Ecological Systems August 2004

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  1. CSIRO SUSTAINABLE ECOSYSTEMS Adaptation and Resilience in Rangeland Social-Ecological SystemsAugust 2004 Ryan McAllister , Yiheyis Maru, Nick Abel, Iain Gordon, *Art Langston

  2. Research foci • Social networks and social capital • How do social networks effect the movement of livestock and landscape condition • Pastoral decision making • How do personal rules for making stocking decisions change in response to learning, financial and institutional drivers and landscape condition • CSS versus SSS • Do CSS methods better explain livestock movement, stocking decisions and landscape condition

  3. FED / STATE LOCAL REGIONAL Overlapping scales of a conceptual grazing SES Regional landscape condition Landholder networks Weather Research & monitoring Landscape function Enterprise Landscapes Land mgmt decisions Livelihood function Gov’t Costs & prices Socioeconomic condition

  4. Data catching up to theory • Rapid early progress in ABM of market and institutional influence on a conceptual grazing SES • Extensive effort to capture historical data and societal understanding • Dispersion of grazing pressure • Land fragmentation and consolidation • Stock transportation records • Surveys to illuminate social networks • Changes in tenure • See website for papers

  5. Expansion of grazing pressure

  6. Consolidation: Spatial connectivity restoredby property consolidationand agistment arrangements Regional Fragmentation: More uniform resource accessallows splitting of largerproperties Nomadism: Opportunistic movementaround entire region rangingout from key resources Resource Excision: ‘Ownership’ of a key resourceproviding partial accessto surrounding area Land fragmentation and consolidation CJ Stokes, AJ Ash, RRJ. McAllister 2004 Fragmentation of Australian Rangelands Australian Rangeland Society Conference, Alice Springs 5-8 July.

  7. Social networks 19 of 68 pastoralists linked by 4 families

  8. Without subsidies With subsidies

  9. New directions • Western NSW case study dropped • Intensive grazing case study added • extensive versus intensive • tenure • enterprise cost structures • density of social networks • Alignment with other projects • “Social adaptation to ecological uncertainty in two Australian grazing systems”

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