NSERC ResNet

A network for improving monitoring, modelling, and managing of ecosystem services in working landscapes by uniting a broad community of scholars and resource managers from across academic, government, NGO, and industry sectors. We seek to identify paths for sustainable landscape management that ensure biologically diverse, resilient, and adaptive social-ecological systems amid the complexity of competing values, stakeholders, and political jurisdictions. Our scientific and partnership activities take place in a series of six exemplar working landscapes across Canada. Each landscape of ResNet features a series of investigations, co-designed with local industry, government, NGO, and Indigenous partners and other stakeholders, into the provision, modelling, and governance of multiple ecosystem services. ResNet also features three themes, in which scientists, working with theme partners, apply theory to the data and knowledge generated in the six landscapes to improve the management, modeling, and monitoring of ecosystem services in each landscape, and then synthesize the knowledge generated across landscapes to produce tools for monitoring, modelling, and managing ecosystem services beyond these focal landscapes in other working landscapes of Canada and at larger scales. Major funding is provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), in partnership federal and provincial government agencies and industrial partners working at local to federal levels.