Reimagining large river management using the Resist–Accept–Direct (RAD) framework in the Upper Mississippi River

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 48
• Main Authors: Ward, Nicole K., Lynch, Abigail J., Beever, Erik A., Booker, Joshua, Bouska, Kristen L., Embke, Holly, Houser, Jeffrey N., Kocik, John F., Kocik, Joshua, Lawrence, David J., Lemon, Mary Grace, Limpinsel, Doug, Magee, Madeline R., Maitland, Bryan M., McKenna, Owen, Meier, Andrew, Morton, John M., Muehlbauer, Jeffrey D., Newman, Robert, Oliver, Devon C., Rantala, Heidi M., Sass, Greg G., Shultz, Aaron, Thompson, Laura M., Wilkening, Jennifer L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2023; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Anthropocene; Aquatic habitats; basins; Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystems Conservation in Global Large River Basins; Climate change; Decision making; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecology; Ecosystem; Ecosystem services; ecosystems; Embedding; Environment; Governance; Habitat connectivity; Habitats; hydrograph; Management; Managers; Mississippi River; Redundancy; Rivers; Social interactions; Social-ecological system; Social-ecological systems; space and time; Transformation; Transformations; vision; Mississippi River; Anthropocene; Climate change; Transformation; Basin planning; Cross-scale interactions; Ecosystem; Social-ecological system; Management

Background Large-river decision-makers are charged with maintaining diverse ecosystem services through unprecedented social-ecological transformations as climate change and other global stressors intensify. The interconnected, dendritic habitats of rivers, which often demarcate jurisdictional bounda...