Journal
AIR SOIL AND WATER RESEARCH
Volume 14, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/11786221211009478
Keywords
Restoration economy; biodiversity; ecohydrology; environmental justice; stakeholders; community involvement; partnership; human-nature relationship
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- Land Change Science Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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SIRC is a partnership between government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private landowners in the United States and Mexico, aiming to develop a restoration economy that connects ecological and socioeconomic benefits. Through iterative adaptive management, transparency, and sharing, the collaborative seeks to increase project success and promote self-sustaining restoration efforts while improving quality of life for residents.
The Sky Island Restoration Collaborative (SIRC) is a growing partnership between government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private landowners in southeast Arizona, the United States, and northern Sonora, Mexico. Starting in 2014 as an experiment to cultivate restoration efforts by connecting people across vocations and nations, SIRC has evolved over 5 years into a flourishing landscape-restoration initiative. The group is founded on the concept of developing a restoration economy, where ecological and socioeconomic benefits are interconnected and complimentary. The variety of ideas, people, field sites, administration, and organizations promote learning and increase project success through iterative adaptive management, transparency, and sharing. The collaborative seeks to make restoration self-sustaining and improve quality of life for citizens living along the US-Mexico border. Research and experiments are developed between scientists and practitioners to test hypotheses, qualify procedures, and quantify impacts on shared projects. Simultaneously, partners encourage and facilitate connecting more people to the landscape-via volunteerism, internships, training, and mentoring. Through this history, SIRC's evolution is pioneering the integration of community and ecological restoration to protect biodiversity in the Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion. This editorial introduces SIRC as a unique opportunity for scientists and practitioners looking to engage in binational partnerships and segues into this special journal issue we have assembled that relates new findings in the field of restoration ecology.
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