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    Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience

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    Author
    Hammersley, Mia A.
    Scott, Christopher
    Gimblett, Randy
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Coll Law
    Univ Arizona, Sch Nat Resources & Environm
    Issue Date
    2018
    Keywords
    adaptive cycle
    cultural ecosystem services
    dam decommissioning
    knowledge coproduction
    Native Nations
    riparian restoration
    salmon
    
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    Resilience Alliance
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    Hammersley, M., C. Scott, and R. Gimblett. 2018. Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience. Ecology and Society 23(1):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09928-230140
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    Ecology and Society
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    Copyright © 2018 by the author(s). Published here under license by The Resilience Alliance. This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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    This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.
    Abstract
    Rivers and riparian ecosystems have historically provided a range of beneficial goods and services to human societies. However, floodplains have also posed risks to the humans that came to rely upon them. Although riparian areas are among the most resource-rich and biodiverse ecosystems, they are also some of the most disturbed by human activity. Today, social and economic needs for water diverted off-stream are often pitted against the flow of water needed to maintain crucial instream ecological functions. The construction of dams has been a widely implemented method to control rivers for human purposes, particularly in the western United States. However, there is a growing movement to decommission dams, as stakeholders begin to recognize the ultimate value of restoring ecosystem services, including cultural ecosystem services; indeed, their restoration may be necessary to ensure lasting systemic resilience. Broader questions of dam decommissioning in the United States are receiving increasing attention by scholars and practitioners alike. In this paper, we adapt and apply seminal concepts from the adaptive cycle framework and cultural ecosystem services, particularly for Native Nations, and thereby assess the unfolding case of decommissioning and restoration on the Elwha River in northwest Washington State. The empirical evidence indicates that dam removal coincided with scalar and temporal alignment of multiple adaptive cycles and contributed to both short and long-term resilience. Further, the Elwha case represents an extremely important precedent in the evolution of river management practices, in which stakeholder-based collaborative governance incorporated knowledge coproduction and regulatory maneuvering to successfully overcome obstacles inherent in both dam decommissioning and subsequent restoration. We conclude by reflecting on lessons of broader relevance beyond the specific case of the Elwha.
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    Open Access Article. UA Open Access Publishing Fund.
    ISSN
    1708-3087
    DOI
    10.5751/ES-09928-230140
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    Final published version
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    https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss1/art40/
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.5751/ES-09928-230140
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