Tweak, Adapt, or Transform: Policy Scenarios in Response to Emerging Bioenergy Markets in the U.S. Corn Belt

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

Atwell, Ryan¹ 

关键词: agriculture;    complexity;    ecosystem services;    Iowa;    participatory;    perennials;    resilience;    scale;    social-ecological systems;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-03854-160110

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

Emerging bioenergy markets portend both boon and bane for regions of intensive agricultural production worldwide.To understand and guide the effects of bioenergy markets on agricultural landscapes, communities, and economies, we engaged leaders in the Corn Belt state of Iowa in a participatory workshop and follow-up interviews to develop future policy scenarios.Analysis of workshop and interview data, in conjunction with the results of regional social and ecological research, was used to develop a heuristic model outlining interactions between key drivers and outcomes of regional landscape change.Three policy scenarios were built on this framework and included the following approaches: tweak, adapt, and transform.Our results suggest that if macroscale markets, technologies, and federal farm policies are allowed to be the overriding drivers of farm owner and operator decision making, Iowa

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