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New paper on blue carbon management by municipalities

MREM student and WWF intern Anna Murphy recently published her research on blue carbon management by municipalities with the new journal Nature Based Solutions, titled, “Whose carbon is it?” Understanding Municipalities Role in Blue Carbon Ecosystems Management in Canada. As an incentive offered by this new journal, this paper is Open Access. Anna interviewed dozens of municipal planners across Canada and found that blue carbon is not seen as their jurisdiction, and that when it is managed it’s done for co-benefits other than the carbon sequestration benefits, such as habitat protection and biodiversity.

Reasons for management of 'blue carbon' ecosystems in Canadian coastal municipalities, according to Murphy et al., (2023)

New paper on HM trainers

Carolyn Mann’s first paper out of the HM project – Holistic Management and adaptive grazing: a trainers’ view – is online this morning at Sustainability, and open access. Ours is the first paper out in a special issue on Agroecology for the Transition towards Social-Ecological Sustainability. We just happened to have a draft ready when we heard about the special issue. Carolyn interviewed 25 HM or adaptive grazing trainers across Canada and the US to get a sense of how they see their training, and their trainees. Some interesting findings around gender, what it means to adopt, as well as the separability between the holistic planning and the specific grazing practices.

Next we developed a systems thinking statement concourse, in part using these interviews, and conducted Q-method online with 18 HM trainers and trainees to identify degrees and types of systems thinking. That paper is still in development, but a little teaser: gender again seems to play a role!

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