“Generality of mis-fit”? The real-life difficulty of matching scales in an interconnected world
A clear understanding of processes at multiple scales and levels is of special significance when conceiving strategies for human–environment interactions. However, understanding and application of the scale concept often differ between administrative-political and ecological disciplines. These mirro...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:5012993 2023-05-15T16:11:53+02:00 “Generality of mis-fit”? The real-life difficulty of matching scales in an interconnected world Keskitalo, E. Carina H. Horstkotte, Tim Kivinen, Sonja Forbes, Bruce Käyhkö, Jukka 2016-03-03 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012993/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26939924 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0757-2 en eng Springer Netherlands http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012993/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26939924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0757-2 © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. CC-BY Perspective Text 2016 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-015-0757-2 2016-09-25T00:04:32Z A clear understanding of processes at multiple scales and levels is of special significance when conceiving strategies for human–environment interactions. However, understanding and application of the scale concept often differ between administrative-political and ecological disciplines. These mirror major differences in potential solutions whether and how scales can, at all, be made congruent. As a result, opportunities of seeking “goodness-of-fit” between different concepts of governance should perhaps be reconsidered in the light of a potential “generality of mis-fit.” This article reviews the interdisciplinary considerations inherent in the concept of scale in its ecological, as well as administrative-political, significance and argues that issues of how to manage “mis-fit” should be awarded more emphasis in social-ecological research and management practices. These considerations are exemplified by the case of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia. Whilst an indigenous small-scale practice, reindeer husbandry involves multi-level ecological and administrative-political complexities—complexities that we argue may arise in any multi-level system. Text Fennoscandia reindeer husbandry PubMed Central (PMC) Ambio 45 6 742 752 |
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A clear understanding of processes at multiple scales and levels is of special significance when conceiving strategies for human–environment interactions. However, understanding and application of the scale concept often differ between administrative-political and ecological disciplines. These mirror major differences in potential solutions whether and how scales can, at all, be made congruent. As a result, opportunities of seeking “goodness-of-fit” between different concepts of governance should perhaps be reconsidered in the light of a potential “generality of mis-fit.” This article reviews the interdisciplinary considerations inherent in the concept of scale in its ecological, as well as administrative-political, significance and argues that issues of how to manage “mis-fit” should be awarded more emphasis in social-ecological research and management practices. These considerations are exemplified by the case of reindeer husbandry in Fennoscandia. Whilst an indigenous small-scale practice, reindeer husbandry involves multi-level ecological and administrative-political complexities—complexities that we argue may arise in any multi-level system. |
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