A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A study of residents surrounding the Kaskaskia River: Understanding preferences for landscape change
Maintaining resilient and sustainable agricultural watersheds depends on the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines to inform decisions made about agricultural practices and natural resources in the Kaskaskia River Watershed. With about 82% of the watershed devoted to farming, and of this portion, 63% covered with crop agriculture, farming and rural communities play significant roles in the sustainability of the Kaskaskia agro-ecosystem. To enable decision-makers to adopt more sustainable practices and build the capacity of communities in the Kaskaskia River watershed to cope with changes to social-ecological systems, this project brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from agricultural engineering, fisheries management, conservation psychology, and community planning. Our collective research was designed to support evidence-based decisions being made about the Kaskaskia River Watershed by developing a framework to integrate hydrologic, ecosystem, and socio-cultural models that show the effects of changes brought about by environmental and social stressors on agro-ecosystems. The scope of this technical report is limited to the social science findings associated with the people and communities of the Kaskaskia watershed. We engaged residents and stakeholders in discussions about perceptions and preferences for landscape change, and their connections to various places within the Kaskaskia River watershed with an eye toward representing the public interests of residents and stakeholders. The social science team applied a mixture of methods that complemented one another in overlapping phases of research and are disseminated in this report. Each of these phases was integrated and conducted in collaboration with our interdisciplinary research team to develop a unified central theme of understanding landscape change through place-based research involving public engagement and human behavior. Specifically, we embarked on three phases of research. First, we engaged stakeholders to build relationships and develop an in-depth understanding of forces that influenced landscape change in the region, as well as shaped the perceived meanings of places and understanding of how the community was adapting to change. Second, we sought to understand the benefits and threats of the Kaskaskia River watershed through a sequential assessment of expert stakeholder beliefs and a participatory mapping exercise that spatially located these belief systems. Thirdly, we examined residents’ preferences for future growth of the region, their perspectives and experiences in the region, and their pro-environmental behaviors which contribute to the sustainability of the region. Ultimately in this final phase we sought to understand how residents’ experiences and sense of place within the Kaskaskia River Watershed shape behavioral intentions to reduce or mitigate negative impacts on environmental quality of the region.
A study of residents surrounding the Kaskaskia River: Understanding preferences for landscape change
Maintaining resilient and sustainable agricultural watersheds depends on the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines to inform decisions made about agricultural practices and natural resources in the Kaskaskia River Watershed. With about 82% of the watershed devoted to farming, and of this portion, 63% covered with crop agriculture, farming and rural communities play significant roles in the sustainability of the Kaskaskia agro-ecosystem. To enable decision-makers to adopt more sustainable practices and build the capacity of communities in the Kaskaskia River watershed to cope with changes to social-ecological systems, this project brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from agricultural engineering, fisheries management, conservation psychology, and community planning. Our collective research was designed to support evidence-based decisions being made about the Kaskaskia River Watershed by developing a framework to integrate hydrologic, ecosystem, and socio-cultural models that show the effects of changes brought about by environmental and social stressors on agro-ecosystems. The scope of this technical report is limited to the social science findings associated with the people and communities of the Kaskaskia watershed. We engaged residents and stakeholders in discussions about perceptions and preferences for landscape change, and their connections to various places within the Kaskaskia River watershed with an eye toward representing the public interests of residents and stakeholders. The social science team applied a mixture of methods that complemented one another in overlapping phases of research and are disseminated in this report. Each of these phases was integrated and conducted in collaboration with our interdisciplinary research team to develop a unified central theme of understanding landscape change through place-based research involving public engagement and human behavior. Specifically, we embarked on three phases of research. First, we engaged stakeholders to build relationships and develop an in-depth understanding of forces that influenced landscape change in the region, as well as shaped the perceived meanings of places and understanding of how the community was adapting to change. Second, we sought to understand the benefits and threats of the Kaskaskia River watershed through a sequential assessment of expert stakeholder beliefs and a participatory mapping exercise that spatially located these belief systems. Thirdly, we examined residents’ preferences for future growth of the region, their perspectives and experiences in the region, and their pro-environmental behaviors which contribute to the sustainability of the region. Ultimately in this final phase we sought to understand how residents’ experiences and sense of place within the Kaskaskia River Watershed shape behavioral intentions to reduce or mitigate negative impacts on environmental quality of the region.
A study of residents surrounding the Kaskaskia River: Understanding preferences for landscape change
Shipley, Nathan (author) / Shin, Seunguk (author) / Sharma, Suresh (author) / Leitschuh, Benjamin (author) / Ware, Haley (author) / Stewart, William (author) / van Riper, Carena (author)
2022-01-14
oai:zenodo.org:5851726
Paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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