Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface
The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy....
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| author | Antony Challenger Ana Cordova Elena Lazos Chavero Miguel Equihua Manuel Maass |
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| description | The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy. The socioecosystem approach recognizes that social systems are integrated with natural systems and seeks to adaptively comanage socioecosystem coevolution for the sustainable development of both systems. We hypothesize that incorporation of this approach into environmental policy in Mexico could help resolve many of the problems that currently undermine policy effectiveness. To find out to what extent policy professionals might concur with this hypothesis, and what the opportunities and obstacles to implementing socioecosystem-based policy might be, research was conducted to elicit the expert opinion of officials responsible for formulating and implementing environmental policy in Mexico. The principle opportunities consist in the fact that experts intuitively understand the socioecosystem approach, and that most perceive advantages in adopting it because its policy attributes can potentially help to resolve many of the factors they identify as limiting the success of current environmental policies. Obstacles to its adoption include institutional barriers and the vested interests that benefit from the status quo. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-490a56f86cfb4f52b97abd84c9c54f302022-12-21T21:23:58ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872018-06-012323110.5751/ES-10066-23023110066Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interfaceAntony Challenger0Ana Cordova1Elena Lazos Chavero2Miguel Equihua3Manuel Maass4Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Campus Morelia, MexicoEl Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Departamento de Estudios Urbanos y del Medio Ambiente, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, MexicoInstituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cd. Mx., MexicoInstituto de Ecología, A.C. (INECOL), Xalapa, MéxicoInstituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Campus Morelia, MexicoThe urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy. The socioecosystem approach recognizes that social systems are integrated with natural systems and seeks to adaptively comanage socioecosystem coevolution for the sustainable development of both systems. We hypothesize that incorporation of this approach into environmental policy in Mexico could help resolve many of the problems that currently undermine policy effectiveness. To find out to what extent policy professionals might concur with this hypothesis, and what the opportunities and obstacles to implementing socioecosystem-based policy might be, research was conducted to elicit the expert opinion of officials responsible for formulating and implementing environmental policy in Mexico. The principle opportunities consist in the fact that experts intuitively understand the socioecosystem approach, and that most perceive advantages in adopting it because its policy attributes can potentially help to resolve many of the factors they identify as limiting the success of current environmental policies. Obstacles to its adoption include institutional barriers and the vested interests that benefit from the status quo.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss2/art31/complex adaptive systemsenvironmental governanceexpert opinionmainstreamingMexicopublic policysocial-ecological systemssocioecosystemsustainable developmenttransdisciplinarity |
| spellingShingle | Antony Challenger Ana Cordova Elena Lazos Chavero Miguel Equihua Manuel Maass Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface Ecology and Society complex adaptive systems environmental governance expert opinion mainstreaming Mexico public policy social-ecological systems socioecosystem sustainable development transdisciplinarity |
| title | Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface |
| title_full | Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface |
| title_fullStr | Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface |
| title_short | Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface |
| title_sort | opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem based environmental policy in mexico expert opinion at the science policy interface |
| topic | complex adaptive systems environmental governance expert opinion mainstreaming Mexico public policy social-ecological systems socioecosystem sustainable development transdisciplinarity |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss2/art31/ |
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