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- Title
'Generality of mis-fit'? The real-life difficulty of matching scales in an interconnected world.
- Authors
Keskitalo, E.; Horstkotte, Tim; Kivinen, Sonja; Forbes, Bruce; Käyhkö, Jukka
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
GOODNESS-of-fit tests; REINDEER farming; MULTIPLE scale method; HUMAN ecology; SMALL farms
- Publication
AMBIO - A Journal of the Human Environment, 2016, Vol 45, Issue 6, p742
- ISSN
0044-7447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13280-015-0757-2