Navigating ecological transformation: Resist–accept–direct as a path to a new resource management paradigm

GW Schuurman, DN Cole, AE Cravens… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Natural resource managers worldwide face a growing challenge: Intensifying global change
increasingly propels ecosystems toward irreversible ecological transformations. This …

Forestry in the face of global change: results of a global survey of professionals

A Himes, J Bauhus, S Adhikari, SK Barik, H Brown… - Current forestry …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Forests support most global terrestrial biodiversity and
contribute to the livelihood of billions of people, but these and other benefits are in jeopardy …

RAD adaptive management for transforming ecosystems

AJ Lynch, LM Thompson, JM Morton, EA Beever… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Intensifying global change is propelling many ecosystems toward irreversible
transformations. Natural resource managers face the complex task of conserving these …

A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation

SD Crausbay, HR Sofaer, AE Cravens, BC Chaffin… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Earth is experiencing widespread ecological transformation in terrestrial, freshwater, and
marine ecosystems that is attributable to directional environmental changes, especially …

Managing ecosystems with resist–accept–direct (RAD)

BK Williams, ED Brown - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years considerable interest has been generated in a new approach known as
resist–accept–direct, or RAD, for managing ecosystems in the face of climate change. Under …

Management foundations for navigating ecological transformation by resisting, accepting, or directing social–ecological change

DR Magness, L Hoang, RT Belote, J Brennan… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Despite striking global change, management to ensure healthy landscapes and sustained
natural resources has tended to set objectives on the basis of the historical range of …

The administrator's dilemma: Closing the gap between climate adaptation justice in theory and practice

AR Siders - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Justice theory is intended to guide practical choices, but justice theories struggle to inform
many decisions that must be made in climate change adaptation practice. This paper …

Where can managers effectively resist climate‐driven ecological transformation in pinyon–juniper woodlands of the US Southwest?

AR Noel, RK Shriver, SD Crausbay… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pinyon–juniper (PJ) woodlands are an important component of dryland ecosystems across
the US West and are potentially susceptible to ecological transformation. However …

Post-fire reference densities for giant sequoia seedlings in a new era of high-severity wildfires

NL Stephenson, AC Caprio, DN Soderberg… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many forests globally are experiencing increases in large, high-severity wildfires, often with
increasingly inadequate post-fire tree regeneration. To identify areas that might need post …

Reimagining large river management using the Resist–Accept–Direct (RAD) framework in the Upper Mississippi River

NK Ward, AJ Lynch, EA Beever, J Booker… - Ecological …, 2023 - Springer
Background Large-river decision-makers are charged with maintaining diverse ecosystem
services through unprecedented social-ecological transformations as climate change and …