Pathways to resilience : building adaptation pathways for local food and wine production in the Okanagan Bioregion
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: De Grandpré, Ayla
issued: 2022-04-19T18:53:04Z
issued: 2022
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Global food and wine production are increasingly exposed to the impacts of climate change, and other interrelated disturbances, such as political instability, changing consumer preferences, pollution, market disruptions, pandemics, and more. These disturbances test the resilience of agro-ecological systems and require systems to adapt. However, the accelerating rate of change in the Anthropocene and deepening uncertainties have made adaptation increasingly complex. Food and wine producers require tools to help them plan for change and uncertainty, with the goal of increasing their resilience. This research applies an Adaptation Pathways approach to explore if and how food and wine producers in the Okanagan Bioregion, an important agricultural region in Canada, can adapt over time and build their resilience to multiple, dynamic disturbances. Using a mixed-methods approach, including a literature review, desktop analysis, mapping survey, and semi-structured interviews, this research explores the following research questions: What is resilient food and wine production? Which disturbances are affecting the food and wine production landscape in the Okanagan Bioregion? And how and when can local food producers adapt to these disturbances? The results indicate that resilience is the ability for producers to prepare, adjust, innovate or transform for disturbance, and can be translated into practice using a socio-ecological systems model. The results of the desktop analysis and mapping survey highlight complex interactions between social and ecological driven disturbances, but emphasise the risks of changing environmental conditions, chiefly linked to climate change. Using the semi-structured interviews, this research also found that building adaptation pathways that address the multiple disturbances is possible but requires a different approach. Interview participants stressed the need to build general adaptive capacity, rather than responding to specific disturbances. This…
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note: Pathways to Resilience: Building Adaptation Pathways for Local Food and Wine Production in the Okanagan Bioregion by Ayla De Grandpré B.A. University of British Columbia Okanagan A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS In THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies - Sustainability) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) May, 2022 © Ayla De Grandpré 2022 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: Pathways to Resilience: Building Adaptation Pathways for Local Food and Wine Production in the Okanagan Bioregion. submitted by Ayla De Grandpré in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts. Dr. Donna Senese, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. Mary Stockdale, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Lael Parrott, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Eric Li, Faculty of Management University Examiner Click or tap here to enter text. Additional Committee Members include: Dr. John Janmaat, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Global food and wine production are increasingly exposed to the impacts of climate change, and other interrelated disturbances, such as political instability, changing consumer preferences, pollution, market disruptions, pandemics, and more. These disturbances test the resilience of agro-ecological systems and require systems to adapt. However, the accelerating rate of change in the Anthropocene and deepening uncertainties have made adaptation increasingly complex. Food and wine producers require tools to help them plan for change and uncertainty, with the goal of increasing their resilience. This research applies an Adaptation Pathways approach to explore if and how…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2022-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0412898
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Senese, Donna
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/81228