Beyond despair: Leveraging ecosystem restoration for resilience

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Smith, Carter S.; Demattia, Elizabeth A.; Albright, Elizabeth; Bromberger, Abigail F.; Hayward, Olivia G.; Mackinson, India J.; Mantell, Sydney A.; Mcadoo, Brian G.; Mcafee, Dominic; Mccollum, Aurora; Paxton, Avery B.; Roderer, Anne; Stevenson, Kathryn; Vidra, Rebecca L.; Zhao, Zixin
• 署名单位: Duke University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Duke University; Duke University; University of Adelaide; National Oceanic Atmospheric Admin (NOAA) - USA; National Ocean Service, NOAA; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NOOCS); National Oceanic Atmospheric Admin (NOAA) - USA; North Carolina State University
• 刊物名称: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0027-13869
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2307082121
• 发表日期: 2025-01-14
• 关键词: ecological restoration; community resilience; coastal ecosystems; place attachment; CONSERVATION; optimism; sense; IMPACT; motivations; management

摘要

Ecosystem restoration has historically been viewed as an ecological endeavor, but restoration possesses significant, yet largely untapped, potential as a catalyst for personal and social transformation. We highlight the opportunity for restoration to enhance community resilience by increasing agency and collective action and countering the pervasive perception that we are powerless witnesses to environmental decline. In this perspective, we take a bright spots approach and highlight successful examples of ecosystem restoration that have helped to nurture a sense of place, foster optimism, and cultivate stronger and more diverse social networks. These three individualand community- level capacities have the potential to lead to increased psychosocial resilience, which is a key component of community resilience. Our aim is to spark discussion and research to better understand how we can transform restoration from a largely technical endeavor to a practice and process through which human-nature relationships are infused with deliberate meaning and human well- being is improved. With current calls to upscale and technologize restoration to meet sustainable with great potential for psychosocial benefits.