Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes

Schuurman, Gregor W.; Carr, Wylie; Hoffman, Cat H.; Lawrence, David J.; Miller, Brian W.; Beever, Erik A.; Brennan, Jean; Clifford, Katherine R.; Covington, Scott; Morrison, Wendy

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Clarifying the role of the resist–accept–direct framework in supporting resource management planning processes

2025
By Schuurman, Gregor W. ; Carr, Wylie ; Hoffman, Cat H. ; ...

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Conservation Biology
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Schuurman, Gregor W. ; Carr, Wylie ; Hoffman, Cat H. ; Lawrence, David J. ; Miller, Brian W. ; Beever, Erik A. ; Brennan, Jean ; Clifford, Katherine R. ; Covington, Scott ; Morrison, Wendy
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NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; OSF (Office of Sustainable Fisheries)
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The resist–accept–direct (RAD) framework was developed by and for conservationists, resource managers, and climate change adaptation practitioners and scientists to foster strategic and collaborative thinking about responses to anthropogenic ecological change (Lynch et al., 2021; Schuurman et al., 2020, 2022; Thompson et al., 2021). Prevailing management approaches, which emphasize managing for ecosystem stationarity and maintaining historical ecological conditions or dynamics (e.g., Landres et al., 1999), are increasingly inadequate in this time of rapid, directional change (Jackson, 2021; Schuurman et al., 2022). Resisting anthropogenic environmental change has been the traditional approach in the resource management community. However, thinking beyond persistence alone is critical, given that preservation of all ecological components and processes in any given place will not be possible as the environment in which they developed transforms. This change in thinking constitutes a paradigm shift that calls for new tools and approaches, and the RAD framework is gaining traction in conservation and resource management agencies (e.g., the United States Department of the Interior [USDOI, 2021], the National Park Service [NPS, 2021, 2024], Australia's Parks Victoria Board [PVB, 2022], and South African National Parks [van Wilgen-Bredenkamp et al., 2024]).
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Climatic Changes Communication Conservation Biology Nature Conservation Climatic Changes Conservation Biology Nature Conservation Adaptive Management Climate Change Adaptation Ecological Transformation Resource Management Planning
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