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Floodplains are unique environments that provide a dynamic link between terrestrial and aquatic systems. Intensification of human activity – particularly agriculture and urbanisation – has resulted in the degradation of floodplains worldwide. Restoration and sustainable management of floodplains requires holistic assessment and compromise between stakeholders to successfully balance environmental, economic, and social benefits. Yet, understanding these complex systems sufficiently to provide evidence-based recommendations is a challenge. We present the lessons learned from establishing an interdisciplinary research-based framework on the agricultural floodplain of Lake Saint Pierre, Québec, Canada, whose mandate was to a) understand and define key environmental, agricultural, and socioeconomic attributes of the landscape, b) quantify the trade-offs and synergies between these attributes across different agricultural practices, regions, and land uses, and c) explore novel agrienvironmental management practices to assess their role in sustainable floodplain management. Within this manuscript, we explore the benefits that such an approach offers in evaluating sustainable floodplain land use. We found that an interdisciplinary research-based approach demonstrated important benefits such as knowledge transfer, more efficient use of resources (e.g., personnel, funding), and a flexible yet robust research framework. A framework of individual research projects connected to broader interdisciplinary themes allowed a more holistic synthesis of the floodplain systems and assessment of agri-environmental practices. By implicitly considering spatial and social scales, we conceptualised not just how redistribution of the land use types can meet sustainable management objectives, but also explored how compromises within existing uses can optimise socio- economic, agricultural and environmental dimensions and move towards a sustainable multifunctional landscape.
| Type de document: | Article scientifique |
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| Éditeur: | Basic and Applied Ecology |
| Mots-clés libres: | Floodplain, Sustainable agriculture, Land use change, Socio-economics, Research framework, Multi-use landscapes |
| Sujets: | 1. Laboratoire de développement durable > 1.7. Environnement, écologie, écosystème 5. Aménagements > 5.6. Projets de mise en valeur 6. Milieu humain > 6.2. Agriculture 6. Milieu humain > 6.5. Urbanisation 8. Impacts et monitoring |
| Date de dépôt: | 03 juill. 2025 18:09 |
| Dernière modification: | 03 juill. 2025 18:09 |
| URI: | https://belsp.uqtr.ca/id/eprint/1713 |
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