Ecosystem Level Carbon
Management
Social and Financial Implications
Peg Strankman
Barbwire Consulting
Perspectives
Wicked Problems
• Rittel and Webber 1973
• Problems defy solution by analytical methods
• Finding a balance
– Conservation
– Agriculture production
– Rural community resilience
Sustainability
• Definitions
– Ecosystem management/approach
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1992 Rio Convention on Biological Diversity
1995 Canadian Biodiversity Strategy
2008 Canadian Business and Biodiversity Council
2011 – 2020 Decade of Biodiversity
Aichi targets
Systems Approach
• Interdisciplinary approach
• Connections from species to landscapes
• Production efficiency
• Maintaining ecosystem services
• Consumer/Agri-food wants to know
Achieving Sustainability
• Ecological, economic and social factors on the
landscape
• Taking a landscape approach
– Integrating conservation and agriculture
• Agreement – interdisciplinary approach
• Operationalizing??
Barriers
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Existing institutions
Political will
Awareness
Collaboration and cooperation
– Hard work
– Agree on goals