OVERVIEW
ResNet is committed to filling in the gap in data and knowledge needed for evidence-based management of working landscapes for multiple ecosystem services. To do this, we have focused our work on three key themes in which research is lacking in six core landscapes across Canada.
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LANDSCAPES
In each of the six core landscapes, ResNet has launched a series of co-designed investigations into the provision, modeling, and governance of multiple ecosystem services, with academics working alongside industry, government, NGO, and Indigenous partners and other stakeholders. The six landscapes include:
In each of the six core landscapes, ResNet has launched a series of co-designed investigations into the provision, modeling, and governance of multiple ecosystem services, with academics working alongside industry, government, NGO, and Indigenous partners and other stakeholders. The six landscapes include:
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THEMES
ResNet also features three themes, in which scientists, working with theme partners, apply theory to improve the management (Theme 1), modeling (Theme 2), and monitoring (Theme 3) of ecosystem services in each landscape. These themes will work primarily by synthesizing data and knowledge from across our six core landscapes.
ResNet also features three themes, in which scientists, working with theme partners, apply theory to improve the management (Theme 1), modeling (Theme 2), and monitoring (Theme 3) of ecosystem services in each landscape. These themes will work primarily by synthesizing data and knowledge from across our six core landscapes.
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SYNTHESIS TEAM
Ultimately, ResNet will develop new tools for estimating ecosystem services outcomes of land use and management decisions for multiple ecosystem services in Canada’s working landscapes; build a structure for an Ecosystem Services Observation Network for Canada (ESON-C); and create a series of landscape-based models of ecosystem services provision that can be used to forecast ecosystem services outcomes of decision-making in complex systems.
These tools can improve stewardship of Canada’s working landscapes and all the ecosystem services they provide, while fundamentally advancing scientific knowledge about ecosystem services, cementing Canada’s position as a global leader in the science of sustainability and resilience in working landscapes.
The Synthesis Team is responsible for providing oversight for the development of these synthetic tools.