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Consulta: subject:"Social-ecological" Registros recuperados: 221 Data/hora: 08/06/2017 19:48:26 Conclusions: Reframing the Possibilities for Natural and Social Science Dialogue on the Economic History of Natural Resources Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ommer, Rosemary E.; Departments of History and Geography, University of Victoria; [email protected]; Paterson, Barbara; Marine Research Institute (Ma-Re), Zoology Department, University of Cape Town; Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA), Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland ; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Fisheries; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Scale and Governance: Conceptual Considerations and Practical Implications Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kok, Kasper; Land Dynamics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; [email protected]; Veldkamp, Tom (A.); Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;. Policies have many unforeseen impacts on social-ecological systems at different levels of spatial and temporal scales. Partly because of this, both scale and governance have been and continue to be hotly debated and studied topics within many scientific disciplines. Although there are two distinct vocabularies, both communities seem to be struggling to come to terms with a shift that has common elements. This special feature has two types of contributions, three scoping papers, providing a state-of-the-art overview of the conceptual discussion, and six case study papers that set out to deal with the practicalities of combining scale and governance. The scoping papers strongly indicate that using the notion of complex systems, specifically the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Governance; Scale; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2011 Social Capital and Social-Ecological Resilience in the Asteroussia Mountains, Southern Crete, Greece Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kizos, Thanasis; Department of Geography, University of the Aegean; [email protected]; Detsis, Vassilis; Department of Home Economics & Ecology, Harokopio University;; Iosifides, Theodoros; Department of Geography, University of the Aegean;; Metaxakis, Minas; Department of Geography, University of the Aegean;. Social-ecological resilience (SER) expresses the capacity of a social-ecological system to adapt and transform. We investigated the ways in which different types and transformations of social capital influence the SER of a region. The study area, the Asteroussia Mountains in southern Crete, Greece, is a typical semiarid hilly/mountainous area of the eastern Mediterranean in which land degradation is one of the most important issues in land management, mostly related to overgrazing because of the growing size of the flocks of sheep and goats. The approach followed was qualitative, with in-depth interviews with a small number of key stakeholders in the area. The findings indicate many important changes in the area in terms of its production, economy, and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Crete; Greece; Land degradation and desertification; Social-ecological resilience; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2014 Application of the SES Framework for Model-based Analysis of the Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hinkel, Jochen; Global Climate Forum (GCF), Berlin, Germany; [email protected]; Bots, Pieter W. G. ; Technical University Delft, The Netherlands; [email protected]. Social-ecological systems (SES) are dynamic systems that continuously change in response to internal or external pressures. A better understanding of the interactions of the social and ecological systems that drive those dynamics is crucial for the development of sustainable management strategies. Dynamic models can serve as tools to explore social-ecological interactions; however, the complexity of the studied systems and the need to integrate knowledge, theories, and approaches from different disciplines pose considerable challenges for their development. We assess the potential of Ostrom’s general SES framework (SESF) to guide a systematic and transparent process of model development in light of these difficulties. We develop a stepwise... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Dynamic modeling; Model development; SES framework; Social-ecological modeling; Social-ecological processes. Ano: 2014 Toward a Network Perspective of the Study of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Janssen, Marco A; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Elmqvist, Thomas; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Ernstson, Henrik; Stockholm University; [email protected]; McAllister, Ryan R. J.; CSIRO; [email protected]; Olsson, Per; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Ryan, Paul; CSIRO; [email protected]. Formal models used to study the resilience of social-ecological systems have not explicitly included important structural characteristics of this type of system. In this paper, we propose a network perspective for social-ecological systems that enables us to better focus on the structure of interactions between identifiable components of the system. This network perspective might be useful for developing formal models and comparing case studies of social-ecological systems. Based on an analysis of the case studies in this special issue, we identify three types of social-ecological networks: (1) ecosystems that are connected by people through flows of information or materials, (2) ecosystem networks that are disconnected and fragmented by the actions of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Network topology; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social-ecological networks. Ano: 2006 Theorizing benefits and constraints in collaborative environmental governance: a transdisciplinary social-ecological network approach for empirical investigations Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Robins, Garry; Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne; [email protected]; McAllister, Ryan R. J.; CSIRO; [email protected]; Guerrero, Angela M.; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland; [email protected]; Crona, Beatrice; Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Lubell, Mark; Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis; [email protected]. When environmental processes cut across socioeconomic boundaries, traditional top-down government approaches struggle to effectively manage and conserve ecosystems. In such cases, governance arrangements that foster multiactor collaboration are needed. The effectiveness of such arrangements, however, depends on how well any ecological interdependencies across governed ecosystems are aligned with patterns of collaboration. This inherent interdisciplinary and complex problem has impeded progress in developing a better understanding of how to govern ecosystems for conservation in an increasingly interconnected world. We argue for the development of empirically informed theories, which are not only able to transcend disciplinary boundaries, but are also... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Collaborative governance; Connectivity; Exponential random graph models (ERGM); Interdisciplinary; Networks; Social-ecological fit; Social-ecological networks; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2016 Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bousquet, Francois; CIRAD, UPR GREEN, F-34398 Montpellier, France ; [email protected]; Alinovi, Luca; Global Resilience Partnership, Nairobi, Kenya; [email protected]; Barreteau, Olivier; IRSTEA, UMR G-EAU, France; [email protected]; Bossio, Deborah; International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Nairobi, Kenya; [email protected]; Brown, Katrina; College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, UK; [email protected]; Caron, Patrick; CIRAD, DGDRS, F-34398 Montpellier, France; [email protected]; d'Errico, Marco; FAO, Rome, Italy; [email protected]; DeClerck, Fabrice; Bioversity International, Montpellier, France ; [email protected]; Enfors Kautsky, Elin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]; Fabricius, Christo; Sustainability Research Unit, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]; Fortmann, Louise; UC Berkeley, USA; [email protected]; Hubert, Bernard; INRA, France; [email protected]; Norgaard, Richard B.; University of California at Berkeley, USA; [email protected]; Quinlan, Allyson; Resilience Alliance; [email protected]; Staver, Charles; Bioversity International, Montpellier, France; [email protected]. In 2014, the Third International Conference on the resilience of social-ecological systems chose the theme “resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation.” The conference aimed specifically at fostering an encounter between the experiences and thinking focused on the issue of resilience through a social and ecological system perspective, and the experiences focused on the issue of resilience through a development perspective. In this perspectives piece, we reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and document the differences and similarities between the two perspectives as discussed during the conference, and identify bridging questions designed to guide future interactions. After the conference, we read the documents... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Development; Perspective; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Transdisciplinarity. Ano: 2016 Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use and Management Provedor de dados: 7 Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Modelling social-ecological systems; Social learning; Sustainability. Ano: 2007 Revisiting the Resilience of Chestnut Forests in Corsica: from Social-Ecological Systems Theory to Political Ecology Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Michon, Genevieve; IRD; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Chestnut; Corsica; Political ecology; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2011 The research journey: travels across the idiomatic and axiomatic toward a better understanding of complexity Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: McGowan, Katharine A.; University of Waterloo, Canada; [email protected]; Westley, Frances; University of Waterloo, Canada; [email protected]; Fraser, Evan D. G.; University of Guelph, Canada; [email protected]; Loring, Philip A.; University of Saskatchewan, Canada; [email protected]; Weathers, Kathleen C.; Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, United States; [email protected]; Avelino, Flor; Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Netherlands; [email protected]; Sendzimir, Jan; International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; [email protected]; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku; Indiana University (Bloomington), United States; [email protected]; Moore, Michele-Lee; University of Victoria, Canada; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Complexity; Interdisciplinarity; Social-ecological systems; Transdisciplinarity. Ano: 2014 Can Law Foster Social-Ecological Resilience? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Environmental Protection Agency, USA; [email protected]; Allen, Craig R.; U.S. Geological Survey - Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA. ; [email protected]; Benson, Melinda H.; Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive governance; Adaptive management; Law; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2013 Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Olsson, Per; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; [email protected]; Galaz, Victor; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; [email protected]; Boonstra, Wiebren J; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; [email protected]. Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger focus on social-ecological systems, can contribute to existing studies of sustainability transformations. First, we responded to two major points of critique: the claim that resilience theory is not useful for addressing sustainability transformations, and that the role of “power” in transformation processes has been underplayed by resilience scholars. Second, we highlighted promising work that combines insights from different theoretical strands, a strategy that strengthens our understanding of sustainability transformations. We elaborated three research... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Agency; Innovation; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability transformation. Ano: 2014 Disturbance, Response, and Persistence in Self-Organized Forested Communities: Robustness and Resilience in Five Communities in Southern Indiana Analysis of Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Fleischman, Forrest D.; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]; Boenning, Kinga; Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO); [email protected]; Garcia-Lopez, Gustavo A; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]; Mincey, Sarah; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]; Schmitt-Harsh, Mikaela; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]; Lopez, Maria Claudia; Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Universidad Javeriana; [email protected]; Basurto, Xavier; Duke University Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University; [email protected]; Fischer, Burney; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]; Ostrom, Elinor; Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University; [email protected]. We develop an analytic framework for the analysis of robustness in social-ecological systems (SESs) over time. We argue that social robustness is affected by the disturbances that communities face and the way they respond to them. Using Ostrom's ontological framework for SESs, we classify the major factors influencing the disturbances and responses faced by five Indiana intentional communities over a 15-year time frame. Our empirical results indicate that operational and collective-choice rules, leadership and entrepreneurship, monitoring and sanctioning, economic values, number of users, and norms/social capital are key variables that need to be at the core of future theoretical work on robustness of self-organized systems. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Disturbance; Intentional communities; Response; Robustness; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2010 Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Christensen, Lisa; Yukon College; [email protected]; Krogman, Naomi; University of Alberta; [email protected]. The objective of this paper is to provide a preliminary discussion of how to improve our conceptualization of social thresholds using (1) a more sociological analysis of social resilience, and (2) results from research carried out in collaboration with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Our sociological analysis of the concept of resilience begins with a review of the literature followed by placement of the concept in the domain of sociological theory to gain insight into its strengths and limitations. A new notion of social thresholds is proposed and case study research discussed to support the proposition. Our findings suggest that rather than view social thresholds as breakpoints between two regimes, as thresholds... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Functionalism; Social-ecological resilience; Thresholds; Yukon Territory. Ano: 2012 The action cycle/structural context framework: a fisheries application Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Webster, D.G.; Dartmouth College; [email protected]. There is a growing consensus that environmental governance is a wicked problem that requires understanding of the many linkages and feedbacks between human and natural systems. Here, I propose an action cycle/structural context (AC/SC) framework that is based on the concept of responsive governance, in which individuals and decision makers respond to problems rather than working to prevent them. By linking agency and structure, the AC/SC framework points out two key problems in the realm of environmental governance: the profit disconnect, whereby economic signals of environmental harm are dampened by endogenous or exogenous forces, and the power disconnect, whereby those who feel the costs of harm are politically marginalized and so have little influence... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Complexity; Environmental governance; Fisheries; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 The role of cooperation for improved stewardship of marine social-ecological systems in Latin America Provedor de dados: 7 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are among the worlds’ richest in marine biodiversity. Fish stocks in these regions are important for fishing communities, and fishing activities engage several million people. These fisheries depend on the natural services provided by a diverse range of marine social-ecological systems, but many LAC fisheries are in a degraded state, and concerns about overexploitation are widespread. With most fishery resources fully exploited or overexploited, opportunities for development lie primarily in restoring depleted stocks and using stocks more efficiently. The papers published in the Special Feature “Cooperation, Local Communities, and Marine Social-Ecological Systems: New Findings from Latin... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Cooperation; Latin America; Marine social-ecological systems; Stewardship. Ano: 2015 The Next Generation of Scientists: Examining the Experiences of Graduate Students in Network-Level Social-Ecological Science Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Romolini, Michele; Center for Urban Resilience, Loyola Marymount University; [email protected]; Record, Sydne; Harvard Forest, Harvard University; [email protected]; Garvoille, Rebecca; Department of Conservation and Forestry, University of Montana; [email protected]; Marusenko, Yevgeniy; School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Geiger, R. Stuart; School of Information, University of California Berkeley; [email protected]. By integrating the research and resources of hundreds of scientists from dozens of institutions, network-level science is fast becoming one scientific model of choice to address complex problems. In the pursuit to confront pressing environmental issues such as climate change, many scientists, practitioners, policy makers, and institutions are promoting network-level research that integrates the social and ecological sciences. To understand how this scientific trend is unfolding among rising scientists, we examined how graduate students experienced one such emergent social-ecological research initiative, Integrated Science for Society and Environment, within the large-scale, geographically distributed Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. Through... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Graduate students; Interdisciplinary research; LTER Network; Social-ecological. Ano: 2013 Adapting to Socioeconomic Developments by Changing Rules in the Governance of Common Property Pastures in the Swiss Alps Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Baur, Ivo; Chair of Human-Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich ; [email protected]; Binder, Claudia R.; Chair of Human-Environment Relations, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; [email protected]. The common property meadows in the Swiss Alps have been managed by local self-organized governance systems since the Middle Ages, thus preventing their overuse. During the past century, socioeconomic developments, such as industrialization and rapid nonagricultural economic growth, have shifted employment opportunities from the agricultural sector towards the service sector. In the agricultural sector, this has led to less intensive use and maintenance of the meadows in the Alps and consequently to a reduction in biodiversity. We use the example of Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps to analyze how the governance system has adapted to these socioeconomic developments. We based our analysis on the Program in Institutional Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common property pastures; Rules; SES; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2013 Intelligent Tinkering: the Endangered Species Act and Resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Benson, Melinda Harm; University of New Mexico; [email protected]. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is one of the most powerful and controversial environmental laws in the United States. As a result of its uncompromising position against biodiversity loss, the ESA has become the primary driver of many ecological restoration efforts in the United States. This article explains why the ESA has become the impetus for so many of these efforts and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the ESA as a primary driver from a resilience-based perspective. It argues that in order to accommodate resilience theory, several changes to ESA implementation and enforcement should be made. First and foremost, there is a need to shift management strategies from a species-centered to a systems-based approach. Chief among the shifts required... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Endangered Species Act; Governance; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: McGinnis, Michael D.; Indiana University; [email protected]; Ostrom, Elinor; Indiana University; [email protected]. The social-ecological system (SES) framework investigated in this special issue enables researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds working on different resource sectors in disparate geographic areas, biophysical conditions, and temporal domains to share a common vocabulary for the construction and testing of alternative theories and models that determine which influences on processes and outcomes are especially critical in specific empirical settings. We summarize changes that have been made to this framework and discuss a few remaining ambiguities in its formulation. Specifically, we offer a tentative rearrangement of the list of relevant attributes of governance systems and discuss other ways to make this framework applicable to policy settings... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Frameworks; Governance; Institutional analysis; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Linking Ecological and Perceptual Assessments for Environmental Management: a Coral Reef Case Study Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Dinsdale, Elizabeth A; Biology Department, San Diego State University; [email protected]. Integrating information from a range of community members in environmental management provides a more complete assessment of the problem and a diversification of management options, but is difficult to achieve. To investigate the relationship between different environmental interpretations, I compared three distinct measures of anchor damage on coral reefs: ecological measures, perceptual meanings, and subjective health judgments. The ecological measures identified an increase in the number of overturned corals and a reduction in coral cover, the perceptual meanings identified a loss of visual quality, and the health judgments identified a reduction in the health of the coral reef sites associated with high levels of anchoring. Combining the perceptual... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Coral reefs; Perceptual meanings; Social-ecological assessments. Ano: 2009 The power problematic: exploring the uncertain terrains of political ecology and the resilience framework Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ingalls, Micah L; Poverty-Environment Initiative, United Nations Development Programme; Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; [email protected]; Stedman, Richard C; Human Dimensions Research Unit, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; [email protected]. Significant and growing concerns relating to global social and environmental conditions and processes have raised deep questions relating to the ability of traditional governance regimes to manage for the complexities of social-ecological systems. The resilience framework provides a more dynamic approach to system analysis and management, emphasizing nonlinearity, feedbacks, and multiscalar engagement along the social-ecological nexus. In recent years, however, a number of scholars and practitioners have noted various insufficiencies in the formulation of the resilience framework, including its lack of engagement with the dimensions of power within social-ecological systems, which blunt the analytical potential of resilience and run the risk of undermining... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Political ecology; Power; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2016 Diagnosing Institutional Fit: a Formal Perspective Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cox, Michael; Dartmouth College; [email protected]. I attempt to demonstrate that the concept of institutional fit and the closely related approach of institutional diagnosis can be improved with the process of formalization. In this context, the concept of fit is interpreted as a way of expressing certain theoretical propositions that relate a set of variables with each other and with an outcome. This perspective is demonstrated through the use of the Web Ontology Language to express several "theories of fit." Using a formal language to describe types of fit and their associated theories is argued to have much potential for advancing the scientific study of social-ecological systems. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Diagnostics; Formalization; Institutional fit; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; [email protected]; Carpenter, Stephen R; Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin; [email protected]; Walker, Brian; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Scheffer, Marten; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Wageningen Agricultural University; [email protected]; Chapin, Terry; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social–ecological systems (SES). Three aspects are central: resilience, adaptability and transformability. These aspects interrelate across multiple scales. Resilience in this context is the capacity of a SES to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. Adaptability is part of resilience. It represents the capacity to adjust responses to changing external drivers and internal processes and thereby allow for development along the current trajectory (stability domain). Transformability is the capacity to cross thresholds into new development trajectories. Transformational change at smaller scales enables resilience at larger scales. The capacity to... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Adaptability; Adaptation; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Transformability; Transformation. Ano: 2010 Patrimony for Resilience: Evidence from the Forest Agdal in the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains Provedor de dados: 7 Patrimony and resilience appear today as key concepts for understanding the dynamics of systems confronted with natural hazards. Nevertheless, the theoretical comparison between these concepts drawn from different epistemic approaches is lacking. Our aim is to interrelate resilience and patrimony concepts on the basis of a real example: the Agdal, a traditional forest management system in the Moroccan High Atlas. The role played by the Agdal in safeguarding the patterns of forest resource use by village communities from both external and internal conflicts, from natural hazards, and by securing a long-term supply of resource diversity is highlighted. This role shows the patrimonial character of the forest Agdal for the village communities and suggests an... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: High Atlas; Morocco; Patrimony; Resilience; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2011 Enhancing the Ostrom social-ecological system framework through formalization Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hinkel, Jochen; Global Climate Forum; [email protected]; Bots, Pieter W. G.; Delft University of Technology; [email protected]. Frameworks play an important role in analyzing social-ecological systems (SESs) because they provide shared concepts and variables that enable comparison between and accumulation of knowledge across multiple cases. One prominent SES framework focusing on local resource use has been developed by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues. This framework is an extensive multi-tier collection of concepts and variables that have demonstrated relevance for explaining outcomes in a large number of case studies in the context of fishery, water, and forestry common-pool resources. The further development of this framework has raised a number of issues related to the formal relationships between the large number of concepts and variables involved. In particular, issues... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Formalization; Framework; Ontology; SES; Social-ecological system; Taxonomy. Ano: 2014 A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Janssen, Marco A; Indiana University; [email protected]; Ostrom, Elinor; Indiana University; [email protected]. What makes social-ecological systems (SESs) robust? In this paper, we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps identify potential vulnerabilities of SESs to disturbances. All the links between components of this framework can fail and thereby reduce the robustness of the system. We posit that the link between resource users and public infrastructure providers is a key variable affecting the robustness of SESs that has frequently been ignored in the past. We illustrate the problems caused by a disruption in this link. We then briefly describe the design principles originally developed for robust... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Institutions; Resilience; Robustness; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2004 Collapse and Recovery in Sahelian Agro-pastoral Systems: Rethinking Trajectories of Change Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Vang Rasmussen, Laura; Department of Geography & Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected]; Reenberg, Anette; Department of Geography & Geology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected]. We discuss the adaptive cycle heuristic as a potential platform for describing the functioning and directions of change in Sahelian land use systems. Specifically, the aim is to go beyond the simplified narrative of a vicious circle of land degradation and land expansion prompted by population pressure and low rainfall and to develop conceptual means to account for system recovery and adaptation to exposures. We use a village study from northern Burkina Faso as an empirical point of departure. On the basis of information obtained from extensive interviews and surveys at the group and household level, the different phases of the adaptive cycle—exploitation (r), conservation (K), release (Ω) and reorganization (α)— are... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Connectedness; Potential; Sahel; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 What Is the Vulnerability of a Food System to Global Environmental Change? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ericksen, Polly J; ECI/GECAFS; [email protected]. Assessing the vulnerability of broadly described food systems to global environmental change requires a new, synthetic approach. Food systems can best be conceptualized as the integration of humans and the environment or coupled social-ecological systems. However, much of the existing literature on vulnerability assessment focuses on either social or ecological systems, and conceptual gaps limit the holistic evaluation of linked systems in which both social and ecosystem outcomes are important. I suggest an approach with which to integrate factors across a food system to assess the system’s vulnerability to environmental change by focusing on key processes and system characteristics. However, the multiple objectives of different actors in... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Food security; Social-ecological systems; Vulnerability. Ano: 2008 What is Social Learning? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Reed, Mark S; Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability, Centre for Sustainable International Development, and Centre for Planning and Environmental Management, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen; [email protected]; Evely, Anna C; Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability, University of Aberdeen; School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews; [email protected]; Cundill, Georgina; Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas, Aridas (CEAZA); [email protected]; Fazey, Ioan; School of Geography and Geosciences, University of St. Andrews; [email protected]; Glass, Jayne; Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College; UHI Millenium Institute; [email protected]; Laing, Adele; Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol; [email protected]; Newig, Jens; Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Communication, Leuphana University; [email protected]; Parrish, Brad; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds; [email protected]; Prell, Christina; Department of Sociology, University of Sheffield; [email protected]; Raymond, Chris; Centre for Rural Health and Community Development, University of South Australia; [email protected]; Stringer, Lindsay C; Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds; [email protected]. Social learning is increasingly becoming a normative goal in natural resource management and policy. However, there remains little consensus over its meaning or theoretical basis. There are still considerable differences in understanding of the concept in the literature, including a number of articles published in Ecology & Society. Social learning is often conflated with other concepts such as participation and proenvironmental behavior, and there is often little distinction made between individual and wider social learning. Many unsubstantiated claims for social learning exist, and there is frequently confusion between the concept itself and its potential outcomes. This lack of conceptual clarity has limited our capacity to assess whether social... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Response Palavras-chave: Definition; Social-ecological systems; Social learning. Ano: 2010 Fifteen Weddings and a Funeral: Case Studies and Resilience-based Management Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Walker, Brian H; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems; [email protected]; Kinzig, Ann P; Arizona State University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Resource management. Ano: 2006 The “social” aspect of social-ecological systems: a critique of analytical frameworks and findings from a multisite study of coastal sustainability Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Stojanovic, Tim; University of St Andrews; [email protected]; McNae, Hilda M.; University of St Andrews; [email protected]; Tett, Paul; Scottish Association for Marine Science; [email protected]; Potts, Tavis W.; University of Aberdeen, School of Geosciences; [email protected]; Reis, J; Cardiff University; [email protected]; Smith, Hance D.; Cardiff University; [email protected]; Dillingham, Iain; University of St Andrews; [email protected]. We evaluate whether society can adequately be conceptualized as a component of social-ecological systems, given social theory and the current outputs of systems-based research. A mounting critique from the social sciences posits that resilience theory has undertheorized social entities with the concept of social-ecological systems. We trace the way that use of the term has evolved, relating to social science theory. Scientometic and network analysis provide a wide range of empirical data about the origin, growth, and use of this term in academic literature. A content analysis of papers in Ecology and Society demonstrates a marked emphasis in research on institutions, economic incentives, land use, population, social networks, and social learning.... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Coastal; Scientometric analysis; Social-ecological; Social-ecological systems; Social science; Socio-ecological. Ano: 2016 Achieving social-ecological fit through bottom-up collaborative governance: an empirical investigation Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Guerrero, Angela M; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland; [email protected]; McAllister, Ryan R. J.; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; [email protected]; Wilson, Kerrie A; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland; [email protected]. Significant benefits can arise from collaborative forms of governance that foster self-organization and flexibility. Likewise, governance systems that fit with the extent and complexity of the system under management are considered essential to our ability to solve environmental problems. However, from an empirical perspective the fundamental question of whether self-organized (bottom-up) collaborative forms of governance are able to accomplish adequate fit is unresolved. We used new theory and methodological approaches underpinned by interdisciplinary network analysis to address this gap by investigating three governance challenges that relate to the problem of fit: shared management of ecological resources, management of interconnected ecological... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Collaborative governance; Exponential Random Graph Modeling; Networks; Problem of fit; Scales; Social-ecological fit; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Network approaches for understanding rainwater management from a social-ecological systems perspective Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Prager, Steven D.; International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); [email protected]; Pfeifer, Catherine; International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI); [email protected]. The premise of this research is to better understand how approaches to implementing rainwater management practices can be informed by understanding how the people living and working in agroecosystems are connected to one another. Because these connections are via both social interactions and functional characteristics of the landscape, a social-ecological network emerges. Using social-ecological network theory, we ask how understanding the structure of interactions can lead to improved rainwater management interventions. Using a case study situated within a small sub-basin in the Fogera area of the Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia, we build networks of smallholders based both on the biophysical and social-institutional landscapes present in the study site, with... Tipo: NON-REFEREED Palavras-chave: Network theory; Social-ecological network; Social-ecological systems; Spatial data; Spatial resilience; Watershed management. Ano: 2015 Social roles and performance of social-ecological systems: evidence from behavioral lab experiments Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Perez, Irene; Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Yu, David J; Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University; Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University; Department of Political Science, Purdue University; [email protected]; Janssen, Marco A; Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Anderies, John M; Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, Arizona State University; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; [email protected]. Social roles are thought to play an important role in determining the capacity for collective action in a community regarding the use of shared resources. Here we report on the results of a study using a behavioral experimental approach regarding the relationship between social roles and the performance of social-ecological systems. The computer-based irrigation experiment that was the basis of this study mimics the decisions faced by farmers in small-scale irrigation systems. In each of 20 rounds, which are analogous to growing seasons, participants face a two-stage commons dilemma. First they must decide how much to invest in the public infrastructure, e.g., canals and water diversion structures. Second, they must decide how much to extract from the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Behavioral experiments; Communication; Irrigation systems; Lab experiments; Qualitative comparative analysis; Social-ecological networks; Social-ecological systems; Social roles. Ano: 2015 A diagnostic procedure for applying the social-ecological systems framework in diverse cases Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hinkel, Jochen; Global Climate Forum (GCF), Berlin, Germany; [email protected]; Cox, Michael E.; Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; [email protected]; Binder, Claudia R.; University of Munich, Germany; [email protected]; Falk, Thomas; University of Marburg, Germany; [email protected]. The framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) framework of Elinor Ostrom is a multitier collection of concepts and variables that have proven to be relevant for understanding outcomes in diverse SES. The first tier of this framework includes the concepts resource system (RS) and resource units (RU), which are then further characterized through lower tier variables such as clarity of system boundaries and mobility. The long-term goal of framework development is to derive conclusions about which combinations of variables explain outcomes across diverse types of SES. This will only be possible if the concepts and variables of the framework can be made operational unambiguously for the different types of SES, which, however,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common-pool resource; Commons; Complex commons; Public good; Resource system; Resource unit; SES; Social-ecological system; Social-ecological system framework; Sustainability. Ano: 2015 Linking classroom learning and research to advance ideas about social-ecological resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ban, Natalie C.; School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria; [email protected]; Boyd, Emily; School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.; [email protected]; Cox, Michael; Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College; [email protected]; Meek, Chanda L.; Department of Political Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Schoon, Michael; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]. There is an increasing demand in higher education institutions for training in complex environmental problems. Such training requires a careful mix of conventional methods and innovative solutions, a task not always easy to accomplish. In this paper we review literature on this theme, highlight relevant advances in the pedagogical literature, and report on some examples resulting from our recent efforts to teach complex environmental issues. The examples range from full credit courses in sustainable development and research methods to project-based and in-class activity units. A consensus from the literature is that lectures are not sufficient to fully engage students in these issues. A conclusion from the review of examples is that problem-based and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Complex systems; Interdisciplinarity; Pedagogy; Problem-based learning; Project-based learning; Social-ecological resilience; Social-ecological systems; Teaching. Ano: 2015 Social-ecological Resilience and Biodiversity Conservation in a 900-year-old Protected Area Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Newton, Adrian C; Bournemouth University; [email protected]. Protected areas are increasingly being recognized as coupled social-ecological systems, whose effectiveness depends on their resilience. Here I present a historical profile of an individual case study, the New Forest (England), which was first designated as a protected area more than 900 years ago. Uniquely, a traditional pattern of land use has been maintained ever since, providing a rare opportunity to examine the resilience of an integrated social-ecological system over nine centuries. The New Forest demonstrates that over the long term, coupled social-ecological systems can be resilient to major internal and external shocks, including climate change, mass human mortality and war. Changes in governance had the greatest impact on the reserve itself, with... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Effectiveness; Protected area; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2011 Periodic Closures as Adaptive Coral Reef Management in the Indo-Pacific Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cinner, Josh; James Cook University; [email protected]; Marnane, Michael J; Wildlife Conservation Society;; McClanahan, Timothy R; Wildlife Conservation Society; [email protected]; Almany, Glenn R.; James Cook University;. This study explores the social, economic, and ecological context within which communities in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia use adaptive coral reef management. We tested whether periodic closures had positive effects on reef resources, and found that both the biomass and the average size of fishes commonly caught in Indo-Pacific subsistence fisheries were greater inside areas subject to periodic closures compared to sites with year-round open access. Surprisingly, both long-lived and short-lived species benefited from periodic closures. Our study sites were remote communities that shared many socioeconomic characteristics; these may be crucial to the effectiveness of adaptive management of reef resources through periodic closures. Some of these factors... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Coral reefs; Socioeconomic; Periodic closures; Traditional management; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2006 Adaptive wetland management in an uncertain and changing arid environment Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Downard, Rebekah; Utah State University; [email protected]; Endter-Wada, Joanna; Utah State University; [email protected]; Kettenring, Karin M.; Utah State University; [email protected]. Wetlands in the arid western United States provide rare and critical migratory bird habitat and constitute a critical nexus within larger social-ecological systems (SES) where multiple changing land-use and water-use patterns meet. The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Utah, USA, presents a case study of the ways that wetland managers have created adaptive management strategies that are responsive to the social and hydrological conditions of the agriculture-dominated SES within which they are located. Managers have acquired water rights and constructed infrastructure while cultivating collaborative relationships with other water users to increase the adaptive capacity of the region and decrease conflict. Historically, water management involved diversion... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaboration; Great Salt Lake Utah; Social-ecological systems; Water policy; Wetlands. Ano: 2014 A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Westley, Frances R.; Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience; [email protected]; Tjornbo, Ola; Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience; [email protected]; Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Olsson, Per; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Crona, Beatrice; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]. We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop a new theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological systems. Although there is evidence of the importance of strategic agency in introducing innovation and transforming approaches to management and governance of such systems, there is no coherent theory to explain the wide diversity of strategies identified. Using Holling’s adaptive cycle as a model of phases present in innovation and transformation of resilient social-ecological systems, overlaid by Dorado’s model of opportunity context (opaque, hazy, transparent) in complex adaptive... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Institutional entrepreneurship; Skills; Social innovation; Transformation of linked social-ecological systems. Ano: 2013 A Typology of Benefit Sharing Arrangements for the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems in Developing Countries Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Nkhata, Bimo Abraham; Water Research Node, Monash South Africa; [email protected]; Mosimane, Alfons; Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; [email protected]; Downsborough, Linda; Water Research Node, Monash South Africa; [email protected]; Breen, Charles; Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; [email protected]; Roux, Dirk J; Water Research Node, Monash South Africa; [email protected]. This study explores and interprets relevant literature to construct a typology of benefit sharing arrangements for the governance of social-ecological systems in developing countries. The typology comprises three generic categories of benefit sharing arrangements: collaborative, market-oriented, and egalitarian. We contend that the three categories provide a useful basis for exploring and classifying the different societal arrangements required for governance of social-ecological systems. The typology we present is founded on a related set of explicit assumptions that can be used to explore and better understand the linkages among ecosystem services, benefit sharing, and governance. Issues that are strongly related to sustainability in developing countries... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Benefit sharing; Developing countries; Ecosystem services; Governance; Social-ecological systems; Typology. Ano: 2012 Ecological and Social Aspects of Ecological Restoration: New Challenges and Opportunities for Northern Regions Provedor de dados: 7 Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Northern regions; Policies; Social-ecological systems; Techniques. Ano: 2013 Managing hunting under uncertainty: from one-off ecological indicators to resilience approaches in assessing the sustainability of bushmeat hunting Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: van Vliet, Nathalie; Center for International Forestry Research; [email protected]; Fa, John; Center for International Forestry Research; [email protected]; Nasi, Robert; Center for International Forestry Research; [email protected]. Despite the fact that sustainability of bushmeat hunting in tropical areas is of major concern for conservation and development practitioners, we still know very little about how to measure sustainability and how to put in place sustainable bushmeat hunting systems. We review the current limits of traditional methods used to investigate sustainability of bushmeat hunting, discuss the need to incorporate the characteristics of complex systems into sustainability assessments, and suggest how resilience theories could assist in understanding bushmeat sustainability and more effective conservation of wildlife in tropical areas. Traditional methods used to assess the sustainability of bushmeat hunting include demographic models of population growth, one-off... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Bushmeat; Hunting; Resilience analysis; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability; Tropical areas. Ano: 2015 Social-Ecological Predictors of Global Invasions and Extinctions Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Lotz, Aaron; University of California, Davis; [email protected]; Allen, Craig R.; Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit ; [email protected]. Most assessments of resilience have been focused on local conditions. Studies focused on the relationship between humanity and environmental degradation are rare, and are rarely comprehensive. We investigated multiple social-ecological factors for 100 countries around the globe in relation to the percentage of invasions and extinctions within each country. These 100 countries contain approximately 87% of the world’s population, produce 43% of the world’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP), and take up 74% of the earth’s total land area. We used an information theoretic approach to determine which models were most supported by our data, utilizing an a priori set of plausible models that included a combination of 15... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Endangered species conservation; Extinctions; Invasions; Invasive species management; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2013 Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource use and resilience to climate change in the Pacific Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: McMillen, Heather L; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; [email protected]; Ticktin, Tamara; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; [email protected]; Friedlander, Alan; National Geographic Society-Pristine Seas Project; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; [email protected]; Jupiter, Stacy D; Wildlife Conservation Society Fiji Country Program; [email protected]; Thaman, Randolph; University of the South Pacific; [email protected]; Campbell, John; University of Waikato; [email protected]; Veitayaki, Joeli; University of the South Pacific; [email protected]; Giambelluca, Thomas; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Nagoya University; [email protected]; Nihmei, Salesa; SPREP; [email protected]; Rupeni, Etika; IUCN/Locally Managed Marine Network; [email protected]; Apis-Overhoff, Lucille; University of the South Pacific; [email protected]; Aalbersberg, William; University of the South Pacific; [email protected]; Orcherton, Dan F.; Centre for Sustainable Technology and Development, Fiji National University; [email protected]. Understanding how social-ecological systems are and can be resilient to climate change is one of the world's most crucial problems today. It requires knowledge at local and global scales, the integration of natural and social sciences, and a focus on biocultural diversity. Small Pacific Islands and the knowledge-practice-belief systems of their peoples have a long history of resilience to environmental variability and unpredictability, including in areas with marginal habitats and with periodic, severe disturbance (e.g., drought, flood, storms, and tsunami). We review the state of research on these knowledge systems as it pertains to resilience and adaptation, and we highlight critical research needs to address the interrelated areas of: (1) local-scale... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Biocultural diversity; Climate; Customary; Indigenous and local ecological knowledge; Pacific Islands; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2014 Perceived Benefits of Fisheries Management Restrictions in Madagascar Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: McClanahan, Tim R.; Wildlife Conservation Society; [email protected]; Cinner, Joshua E.; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; [email protected]; Abunge, Caroline; Wildlife Conservation Society;; Rabearisoa, Ando; Conservation International;; Mahatante, Paubert; University of Toliara;; Ramahatratra, Frederick; University of Toliara;; Andrianarivelo, Norbert; Wildlife Conservation Society;. Perceptions of the benefits of fisheries management restrictions were evaluated in coastal Madagascar to identify restrictions that are likely to be self- and community enforced. The survey focused on 24 Malagasy fishing villages adjacent to coral reefs. Resource users' perceptions of the benefits of restrictions were generally high and widespread, but some less positive perceptions were found in three villages located near marine protected areas. Perceptions of the benefits of gear restrictions had widespread support; closed areas, seasons, and minimum sizes of fish were less common; and restrictions on species were supported infrequently. We therefore advocate a management implementation approach that uses these scales of perceived benefits and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Attitudes; Fisheries management; Marine protected area planning; Poverty; Social-ecological. Ano: 2014 The role of public education in governance for resilience in a rapidly changing Arctic Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cost, Douglas S; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Education and learning possess powerful potential in affecting future resilience and sustainable states. Here, I focus on unpacking and examining the connections and feedbacks between social-environmental systems (SESs), resilience, and compulsory education. SESs have been problematized as frequently having a poor fit between environmental change and policy solutions. The last few decades have witnessed global recognition of climate change in the Arctic. This has led to discussion and debate over the role of schools in addressing local knowledge, environmental changes, and community priorities. In Alaska, USA, and other Arctic regions, the role of public schools in improving this fit has been largely overlooked. I hypothesize that, as extensions of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Governance; Public education; Resilience; Rural schools; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Ecosystem Services Linking Social and Ecological Systems: River Brownification and the Response of Downstream Stakeholders Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Tuvendal, Magnus; Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Elmqvist, Thomas; Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Sweden; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Brownification; Coping; Ecosystem service; Governance; Resilience; Response strategies; Social-ecological system; Transformation. Ano: 2011 Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: D'Anna, Linda M; Vancouver Island University, Institute for Coastal Research; [email protected]; Murray, Grant D; Vancouver Island University, Institute for Coastal Research; [email protected]. Shellfish aquaculture is often positioned as an adaptive alternative to traditional resource industries, but the social and cultural effects of expanding production on coastal/marine social-ecological systems are unclear. Reporting on a multimethods study, we present perceptions about shellfish aquaculture collected through interviews, participant-employed photography, and a household survey in British Columbia, Canada. With an approach focused on local preferences for social-ecological conditions and the ways in which those conditions may be enhanced or diminished, we indicate that perceptions of the effects of aquaculture on the environment, economy, and lived experience are composed of both objective and subjective components. Interview responses and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Coastal communities; Marine; Shellfish aquaculture; Social-ecological systems; Well-being. Ano: 2015 Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Lancelotti, Carla; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; [email protected]; Zurro, Debora; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; [email protected]; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK; [email protected]; Kramer, Karen L.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; [email protected]; Madella, Marco; CaSEs - Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group; Department of Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, IMF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; [email protected]; Greaves, Russell D.; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; [email protected]. The origins of agriculture and the shift from hunting and gathering to committed agriculture is regarded as one of the major transitions in human history. Archeologists and anthropologists have invested significant efforts in explaining the origins of agriculture. A period of gathering intensification and experimentation and pursuing a mixed economic strategy seems the most plausible explanation for the transition to agriculture and provides an approach to study a process in which several nonlinear processes may have played a role. However, the mechanisms underlying the transition to full agriculture are not completely clear. This is partly due to the nature of the archeological record, which registers a practice only once it has become clearly... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: ABM; Resources; Social-ecological dynamics; Subsistence strategies; Transition to agriculture. Ano: 2016 Social-ecological memory as a source of general and specified resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: von Heland, Jacob; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]. We explored why social-ecological memory (SEM) is a source of inertia and path dependence, as well as a source of renewal and reorganization in social-ecological systems (SESs). We have presented two case studies: the historical case of the Norse settlement on Greenland and an empirical case from contemporary southern Madagascar. The cases illustrate how SEM is linked to specific pathways of development and a particular set of natural resource management practices. We have shown that in each case, a broader diversity of SEM is present in the SESs, but not drawn upon. Instead, SEMs are part of what explains community coherence and the barriers to adoption of more diverse practices. We have elaborated on how specific SEMs are linked to specified resilience,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: General and specified resilience; Identity; Pathway dependency; Robustness; Social-ecological memory. Ano: 2014 Synchronous failure: the emerging causal architecture of global crisis Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Homer-Dixon, Thomas; Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, Canada; [email protected]; Walker, Brian; CSIRO Land and Water, Australia; [email protected]; Biggs, Reinette; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden; [email protected]; Lambin, Eric F.; Earth and Life Institute, University of Louvain, Belgium; School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, United States; [email protected]; Peterson, Garry D.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Scheffer, Marten; Environmental Sciences, Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands; [email protected]; Steffen, Will; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Australia; [email protected]; Troell, Max; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]. Recent global crises reveal an emerging pattern of causation that could increasingly characterize the birth and progress of future global crises. A conceptual framework identifies this pattern’s deep causes, intermediate processes, and ultimate outcomes. The framework shows how multiple stresses can interact within a single social-ecological system to cause a shift in that system’s behavior, how simultaneous shifts of this kind in several largely discrete social-ecological systems can interact to cause a far larger intersystemic crisis, and how such a larger crisis can then rapidly propagate across multiple system boundaries to the global scale. Case studies of the 2008-2009 financial-energy and food-energy crises illustrate the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Climate change; Conventional oil; Financial system; Global crisis; Grain supply; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2015 Double coupling: modeling subjectivity and asymmetric organization in social-ecological systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Manuel-Navarrete, David; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; [email protected]. Social-ecological organization is a multidimensional phenomenon that combines material and symbolic processes. However, the coupling between social and ecological subsystem is often conceptualized as purely material, thus reducing the symbolic dimension to its behavioral and actionable expressions. In this paper I conceptualize social-ecological systems as doubly coupled. On the one hand, material expressions of socio-cultural processes affect and are affected by ecological dynamics. On the other hand, coupled social-ecological material dynamics are concurrently coupled with subjective dynamics via coding, decoding, personal experience, and human agency. This second coupling operates across two organizationally heterogeneous dimensions: material and... Tipo: NON-REFEREED Palavras-chave: Congruence; Conscious power; Coupled nature-human systems; Social-ecological organization; Subjectivity; Sustainability. Ano: 2015 Strategies for managing complex social-ecological systems in the face of uncertainty: examples from South Africa and beyond Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Biggs, Reinette (Oonsie); Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; [email protected]; Rhode, Clint; Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; [email protected]; Archibald, Sally; Natural Resources and the Environment, CSIR, South Africa; Centre for African Ecology, Animal Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa ; [email protected]; Kunene, Lucky Makhosini; Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa; Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; [email protected]; Mutanga, Shingirirai S.; Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; [email protected]; Nkuna, Nghamula; Public Administration, University of Limpopo, South Africa; [email protected]; Ocholla, Peter Omondi; Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa; Department of Hydrology, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, South Africa; [email protected]; Phadima, Lehlohonolo Joe; Scientific Services Division, Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, South Africa ; [email protected]. Improving our ability to manage complex, rapidly changing social-ecological systems is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. This is particularly crucial if large-scale poverty alleviation is to be secured without undermining the capacity of the environment to support future generations. To address this challenge, strategies that enable judicious management of social-ecological systems in the face of substantive uncertainty are needed. Several such strategies are emerging from the developing body of work on complexity and resilience. We identify and discuss four strategies, providing practical examples of how each strategy has been applied in innovative ways to manage turbulent social-ecological change in South Africa and the broader region:... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Complexity; Resilience; Social-ecological systems southern Africa; Uncertainty. Ano: 2015 The Oak Ridges Moraine as a Social Innovation: Strategic Vision as a Social-Ecological Interaction Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: McCarthy, Daniel D. P.; Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience and the Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo; [email protected]; Whitelaw, Graham S.; School of Environmental Studies, Queens University; [email protected]; Westley, Frances R.; JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience; [email protected]; Crandall, Debbe D.; Debbe Day Crandall Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition; [email protected]; Burnett, David; Manager, Regional and Provincial Policy, Toronto and Region Conservation; [email protected]. The Oak Ridges Moraine (ORM) case is unique in that it represents a social innovation in Canadian, if not North American, ecosystem-based land-use planning. A social innovation is an initiative, product, process, or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resources, and authority flows or beliefs of any social system. Successful social innovations have durability and broad impact. We interpret the narrative of the ORM conservation process to explore the utility of an emerging social innovation conceptual model, the ‘vision as social interaction’ framework using resilience thinking and the role of vision in social change within complex social-ecological systems. Qualitative data from two interrelated studies of the moraine... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Oak Ridges Moraine; Social-ecological systems; Social innovation; Strategic vision. Ano: 2014 Seeing is questioning: prompting sustainability discourses through an evocative visual agenda Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Thomsen, Dana C; Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast; [email protected]. I explore the potential utility of visual imagery to engage viewers in connecting ways with dynamic social-ecological contexts. Constructing photographs in response to the mass stranding of birds (shearwaters) on the east coast of Australia in 2013, I demonstrate the potential of wildlife and landscape photography to represent the impacts of environmental change at personal, relational, spatial, and temporal scales simultaneously. In so doing, I suggest that the production and interpretation of photographs can lead to responses that: (1) foster attentive forms of vision in familiar contexts; (2) provoke reflexive self-examination and critiques of broader, complex systems; (3) develop emotional connections with those impacted by social-ecological change;... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Art; Australia; Autoethnography; Environmental change; Interdisciplinary; Learning for sustainability; Photography; Social-ecological change; Visual communication. Ano: 2015 Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]; Biggs, Reinette; Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]; Reyers, Belinda; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]. Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social justice, economic development, and sustainability. In this article, we exemplify the intertwined nature of social-ecological systems and emphasize that they operate within, and as embedded parts of the biosphere and as such coevolve with and depend on it. We regard social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems and use a social-ecological resilience approach as a lens to address and understand their dynamics. We raise the challenge of stewardship of development in concert with the biosphere for people in diverse contexts and places as critical for long-term sustainability and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Anthropocene; Biosphere stewardship; Natural capital; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science. Ano: 2016 Resilience design: toward a synthesis of cognition, learning, and collaboration for adaptive problem solving in conservation and natural resource stewardship Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Curtin, Charles G.; MIT-USGS Science Impact Collaborative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mora Watershed Alliance; [email protected]. Through the resilience design approach, I propose to extend the resilience paradigm by re-examining the components of adaptive decision-making and governance processes. The approach can be divided into three core components: (1) equity design, i.e., the integration of collaborative approaches to conservation and adaptive governance that generates effective self-organization and emergence in conservation and natural resource stewardship; (2) process design, i.e., the generation of more effective knowledge through strategic development of information inputs; and (3) outcome design, i.e., the pragmatic synthesis of the previous two approaches, generating a framework for developing durable and dynamic conservation and stewardship. The design of processes that... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Cognition; Collaborative adaptive management; Linked social-ecological systems; Resilience design; Wicked systems. Ano: 2014 Parks, people, and change: the importance of multistakeholder engagement in adaptation planning for conserved areas Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Knapp, Corrine N.; Department of Environment and Sustainability, Western State Colorado University; [email protected]; Chapin III, F. Stuart; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; [email protected]; Kofinas, Gary P.; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; [email protected]; Fresco, Nancy; Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; [email protected]; Carothers, Courtney; School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA; [email protected]; Craver, Amy; Denali National Park and Preserve; [email protected]. Climate change challenges the traditional goals and conservation strategies of protected areas, necessitating adaptation to changing conditions. Denali National Park and Preserve (Denali) in south central Alaska, USA, is a vast landscape that is responding to climate change in ways that will impact both ecological resources and local communities. Local observations help to inform understanding of climate change and adaptation planning, but whose knowledge is most important to consider? For this project we interviewed long-term Denali staff, scientists, subsistence community members, bus drivers, and business owners to assess what types of observations each can contribute, how climate change is impacting each, and what they think the National Park Service... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Conservation; Climate change; Local knowledge; National Park; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 The role of social learning for social-ecological systems in Korean village groves restoration Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Lee, Eunju; Civic Ecology Lab, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; [email protected]; Krasny, Marianne E.; Civic Ecology Lab, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University; [email protected]. Recently, social learning has been recognized as a means to foster adaptation to changing conditions, and more broadly, social-ecological systems resilience. However, the discussion of social learning and social-ecological resilience in different cultural contexts is limited. In this study we introduce the Korean Village Groves Restoration Project (VGRP) through the lens of social learning, and discuss implications of the VGRP for resilience in villages impacted by industrialization and decline of traditional forest resources. We conducted open-ended interviews with VGRP leaders, government and NGO officials, and residents in four villages in South Korea, and found that villages responded to ecosystem change in ways that could be explained by the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Korean village groves; Multiple loop learning; Natural resource management; Social-ecological resilience; Social learning. Ano: 2015 U.S. wildfire governance as social-ecological problem Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Steelman, Toddi; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan; North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources; [email protected]. There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance system is poorly suited to address. To address these challenges, a reorientation of goals is needed to focus on creating an anticipatory wildfire governance system focused on social and ecological resilience. Key characteristics of this system could include the following: (1) not taking historical patterns as givens; (2) identifying future social and ecological thresholds of concern; (3) embracing diversity/heterogeneity as principles in ecological and social responses; and (4)... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Environmental governance; Institutions; Policy; Scale; Social-ecological system; United States; Wildfire. Ano: 2016 Understanding the contribution of wild edible plants to rural social-ecological resilience in semi-arid Kenya Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Shumsky, Stephanie A; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University; [email protected]; Hickey, Gordon M.; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University; [email protected]; Pelletier, Bernard; Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: East Africa; Food policy; Food security; Social-ecological system; Subsistence agriculture; Sustainable livelihoods; Tharaka. Ano: 2014 History and Local Management of a Biodiversity-Rich, Urban Cultural Landscape Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Barthel, Stephan; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Colding, Johan; Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics; [email protected]; Elmqvist, Thomas; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm University; [email protected]. Urban green spaces provide socially valuable ecosystem services. Through an historical analysis of the development of the National Urban Park (NUP) of Stockholm, we illustrate how the co-evolutionary process of humans and nature has resulted in the high level of biological diversity and associated recreational services found in the park. The ecological values of the area are generated in the cultural landscape. External pressures resulting in urban sprawl in the Stockholm metropolitan region increasingly challenge the capacity of the NUP to continue to generate valuable ecosystem services. Setting aside protected areas, without accounting for the role of human stewardship of the cultural landscape, will most likely fail. In a social inventory of the area,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Local management; Nationalstadsparken; Resilience; Social-ecological system; Stockholm Urban Park; Urban ecology. Ano: 2005 The spread and maturation of strategic adaptive management within and beyond South African national parks Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Freitag, Stefanie; Scientific Services, South African National Parks; [email protected]; Biggs, Harry; Conservation Services, South African National Parks; [email protected]; Breen, Charles; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]. Natural resource management is embedded within social-ecological environments and requires decisions to be taken within this broad context, including those that pertain to protected areas. This realization has led to South African National Parks adopting a strategic adaptive management approach to decision making. Through narrative, we show why and how this practice has progressively spread and evolved both within the organization and beyond, over the past two decades. A number of catalytic events and synergies enabled a change from reactive tactical management approaches to more inclusive forward-looking approaches able to embrace system complexity and associated uncertainty and change. We show how this long period of innovation has lead to an increased... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Colearning; Kruger National Park; Protected area stewardship; Social-ecological systems; Systems thinking. Ano: 2014 Resilience and Regime Shifts: Assessing Cascading Effects Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kinzig, Ann P; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Ryan, Paul; CSIRO; [email protected]; Etienne, Michel; INRA; [email protected]; Allison, Helen; Murdoch University; [email protected]; Elmqvist, Thomas; University of Stockholm; [email protected]; Walker, Brian H.; CSIRO; [email protected]. Most accounts of thresholds between alternate regimes involve a single, dominant shift defined by one, often slowly changing variable in an ecosystem. This paper expands the focus to include similar dynamics in social and economic systems, in which multiple variables may act together in ways that produce interacting regime shifts in social-ecological systems. We use four different regions in the world, each of which contains multiple thresholds, to develop a proposed “general model” of threshold interactions in social-ecological systems. The model identifies patch-scale ecological thresholds, farm- or landscape-scale economic thresholds, and regional-scale sociocultural thresholds. “Cascading thresholds,” i.e., the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Thresholds; Regime shifts; Social-ecological systems; System interactions; Cascading effects. Ano: 2006 Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Olsson, Per; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Gunderson, Lance H; Emory University; [email protected]; Carpenter, Steve R; University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]; Ryan, Paul; CSIRO; [email protected]; Lebel, Louis; Chiang Mai University; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Center for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research; [email protected]; Holling, C. S.; University of Florida; [email protected]. The case studies of Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden; the Northern Highlands Lake District and the Everglades in the USA; the Mae Nam Ping Basin, Thailand; and the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia, were compared to assess the outcome of different actions for transforming social-ecological systems (SESs). The transformations consisted of two phases, a preparation phase and a transition phase, linked by a window of opportunity. Key leaders and shadow networks can prepare a system for change by exploring alternative system configurations and developing strategies for choosing from among possible futures. Key leaders can recognize and use or create windows of opportunity and navigate transitions toward adaptive governance. Leadership functions include the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Social-ecological systems; Adaptive governance; Transformability; Shadow networks; Leadership; Resilience. Ano: 2006 Measuring the vulnerability of marine social-ecological systems: a prerequisite for the identification of climate change adaptations Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Metcalf, Sarah J.; School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University; [email protected]; van Putten, Elizabeth I.; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere,Hobart, Australia; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Frusher, Stewart; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Marshall, Nadine A.; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship; [email protected]; Tull, Malcolm; School of Management and Governance, Murdoch University; [email protected]; Caputi, Nick; Department of Fisheries, Western Australia; [email protected]; Haward, Marcus; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Hobday, Alistair J.; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Holbrook, Neil J.; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Jennings, Sarah M.; Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Pecl, Gretta T.; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania; [email protected]; Shaw, Jenny; Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute; [email protected]. Reducing the vulnerability of coastal communities to marine climate change requires that communities have some intrinsic capacity to adapt. To assist adaptation planning and the implementation of adaptation strategies, identifying barriers and enablers to adaptation is important. Adaptive capacity, resource dependence, local climate change exposure and biological sensitivity were used to assess socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change in three Australian coastal communities: St Helens, Tasmania; Bowen, Queensland; and Geraldton, Western Australia. Higher adaptive capacity was associated with larger population size (i.e., Geraldton) whereas greater resource dependence, and lower human and natural capital were associated with smaller populations (St... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Coastal communities; Fisheries; Resource dependency; Social-ecological. Ano: 2015 A Diagrammatic Approach to Understanding Complex Eco-Social Interactions in Kathmandu, Nepal Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Neudoerffer, R. Cynthia; University of Guelph; [email protected]; Waltner-Toews, David; University of Guelph; [email protected]; Kay, James J.; Deceased 05/30/ 2004. Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo;; Joshi, D. D.; NZFHRC;; Tamang, Mukta S.; SAGUN;. As part of developing an international network of community-based ecosystem approaches to health, a project was undertaken in a densely populated and socio-economically diverse area of Kathmandu, Nepal. Drawing on hundreds of pages of narrative reports based on surveys, interviews, secondary data, and focus groups by trained Nepalese facilitators, the authors created systemic depictions of relationships between multiple stakeholder groups, ecosystem health, and human health. These were then combined to examine interactions among stakeholders, activities, concerns, perceived needs, and resource states (ecosystem health indicators). These qualitative models have provided useful heuristics for both community members and research scholars to understand the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Complex systems theory; Ecosystem approaches; Human health; Kathmandu; Nepal; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2005 Historical Regimes and Social Indicators of Resilience in an Urban System: the Case of Charleston, South Carolina Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bures, Regina; University of Florida; [email protected]; Kanapaux, William; University of Florida; [email protected]. Employing the adaptive cycle and panarchy in perturbed urban systems can contribute to a better understanding of how these systems respond to broad-scale changes such as war and sea level rise. In this paper we apply a resilience perspective to examine regime shifts in Charleston, South Carolina from a historical perspective. We then look more closely at changes that occurred in Charleston in recent decades, including Hurricane Hugo, and the potential effects of these changes on resilience of the social-ecological system to future shocks. We close with a discussion combining social and ecological perspectives to examine future regime-shift scenarios in the Charleston case and suggest ways to better understand resilience in other coastal urban systems. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Charleston South Carolina; Regime shifts; Resilience; Sea-level rise; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2011 Adapting prospective structural analysis to strengthen sustainable management and capacity building in community-based natural resource management contexts Provedor de dados: 7 Local communities collectively managing common pool resources can play an important role in sustainable management, but they often lack the skills and context-specific tools required for such management. The complex dynamics of social-ecological systems (SES), the need for management capacities, and communities’ limited empowerment and participation skills present challenges for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) strategies. We analyzed the applicability of prospective structural analysis (PSA), a strategic foresight tool, to support decision making and to foster sustainable management and capacity building in CBNRM contexts and the modifications necessary to use the tool in such contexts. By testing PSA in three SES in Colombia,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Argentina; Colombia; Latin America; Local knowledge; Mexico; Participatory techniques; Social-ecological systems; Strategic foresight. Ano: 2016 Climate-induced community relocations: using integrated social-ecological assessments to foster adaptation and resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bronen, Robin; University of Alaska Fairbanks; Alaska Institute for Justice; [email protected]. Extreme weather events coupled with sea level rise and erosion will cause coastal and riverine areas where people live and maintain livelihoods to disappear permanently. Adaptation to these environmental changes, including the permanent relocation of millions of people, requires new governance tools. In the USA, local governments, often with state-level and national-level support, will be primarily responsible for protecting residents from climate-change impacts and implementing policies needed to protect their welfare. Government agencies have a variety of tools to facilitate protection in place and managed coastal retreat but have very limited tools to facilitate community relocation. In addition, no institutional mechanism currently exists to... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Climate change; Coastal retreat; Community relocation; Social-ecological monitoring and assessment. Ano: 2015 Women and Children First: the Gendered and Generational Social-ecology of Smaller-scale Fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador and Northern Norway Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Neis, Barbara; Memorial University of Newfoundland; [email protected]; Power, Nicole G.; Memorial University of Newfoundland; [email protected]. The resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed and developing countries has been used to provide lessons to conventional managers regarding ways to transition toward a social-ecological approach to understanding and managing fisheries. We contribute to the understanding of the relationship between management and the resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed countries by looking at these dynamics in the wake of the shock of stock collapse and fisheries closures in two contexts: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and northern Norway. We revisit and update previous research on the gendered effects of the collapse and closure of the Newfoundland and Labrador northern cod fishery and the closure of the Norwegian cod fishery in the early 1990s and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Gender; Resilience; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological approach; Youth. Ano: 2013 Studying the complexity of change: toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Moore, Michele-Lee; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; [email protected]; Tjornbo, Ola; Waterloo Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience, University of Waterloo; [email protected]; Enfors, Elin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Knapp, Corrie; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Hodbod, Jennifer; Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Baggio, Jacopo A.; Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Olsson, Per; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Biggs, Duan; The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland; [email protected]. Faced with numerous seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, many scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding how to actively engage and transform the existing systems holding such problems in place. Although a variety of analytical models have emerged in recent years, most emphasize either the social or ecological elements of such transformations rather than their coupled nature. To address this, first we have presented a definition of the core elements of a social-ecological system (SES) that could potentially be altered in a transformation. Second, we drew on insights about transformation from three branches of literature focused on radical change, i.e., social movements, socio-technical transitions, and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social innovation; Social movements; Transformation; Transition management. Ano: 2014 Coupled human and natural system dynamics as key to the sustainability of Lake Victoria’s ecosystem services Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Downing, Andrea S.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands ; [email protected]; van Nes, Egbert H.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands ; [email protected]; Balirwa, John S.; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Beuving, Joost; Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands ; [email protected]; Bwathondi, P.O.J.; University of Dar es Salaam, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania ; [email protected]; Chapman, Lauren J.; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; [email protected]; Cornelissen, Ilse J. M.; Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; [email protected]; Cowx, Iain G.; Hull International Fisheries Institute, University of Hull, United Kingdom; [email protected]; Goudswaard, Kees P. C.; Institute for Marine Resource and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Wageningen University, Yerseke, Netherlands; [email protected]; Hecky, Robert E.; Biology Department and Large Lakes Observatory, University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA; [email protected]; Janse, Jan H.; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Bilthoven, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; [email protected]; Janssen, Annette B. G.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; [email protected]; Kaufman, Les; Boston University Marine Program, Biology Department, Boston University, USA ; [email protected]; Kishe-Machumu, Mary A.; Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; [email protected]; Kolding, Jeppe; Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway; [email protected]; Ligtvoet, Willem; Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Hague, Netherlands; [email protected]; Mbabazi, Dismas; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Medard, Modesta; Department of Sociology of Development and Change. Social Science Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands ; [email protected]; Mkumbo, Oliva C.; Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation, Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Mlaponi, Enock; Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Mwanza, Tanzania; [email protected]; Munyaho, Antony T.; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Nagelkerke, Leopold A. J.; Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; [email protected]; Ogutu-Ohwayo, Richard; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Ojwang, William O.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kisumu, Kenya; [email protected]; Peter, Happy K.; Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; [email protected]; Schindler, Daniel E.; Aquatic & Fishery Sciences/Department of Biology, University of Washington, USA; [email protected]; Seehausen, Ole; Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; [email protected]; Sharpe, Diana; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; [email protected]; Silsbe, Greg M.; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Yerseke, Netherlands; [email protected]; Sitoki, Lewis; The Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya; [email protected]; Tumwebaze, Rhoda; National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Jinja, Uganda; [email protected]; Tweddle, Denis; South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa; [email protected]; van de Wolfshaar, Karen E.; Institute for Marine Resource and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), Wageningen University, Ijmuiden, Netherlands; [email protected]; van Dijk, Han; Department of Sociology of Development and Change. Social Science Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands ; [email protected]; van Donk, Ellen; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands; [email protected]; van Rijssel, Jacco C.; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland; [email protected]; van Zwieten, Paul A. M.; Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; [email protected]; Wanink, Jan; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Koeman en Bijkerk bv, Ecological Research and Consultancy, Haren, Netherlands; [email protected]; Witte, F.; Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Netherlands; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands;; Mooij, Wolf M.; Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group, Wageningen University, Netherlands; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands ; [email protected]. East Africa’s Lake Victoria provides resources and services to millions of people on the lake’s shores and abroad. In particular, the lake’s fisheries are an important source of protein, employment, and international economic connections for the whole region. Nonetheless, stock dynamics are poorly understood and currently unpredictable. Furthermore, fishery dynamics are intricately connected to other supporting services of the lake as well as to lakeshore societies and economies. Much research has been carried out piecemeal on different aspects of Lake Victoria’s system; e.g., societies, biodiversity, fisheries, and eutrophication. However, to disentangle drivers and dynamics of change in this complex system, we need... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Eutrophication; Feedbacks; Fisheries; Lake Victoria; Model; Multidisciplinary social-ecological system; Sustainability. Ano: 2014 Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or Conflicting Concepts? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Miller, Fiona; Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne; [email protected]; Osbahr, Henny; School of Agriculture, Policy and Development and the Walker Institute for Climate Systems Research, University of Reading; [email protected]; Boyd, Emily; Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Bharwani, Sukaina; Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford); [email protected]; Ziervogel, Gina; Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford); Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG), University of Cape Town; [email protected]; Walker, Brian; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; van der Leeuw, Sander; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Hinkel, Jochen ; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; [email protected]; Downing, Tom; Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford); [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; The Beijer Institute, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Nelson, Donald; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia; Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia; [email protected]. Resilience and vulnerability represent two related yet different approaches to understanding the response of systems and actors to change; to shocks and surprises, as well as slow creeping changes. Their respective origins in ecological and social theory largely explain the continuing differences in approach to social-ecological dimensions of change. However, there are many areas of strong convergence. This paper explores the emerging linkages and complementarities between the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to identify areas of synergy. We do this with regard to theory, methodology, and application. The paper seeks to go beyond just recognizing the complementarities between the two approaches to demonstrate how researchers are actively engaging... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Climate change; Hazards; Interdisciplinarity; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Vulnerability. Ano: 2010 Resilient Social Relationships and Collaboration in the Management of Social–Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Nkhata, Abraham B.; Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]; Breen, Charles M.; Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]; Freimund, Wayne A.; Department of Society and Conservation, The University of Montana; [email protected]. This paper proposes and articulates a social relationships perspective of collaboration in the management of social–ecological systems (SESs). It provides a conceptual premise for understanding the dynamics of long-term social relationships that underlie collaborative processes. We argue that a resilience approach offers a better perspective for the study of change in long-term relationships. A conceptual framework based on the theories of resilience and social relationships is developed for analyzing the evolution of collaborative schemes. The essence of the framework is to facilitate understanding and building of resilient social relationships for effective collaboration through interpreting and managing relational change. We suggest that an... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Collaboration; Relational capital; Relational change; Relational connectedness; Resilience; Social relationships; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2008 Conceptualizing power to study social-ecological interactions Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Boonstra, Wiebren J; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]. My aim is to conceptualize power using social science theory and to demonstrate why and how the concept of power can complement resilience studies and other analyses of social-ecological interaction. Social power as a scientific concept refers to the ability to influence both conduct and context. These two dimensions of power (conduct and context) can be observed by differentiating between various sources of power, including, for example, technology or mental power. The relevance of the conceptualization of power presented here is illustrated with the example of fire as a source of social-ecological power. I conclude by discussing how attention to power can help to address issues of social justice and responsibility in social-ecological interactions. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Fire domestication; Power; Resilience; Social responsibility; Social-ecological interactions; Sociology. Ano: 2016 Emergence of human resilience in coastal ecosystems under environmental change Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Matin, Nilufar; Stockholm Environment Institute, University of York; [email protected]; Taylor, Richard; Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford Centre; [email protected]. Resilience has been studied in a number of disciplines, predominantly in psychosocial and ecological sciences. Although there are striking similarities in their approaches, the psychosocial tradition has centered on the family and its immediate surroundings, whereas the social-ecological approach has focused on macrosystems that stop at the family level. Recently, the need for bridging these gaps has been echoed by researchers from both these traditions, particularly for promoting resilience of individuals and their wider environment in the context of natural disasters and climate change. However, a new synthesis of social-ecological and behavioral theories integrating multiple dynamic systems that interact across levels is strikingly rare. We addressed... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Complexity; Human resilience; Narrative inquiry; Psychosocial; Sense of coherence; Social-ecological. Ano: 2015 Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Daw, Tim M; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Bohensky, Erin L.; CSIRO Land and Water, Townsville, Australia; [email protected]; Butler, James R.A.; CSIRO Land and Water, Brisbane, Australia; [email protected]; Hill, Rosemary; CSIRO Land and Water, Cairns, Australia; James Cook University, Division of Tropical Environments & Societies; [email protected]; Martin-Ortega, Julia; Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, UK; [email protected]; Quinlan, Allyson; Resilience Alliance, Ottawa, Canada; [email protected]; Thyresson, Matilda; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Mistry, Jayalaxshmi; Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, UK; [email protected]; Peterson, Garry D.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Plieninger, Tobias; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected]; Waylen, Kerry A.; Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group, The James Hutton Institute, UK; [email protected]; Beach, Dylan M.; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan; [email protected]; Bohnet, Iris C.; James Cook University, Centre for Tropical and Sustainability Science, Cairns, Queensland, Australia; [email protected]; Hamann, Maike; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected]; Hubacek, Klaus; Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA; [email protected]; Vilardy, Sandra P.; Faculty of Basic Sciences, University of Magdalena, Colombia; [email protected]. Participatory scenario planning (PSP) is an increasingly popular tool in place-based environmental research for evaluating alternative futures of social-ecological systems. Although a range of guidelines on PSP methods are available in the scientific and grey literature, there is a need to reflect on existing practices and their appropriate application for different objectives and contexts at the local scale, as well as on their potential perceived outcomes. We contribute to theoretical and empirical frameworks by analyzing how and why researchers assess social-ecological systems using place-based PSP, hence facilitating the appropriate uptake of such scenario tools in the future. We analyzed 23 PSP case studies conducted by the authors in a wide range of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Futures research; Methodological insights; Participation; Place-based research; Scenarios; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Social-ecological Functions and Vulnerability Framework to Analyze Forest Policy Reforms Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Rives, Fanny; CIRAD, UPR GREEN, F-34398 Montpellier, France; [email protected]; Antona, Martine; CIRAD, UPR GREEN, F-34398 Montpellier, France; [email protected]; Aubert, Sigrid; CIRAD, UPR GREEN, 99 Antananarivo, Madagascar CIRAD, UPR GREEN, F-34398 Montpellier, France; [email protected]. We explore the impact of forest policy reforms implemented in the early 1990s in Niger in the wake of the severe droughts that affected the Sahel in the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on Sahelian multiple-use forest ecosystems and set out to analyze policy-induced changes in the patterns of interactions between various uses, users, and dry-forest ecosystems, interactions that influence the effective management of rural forests. We put forward the hypothesis that the new forest policy reforms were designed according to a vulnerability diagnosis, highlighting two stressors: droughts and increased demand for firewood. This led to a single-issue policy focused on firewood provision and was implemented through the Household Energy Strategy (HES). The HES... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Fuelwood; Rural forest; Sahel; Social-ecological changes; Socio-ecological changes. Ano: 2012 Operationalizing the integrated landscape approach in practice Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Freeman, Olivia E; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); [email protected]; Duguma, Lalisa A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); [email protected]; Minang, Peter A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); [email protected]. The terms “landscape” and “landscape approach” have been increasingly applied within the international environmental realm, with many international organizations and nongovernmental organizations using landscapes as an area of focus for addressing multiple objectives, usually related to both environmental and social goals. However, despite a wealth of literature on landscapes and landscape approaches, ideas relating to landscape approaches are diverse and often vague, resulting in ambiguous use of the terms. Our aim, therefore, was to examine some of the main characteristics of different landscape approaches, focusing on how these might be applied in the process of taking a landscape approach. Drawing on a review of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Complex social-ecological systems; Integrated landscape approach; Multifunctionality; Participation; Sustainability; Transdisciplinarity. Ano: 2015 Tweak, Adapt, or Transform: Policy Scenarios in Response to Emerging Bioenergy Markets in the U.S. Corn Belt Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Atwell, Ryan C; Iowa State University, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; [email protected]; Schulte, Lisa A; Iowa State University, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; [email protected]; Westphal, Lynne M; U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Complexity; Ecosystem services; Iowa; Participatory; Perennials; Resilience; Scale; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2011 Human Dimensions of Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kittinger, John N; Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University; Impact Assessment, Inc.; [email protected]; Finkbeiner, Elena M; Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University; [email protected]; Glazier, Edward W.; Impact Assessment, Inc.; [email protected]; Crowder, Larry B.; Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University; Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University; [email protected]. Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on the planet but are declining because of human activities. Despite general recognition of the human role in the plight of coral reefs, the vast majority of research focuses on the ecological rather than the human dimensions of reef ecosystems, limiting our understanding of social relationships with these environments as well as potential solutions for reef recovery. General frameworks for social-ecological systems (SESs) have been advanced, but system-specific approaches are needed to develop a more nuanced view of human-environmental interactions for specific contexts and resource systems, and at specific scales. We synthesize existing concepts related to SESs and present a human dimensions framework... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Coral reefs; Human dimensions; Reciprocity; Social science; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science. Ano: 2012 Interlinking ecosystem services and Ostrom’s framework through orientation in sustainability research Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Partelow, Stefan; Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany; Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany; [email protected]; Winkler, Klara J.; Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; [email protected]. Structuring integrated social-ecological systems (SES) research remains a core challenge for achieving sustainability. Numerous concepts and frameworks exist, but there is a lack of mutual learning and orientation of knowledge between them. We focus on two approaches in particular: the ecosystem services concept and Elinor Ostrom’s diagnostic SES framework. We analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each and discuss their potential for mutual learning. We use knowledge types in sustainability research as a boundary object to compare the contributions of each approach. Sustainability research is conceptualized as a multi-step knowledge generation process that includes system, target, and transformative knowledge. A case study of the Southern... Tipo: NON-REFEREED Palavras-chave: Boundary object; Knowledge types; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science. Ano: 2016 Using Participatory Scenario Planning to Identify Ecosystem Services in Changing Landscapes Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Malinga, Rebecka; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Gordon, Line J.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Lindborg, Regina; Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Jewitt, Graham; Centre for Water Resources Research, Umgeni Water Chair of Water Resources Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal ; [email protected]. There is a growing interest in assessing ecosystem services to improve ecosystem management in landscapes containing a mix of different ecosystems. While methodologies for assessing ecosystem services are constantly improving, only little attention has been given to the identification of which ecosystem services to assess. Service selection is mostly based on current state of the landscape although many landscapes are both inherently complex and rapidly changing. In this study we examine whether scenario development, a tool for dealing with uncertainties and complexities of the future, gives important insights into the selection of ecosystem services in changing landscapes. Using an agricultural landscape in South Africa we compared different sets of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Complexity; Ecosystem services; Future; Landscape; Scenarios; Social-ecological systems; South Africa; Uncertainties. Ano: 2013 A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Walker, Brian; CSIRO; [email protected]; Gunderson, Lance; Emory Universitry; [email protected]; Kinzig, Ann; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; Stockholm University; [email protected]; Carpenter, Steve; University of Wisconsin; [email protected]; Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm University; [email protected]. This paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We call them “propositions” because, although they are useful in helping us understand and compare different social-ecological systems, they are not sufficiently well defined to be considered formal hypotheses. These propositions were developed in two workshops, in 2003 and 2004, in which participants compared the dynamics of 15 case studies in a wide range of regions around the world. The propositions raise many questions, and we present a list of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Change; Propositions; Synthesis; Theory; Adaptatability; Transformability. Ano: 2006 A sense of change: media designers and artists communicating about complexity in social-ecological systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Vervoort, Joost M.; Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University; Alterra; [email protected]; Keuskamp, Diederik H.; Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam; [email protected]; Kok, Kasper; Soil Geography and Landscape group, Wageningen University; [email protected]; van Lammeren, Ron; Laboratory for Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University; [email protected]; Stolk, Taconis; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Arts Academy; [email protected]; Veldkamp, Tom (A.); Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente; [email protected]; Rekveld, Joost; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Art; [email protected]; Schelfhout, Ronald; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Teklenburg, Bart; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Cavalheiro Borges, Andre; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Wits, Willem; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Assmann, Nicky; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Abdi Dezfouli, Erfan; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Cunningham, Kate; ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Arts; [email protected]; Nordeman, Berend; Media Technology, Leiden University; [email protected]; Rowlands, Hannah; Oxford Martin School Programme for the Future of Food, University of Oxford; [email protected]. To take on the current and future challenges of global environmental change, fostering a widespread societal understanding of and engagement with the complex dynamics that characterize interacting human and natural systems is essential. Current science communication methods struggle with a number of specific challenges associated with communicating about complex systems. In this study we report on two collaborative processes, a short workshop and longer course, that aimed to harness the insights of interactive media designers and artists to overcome these challenges. The two processes resulted in 86 new interactive media concepts which were selected by the participants and organizers using set criteria and then evaluated using the same criteria by a panel... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Communication; Complexity; Participation; Scale; Serious gaming; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Constructing stability landscapes to identify alternative states in coupled social-ecological agent-based models Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bitterman, Patrick; Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa; [email protected]; Bennett, David A.; Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, University of Iowa; [email protected]. The resilience of a social-ecological system is measured by its ability to retain core functionality when subjected to perturbation. Resilience is contextually dependent on the state of system components, the complex interactions among these components, and the timing, location, and magnitude of perturbations. The stability landscape concept provides a useful framework for considering resilience within the specified context of a particular social-ecological system but has proven difficult to operationalize. This difficulty stems largely from the complex, multidimensional nature of the systems of interest and uncertainty in system response. Agent-based models are an effective methodology for understanding how cross-scale processes within and across social... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agent-based model; Resilience; Social-ecological system; Stability landscape. Ano: 2016 Anticipating future risk in social-ecological systems using fuzzy cognitive mapping: the case of wildfire in the Chiquitania, Bolivia Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Devisscher, Tahia; Environmental Change Institute‬, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford; Stockholm Environment Institute; [email protected]; Boyd, Emily; Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading; Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies; [email protected]; Malhi, Yadvinder; Environmental Change Institute‬, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford; [email protected]. Understanding complex social-ecological systems, and anticipating how they may respond to rapid change, requires an approach that incorporates environmental, social, economic, and policy factors, usually in a context of fragmented data availability. We employed fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) to integrate these factors in the assessment of future wildfire risk in the Chiquitania region, Bolivia. In this region, dealing with wildfires is becoming increasingly challenging because of reinforcing feedbacks between multiple drivers. We conducted semistructured interviews and constructed different FCMs in focus groups to understand the regional dynamics of wildfire from diverse perspectives. We used FCM modelling to evaluate possible adaptation scenarios in the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Climate change; Complexity; Scenario; Social-ecological system; Uncertainty; Wildfire risk. Ano: 2016 Developing Adaptive Capacity to Droughts: the Rationality of Locality Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Welsh, Lisa W.; Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University; [email protected]; Endter-Wada, Joanna; Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University; Ecology Center, Utah State University; Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University; [email protected]; Downard, Rebekah; Ecology Center, Utah State University; Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University; [email protected]; Kettenring, Karin M.; Ecology Center, Utah State University; Department of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Drought; Social-ecological systems (SES); Vulnerability; Water resources management; Wetlands. Ano: 2013 The Identification of Potential Resilient Estuary-based Enterprises to Encourage Economic Empowerment in South Africa: a Toolkit Approach Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bowd, Rebecca; School of Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]; Quinn, Nevil; Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England; [email protected]; Kotze, Donovan C; School of Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]; Hay, Duncan G; Independent Consultant; [email protected]; Mander, Myles; Eco-Futures; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Participatory tools; Risk assessment; Social-ecological systems; Stakeholder engagement. Ano: 2012 Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kuhn, Arnim; Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn; [email protected]; Naumann, Christiane; Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne; [email protected]; Rasch, Sebastian; Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn; [email protected]; Sandhage-Hofmann, Alexandra; Soil Science and Soil Ecology Group, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn; [email protected]; Amelung, Wulf; Soil Science and Soil Ecology Group, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn; [email protected]; Jordaan, Jorrie; Department of Plant Production, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering, University of Limpopo; [email protected]; Du Preez, Chris C.; Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State; [email protected]; Bollig, Michael; Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne; [email protected]. In the past decades, social-ecological systems (SESs) worldwide have undergone dramatic transformations with often detrimental consequences for livelihoods. Although resilience thinking offers promising conceptual frameworks to understand SES transformations, empirical resilience assessments of real-world SESs are still rare because SES complexity requires integrating knowledge, theories, and approaches from different disciplines. Taking up this challenge, we empirically assess the resilience of a South African pastoral SES to drought using various methods from natural and social sciences. In the ecological subsystem, we analyze rangelands’ ability to buffer drought effects on forage provision, using soil and vegetation indicators. In the social... Tipo: NON-REFEREED Palavras-chave: Drought; Empirical resilience assessment; Globalization; Institutions; Monetary resources; Pastoralism; Rangelands; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2016 Interacting effects of change in climate, human population, land use, and water use on biodiversity and ecosystem services Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Elmhagen, Bodil; Stockholm University, Department of Zoology; [email protected]; Destouni, Georgia; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; Stockholm University, Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research; [email protected]; Boyd, Emily; Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre; University of Reading, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Sciences; [email protected]; Cousins, Sara A. O.; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]; Ermold, Matti; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]; Hedlund, Johanna; Stockholm University, Department of Zoology; [email protected]; Hylander, Kristoffer; Stockholm University, Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences; [email protected]; Jaramillo, Fernando; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]; Lagerholm, Vendela K; Stockholm University, Department of Zoology; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics; [email protected]; Lyon, Steve W; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; Stockholm University, Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research; [email protected]; Moor, Helen; Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Pasanen-Mortensen, Marianne; Stockholm University, Department of Zoology; [email protected]; Plue, Jan; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]; Prieto, Carmen; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]; van der Velde, Ype; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; Wageningen University, Department of Soil Geography and Landscape; [email protected]; Lindborg, Regina; Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Governance; Historical ecology; Landscape management; Scale mismatch; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Can Resilience be Reconciled with Globalization and the Increasingly Complex Conditions of Resource Degradation in Asian Coastal Regions? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Armitage, Derek; Wilfrid Laurier University; [email protected]; Johnson, Derek; Centre for Maritime Research; [email protected]. This paper explores the relationship between resilience and globalization. We are concerned, most importantly, with whether resilience is a suitable conceptual framework for natural resource management in the context of the rapid changes and disruptions that globalization causes in social-ecological systems. Although theoretical in scope, we ground this analysis using our experiences in two Asian coastal areas: Junagadh District in Gujarat State, India and Banawa Selatan, in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We present the histories of resource exploitation in the two areas, and we attempt to combine a resilience perspective with close attention to the impact of globalization. Our efforts serve as a basis from which to examine the conceptual and practical... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Globalization; Resilience; Complexity; India; Indonesia; Resource management; Coastal management; Social-ecological system; Sustainability. Ano: 2006 Pathogens, disease, and the social-ecological resilience of protected areas Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: De Vos, Alta; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Rhodes University, South Africa; [email protected]; Cumming, Graeme S.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; [email protected]; Cumming, David H. M.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Tropical Resource Ecology Programme, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe; [email protected]; Ament, Judith M.; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Baum, Julia; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Clements, Hayley S; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Grewar, John D; Western Cape Government, Department of Agriculture, Elsenburg, South Africa; [email protected]; Maciejewski, Kristine; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Moore, Christine; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK; [email protected]. It is extremely important for biodiversity conservation that protected areas are resilient to a range of potential future perturbations. One of the least studied influences on protected area resilience is that of disease. We argue that wildlife disease (1) is a social-ecological problem that must be approached from an interdisciplinary perspective; (2) has the potential to lead to changes in the identity of protected areas, possibly transforming them; and (3) interacts with conservation both directly (via impacts on wild animals, livestock, and people) and indirectly (via the public, conservation management, and veterinary responses). We use southern African protected areas as a case study to test a framework for exploring the connections between... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Disease; Identity; Pathogens; Protected areas; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Southern Africa. Ano: 2016 An Indicator Framework for Assessing Agroecosystem Resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cabell, Joshua F; Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences; [email protected]; Oelofse, Myles; Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Copenhagen University; [email protected]. Taking departure in the theory of resilience in social-ecological systems, we present an analysis and discussion of how resilience theory can be applied to agroecosystems. Building on the premise that agroecosystems are too complex for resilience to be measured in any precise manner, we delineate behavior-based indicators of resilience within agroecosystems. Based on a review of relevant literature, we present and discuss an index of 13 such indicators, which, when identified in an agroecosystem, suggest that it is resilient and endowed with the capacity for adaptation and transformation. Absence of these indicators identifies points of intervention for managers and stakeholders to build resilience where there is vulnerability. The indicators encompass... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Agroecosystems; Behavior-based indicators; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 Socioeconomic drivers of yard sustainable practices in a tropical city Provedor de dados: 7 A growing body of work has emphasized the importance of residential areas to the overall green infrastructure of cities and recognizes that outcomes related to these areas are best studied using a social-ecological approach. We conducted vegetation surveys to evaluate yard practices that relate to the state of the yard vegetation, including species diversity and abundance, vegetation structure, and the percent of green area of yards versus paved areas, at the Río Piedras watershed within the San Juan metropolitan area. We used concomitant social household surveys to evaluate the association of social-economic and demographic factors at the household scale with these vegetation characteristics, as well as with landscape-level characteristics... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Green infrastructure; Residential yards; Social-ecological systems; Socioeconomic; Sustainability; Tropical; Urban. Ano: 2014 The Patronage of Thirst: Exploring Institutional Fit on a Divided Cyprus Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Zikos, Dimitrios; Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Division of Resource Economics ; [email protected]; Roggero, Matteo; Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Division of Environmental Governance; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Cyprus; Fit; Islands; Social-ecological systems; Water institutions; Water scarcity. Ano: 2013 Using Participatory Scenarios to Stimulate Social Learning for Collaborative Sustainable Development Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Johnson, Kris A; Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota; [email protected]; Dana, Genya; Dana & Sharpe Risk Associates; [email protected]; Jordan, Nicholas R; Agronomy & Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota; [email protected]; Draeger, Kathy J; Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, University of Minnesota; [email protected]; Kapuscinski, Anne; Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College; [email protected]; Schmitt Olabisi, Laura K; Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies, Michigan State University; [email protected]; Reich, Peter B; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Collaborative action; Participatory scenarios; Social-ecological challenges; Social learning; Sustainable development. Ano: 2012 The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Smith, Adrian; SPRU - Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex; [email protected]; Stirling, Andy; SPRU - Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex; [email protected]. Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex systems sensibilities of social-ecological systems research. We contend that the sharing of lessons between these areas of study must attend particularly to the common governance challenges that confront both approaches. Here, we focus on critical experience arising from reactions to a transition management approach to governing sustainable socio-technical transformations. Questions over who governs, whose system framings count, and whose sustainability gets prioritized are all pertinent to social-ecological systems research. We conclude that future research in both areas should deal more centrally and explicitly with these inherently political dimensions of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Governance; Social-ecological resilience; Socio-technical transitions. Ano: 2010 Meeting institutional criteria for social resilience: a nested risk system model Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Blair, Berill; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Lovecraft, Amy L.; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Kofinas, Gary P.; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Communities of Alaska’s North Slope face increased stresses from cumulative effects of industrial development, resource use, and changing cryospheric and socioeconomic conditions. Given these multiple pressures, what avenues exist for citizens and decision makers to exchange knowledge about impacts of oil resource extraction in Alaska, and how do the successes and failures of knowledge exchange affect the resilience of the local social ecological system? We focused our research on the risk management process of Alaska North Slope oil resources, drawing on literature that has grown out of the risk society thesis and concepts of resilience science. We surveyed state and federal initiatives designed to increase local and indigenous stakeholder... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Decision making; Inclusion; Indigenous knowledge; Resilience; Risk society; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Stakeholder engagement and biodiversity conservation challenges in social-ecological systems: some insights from biosphere reserves in western Africa and France Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bouamrane, Meriem; UNESCO MAB; [email protected]; Spierenburg, Marja; Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen; [email protected]; Agrawal, Arun; University of Michigan; [email protected]; Etienne, Michel; INRA; [email protected]; Le Page, Christophe; CIRAD-UPR GREEN; [email protected]; Levrel, Harold; CIRED; AgroParisTech; [email protected]; Mathevet, Raphael; UMR 5175 CEFE CNRS; [email protected]. Biosphere reserves are an example of social-ecological systems that combine biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development with knowledge generation and dissemination (both scientific and local). We review lessons learned from case studies biosphere reserves in western African and France, highlighting the importance of early stakeholder engagement to build knowledge for achieving sustainable development. We discuss the evolution of the concept of biosphere reserves and its application over time in different socioeconomic and cultural settings. The diversity of stakeholders and their different needs and perceptions about nature conservation complicate implementation processes, sometimes resulting in conflicts about the objectives and zonation of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Biosphere reserves; Learning; Social-ecological systems; Solidarity; Sustainable development. Ano: 2016 Advancing the understanding of behavior in social-ecological systems: results from lab and field experiments Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Janssen, Marco A; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Lindahl, Therese; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Science; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Murphy, James J; Nankai University; University of Alaska Anchorage; Chapman University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Behavioral economics; Common-pool resources; Experimental economics; Public goods; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Priming the Governance System for Climate Change Adaptation: The Application of a Social-Ecological Inventory to Engage Actors in Niagara, Canada Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Baird, Julia; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; [email protected]; Plummer, Ryan; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Pickering, Kerrie; Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University; [email protected]. Climate change adaptation presents a challenge to current top-down governance structures, including the tension between provision of public goods and actions required by diverse stakeholders, including private actors. Alternative governance approaches that facilitate participation and learning across scales are gaining attention for their ability to bring together diverse actors across sectors and to foster adaptive capacity and resilience. We have described the method and outcomes from the application of a social-ecological inventory to “prime,” i.e., hasten the development of, a regional climate change adaptation network. The social-ecological inventory tool draws on the social-ecological systems approach in which social and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Adaptive comanagement; Climate change adaptation; Local knowledge; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2014 Assessing Resilience in Stressed Watersheds Provedor de dados: 7 Although several frameworks for assessing the resilience of social-ecological systems (SESs) have been developed, some practitioners may not have sufficient time and information to conduct extensive resilience assessments. We have presented a simplified approach to resilience assessment that reviews the scientific, historical, and social literature to rate the resilience of an SES with respect to nine resilience properties: ecological variability, diversity, modularity, acknowledgement of slow variables, tight feedbacks, social capital, innovation, overlap in governance, and ecosystem services. We evaluated the effects of two large-scale projects, the construction of a major dam and the implementation of an ecosystem recovery program, on the resilience... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecological resilience; Platte River; Resilience assessment; Social-ecological system; Social resilience. Ano: 2014 Exploring the implications of critical complexity for the study of social-ecological systems. Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Audouin, Michelle; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ; [email protected]; Preiser, Rika; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University ; [email protected]; Nienaber, Shanna; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; [email protected]; Downsborough, Linda; Monash University ;; Lanz, Johann; ;; Mavengahama, Sydney; Department of Agriculture, University of Zululand ;. The complexity of social-ecological systems is well recognized (Berkes et al. 2003, Norberg and Cumming 2008). However, in the study of such systems, it is often the uncertainty that results from nonlinear interactions that forms the focus of discussion. Here, the normative implications of complexity for our knowledge of such systems are emphasised, by drawing largely on the work of Cilliers (1998, 2005a), who introduced the term "critical complexity." This perspective on complexity is distinct in bringing the value-based choices that frame our knowledge generation strategies to the fore. It is from this view that we investigate the implications of complexity for social-ecological systems research. Based on these implications, we propose a set of five key... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Critical complexity; Freshwater conservation; Knowledge types; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2013 Managing Rangeland as a Complex System: How Government Interventions Decouple Social Systems from Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Li, Wenjun; Peking University; [email protected]; Li, Yanbo; Peking University; [email protected]. The complexity of natural resource management is increasingly recognized and requires adaptive governance at multiple levels. It is particularly significant to explore the impacts of government interventions on the management practices of local communities and on target social-ecological systems. The Inner Mongolian rangeland was traditionally managed by indigenous people using their own institutions that were adapted to the highly variable local climate and were able to maintain the resilience of the social-ecological system for more than 1000 years. However, external interventions have significantly affected the rangeland social-ecological system in recent decades. In this paper, using livestock breed improvement as an example, we track government... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Decoupling; Inner Mongolia; Rangeland management; Resilience; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2012 Social-ecological systems, social diversity, and power: insights from anthropology and political ecology Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Fabinyi, Michael; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; [email protected]; Evans, Louisa; Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter; [email protected]; Foale, Simon J; Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University; [email protected]. A social-ecological system (SES) framework increasingly underpins the “resilience paradigm.” As with all models, the SES comes with particular biases. We explore these key biases. We critically examine how the SES resilience literature has attempted to define and analyze the social arena. We argue that much SES literature defines people’s interests and livelihoods as concerned primarily with the environment, and thereby underplays the role of other motivations and social institutions. We also highlight the SES resilience literature’s focus on institutions and organized social units, which misses key aspects of social diversity and power. Our key premise is the importance of inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives.... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Anthropology; Political ecology; Power; Social diversity; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2014 Science, society, and flagship species: social and political history as keys to conservation outcomes in the Gulf of California Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Vincent, Amanda CJ; Project Seahorse, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia; [email protected]. Socio-political issues are important in environmental policy outcomes but are often overlooked in conservation planning. We analyze the effects of historical social, political, and ecological contexts on conservation policy outcomes as applied to the Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve. A rushed implementation, perhaps necessary for the protection of endangered totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) and vaquita (Phocoena sinus), occurred with little community consultation, resulting in enduring disgruntlement among stakeholders that undermined its effectiveness. Overfishing and habitat degradation continue both inside and outside the reserve, and totoaba and vaquita remain Critically Endangered, with the latter’s population... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Biosphere Reserve; Flagship species; Gulf of California; Social-ecological dynamics; Totoaba; Vaquita. Ano: 2016 Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cundill, Georgina; Department of Environmental Science, Rhodes University; [email protected]. In Chile, a Territorial User Rights for Fisheries system was developed to manage benthic fisheries. This system is referred to as Management Areas for the Exploitation of Benthic Resources. Management areas involved a shift from top-down control by governments to comanagement. We have analyzed the effects of a highly variable fishery, characterized by boom-and-bust cycles, on the governance of local institutions designed for resource management. We focused on a case study in north central Chile, in which the surf clam fishery experienced high levels of variability when the fishery was in an open access system. The management areas were established for the fishery in 1999. As a result, a set of rules for the fishery were created and enforced by fishers and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Governance; Management area; Small-scale fishery; Social-ecological; TURF. Ano: 2014 Changing Use Patterns, Changing Feedback Links: Implications for Reorganization of Coastal Fisheries Management in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hammer, Monica; ; [email protected]. Property rights are important institutions for regulating the use of valuable natural resources from coastal ecosystems. In this case study, we identify and analyze property rights and user patterns related to small-scale coastal fisheries in the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. User patterns and user groups have changed significantly over the last century, as commercial fishing has been increasingly replaced by recreational activities. Interviews with local resource users and owners of water properties in two different areas, Möja and Ornö parishes within the Stockholm Archipelago, revealed a very diverse pattern of property and user rights, with a large number of water and fishing rights owners. Recreational fisheries, including both... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Coastal fisheries; Management institutions; Property rights; Social-ecological systems; Stockholm archipelago. Ano: 2006 Adapting the social-ecological system framework for urban stormwater management: the case of green infrastructure adoption Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Flynn, Carli D.; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University; [email protected]; Davidson, Cliff I.; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse University; Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems; [email protected]. Stormwater management has long been a critical societal and environmental challenge for communities. An increasing number of municipalities are turning to novel approaches such as green infrastructure to develop more sustainable stormwater management systems. However, there is a need to better understand the technological decision-making processes that lead to specific outcomes within urban stormwater governance systems. We used the social-ecological system (SES) framework to build a classification system for identifying significant variables that influence urban stormwater governance decisions related to green infrastructure adoption. To adapt the framework, we relied on findings from observations at national stormwater meetings in combination with a... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Green infrastructure; Social-ecological systems framework; Stormwater management; Technology adoption. Ano: 2016 Robustness or resilience? Managing the intersection of ecology and engineering in an urban Alaskan fishery Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Krupa, Meagan B.; Alaska Pacific University; [email protected]; Chapin, III, F. Stuart; University of Alaska Fairbanks ; [email protected]; Lovecraft, Amy L.; University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Hatchery; Robustness theory; Salmon; Social-ecological systems; Stream management; Urban fishery. Ano: 2014 Sustaining Europe’s seas as coupled social-ecological systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Mee, Laurence; ;; Cooper, Philip; University of Bath; [email protected]; Kannen, Andreas; Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Department Human Dimensions in Coastal Areas; [email protected]; Gilbert, Alison J; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Ecosystem approach; Marine Strategy Framework Directive; Regional seas; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Assessing the Sustainability of Small Farmer Natural Resource Management Systems. A Critical Analysis of the MESMIS Program (1995-2010) Provedor de dados: 7 Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource management systems (NRMS). Unfortunately, social-ecological systems (SES) theory, sustainability evaluation frameworks, and assessment methods are still foreign not only to farmers but to many researchers, students, NGOs, policy makers/operators, and other interested groups. In this paper we examine the main achievements and challenges of the MESMIS Program (Spanish acronym for Indicator-based Sustainability Assessment Framework), a 15-year ongoing effort with impact in 60 case studies and 20 undergraduate and graduate programs mainly in Ibero-America that is attempting to cope with the stated... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Complex systems; Latin America; Natural resource management; Small farmers; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability assessments. Ano: 2012 Resilience of small-scale societies: a view from drylands Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Puy, Arnald; Institute of Geography, University of Cologne; Maritime Civilizations Department, Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, University of Haifa; [email protected]; Biagetti, Stefano; Complexity and Socio-Ecological dynamics (CaSEs), Spain; Departament d'Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies (GAES), University of the Witwatersrand; [email protected]. To gain insights on long-term social-ecological resilience, we examined adaptive responses of small-scale societies to dryland-related hazards in different regions and chronological periods, spanning from the mid-Holocene to the present. Based on evidence from Africa (Sahara and Sahel), Asia (south margin of the Thar desert), and Europe (South Spain), we discuss key traits and coping practices of small-scale societies that are potentially relevant for building resilience. The selected case studies illustrate four main coping mechanisms: mobility and migration, storage, commoning, and collective action driven by religious beliefs. Ultimately, the study of resilience in the context of drylands emphasizes the importance of adaptive traits and practices that... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Climate change; Coping mechanisms; Drylands; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2016 Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Dannenberg, Astrid; The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA; Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; [email protected]; McCarney, Geoff; The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA; School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, USA; [email protected]; Milkoreit, Manjana; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA; [email protected]; Diekert, Florian; Dept. of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway; NoRMER/CEES, Dept. of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway; [email protected]; Fishman, Ram; Dept. of Economics, George Washington University, USA; [email protected]; Gars, Johan; The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden; [email protected]; Kyriakopoolou, Efthymia; Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; [email protected]; Manoussi, Vassiliki; Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece; [email protected]; Meng, Kyle; School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, USA; [email protected]; Metian, Marc; Radioecology Laboratory, IAEA Environment Laboratories, Monaco; [email protected]; Sanctuary, Mark; The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Sweden; [email protected]; Schoon, Michael; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA; [email protected]; Schultz, Lisen; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]. The purpose of the United Nations-guided process to establish Sustainable Development Goals is to galvanize governments and civil society to rise to the interlinked environmental, societal, and economic challenges we face in the Anthropocene. We argue that the process of setting Sustainable Development Goals should take three key aspects into consideration. First, it should embrace an integrated social-ecological system perspective and acknowledge the key dynamics that such systems entail, including the role of ecosystems in sustaining human wellbeing, multiple cross-scale interactions, and uncertain thresholds. Second, the process needs to address trade-offs between the ambition of goals and the feasibility in reaching them, recognizing biophysical,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Social change; Social-ecological systems; Sustainable Development Goals; Transformations. Ano: 2014 Using a view of livestock farms as social-ecological systems to study the local variety in their trajectories of change Provedor de dados: 189 Autores: rueff, C.; Gibon, A. In the Pyrenees National Park (France), as in other European mountain areas, the decline of agriculture and the reforestation of agricultural landscapes depress many assets of local importance for rural development. In comparison with other mountain areas, the relatively high capacity of Pyrenean family farms to survive is being increasingly challenged by growing uncertainties in the local and global social-economic environment. Rural development stakeholders thus place increasing value on the maintenance of livestock farms and on their multifunctional role in landscape management. In this paper we present the results of a tentative analysis to improve assessment of variety in the longterm patterns of change in individual family farms of the current farm... Tipo: Conference Paper Palavras-chave: LONG-TERM TRAJECTORIES; FAMILY-FARM SYSTEMS; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABILITY. Ano: 2010 URL: http://www.prodinra.inra.fr/prodinra/pinra/doc.xsp?id=PROD20101e6822f0&uri=/notices/prodinra1/2011/02/ Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Our review highlights how traditional ecological knowledge influences people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and identifies a set of mechanisms that contribute to such capacity in the context of community-based biodiversity conservation initiatives. Twenty-three publications, including twenty-nine case studies, were reviewed with the aim of investigating how local knowledge, community-based conservation, and resilience interrelate in social-ecological systems. We highlight that such relationships have not been systematically addressed in regions where a great number of community conservation initiatives are found; and we identify a set of factors that foster people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and a number of social... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Biodiversity conservation; Community-based conservation; Ecosystem services; Local ecological knowledge; Natural resource management; Social-ecological change; Social-ecological resilience; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2013 Transformation of resource management institutions under globalization: the case of songgye community forests in South Korea. Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Yu, David J.; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Anderies, John M.; Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; [email protected]; Lee, Dowon; Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University; [email protected]; Perez, Irene; Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University; [email protected]. The context in which many self-governed commons systems operate will likely be significantly altered as globalization processes play out over the next few decades. Such dramatic changes will induce some systems to fail and subsequently to be transformed, rather than merely adapt. Despite this possibility, research on globalization-induced transformations of social-ecological systems (SESs) is still underdeveloped. We seek to help fill this gap by exploring some patterns of transformation in SESs and the question of what factors help explain the persistence of cooperation in the use of common-pool resources through transformative change. Through the analysis of 89 forest commons in South Korea that experienced such transformations, we found that there are... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Collective action; Community-based forest management; Forest commons; Multilevel governance; Nested enterprise; Network diversity; Robustness; Robustness trade-offs; Social-ecological systems; Songgye; Transformative capacity of social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Probing the interfaces between the social sciences and social-ecological resilience: insights from integrative and hybrid perspectives in the social sciences Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Stone-Jovicich, Samantha; CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Adaptive Social and Economic Sciences Program; [email protected]. Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience thinking’s oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems. Resilience scholars have countered with “where is the ecology” in social analyses? My aim is to contribute to current efforts to strengthen interand transdisciplinary debate and inquiry between the social-ecological resilience community and the social sciences. I synthesize three social science perspectives, which stress the complex, dynamic, and multiscalar interconnections between the biophysical and social realms in explaining social-environmental change, and which place both the social and ecology centre stage in their analyses:... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Actor-network theory; Agency; ANT; Human-environment relations; Hybrid perspectives; Interdisciplinary; Normative issues; Political ecology; Power; Social-ecological resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social sciences; Social systems; Transdisciplinary; World systems analysis. Ano: 2015 An Ecological View of the History of the City of Cape Town Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Anderson, Pippin M. L.; Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Centre for Cities, UCT ; [email protected]. Rapid global urbanization and the knowledge that ecological systems underpin the future sustainability and resilience of our cities, make an understanding of urban ecology critical. The way humans engage with ecological processes within cities is highly complex, and both from a social and ecological perspective these engagements cannot be interpreted meaningfully on the basis of a single timeframe. Historical analyses offer useful insights into the nature of social-ecological interactions under diverse conditions, enabling improved decision-making into the future. We present an historical review of the evolving relationship between the urban settlement of Cape Town and the ecological processes inherent to its natural surroundings. Since its establishment,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Ecological history; Ecosystem services; City of Cape Town; Social ecological systems. Ano: 2012 Adapting to Climate Change: Social-Ecological Resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic Community Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; [email protected]; Jolly, Dyanna; University of Manitoba; [email protected]. Human adaptation remains an insufficiently studied part of the subject of climate change. This paper examines the questions of adaptation and change in terms of social-ecological resilience using lessons from a place-specific case study. The Inuvialuit people of the small community of Sachs Harbour in Canada's western Arctic have been tracking climate change throughout the 1990s. We analyze the adaptive capacity of this community to deal with climate change. Short-term responses to changes in land-based activities, which are identified as coping mechanisms, are one component of this adaptive capacity. The second component is related to cultural and ecological adaptations of the Inuvialuit for life in a highly variable and uncertain environment; these... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science; Arctic; Canadian North; Inuit; Inuvialuit; Adaptive strategies; Climate change; Community-based research; Coping mechanisms; Human ecology; Participatory research; Participatory research; Resilience; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2001 The Chilika Lagoon Social-Ecological System: An Historical Analysis Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Nayak, Prateep K.; Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo ; [email protected]. Innovations in social-ecological research require novel approaches to conceive change in human-environment systems. The study of history constitutes an important element of this process. First, using the Chilika Lagoon small-scale fisheries in India, as a case, in this paper I reflect on the appropriateness of a social-ecological perspective for understanding economic history. Second, I examine here how changes in various components of the lagoon’s social-ecological system influenced and shaped economic history and the political processes surrounding it. I then discuss the two-way linkages between economic history and social-ecological processes to highlight that the components of a social-ecological system, including the economic aspects, follow... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Chilika Lagoon; Drivers; Economic history; Human-environment disconnection; India; Livelihoods; Marginalization; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological change; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability. Ano: 2014 Emerging synthesis themes from the study of social-ecological systems of a tropical city Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Lugo, Ariel E.; USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico; [email protected]; Quintero, Braulio; State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry ; [email protected]. The synthesis of the contributions in this special issue about the tropical city of San Juan has resulted in five themes. First, the city is subject to multiple vulnerabilities, but socioeconomic factors and education level affect the perception of citizens to those vulnerabilities, even in the face of imminent threat. Second, in light of the social-ecological conditions of the city, how its citizens and institutions deal with knowledge to respond to vulnerabilities becomes critical to the adaptive capacity of the city. Third, the relationship between socioeconomic factors and green cover, which in 2002 covered 42% of the city, is not what has been reported for other temperate zone cities. In San Juan, neighborhoods with households of high socioeconomic... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Green and blue infrastructure; Information flows; Novel ecosystems; Social-ecological systems; Tropical cities; Vulnerability. Ano: 2014 Source/Sink Patterns of Disturbance and Cross-Scale Mismatches in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Zaccarelli, Nicola; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; [email protected]; Petrosillo, Irene; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; [email protected]; Zurlini, Giovanni; Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; [email protected]; Riitters, Kurt Hans; U.S. Forest Service; [email protected]. Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account the scales and patterns of human land uses as source/sink disturbance systems, we describe a framework to characterize and interpret the spatial patterns of disturbances along a continuum of scales in a panarchy of nested jurisdictional social-ecological landscapes (SELs) like region, provinces, and counties. We detect and quantify those scales through the patterns of disturbance relative to land use/land cover exhibited on satellite imagery over a 4-yr period in the Apulia region, South Italy. By using moving windows to measure composition (amount) and spatial configuration (contagion) of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Disturbance mismatches; Disturbance source/sink; Multiscale disturbance patterns; Panarchy; Social-ecological landscapes. Ano: 2008 Understanding social-ecological change and transformation through community perceptions of system identity Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Andrachuk, Mark; University of Waterloo; Environmental Change and Governance Group; [email protected]; Armitage, Derek; University of Waterloo; Environmental Change and Governance Group; [email protected]. We developed an empirical approach to consider social-ecological system change and transformation by drawing on resource users’ knowledge and perceptions. We applied this approach in the Cau Hai lagoon, a coastal area dominated by small-scale fisheries in central Vietnam. Nine focus groups with more than 70 fishers were used to gather information about key social-ecological system elements and interactions, historical social-ecological dynamics, and possible thresholds between distinct social-ecological system identities. The patterns of change in livelihoods and resource exploitation in the Cau Hai lagoon are similar to those seen in other coastal lagoon and small-scale fishery contexts. Our findings show some promise for the use of local... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Aquaculture; Environmental change; Governance; Local knowledge systems; Perceptions; Resilience; Small scale fisheries; Social-ecological transformations. Ano: 2015 Hydropower vs. fisheries conservation: a test of institutional design principles for common-pool resource management in the lower Mekong basin social-ecological system Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Villamayor-Tomas, Sergio; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]; Avagyan, Mikayel; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]; Firlus, Marit; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]; Helbing, Georg; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]; Kabakova, Margarita; Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt University; [email protected]. New methods have emerged for testing common-pool resource theory in large-scale environmental governance contexts. We aim to contribute to that scholarship by assessing the relevance of Elinor Ostrom’s design principles in the lower Mekong basin (LMB). The recent dam-building trend in the LMB has revealed a trade-off between hydropower development and the conservation of migratory fish species. The need to internalize or avoid the negative externalities of hydropower dam construction poses a new challenge to the LMB governance system and its main management body, the Mekong River Commission. Our objective was to explain the emergence of the trade-off and the capacity of the governance system to address it. Elinor Ostrom’s design... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common pool resource theory; Fisheries; Hydropower; Institutional design principles; Lower Mekong basin; SESMAD; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2016 Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Food Systems: Learning at Farmers' Markets in Sweden Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Milestad, Rebecka; Department of Urban and Rural Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Division of Environmental Strategies Research, Royal Institute of Technology; [email protected]; Westberg, Lotten; Department of Urban and Rural Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences;; Geber, Ulrika; County Administrative Board of Stockholm;. This article examines how local food systems in the form of farmers' markets can enhance adaptive capacity and build social-ecological resilience. It does this by exploring the learning potential among farmers and customers. Learning can enable actors to adapt successfully and thus build adaptive capacity. Three forms of learning are investigated: instrumental, communicative, and emancipatory. These forms of learning constitute the foundation for lasting changes of behaviors. Local food systems are characterized by close links and opportunities for face-to-face interactions between consumers and producers of food, and are also institutions where farmers and customers can express and act upon their ethical values concerning food. However, local food systems... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Learning; Local food systems; Farmers' markets; Short food chains; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2010 Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex social-ecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bowd, Rebecca; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]; Quinn, Nevil W.; Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England ; [email protected]; Kotze, Donovan C.; School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]. Consideration of biophysical impacts has historically dominated environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice. Despite the emergence of social impact assessment, the consideration of socioeconomic impacts in EIA is variable, as is the extent of their integration in EIA findings. There is growing recognition for the need to move EIA practice toward sustainability assessment, characterized by comprehensiveness, i.e., scope of impacts, integration, i.e., of biophysical and socioeconomic impacts, and a greater strategic focus. This is particularly the case in developing regions and in countries like South Africa, which have statutory requirements for the full consideration of socioeconomic impacts in EIA. We suggest that EIA practice could benefit from... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Environmental impact assessment (EIA); Framework; Participation; Social-ecological system (SES); Sustainability assessment. Ano: 2015 Putting the "E" in SES: unpacking the ecology in the Ostrom social-ecological system framework Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Vogt, Jessica M.; The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Furman University; [email protected]; Epstein, Graham B.; School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University Bloomington; The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; [email protected]; Mincey, Sarah K.; Integrated Program in the Environment, Indiana University Bloomington; Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University Bloomington; The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University Bloomington; [email protected]; Fischer, Burnell C.; The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University Bloomington; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University Bloomington; [email protected]; McCord, Paul; Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Indiana University Bloomington; Department of Geography, Indiana University Bloomington; The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Bloomington; [email protected]. The Ostrom social-ecological system (SES) framework offers an interdisciplinary tool for studies of linked human-natural systems. However, its origin in the social sciences belies the effectiveness of its interdisciplinary ambitions and undermines its ability to cope with ecological complexity. To narrow the gap between inherently dynamic ecological systems and the SES framework, we need to explicitly recognize that SES outcomes are coproduced by social systems in which choices are made, as well as an ecological system with a diverse assortment of dynamic natural processes that mediate the effect of those choices. We illustrate the need for more explicit incorporation of ecological attributes into the SES framework by presenting a case study of a... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Ecological theory; Forest ecology; Interdisciplinary science; Linked human-natural systems; Social-ecological system framework. Ano: 2015 Does Pastoralists' Participation in the Management of National Parks in Northern Norway Contribute to Adaptive Governance? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Risvoll, Camilla ; University of Nordland; [email protected]; Fedreheim, Gunn Elin; Nordland Research Institute; [email protected]; Sandberg , Audun ; University of Nordland; [email protected]; BurnSilver, Shauna; School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University; [email protected]. Norwegian protected areas have historically been managed by central, expertise bureaucracy; however, a governance change in 2010 decentralized and delegated the right to manage protected areas to locally elected politicians and elected Sámi representatives in newly established National Park Boards. We explore how this new governance change affects adaptive capacity within the reindeer industry, as the reindeer herders are now participating with other users in decision-making processes related to large tracts of protected areas in which they have pasture access. Aspects within adaptive capacity and resilience thinking are useful as complementary dimensions to a social-ecological system framework (Ostrom 2007) in exploring the dynamics of complex... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Decentralization; National park governance; Participation; Pastoralists; Protected areas; Reindeer herding; SES framework; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2014 Understanding Human-Fire Interactions in Tropical Forest Regions: a Case for Interdisciplinary Research across the Natural and Social Sciences. Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Carmenta, Rachel; Lancaster Environment Centre; Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); [email protected]; Parry, Luke; Lancaster Environment Centre; [email protected]; Blackburn, Alan; Lancaster Environment Centre; [email protected]; Vermeylen, Saskia; Lancaster Environment Centre; [email protected]; Barlow, Jos; Lancaster Environment Centre; [email protected]. Fire in the forested tropics has profound environmental, economic, and social impacts at multiple geographical scales. Causes of tropical fires are widely documented, although research contributions are from many disciplines, and each tends to focus on specific facets of a research problem, which might limit understanding of fire as a complex social-ecological system. We conducted a systematic review to (1) examine geographic and methodological focus in tropical fire research; (2) identify which types of landholders are the focus of the research effort; (3) test for a research method effect on the variables, e.g., socio-political, economic, and climatic, identified as causes of and proposed management solutions to tropical fire; and (4) examine... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Fire management; Interdisciplinary research; Multiscale analysis; Scale-pattern-process; Social-ecological systems; Tropical forests. Ano: 2011 Adaptive Management and Social Learning in Collaborative and Community-Based Monitoring: a Study of Five Community-Based Forestry Organizations in the western USA Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria E.; Colorado State University; [email protected]; Ballard, Heidi L.; University of California - Davis; [email protected]; Sturtevant, Victoria E.; Southern Oregon University; [email protected]. Collaborative and community-based monitoring are becoming more frequent, yet few studies have examined the process and outcomes of these monitoring approaches. We studied 18 collaborative or community-based ecological assessment or monitoring projects undertaken by five community-based forestry organizations (CBFs), to investigate the objectives, process, and outcomes of collaborative ecological monitoring by CBF organizations. We found that collaborative monitoring can lead to shared ecological understanding among diverse participants, build trust internally and credibility externally, foster social learning and community-building, and advance adaptive management. The CBFs experienced challenges in recruiting and sustaining community participation in... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Collaborative monitoring; Multiparty monitoring; Community-based monitoring; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social learning. Ano: 2008 Educating for resilience in the North: building a toolbox for teachers Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Spellman, Katie V.; Resilience and Adaptation Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Communities at far northern latitudes must respond rapidly to the many complex problems that are arising from changing climate. An emerging body of theoretical and empirical work has explored the role that education plays in enhancing the resilience and adaptability of social-ecological systems. To foster effective, local, and timely responses of high-latitude communities to climate-driven social-ecological change, educators need access to successful and efficient teaching tools to foster resilience-promoting feedbacks. The potential for existing teaching practices to address this need, however, must be investigated and communicated to teachers. Here, I review the education and sustainability science literature for attributes of resilience to which formal... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Alaska; Citizen science; Human capital; Metacognition; Pedagogy; Scenarios thinking; Sense of place; Social capital; Social-ecological resilience; Systems thinking. Ano: 2015 Change and Identity in Complex Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cumming, Graeme S; University of Florida; [email protected]; Collier, John; University of KwaZulu-Natal; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Complexity; Resilience; Identity; Adaptive cycle; Limitation; Replacement; Random walk; Evolution; Ecosystem; Economy; Society; Social-ecological system; Metamodels. Ano: 2005 Agency and Resilience: Teachings of Pikangikum First Nation Elders, Northwestern Ontario Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Miller, Andrew M.; First Nations University of Canada; [email protected]; Davidson-Hunt, Iain; Natural Resources Institute; University of Manitoba; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Agency; Anishinaabe; Other-than-human persons; Pikangikum First Nation; Resilience; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2013 Ecosystem Services, Governance, and Stakeholder Participation: an Introduction Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Paavola, Jouni ; University of Leeds; [email protected]; Hubacek, Klaus; Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive; Ecosystem services; Governance; Participation; Payment for ecosystem services; Protected areas; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Stakeholders. Ano: 2013 Collective action and the risk of ecosystem regime shifts: insights from a laboratory experiment Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Schill, Caroline; The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Lindahl, Therese; The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]. Ecosystems can undergo regime shifts that potentially lead to a substantial decrease in the availability of provisioning ecosystem services. Recent research suggests that the frequency and intensity of regime shifts increase with growing anthropogenic pressure, so understanding the underlying social-ecological dynamics is crucial, particularly in contexts where livelihoods depend heavily on local ecosystem services. In such settings, ecosystem services are often derived from common-pool resources. The limited capacity to predict regime shifts is a major challenge for common-pool resource management, as well as for systematic empirical analysis of individual and group behavior, because of the need for extensive preshift and postshift data. Unsurprisingly,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common-pool resources; Cooperation; Ecological dynamics; Laboratory experiments; Regime shifts; Risk; Social-ecological systems; Thresholds; Uncertainty. Ano: 2015 Key insights for the future of urban ecosystem services research Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Kremer, Peleg; Department of Geography and the Environment, Villanova University; Tishman Environment and Design Center, The New School; [email protected]; McPhearson, Timon; Urban Ecology Lab, Environmental Studies Program, The New School; [email protected]; Frantzeskaki, Niki; DRIFT, Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam; [email protected]; Andersson, Erik; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; Rall, Emily L; Technical University of Munich, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management; [email protected]; Bertram, Christine; Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Research Area The Environment and Natural Resources; [email protected]; Hansen, Rieke; Technical University of Munich, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management; [email protected]; Kaczorowska, Anna; Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology; [email protected]; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology; [email protected]; Kronenberg, Jakub; Department of International Economics, University of Lodz; [email protected]; Pauleit, Stephan; Technical University of Munich, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management; [email protected]; Rehdanz, Katrin; University of Kiel, Department of Economics; Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Research Area The Environment and Natural Resources; [email protected]; Schewenius, Maria; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]; van Ham, Chantal; IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature; [email protected]; Wurster, Daniel; ; [email protected]; Elmqvist, Thomas; Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University; [email protected]. Understanding the dynamics of urban ecosystem services is a necessary requirement for adequate planning, management, and governance of urban green infrastructure. Through the three-year Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (URBES) research project, we conducted case study and comparative research on urban biodiversity and ecosystem services across seven cities in Europe and the United States. Reviewing > 50 peer-reviewed publications from the project, we present and discuss seven key insights that reflect cumulative findings from the project as well as the state-of-the-art knowledge in urban ecosystem services research. The insights from our review indicate that cross-sectoral, multiscale, interdisciplinary research is beginning to provide a... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Social-ecological systems; Urban ecology; Urban ecosystem services; Urban green infrastructure; Urban liveability; Urban planning. Ano: 2016 Total Environment of Change: Impacts of Climate Change and Social Transitions on Subsistence Fisheries in Northwest Alaska Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Moerlein, Katie J; School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Carothers, Courtney; School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Arctic; Climate change; Environmental anthropology; Fisheries; Human dimensions; Local knowledge; Social-ecological systems; Subsistence; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2012 Food Sources and Accessibility and Waste Disposal Patterns across an Urban Tropical Watershed: Implications for the Flow of Materials and Energy Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Garcia-Montiel, Diana C.; Institute For Tropical Ecosystem Studies; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Household; Nutrient cycling; San Juan ULTRA; Social-ecological systems; Urban biogeochemistry; Urban ecology; Urban metabolism; Watershed. Ano: 2014 Cross-Scale Value Trade-Offs in Managing Social-Ecological Systems: The Politics of Scale in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Zia, Asim; Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, University of Vermont; [email protected]; Hirsch, Paul; Department of Environmental Studies SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse NY ; [email protected]; Songorwa, Alexander; Department of Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania ; [email protected]; Mutekanga, David R.; Wildlife Conservation Society, Ruaha National Park, Tanzania; [email protected]; O'Connor, Sheila; Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ ; [email protected]; McShane, Thomas; Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ ; [email protected]; Brosius, Peter; Center for Integrative Conservation Research, University of Georgia, Athens GA ; [email protected]; Norton, Bryan; School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA; [email protected]. Management of social-ecological systems takes place amidst complex governance processes and cross-scale institutional arrangements that are mediated through politics of scale. Each management scenario generates distinct cross-scale trade-offs in the distribution of pluralistic values. This study explores the hypothesis that conservation-oriented management scenarios generate higher value for international and national scale social organizations, whereas mixed or more balanced management scenarios generate higher value for local scale social organizations. This hypothesis is explored in the management context of Ruaha National Park (RNP), Tanzania, especially the 2006 expansion of RNP that led to the eviction of many pastoralists and farmers. Five... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Complexity; Ecological valuation; Economic development; Politics of scale; Social-ecological systems; Trade-off analysis. Ano: 2011 Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Plieninger, Tobias; University of Copenhagen; [email protected]; Kizos, Thanasis; University of the Aegean; [email protected]; Bieling, Claudia; University of Hohenheim; [email protected]; Budniok, Marie-Alice; European Landowners' Organization; [email protected]; Crumley, Carole L.; Uppsala University; [email protected]; Howard, Pip; Forest Communication Network Ltd.; [email protected]; Kolen, Jan; Leiden University; [email protected]; Milcinski, Grega; SINERGISE; [email protected]; Palang, Hannes; Tallinn University; [email protected]; Verburg, Peter H.; VU University Amsterdam; [email protected]. Landscapes are closely linked to human well-being, but they are undergoing rapid and fundamental change. Understanding the societal transformation underlying these landscape changes, as well as the ecological and societal outcomes of landscape transformations across scales are prime areas for landscape research. We review and synthesize findings from six important areas of landscape research in Europe and discuss how these findings may advance the study of ecosystem change and society and its thematic key priorities. These six areas are: (1) linkages between people and the environment in landscapes, (2) landscape structure and land-use intensity, (3) long-term landscape history, (4) driving forces, processes, and actors of landscape change, (5) landscape... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; European Landscape Convention; Landscape governance; Landscape stewardship; Landscape values; Multiscale landscape modeling; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change? Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Tompkins, Emma L; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia; [email protected]; Adger, W. Neil; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia; [email protected]. Emerging insights from adaptive and community-based resource management suggest that building resilience into both human and ecological systems is an effective way to cope with environmental change characterized by future surprises or unknowable risks. We argue that these emerging insights have implications for policies and strategies for responding to climate change. We review perspectives on collective action for natural resource management to inform understanding of climate response capacity. We demonstrate the importance of social learning, specifically in relation to the acceptance of strategies that build social and ecological resilience. Societies and communities dependent on natural resources need to enhance their capacity to adapt to the impacts... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Caribbean; Trinidad and Tobago; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Community-based management; Natural resource management; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2004 Integrating local knowledge and science: economic consequences of driftwood harvest in a changing climate Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Jones, Chas E; International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Kielland, Knut; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Hinzman, Larry D; International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]; Schneider, William S; Oral History Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks; [email protected]. The integration of local knowledge and science represents an opportunity to enhance the understanding of interrelations among climate, hydrology, and socioeconomic systems while providing mutual benefits to scientists and rural communities. Insight from rural Alaskans helped to identify a social-ecological threshold used to model potential driftwood harvest from the Yukon River. Information from residents of Tanana, Alaska, was combined with scientific data to model driftwood harvest rates. Modeling results estimated that between 1980 and 2010, hydrologic factors alone were responsible for a 29% decrease in the annual wood harvest, which approximately balanced a 23% reduction in wood demand because of a decline in number of households. The... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Biomass; Climate; Driftwood; Economics; Flood; Hydrology; Large woody debris; Local knowledge; Participatory research; Social-ecological model; Threshold. Ano: 2015 Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ruppert-Winkel, Chantal; University of Freiburg; [email protected]; Deppisch, Sonja; HafenCity University Hamburg; [email protected]; Eisenack, Klaus; Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; [email protected]; Matzdorf, Bettina; Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); [email protected]; Padmanabhan, Martina; University of Passau; [email protected]; Selbmann, Kirsten; Bochum University of Applied Science; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; [email protected]; Ziegler, Rafael; University of Greifswald; [email protected]; Plieninger, Tobias; University of Copenhagen; [email protected]. Transdisciplinary sustainability science (TSS) is a prominent way of scientifically contributing to the solution of sustainability problems. Little is known, however, about the practice of scientists in TSS, especially those early in their career. Our objectives were to identify these practices and to outline the needs and challenges for early career scientists in TSS. To that end, we compiled 10 key characteristics of TSS based on a literature survey. We then analyzed research groups with 81 early career scientists against these characteristics. All of these research groups are funded by an ongoing federally funded German program for social-ecological research whose main feature is to promote sustainability-oriented inter- and transdisciplinary research.... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Early career scientists; Interdisciplinarity; Research practice; Self-evaluation; Social-ecological research; Sustainability science; Trandisciplinarity. Ano: 2015 Achieving Success under Pressure in the Conservation of Intensely Used Coastal Areas Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Micheli, Fiorenza; Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, California, USA; [email protected]; Niccolini, Federico; Department of Economics, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy; [email protected]. Understanding how biological conservation and socioeconomic development can be harmonized in social-ecological systems is at the core of sustainability science. We present the case of a Mediterranean marine protected area (MPA), the Tavolara-Punta Coda Cavallo MPA, that exhibits high ecological performance under intense pressure from fishing, tourism, and coastal development. This case study illustrates how socioeconomic development and significant conservation benefits can coexist, even in a challenging context. Based on this case study, we present a framework for what elements and interactions have determined the high ecological performance of this MPA, and highlight the key leverages that have enabled ecosystem recovery. In particular, the most critical... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Conservation performance; Marine protected areas; Mediterranean; Social-ecological systems; Tavolara-Punta Coda Cavallo MPA; Visionary Organization. Ano: 2013 Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Romero, Claudia; Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.; [email protected]; Athayde, Simone; Tropical Conservation and Development Program and Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.; [email protected]; Collomb, Jean-Gael E.; Wildlife Conservation Network; [email protected]; DiGiano, Maria; Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida; [email protected]; Schmink, Marianne; Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida.; [email protected]; Schramski, Sam; Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida; [email protected]; Seales, Lisa; Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Africa; Complex social-ecological systems; Conservation; Development; Knowledge networks; Local institutions; Economic incentives; Latin America. Ano: 2012 Social-Ecological Guilds: Putting People into Marine Historical Ecology Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Shackeroff, Janna M; International Coordinator NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program ; [email protected]; Campbell, Lisa M; Duke University; [email protected]; Crowder, Larry B; Duke University Marine Laboratory; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Conservation; Coral reefs; Local ecological knowledge; Marine historical ecology; Social-ecological systems; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2011 Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Leuteritz, Thomas E. J.; Redlands Institute; [email protected]; Ekbia, Hamid R.; Redlands Institute;. The concept of resilience has been widely used in the study of social-ecological systems, with its key components identified as resistance, latitude, and precariousness. We use this concept to examine the differences among three semi-arid regions in terms of these three components. We do this by examining the status of tortoises that occur in the dry spiny forest Madagascar, the Karoo of South Africa, and the Mojave Desert of the United States as an indicator of the health and resilience of their respective ecosystems. Our findings demonstrate the tight coupling between societal development and ecosystem dynamics, the role of diversity in enhancing resilience, and the significance of local communal knowledge in sustaining it. Our findings also suggest that... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Collective variable; Control parameter; Latitude; Madagascar; Panarchy; Precariousness; Resistance; Social-ecological systems; South Africa; United States. Ano: 2008 Toward increased engagement between academic and indigenous community partners in ecological research Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Adams, Megan S.; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; Raincoast Conservation Foundation; Hakai Beach Institute; [email protected]; Carpenter, Jennifer; Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department; [email protected]; Housty, Jess A.; Qqs Projects Society;; Neasloss, Douglass; Kitasoo/Xai-Xais Integrated Resource Authority; Spirit Bear Research Foundation;; Paquet, Paul C.; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; Raincoast Conservation Foundation; [email protected]; Service, Christina; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; Spirit Bear Research Foundation; Hakai Beach Institute; [email protected]; Walkus, Jennifer; Wuikinuxv Nation Fisheries;; Darimont, Chris T.; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; Raincoast Conservation Foundation; Hakai Beach Institute; [email protected]. Ecological research, especially work related to conservation and resource management, increasingly involves social dimensions. Concurrently, social systems, composed of human communities that have direct cultural connections to local ecology and place, may draw upon environmental research as a component of knowledge. Such research can corroborate local and traditional ecological knowledge and empower its application. Indigenous communities and their interactions with and management of resources in their traditional territories can provide a model of such social-ecological systems. As decision-making agency is shifted increasingly to indigenous governments in Canada, abundant opportunities exist for applied ecological research at the community level.... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Aboriginal; Collaborative research; Community engagement; Ecology; First Nations; Indigenous communities; Natural science; Resource management; Social-ecological systems; Trust. Ano: 2014 A social-ecological impact assessment for public lands management: application of a conceptual and methodological framework Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bentley Brymer, Amanda L; Environmental Science Program, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Holbrook, Joseph D.; Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Niemeyer, Ryan J.; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington; [email protected]; Suazo, Alexis A.; Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Wulfhorst, J. D.; Environmental Science Program, University of Idaho; Water Resources Program, University of Idaho; Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Vierling, Kerri T.; Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Newingham, Beth A.; Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; [email protected]; Link, Timothy E.; Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho; Water Resources Program, University of Idaho; [email protected]; Rachlow, Janet L.; Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of Idaho; [email protected]. According to the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), federal action to manipulate habitat for species conservation requires an environmental impact statement, which should integrate natural, physical, economic, and social sciences in planning and decision making. Nonetheless, most impact assessments focus disproportionately on physical or ecological impacts rather than integrating ecological and socioeconomic components. We developed a participatory social-ecological impact assessment (SEIA) that addresses the requirements of NEPA and integrates social and ecological concepts for impact assessments. We cooperated with the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho, USA on a project designed to restore habitat for the Greater Sage-Grouse... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Deliberative workshops; Impact assessment; National Environmental Policy Act; NEPA; PPGIS; Public lands; Public participatory GIS; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2016 Growth, Collapse, and Reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: an Analysis of Institutional Resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Baral, Nabin; Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech; [email protected]; Stern, Marc J; Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech; [email protected]; Heinen, Joel T; Department of Earth and Environment, Florida International University ; [email protected]. Community-based conservation institutions can be conceptualized as complex adaptive systems that pass through a cycle of growth, maturation, collapse, and reorganization. We test the applicability of this four-phase adaptive cycle in the institutional context of the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA), Nepal. We use the adaptive cycle to assess changes in structures and processes and to explore the past, present, and possible future trends in ACA. We focus on the crisis brought about by the Maoist insurgency and changes that took place in ACA during and after this period. Our analysis suggests that the conservation institution has passed through one and a half forms of the adaptive cycle in five major historical periods in the Annapurna region since 1960. It... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Annapurna; Adaptive cycle; Community-based conservation; Protected areas management; Resilience; Social-ecological system; Sustainability science. Ano: 2010 Interplay of multiple goods, ecosystem services, and property rights in large social-ecological marine protected areas Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ban, Natalie C; School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; [email protected]; Evans, Louisa S; Geography, University of Exeter; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; [email protected]; Nenadovic, Mateja; Duke University Marine Laboratory, Duke University; [email protected]; Schoon, Michael; Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment, Arizona State University; [email protected]. Protected areas are a cornerstone of biodiversity conservation, and increasingly, conservation science is integrating ecological and social considerations in park management. Indeed, both social and ecological factors need to be considered to understand processes that lead to changes in environmental conditions. Here, we use a social-ecological systems lens to examine changes in governance through time in an extensive regional protected area network, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. We studied the peer-reviewed and nonpeer-reviewed literature to develop an understanding of governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and its management changes through time. In particular, we examined how interacting and changing property rights, as designated by the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Ecosystem services; Great Barrier Reef; Marine conservation; Marine protected area; Property rights; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 Social and Ecological Factors Influencing Attitudes Toward the Application of High-Intensity Prescribed Burns to Restore Fire Adapted Grassland Ecosystems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Toledo, David; Texas A&M University; [email protected]; Sorice, Michael G.; Virginia Tech; [email protected]; Kreuter, Urs P.; Texas A&M University; [email protected]. Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the reintroduction of historic fires at a landscape scale is its social acceptability. Despite the growing body of literature on the social aspects of fire, an understanding of the human dimensions of applying high-intensity prescribed burns in grassland and savanna systems is lacking. We used structural equation modeling to examine how landowners’ attitudes toward high-intensity prescribed burns are affected by previous experience with burning, perceptions of brush... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: High-intensity prescribed burn; Prescribed fire; Social-ecological systems; Structural model; Subjective norms. Ano: 2013 Ways of farming and ways of thinking: do farmers’ mental models of the landscape relate to their land management practices? Provedor de dados: 7 The efficiency of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy in mitigating the negative effects of agricultural intensification on the landscape and biodiversity is increasingly being questioned. Enhancing a reciprocal understanding of various stakeholders’ mental models of agro-social-ecosystems has been proposed to trigger changes in both policy design and farmers’ behaviors. However, the relationship between farmers’ mental models and practices is rarely considered. Here, we explore the relationship between farmers’ individual mental models (IMMs) of the agricultural landscape and their land management practices. To do so, we developed a theoretical and methodological framework grounded in cognitive... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agricultural public policies; Common Agricultural Policy; Farming systems; Landscape management; Social representations; Social-ecological interdependencies. Ano: 2016 A systemic framework for context-based decision making in natural resource management: reflections on an integrative assessment of water and livelihood security outcomes following policy reform in South Africa Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Pollard, Sharon; The Association for Water and Rural Development; [email protected]; Biggs, Harry; SANParks; [email protected]; Du Toit, Derick R; The Association for Water and Rural Development; [email protected]. We aimed to contribute to the field of natural resource management (NRM) by introducing an alternative systemic context-based framework for planning, research, and decision making, which we expressed practically in the development of a decision-making “tool” or method. This holistic framework was developed in the process of studying a specific catchment area, i.e., the Sand River Catchment, but we have proposed that it can be generalized to studying the complexities of other catchment areas. Using the lens of systemic resilience to think about dynamic and complex environments differently, we have reflected on the development of a systemic framework for understanding water and livelihood security under transformation in postapartheid... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Complexity; Decision making; Dynamic; Governance; IWRM; Livelihood security; Resilience; SES; Social-ecological systems; Transdisciplinarity; Transformation. Ano: 2014 Threatened common property resource system and factors for resilience: lessons drawn from serege-commons in Muhur, Ethiopia Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Dessalegn, Mengistu; International Water Management Institute (IWMI); [email protected]. This ethnographic case study of serege-commons, communal pasture and forest in Muhur, Ethiopia, demonstrates the socially complex nature of the common property resource (CPR) system, including the factors behind its resilience and sustained operation. It reveals the multifaceted and interacting local processes that maintain the commons in the face of political economic processes that challenge common property management. The study shows how CPR use, crop cultivation, alternative livelihood strategies, out-migration, collective herding practices, management practices, and alternative sources of compliance interact, and these interacting processes reinforce each other and maintain a resilient CPR system. This study argues that there is not one single cause... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common property resource (CPR); Complex social-ecological systems; Muhur; Resilience; Serege-commons. Ano: 2016 A mixed-methods analysis of social-ecological feedbacks between urbanization and forest persistence Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: BenDor, Todd; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; [email protected]; Shoemaker, Douglas A.; North Carolina State University; [email protected]; Thill, Jean-Claude; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; [email protected]; Dorning, Monica A.; North Carolina State University; [email protected]; Meentemeyer, Ross K.; North Carolina State University; [email protected]. We examined how social-ecological factors in the land-change decision-making process influenced neighboring decisions and trajectories of alternative landscape ecologies. We decomposed individual landowner decisions to conserve or develop forests in the rapidly growing Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. region, exposing and quantifying the effects of forest quality, and social and cultural dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that the intrinsic value of forest resources, e.g., cultural attachment to land, influence woodland owners’ propensity to sell. Data were collected from a sample of urban, nonindustrial private forest (U-NIPF) owners using an individualized survey design that spatially matched land-owner responses to the ecological and timber... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Forest persistence; Land-use change; Social-ecological feedbacks; Tax policy; Urban forests; Urbanization. Ano: 2014 River basins as social-ecological systems: linking levels of societal and ecosystem water metabolism in a semiarid watershed Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cabello, Violeta; Department of Human Geography, University of Seville; [email protected]; Willaarts, Barbara A.; Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks - CEIGRAM, Technical University of Madrid.; [email protected]; Aguilar, Monica; Department of Physical Geography, University of Seville; [email protected]; del Moral Ituarte, Leandro; Department of Human Geography, University of Seville; [email protected]. River basin modeling under complexity requires analytical frameworks capable of dealing with the multiple scales and dimensions of environmental problems as well as uncertainty in the evolution of social systems. Conceptual and methodological developments can now be framed using the wide socio-eco-hydrological approach. We add hierarchy theory into the mix to discuss the conceptualization of river basins as complex, holarchic social-ecological systems. We operationalize the social-ecological systems water metabolism framework in a semiarid watershed in Spain, and add the governance dimension that shapes human-environment reciprocity. To this purpose, we integrate an eco-hydrological model with the societal metabolism accounting scheme for land use, human... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Holarchy; River basin; Socio-eco-hydrology; Social-ecological systems; Water availability; Water metabolism. Ano: 2015 Rethinking the Galapagos Islands as a Complex Social-Ecological System: Implications for Conservation and Management Provedor de dados: 7 The Galapagos Islands are among the most renowned natural sites in the world. Unlike other oceanic archipelagos, the ecological and evolutionary processes characteristic of Galapagos have been minimally affected by human activities, and the archipelago still retains most of its original, unique biodiversity. However, several recent reports suggest that the development model has turned unsustainable and that the unique values of the archipelago might be seriously at risk. In response to international concern, UNESCO added Galapagos to the list of World Heritage in Danger in 2007. Our goal was to provide new insights into the origins of the present-day crisis and suggest possible management alternatives. To this end, we re-examined the Galapagos situation... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Adaptive co-management; Adaptive cycle; Biodiversity conservation; Galapagos Islands; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science. Ano: 2008 Establishing the Resilience of a Coastal-marine Social-ecological System to the Installation of Offshore Wind Farms Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Burkhard, Benjamin; Ecology Centre Kiel; [email protected]; Gee, Kira; Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Cultural ecosystem services; German North Sea; Offshore wind farming; Regime shifts; Social-ecological system dynamics. Ano: 2012 Using Artificial Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Frey, Ulrich J.; Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus Liebig University; [email protected]; Rusch, Hannes; Center for Philosophy and the Foundations of Science, Justus Liebig University ; [email protected]. The literature on common pool resource (CPR) governance lists numerous factors that influence whether a given CPR system achieves ecological long-term sustainability. Up to now there is no comprehensive model to integrate these factors or to explain success within or across cases and sectors. Difficulties include the absence of large-N studies, the incomparability of single case studies, and the interdependence of factors. We propose (1) a synthesis of 24 success factors based on the current social-ecological systems (SES) framework and a literature review and (2) the application of neural networks on a database of CPR management case studies in an attempt to test the viability of this synthesis. This method allows us to obtain an implicit quantitative... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Common pool resource; Design principles; Natural resource management; Neural networks; Social-ecological systems framework; Success factors. Ano: 2013 The Political Economy of Cross-Scale Networks in Resource Co-Management Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Adger, W. Neil; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; [email protected]; Brown, Katrina; University of East Anglia; [email protected]; Tompkins, Emma L.; University of East Anglia; [email protected]. We investigate linkages between stakeholders in resource management that occur at different spatial and institutional levels and identify the winners and losers in such interactions. So-called cross-scale interactions emerge because of the benefits to individual stakeholder groups in undertaking them or the high costs of not undertaking them. Hence there are uneven gains from cross-scale interactions that are themselves an integral part of social-ecological system governance. The political economy framework outlined here suggests that the determinants of the emergence of cross-scale interactions are the exercise of relative power between stakeholders and their costs of accessing and creating linkages. Cross-scale interactions by powerful stakeholders have... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Caribbean; Institutions; Marine protected areas; Natural resource management; Power; Social-ecological resilience; Transaction costs. Ano: 2005 Art and artistic processes bridge knowledge systems about social-ecological change: An empirical examination with Inuit artists from Nunavut, Canada Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Rathwell, Kaitlyn J; Environmental Change and Governance Group, University of Waterloo; Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, University of Waterloo; [email protected]; Armitage, Derek; Environmental Change and Governance Group, University of Waterloo; [email protected]. The role of art and artistic processes is one fruitful yet underexplored area of social-ecological resilience. Art and art making can nurture Indigenous knowledge and at the same time bridge knowledge across generations and cultures (e.g., Inuit and scientific). Experiences in two Inuit communities in northern Canada (Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung, Nunavut) provide the context in which we empirically examine the mechanisms through which art and art making may bridge knowledge systems about social-ecological change. Art making and artworks create continuity between generations via symbols and skill development (e.g., seal skin stretching for a modern artistic mural) and by creating mobile and adaptive boundary objects that function as a shared reference point... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Arctic; Art; Bridging knowledge systems; Knowledge integration; Knowledge systems; Resilience; Social-ecological change; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2016 Migrant farmers as information brokers: agroecosystem management in the transition zone of Ghana Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Isaac, Marney E.; Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences and Center for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough; Department of Geography, University of Toronto; [email protected]; Anglaaere, Luke C. N.; Forestry Research Institute of Ghana;; Akoto, Daniel S.; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;; Dawoe, Evans; Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology;. Environmentally induced farmer migration is an important livelihood strategy, yet little is known of the effects on the destination region agroecosystem information networks and management practices. In the forest-savanna transition zone (Brong Ahafo Region) of Ghana, where migration from northern regions (migrant) and from neighboring regions (settler) is active, we chart the role of migrant famers and the type of agroecosystem management practices embedded in information networks using a social networks approach. Based on empirical network data from 44 respondents across three communities, we illustrate a diffuse information network, with variable tie frequency between settlement categories (local, settler, or migrant) of farmers. The cohesion of this... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agricultural innovation; Agroecology; Agroforestry; Environmental change; Ghana; Natural resource management; Social network analysis; Social-ecological memory; Theobroma cacao. Ano: 2014 Future changes in the supply of goods and services from natural ecosystems: prospects for the European north Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Vlasova, Tatiana; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences; [email protected]; Sutinen, Marja-Liisa; Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi Research Unit; [email protected]; Chapin III, F. Stuart; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; [email protected]; Cabeza, Mar; Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki; [email protected]; Callaghan, Terry V.; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK; Department of Botany, Tomsk State University, Russia; [email protected]; van Oort, Bob; CICERO - Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo; [email protected]; Dannevig, Halvor; Western Norway Research Institute; [email protected]; Bay-larsen, Ingrid A.; Nordland Research Institute; [email protected]; Ims, Rolf A.; Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway; [email protected]; Aspholm, Paul Eric; Bioforsk, Svanhovd; [email protected]. Humans depend on services provided by ecosystems, and how services are affected by climate change is increasingly studied. Few studies, however, address changes likely to affect services from seminatural ecosystems. We analyzed ecosystem goods and services in natural and seminatural systems, specifically how they are expected to change as a result of projected climate change during the 21st century. We selected terrestrial and freshwater systems in northernmost Europe, where climate is anticipated to change more than the global average, and identified likely changes in ecosystem services and their societal consequences. We did this by assembling experts from ecology, social science, and cultural geography in workshops, and we also performed a literature... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Barents Region; Biodiversity; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Forestry; Game species; Outdoor recreation; Reindeer husbandry; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2015 RESILIENCE OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN EUROPEAN RURAL AREAS: THEORY AND PROSPECTS Provedor de dados: 31 Autores: Schouten, Marleen A.H.; van der Heide, Martijn M.; Heijman, Wim J.M. In today’s world, rural areas are confronted with a spectrum of changes. These changes have multiple characters, varying from changes in ecosystem conditions to socioeconomic impacts, such as food- and financial crises. They present serious problems to rural management and largely affect future perspectives of rural areas. Rural resilience refers to the capacity of a rural region to adapt to changing external circumstances in such a way that a satisfactory standard of living is maintained, while coping with its inherent ecological, economic and social vulnerability. Rural resilience describes how rural areas are affected by external shocks and how it influences system dynamics. This paper further eradicates on this concept, by exploring in detail what the... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Rural development; Complex adaptive systems; System dynamics; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy. Ano: 2009 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/57343 Collapse and Reorganization in Social-Ecological Systems: Questions, Some Ideas, and Policy Implications Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Abel, Nick; CSIRO; [email protected]; Cumming, David H. M.; University of Zimbabwe; [email protected]; Anderies, John M; Arizona State University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Key words: resilience collapse; Recovery; Social-ecological systems; Adaptive cycle; Natural capital; Social capital; Human capital; Zimbabwe; Australia. Ano: 2006 Governance of Aquatic Agricultural Systems: Analyzing Representation, Power, and Accountability Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ratner, Blake D.; WorldFish; [email protected]; Cohen, Philippa; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University; WorldFish; [email protected]; Barman, Benoy; WorldFish; [email protected]; Mam, Kosal; WorldFish; [email protected]; Nagoli, Joseph; WorldFish; [email protected]; Allison, Edward H.; School of International Development, University of East Anglia; WorldFish; [email protected]. Aquatic agricultural systems in developing countries face increasing competition from multiple stakeholders over rights to access and use natural resources, land, water, wetlands, and fisheries, essential to rural livelihoods. A key implication is the need to strengthen governance to enable equitable decision making amidst competition that spans sectors and scales, building capacities for resilience, and for transformations in institutions that perpetuate poverty. In this paper we provide a simple framework to analyze the governance context for aquatic agricultural system development focused on three dimensions: stakeholder representation, distribution of power, and mechanisms of accountability. Case studies from Cambodia, Bangladesh, Malawi/Mozambique,... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Accountability; Bangladesh; Cambodia; Civil society; Coastal zone management; Environmental governance; Livelihoods; Malawi; Mozambique; Power; Social-ecological resilience; Solomon Islands; Stakeholder representation; Wetlands. Ano: 2013 Policy Research Using Agent-Based Modeling to Assess Future Impacts of Urban Expansion into Farmlands and Forests Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Guzy, Michael R; Oregon State University, Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering; [email protected]; Smith, Courtland L; Oregon State University, Department of Anthropology; [email protected]; Bolte, John P; Oregon State University, Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering; [email protected]; Hulse, David W; University of Oregon, Department of Landscape Architecture; [email protected]; Gregory, Stanley V; Oregon State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; [email protected]. The expansion of urban land uses into farmlands and forests requires an assessment of future ecological impacts. Spatially explicit agent-based models can represent the changes in resilience and ecological services that result from different land-use policies. When modeling complex adaptive systems, both the methods used to interpret results and the standards of rigor used to judge adequacy are complicated and require additional research. Recent studies suggest that it would be appropriate to use these models as an extension of exploratory analysis. This type of analysis generates ensembles of alternate plausible representations of future system conditions. User expertise steers interactive, stepwise system exploration toward inductive reasoning about... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Social-ecological systems; Agricultural-urban interface; Fish habitat; Ecosystem health; Urban containment policies; Agent-based models. Ano: 2008 Scale and ecosystem services: how do observation, management, and analysis shift with scale—lessons from Québec Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Raudsepp-Hearne, Ciara; McGill University; [email protected]; Peterson, Garry D; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; [email protected]. Ecosystem service assessment and management are shaped by the scale at which they are conducted; however, there has been little systematic investigation of the scales associated with ecosystem service processes, such as production, benefit distribution, and management. We examined how social-ecological spatial scale impacts ecosystem service assessment by comparing how ecosystem service distribution, trade-offs, and bundles shift across spatial scales. We used a case study in Québec, Canada, to analyze the scales of production, consumption, and management of 12 ecosystem services and to analyze how interactions among 7 of these ecosystem services change across 3 scales of observation (1, 9, and 75 km²). We found that ecosystem service... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Covariance; Ecosystem service bundles; Mont Saint-Hilaire; Problem of fit; Scaling; Social-ecological; Spatial; Trade-offs. Ano: 2016 Hydraulic engineering in the social-ecological delta: understanding the interplay between social, ecological, and technological systems in the Dutch delta by means of “delta trajectories.” Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: van Staveren, Martijn F.; Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University; [email protected]; van Tatenhove, Jan P. M.; Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University; [email protected]. Several of the world's largest deltas have recently been conceptualized as social-ecological delta systems. Although such conceptualizations are valuable in emphasizing complex interaction between social actors and ecological processes in deltas, they do not go into specific dynamics that surround technological developments in the hydraulic domain. By drawing from concepts originating in socio-technical systems research, we stress the importance of technology, particularly the domain of hydraulic engineering, in shaping a delta’s future. Based on two geographically distinct cases of flood management infrastructure in the Dutch delta, we demonstrate the influence of existing hydraulic works, in mutual interaction with social responses and... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight Palavras-chave: Adaptive delta management; Delta trajectory; Flood management; Hydraulic engineering; Path dependency; Social-ecological systems; Technological lock-in. Ano: 2016 Linking Resilience Theory and Diffusion of Innovations Theory to Understand the Potential for Perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Atwell, Ryan C; Iowa State University; [email protected]; Schulte, Lisa A; Iowa State University; [email protected]; Westphal, Lynne M; U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station; [email protected]. In the last 200 yr, more than 80% of the land in the U.S. Corn Belt agro-ecosystem has been converted from natural perennial vegetation to intensive agricultural production of row crops. Despite research showing how re-integration of perennial vegetation, e.g., cover crops, pasture, riparian buffers, and restored wetlands, at strategic landscape positions can bolster declining regional ecosystem functions, the amount of land area devoted to row crop production in the Corn Belt continues to increase. As this region enters a time of fast-paced and uncertain reorganization driven by the emerging bioeconomy, changes in land use will continue to take place that will impact the resilience of the Corn Belt’s linked social and ecological systems for... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive co-management; Agriculture; Iowa; Learning; Nonpoint source pollution; Restoration; Scale; Social-ecological systems; Row crops; Corn Belt. Ano: 2009 Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin Provedor de dados: 7 The concept of resilience is widely promoted as a promising notion to guide new approaches to ecosystem and resource management that try to enhance a system's capacity to cope with change. A variety of mechanisms of resilience specific for different systems have been proposed. In the context of resource management those include but are not limited to the diversity of response options and flexibility of the social system to adaptively respond to changes on an adequate scale. However, implementation of resilience-based management in specific real-world systems has often proven difficult because of a limited understanding of suitable interventions and their impact on the resilience of the coupled social-ecological system. We propose an agent-based modeling... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Agent-based model; Amudarya; Diversification; Fisheries; Irrigation; Mechanism; Resilience; River basin; Social-ecological system; Water use. Ano: 2007 Respect for Grizzly Bears: an Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Clark, Douglas A; Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Alberta; Yukon College; Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; [email protected]; Slocombe, D. Scott; Wilfrid Laurier University; [email protected]. Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada. Practices of respect expressed toward bears were observed and grouped into four categories: terminology, stories, reciprocity, and ritual. In the southwest Yukon, practices in all four categories form a coherent qualitative resource management system that may enhance the resilience of the bear-human system as a whole. This system also demonstrates the possibility of a previously unrecognized human role in maintaining productive riparian ecosystems and salmon runs, potentially providing a range of valued social-ecological outcomes. Practices of respect hold promise for new strategies to... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Bear ceremonialism; Champagne and Aishihik First Nations; Inuit; Inuvialuit; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Resilience; Salmon; Social-ecological system; Southern Tutchone; Traditional ecological knowledge; Ursus arctos; Yukon. Ano: 2009 Economic Governance to Expand Commercial Wetlands: Within- and Cross-Scale Challenges Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: de Blaeij, Arianne T.; LEI Wageningen UR; [email protected]; Polman, Nico; LEI Wageningen UR; [email protected]; Reinhard, Stijn; LEI Wageningen UR; [email protected]. Commercial wetlands are defined as wetlands directed by an entrepreneur with the intention of making a profit. The combination of ecosystem services that commercial wetlands can provide seems to be an attractive societal perspective. Nevertheless, these wetlands are not developed on a large scale in the Netherlands. This paper discusses different types of economic governance that could facilitate the development of new commercial wetlands and addresses challenges that have to be overcome. We conclude that developing governance solutions that address ecosystem services with different scales is crucial for the introduction of commercial wetlands. Also, distinct and autonomous property rights of entrepreneurs need to be addressed. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Commercial ecosystem; Economic governance; Economic value; Ecosystem management; Ecosystem services; Multifunctional land use; PES systems; Scaling; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2011 Small Sawmills Persevere While the Majors Close: Evaluating Resilience and Desirable Timber Allocation in British Columbia, Canada Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Pinkerton, Evelyn W; School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University; [email protected]; Benner, Jordan; School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: British Columbia Canada; Commodity sawmills; Resilience of social-ecological systems; Specialty sawmills; Timber supply; Value-added wood products. Ano: 2013 Diversity, flexibility, and the resilience effect: lessons from a social-ecological case study of diversified farming in the northern Great Plains, USA Provedor de dados: 7 Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Diversified farming system; Diversity; Drought; Resilience; Northern Great Plains USA; Scale; Slow variables; Social-ecological systems; Sustainable agriculture; Values-based supply chain. Ano: 2014 Scenarios for Resilient Shrimp Aquaculture in Tropical Coastal Areas Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Bush, Simon R.; Wageningen University; [email protected]; van Zwieten, Paul A.M.; Wageningen University; [email protected]; Visser, Leontine; Wageningen University; [email protected]; van Dijk, Han; Wageningen University; [email protected]; Bosma, Roel; Wageningen University; [email protected]; de Boer, Willem F.; Wageningen University; [email protected]; Verdegem, Marc; Wageningen University; [email protected]. We contend there are currently two competing scenarios for the sustainable development of shrimp aquaculture in coastal areas of Southeast Asia. First, a landscape approach, where farming techniques for small-scale producers are integrated into intertidal areas in a way that the ecological functions of mangroves are maintained and shrimp farming diseases are controlled. Second, a closed system approach, where problems of disease and effluent are eliminated in closed recirculation ponds behind the intertidal zone controlled by industrial-scale producers. We use these scenarios as two ends of a spectrum of possible interactions at a range of scales between the ecological, social, and political dynamics that underlie the threat to the resilience of mangrove... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Coastal fisheries; Governance; Livelihood decision making; Mangrove; Shrimp-aquaculture; Social-ecological systems; South-East Asia; Trans-disciplinary research; WSSV disease. Ano: 2010 Is Validation of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge a Disrespectful Process? A Case Study of Traditional Fishing Poisons and Invasive Fish Management from the Wet Tropics, Australia Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Gratani, Monica; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University; [email protected]; Butler, James R. A. ; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, EcoSciences Precinct ; [email protected]; Royee, Frank; Malanbarra Yidinji Elder;; Valentine, Peter; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University;; Burrows, Damien; Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research, James Cook University;; Canendo, Warren I.; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Sustainable Agriculture Flagship, ATFI;; Anderson, Alex S; Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Comanagement; Fishing poisons; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Invasive fish; Knowledge socialization; Livelihoods; Poisonous plants; Social-ecological systems: tilapia; Traditional ecological knowledge; Validation. Ano: 2011 Biophysical and sociocultural factors underlying spatial trade-offs of ecosystem services in semiarid watersheds Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Harrison, Paula A; Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; [email protected]; Berry, Pam; Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; [email protected]. Biophysical and social systems are linked to form social-ecological systems whose sustainability depends on their capacity to absorb uncertainty and cope with disturbances. In this study, we explored the key biophysical and socio-cultural factors underlying ecosystem service supply in two semiarid watersheds of southern Spain. These included variables associated with the role that freshwater flows and biodiversity play in securing the system’s capacity to sustain essential ecosystem services and their relationship with social demand for services, local water governance, and land-use intensification. Our results reveal the importance of considering the invisible dimensions of water and biodiversity, i.e. green freshwater flows and trait-based... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Demand; Freshwater flow; Interaction; Irrigation community; Land-use intensification; Social-ecological system; Social preference; Spatial pattern; Trait-based indicator. Ano: 2015 Ecologically sustainable but unjust? Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Klain, Sarah C; University of British Columbia; [email protected]; Beveridge, Rachelle; University of Victoria; [email protected]; Bennett, Nathan J; Univeristy of British Columbia; Visiting Research Fellow at University of Victoria; [email protected]. Under appropriate conditions, community-based fisheries management can support sound resource stewardship, with positive social and environmental outcomes. Evaluating indigenous peoples’ involvement in commercial sea cucumber and geoduck fisheries on the central coast of British Columbia, Canada, we found that the current social-ecological system configuration is relatively ecologically sustainable according to stock assessments. However, the current system also results in perceived inequities in decision-making processes, harvesting allocations, and socioeconomic benefits. As a result, local coastal resource managers envision a transformation of sea cucumber and geoduck fisheries governance and management institutions. We assessed the potential... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Benthic fisheries; Common-pool resources; CPR design principles; Environmental governance; Indigenous or aboriginal peoples; Resource management; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological system framework. Ano: 2014 Law for Country: the Structure of Warlpiri Ecological Knowledge and Its Application to Natural Resource Management and Ecosystem Stewardship Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Holmes, Miles C. C.; Principal Consultant Beit Holmes and Associates; University of Queensland; [email protected]; Jampijinpa, Wanta (Stephen Patrick); Australian National University; [email protected]. Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) is deeply encoded in social processes. Our research shows that from an Indigenous perspective, IEK is a way of living whose core aim is to sustain the healthy functioning of people and country through relationships of reciprocity. However, IEK is often portrayed more prosaically as a body of knowledge about the environment. We introduce a framework, called ngurra-kurlu, that enables appreciation of indigenous perspectives on IEK. The framework was identified from the collaborative work of the authors with Warlpiri aboriginal elders in the Tanami Desert region of central Australia. Ngurra-kurlu facilitates cross-cultural understanding by distilling, from a complex cultural system, the five distinct conceptual categories... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Aboriginal Australians; Anthropology; Central Australia; Cultural natural resource management; Ecosystem stewardship; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Indigenous knowledge; Indigenous land management; Northern Territory Australia; Social-ecological systems; Warlpiri. Ano: 2013 Agents, Individuals, and Networks: Modeling Methods to Inform Natural Resource Management in Regional Landscapes Provedor de dados: 7 Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agent-based modeling; Complex systems; Individual-based modeling; Integrated natural resource management; Landscape modeling; Regional landscapes; Social-ecological networks. Ano: 2012 Resource degradation, marginalization, and poverty in small-scale fisheries: threats to social-ecological resilience in India and Brazil Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Nayak, Prateep K.; Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo; [email protected]; Oliveira, Luiz E.; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba; [email protected]; Berkes, Fikret; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Brazil; Degradation; Disempowerment; Exclusion; Exploitation; Fisheries; Human-environment disconnect; Identity; Impoverishment; India; Marginalization; Poverty; Resilience; Small-scale fishery; Social-ecological system. Ano: 2014 Learning as You Journey: Anishinaabe Perception of Social-ecological Environments and Adaptive Learning Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Davidson-Hunt, Iain; University of Manitoba; [email protected]; Berkes, Fikret; University of Manitoba; [email protected]. This paper explores the linkages between social-ecological resilience and adaptive learning. We refer to adaptive learning as a method to capture the two-way relationship between people and their social-ecological environment. In this paper, we focus on traditional ecological knowledge. Research was undertaken with the Anishinaabe people of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent First Nation, in northwestern Ontario, Canada. The research was carried out over two field seasons, with verification workshops following each field season. The methodology was based on site visits and transects determined by the elders as appropriate to answer a specific question, find specific plants, or locate plant communities. During site visits and transect walks, research... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Anishinaabe; Canadian North; Adaptive learning; Boreal; Ecological perception; Ethnoecology; Resilience; Social learning; Social-ecological systems; Sustainability science; Traditional ecological knowledge. Ano: 2003 Predators on private land: broad-scale socioeconomic interactions influence large predator management Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Clements, Hayley S; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Cumming, Graeme S; Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa; ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia; [email protected]; Kerley, Graham I. H.; Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa; [email protected]. The proliferation of private land conservation areas (PLCAs) is placing increasing pressure on conservation authorities to effectively regulate their ecological management. Many PLCAs depend on tourism for income, and charismatic large mammal species are considered important for attracting international visitors. Broad-scale socioeconomic factors therefore have the potential to drive fine-scale ecological management, creating a systemic scale mismatch that can reduce long-term sustainability in cases where economic and conservation objectives are not perfectly aligned. We assessed the socioeconomic drivers and outcomes of large predator management on 71 PLCAs in South Africa. Owners of PLCAs that are stocking free-roaming large predators identified revenue... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus; Cross-scale interaction; Ecotourism; Financial objectives; Lion Panthera leo; Minimum area requirements; Predator management; Social-ecological. Ano: 2016 Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Binder, Claudia R.; University of Munich; [email protected]; Hinkel, Jochen; Global Climate Forum e.V. (GCF) Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; [email protected]; Bots, Pieter W. G.; Delft University of Technology; [email protected]. In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks seem to have emerged from the need for concepts that permit structured, interdisciplinary reasoning about complex problems in social-ecological systems, they differ significantly with respect to contextual and structural criteria, such as conceptualization of the ecological and social systems and their interrelation. It appears that three main criteria suffice to produce a classification of frameworks that may be used as a decision tree when choosing a framework for analysis. These criteria are (i) whether a... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Anthropocentric; Conceptualization; Decision tree; Dynamics; Ecocentric; Ecological system; Framework; Human-environment systems; Social-ecological systems; Social system. Ano: 2013 Sharing as risk pooling in a social dilemma experiment Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cherry, Todd L.; Appalachian State University; Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO); [email protected]; Howe, E. Lance; University of Alaska Anchorage; [email protected]; Murphy, James J.; University of Alaska Anchorage; Nankai University; Chapman University; [email protected]. In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks. Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in or benefiting from a collective activity. In these situations, a group must decide whether to provide insurance to the affected member. We describe results of a laboratory experiment designed to test whether a simple sharing institution can sustain risk pooling in a social dilemma with idiosyncratic risk. We tested whether risk could be pooled without a commitment device and, separately, whether effective risk pooling induced greater cooperation in the social dilemma. We found that even in the absence of a commitment... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article Palavras-chave: Collective action; Experimental economics; Idiosyncratic risk; Income smoothing; Insurance; Lab experiment; Public goods; Resource sharing; Risk pooling; Social dilemma; Social-ecological systems; Team production. Ano: 2015 A Bayesian belief network model for community-based coastal resource management in the Kei Islands, Indonesia Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hoshino, Eriko; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia; Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; [email protected]; van Putten, Ingrid; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; [email protected]; Girsang, Wardis; Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pattimura, Ambon, Indonesia; [email protected]; Resosudarmo, Budy P; Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, ACT, Australia; [email protected]; Yamazaki, Satoshi; Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; [email protected]. Understanding the specific relationships between ecological and socioeconomic conditions and marine tenure is likely to contribute to successful functioning of self-governance institutions for common-pool resources. Complex interrelationships of factors influencing fishing activities of coastal communities and implementation of customary marine tenure over their waters can be represented in a Bayesian belief network model. We developed a Bayesian belief network model that includes the links between factors for fishing communities in the Kei Islands in Indonesia, based on indepth local surveys. Our results showed that the cumulative impacts of multiple factors on key social, economic, and environmental outcomes can be much larger than the impact from a... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Bayesian belief network; Community-based management; Customary marine tenure; Indonesia; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2016 Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Noble, Mae; Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; [email protected]; Duncan, Phil; Gamilaroi Traditional Owner, NSW Aboriginal Land Council; [email protected]; Perry, Darren; Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations; [email protected]; Prosper, Kerry; Paq'tnekek Mi'kmaq First Nations; [email protected]; Rose, Denis; Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation; [email protected]; Schnierer, Stephan; School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University; [email protected]; Tipa, Gail; Tipa and Associates Ltd.; [email protected]; Williams, Erica; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; [email protected]; Woods, Rene; National Cultural Flows Program; Murray Lower Darling River Indigenous Nations; [email protected]; Pittock, Jamie; Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; [email protected]. Indigenous peoples of North America, Australia, and New Zealand have a long tradition of harvesting freshwater animals. Over generations of reliance and subsistence harvesting, Indigenous peoples have acquired a profound understanding of these freshwater animals and ecosystems that have become embedded within their cultural identity. We have identified trans-Pacific parallels in the cultural significance of several freshwater animal groups, such as eels, other finfish, bivalves, and crayfish, to Indigenous peoples and their understanding and respect for the freshwater ecosystems on which their community survival depends. In recognizing such cultural connections, we found that non-Indigenous peoples can appreciate the deep significance of freshwater animals... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive freshwater management; Aquatic resources; Bivalve; Comanagement; Crayfish; Cultural keystone species; Eel; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Indigenous water rights; Lamprey; Salmon; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2016 Nudging Evolution? Provedor de dados: 7 This Special Feature, “Nudging Evolution? Critical Exploration of the Potential and Limitations of the Concept of Institutional Fit for the Study and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems,” aims to contribute toward the development of social theory and social research methods for the study of social-ecological system dynamics. Our objective is to help strengthen the academic discourse concerning if, and if so, how, to what extent, and in what concrete ways the concept of institutional “fit” might play a role in helping to develop better understanding of the social components of interlinkages between the socioeconomic-cultural and ecological dynamics of social-ecological systems. Two clearly discernible... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Environmental governance; Institutional change; Institutional fit; Meaning; Oran Young; Protected areas; Social-ecological systems; Social norms; Water governance; Wildlife management. Ano: 2013 Green area loss in San Juan’s inner-ring suburban neighborhoods: a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing green/gray area dynamics Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ramos-Santiago, Luis E.; The Florida State University, Department of Urban & Regional Planning; [email protected]; Villanueva-Cubero, Luis; University of Puerto Rico, Department of Natural Sciences; [email protected]; Santiago-Acevedo, Luis E.; University of Puerto Rico, Graduate School of Planning; [email protected]; Rodriguez-Melendez, Yasha N.; Centro de Estudios Avanzados y del Caribe; [email protected]. The loss of green areas and vegetation in suburban neighborhoods poses short- and long-term consequences associated with environmental changes and socioeconomic decline that can propel such developments to an unsustainable state. We summarize an interdisciplinary investigation aimed at identifying the drivers of green area loss, green cover loss, and quantifying the impact on three inner-ring suburban neighborhoods located along the Rio Piedras watershed in San Juan, Puerto Rico. An inductive approach to social-ecological research was undertaken because it provides a flexible platform for interdisciplinary collaboration on this complex and dynamic subject. The three developments selected for the study were constructed in the mid-20th century under... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Green area loss; Inner-ring suburbs; Land-use science; Neighborhood decline; Puerto Rico; Social-ecological; Sustainability; Urban dynamics; Urban planning. Ano: 2014 Robustness, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity in small-scale social-ecological systems: The Pumpa Irrigation System in Nepal Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Cifdaloz, Oguzhan; ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change; [email protected]; Regmi, Ashok; ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change; [email protected]; Anderies, John M; ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change; School of Sustainability; [email protected]; Rodriguez, Armando A; Intelligent Embedded Systems Laboratory (IeSL), ASU Fulton School of Engineering; [email protected]. Change in freshwater availability is arguably one of the most pressing issues associated with global change. Agriculture, which uses roughly 70% of the total global freshwater supply, figures prominently among sectors that may be adversely affected by global change. Of specific concern are small-scale agricultural systems that make up nearly 90% of all farming systems and generate 40% of agricultural output worldwide. These systems are experiencing a range of novel shocks, including increased variability in precipitation and competing demands for water and labor that challenge their capacity to maintain agricultural output. This paper employs a robustness-vulnerability trade-off framework to explore the capacity of these small-scale systems to cope... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Agriculture; Dynamic systems; Food security; Freshwater availability; Global change; Small-scale irrigation systems; Mathematical model; Nepal; Robustness; Social-ecological systems; Vulnerability. Ano: 2010 Dietary Changes over Time in a Caiçara Community from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: MacCord, Priscila L.; Universidade Estadual de Campinas; [email protected]; Begossi, Alpina; Universidade Estadual de Campinas; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Atlantic Forest; Brazil; Caiç Ara; Social-ecological resilience; Dietary change; Fish consumption; Animal protein; Food delocalization; Niche breadth. Ano: 2006 When death approaches: reverting or exploiting emergent inequity in a complex land-use table-board game Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Smith, James A.; El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico ; [email protected]. The lives of poor landowners in tropical mountains depend upon their collective capacity to create and coordinate social preferences derived from their interacting communalistic, hierarchical, and reciprocal exchanges. External actors currently contend for these territories under market rules that are modifying such preferences. We present the design, experimental implementation, and analysis of results of a four-player, land-use board game with stark resource and livelihood limits and coordination/cooperation challenges, as played (separately) by 116 farmers and 108 academics, mainly in the tropical mountains of Chiapas, Mexico. In game session one, we trained and framed players in moral economy, a human core feeling and communalistic norm of solidarity... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Inequity; Mexico; Payments for ecosystem services; Role-playing games; Rural land use social-ecological experiments; Social preferences; Tropical mountains. Ano: 2015 Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Olsson, Per; Center for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research; [email protected]; Folke, Carl; ;; Hahn, Thomas; ;. We analyze the emergence of an adaptive co-management system for wetland landscape governance in southern Sweden, a process where unconnected management by several actors in the landscape was mobilized, renewed, and reconfigured into ecosystem management within about a decade. Our analysis highlights the social mechanisms behind the transformation toward ecosystem management. The self-organizing process was triggered by perceived threats among members of various local stewardship associations and local government to the area’s cultural and ecological values. These threats challenged the development of ecosystem services in the area. We show how one individual, a key leader, played an instrumental role in directing change and transforming... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptability; Adaptive co-management; Ecosystem management; Key individuals; Leaders of change; Organizational change; Resilience; Self-organization; Social memory; Social-ecological systems; Transformability. Ano: 2004 Multiple pathways to sustainability in the city: the case of San Juan, Puerto Rico Provedor de dados: 7 I examined the multiple visions of the future of the city that can emerge when city actors and organizations reconfigure themselves to address sustainability. In various cities worldwide, novel ideas, initiatives, and networks are emerging in governance to address social and ecological conditions in urban areas. However, cities can be contested spaces, bringing a plurality of actors, network configurations, preferences, and knowledge that shape the politics over desirable pathways for future development. I used the knowledge-action systems analysis (KASA) approach to examine the frames and knowledge systems influencing how different actors involved in the land governance network of the city of San Juan constructed visions for the future of the city.... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Adaptive governance; Frames; Knowledge-action systems; Networks; San Juan; Sustainable pathways; Transformation; Urban social-ecological systems; Visions. Ano: 2014 Fit in the Body: Matching Embodied Cognition with Social-Ecological Systems Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hukkinen, Janne I; University of Helsinki; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Adaptive management; Blending; Cognitive anthropology; Cognitive linguistics; Conceptual integration; Embodied cognition; Environmental policy; Neoclassical economics; Panarchy; Social-ecological systems; Socio-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Beach, Dylan M.; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan; [email protected]; Clark, Douglas A.; School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan; [email protected]. Scenario planning has been increasingly advocated as a strategic planning tool for enabling natural resource managers to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and rapid change. However, few examples exist that discuss the technique’s application in that field. We used a scenario planning approach to develop wildlife management goals and evaluated participants’ perceptions of scenario planning as a goal development tool. Study participants emphasized the context-specificity of management goals, and that “no-regrets” management strategies might not be constructive. We found that scenario planning can help resource managers identify needs that have been overlooked but may become important in the future. Scenarios... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Champagne & Aishihik First Nations; Change; Participatory; Qualitative; Scenario planning; Social-ecological system (SES); Wildlife management; Yukon Territory. Ano: 2015 Long-term, Ecosystem-Scale Changes in the Southern Benguela Marine Pelagic Social-Ecological System: Interaction of Natural and Human Drivers Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Jarre, Astrid; Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Ragaller, Sven M.; Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]; Hutchings, Laurence; Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa; [email protected]. South Africa's small pelagics fishery is currently the largest in volume and second largest in value in the southern Benguela. It exploits short-lived, small pelagic fishes such as anchovy (for reduction into fish meal and oil) and sardine (for reduction as well as human consumption through canned products), and to a lesser extent redeye round herring and mesopelagics, largely for reduction. We explore the recent history (1940s to present) of the social-ecological system around this fishery. The natural subsystem, at the scales of the ocean environment and the ecosystem, is characterized by high interannual and documented decadal-scale variability. We characterize the human social subsystem at the scales of the fishing industry, legislation, and west... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Anchovy; Coastal communities; Inshore fishery; Marine social-ecological systems; Purse seining; Rock lobster; Small pelagic fishery; South Africa; Southern Benguela; Sardine. Ano: 2013 Local perceptions on social-ecological dynamics in Latin America in three community-based natural resource management systems Provedor de dados: 7 Several examples of community-based natural resource management in Latin American social-ecological systems exist in which communities control the management of common-pool resources. Understanding community perceptions of the performance of these systems is essential to involve communities in sustainable management strategies. In this analysis of three areas in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina, we analyzed the local perceptions of the social and environmental challenges faced by these social-ecological systems and how these challenges and drivers affect their resilience. To do this, we combined prospective structural analysis to unravel stakeholders’ perceptions of each system’s functioning along with network analysis to assess... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Argentina; Colombia; Common-pool resources; Environmental challenges; Governance; Mexico; Network analysis; Ostrom; Prospective structural analysis; Social-ecological resilience. Ano: 2015 Conceptual Models as Tools for Communication Across Disciplines Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Heemskerk, Marieke; University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]; Wilson, Karen; Carleton University; [email protected]; Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell; Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia; [email protected]. To better understand and manage complex social-ecological systems, social scientists and ecologists must collaborate. However, issues related to language and research approaches can make it hard for researchers in different fields to work together. This paper suggests that researchers can improve interdisciplinary science through the use of conceptual models as a communication tool. The authors share lessons from a workshop in which interdisciplinary teams of young scientists developed conceptual models of social-ecological systems using data sets and metadata from Long-Term Ecological Research sites across the United States. Both the process of model building and the models that were created are discussed. The exercise revealed that the presence of social... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Integrative Graduate Education Research and Training; Long-Term Ecological Research; Conceptual model; Interdisciplinary research; Modeling; Social-ecological systems; Workshop. Ano: 2003 Resilience, Social-Ecological Rules, and Environmental Variability in a Two-Species Artisanal Fishery Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Duer-Balkind, Marshall; Department of the Environment, Washington, DC; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; [email protected]; Jacobs, Kasey R.; NOAA Coastal Management Fellow at the Puerto Rico Coastal Zone Management Program, San Juan, PR; School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; [email protected]; Basurto, Xavier; Duke Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, USA; [email protected]. Social-ecological resilience is an increasingly central paradigm for understanding sustainable resource management. In this study, we aimed to better understand the effect of environmental variability on the resilience of fishery systems, and the important role that social institutions and biophysical constraints play. To explore these issues, we built a dynamic model of the pen shell fishery of the indigenous Seri people in the Gulf of California, Mexico. This model included the dynamics of the two dominant species in the fishery (Atrina tuberculosa and Pinna rugosa), several institutional rules that the Seri use, and a number of ecological constraints, including key stochastic variables derived from empirical data. We found that modeling with multiple... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Artisanal fisheries; Common-pool resources; Environmental variability; Gulf of California Mexico; Multi-species; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Stochasticity; System dynamics. Ano: 2013 An ecosystem-based approach and management framework for the integrated evaluation of bivalve aquaculture impacts Provedor de dados: 5 Autores: Cranford, Peter J.; Kamermans, Pauline; Krause, Gesche; Mazurie, Joseph; Buck, Bela H.; Dolmer, Per; Fraser, David; Van Nieuwenhove, Kris; O'Beirn, Francis X.; Sanchez-mata, Adoracion; Thorarinsdottir, Gudrun G.; Strand, Oivind. An ecosystem-based approach to bivalve aquaculture management is a strategy for the integration of aquaculture within the wider ecosystem, including human aspects, in such a way that it promotes sustainable development, equity, and resilience of ecosystems. Given the linkage between social and ecological systems, marine regulators require an ecosystem-based decision framework that structures and integrates the relationships between these systems and facilitates communication of aquaculture-environment interactions and policy-related developments and decisions. The Drivers-Pressures-State Change-Impact-Response (DPSIR) management framework incorporates the connectivity between human and ecological issues and would permit available performance indicators to... Tipo: Text Palavras-chave: Bivalve aquaculture management; Ecosystem-based approach; DPSIR framework; Indicators; Thresholds; Benthic effects; Pelagic effects; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2012 URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00099/20997/18624.pdf An appraisal of adaptive management planning and implementation in ecological restoration: case studies from the San Francisco Bay Delta, USA Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Nagarkar, Mita; University of Copenhagen; [email protected]; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; University of Copenhagen; [email protected]. Adaptive management has been defined and redefined in the context of natural resource management, yet there are few examples of its successful application in ecological restoration. Although the 2009 Delta Reform Act now legally requires adaptive management for all restoration efforts in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, in California, USA, projects in this region still encounter problems with implementation. We used a comparative case study analysis to examine adaptive management planning and implementation both in and around the Delta, assessing not only why adaptive management is not yet well implemented, but also what changes can be made to facilitate the adaptive management approach without sacrificing scientific rigor. Adaptive management seems to be... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecological restoration; Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; Social ecological systems; Tidal marsh. Ano: 2016 Connecting Social Networks with Ecosystem Services for Watershed Governance: a Social-Ecological Network Perspective Highlights the Critical Role of Bridging Organizations Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Rathwell, Kaitlyn J; University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]; Peterson, Garry D; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; [email protected]. In many densely settled agricultural watersheds, water quality is a point of conflict between amenity and agricultural activities because of the varied demands and impacts on shared water resources. Successful governance of these watersheds requires coordination among different activities. Recent research has highlighted the role that social networks between management entities can play to facilitate cross-scale interaction in watershed governance. For example, bridging organizations can be positioned in social networks to bridge local initiatives done by single municipalities across whole watersheds. To better understand the role of social networks in social-ecological system dynamics, we combine a social network analysis of the water quality management... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Agricultural watershed agriculture bridging organization ecosystem services Monté Ré Gie Richelieu River Qué Bec social-ecological feedback social-ecological system social network analysis social networks tourism two-mode network water quality watershed watershed management Yamaska River Qué Bec. Ano: 2012 Biological and Ecological Mechanisms Supporting Marine Self-Governance: the Seri Callo de Hacha Fishery in Mexico Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Basurto, Xavier; Indiana University; Duke University; Comunidad y Biodiversidad AC; [email protected]. My goal was to describe how biological and ecological factors give shape to fishing practices that can contribute to the successful self-governance of a small-scale fishing system in the Gulf of California, Mexico. The analysis was based on a comparison of the main ecological and biological indicators that fishers claim to use to govern their day-to-day decision making about fishing and data collected in situ. I found that certain indicators allow fishers to learn about differences and characteristics of the resource system and its units. Fishers use such information to guide their day-to-day fishing decisions. More importantly, these decisions appear unable to shape the reproductive viability of the fishery because no indicators were correlated to the... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Atrina tuberculosa; Callo de hacha; Common-pool resources; Diving fisheries; Gulf of California; Mexico; Pen shells; Pinna rugosa; Resilience; Scallop; Seri; Small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological systems. Ano: 2008 Introduction to the Special Feature on rebuilding fisheries and threatened communities Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Ommer, Rosemary E; University of Victoria; [email protected]; Neis, Barbara; Memorial University of Newfoundland; [email protected]. In this introductory essay to the Special Feature on rebuilding fisheries and threatened communities, we review the contributions of the researchers whose work is contained in this Special Feature. The essays are reviewed using the lens of the three questions that were posed by the Special Feature editors: Why is rebuilding so challenging? What is the relationship between fishery collapse/degradation and short- and long-term issues for food security, livelihoods, employment, and industrial and community resilience? How can we avoid situations in which the communities and people who may have contributed least to collapses/degradation end up paying the most for rebuilding and, indeed, may no longer be in a position where they can benefit from the results of... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Changing industrial structures and organizational and industrial strategies from ocean to plate; Geographic locus of key decision-making about fisheries management; Higher-level governance actions; Marine social-ecological interactions in the form of shifting ecologies. Ano: 2014 Łeghágots'enetę (learning together): the importance of indigenous perspectives in the identification of biological variation Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Polfus, Jean L.; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; [email protected]; Manseau, Micheline; Office of the Chief Ecosystem Scientist, Parks Canada, Gatineau, Québec, Canada; Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; [email protected]; Bayha, Walter; Délı̨nę Land Corporation, Délı̨nę, Northwest Territories, Canada; [email protected]; Rice, Keren; Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; [email protected]; Wilson, Paul; Biology Department, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; [email protected]. Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Aboriginal; Biocultural diversity; Biodiversity; Caribou; Collaborative research; Ecology; First Nation; Genetic variation; Indigenous communities; Population genetics; Population structure; Rangifer tarandus; Resource management; Social-ecological systems; Traditional knowledge. Ano: 2016 Generalizable principles for ecosystem stewardship-based management of social-ecological systems: lessons learned from Alaska Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hansen, Winslow D.; Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]. Human pressure could compromise the provision of ecosystem services if we do not implement strategies such as ecosystem stewardship to foster sustainable trajectories. Barriers to managing systems based on ecosystem stewardship principles are pervasive, including institutional constraints and uncertain system dynamics. However, solutions to help managers overcome these barriers are less common. How can we better integrate ecosystem stewardship into natural resource management practices? I draw on examples from the literature and two broadly applicable case studies from Alaska to suggest some generalizable principles that can help managers redirect how people use and view ecosystems. These include (1) accounting for both people and ecosystems in management... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Alaska; Bark beetle outbreak; Ecosystem disservices; Ecosystem services; Ecosystem stewardship based management strategies; Kenai Peninsula; King salmon; Regime shift; Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Transformation; Wildfire; Yukon River drainage. Ano: 2014 Genesis of an indigenous social-ecological landscape in eastern Panama Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Sharma, Divya; Department of Biology, McGill University; [email protected]; Vergara-Asenjo, Gerardo; Department of Biology, McGill University; Instituto Forestal de Chile; [email protected]; Potvin, Catherine; Department of Biology, McGill University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; [email protected]. Knowledge of the interplay between ecological and social influences in the context of land-use decision-making is sparse. To help fill this gap, we conducted participatory land-cover mapping in an indigenous territory of eastern Panama to identify factors that influenced household land-use decisions. The map illustrated a mosaic of land cover dominated by pasture. Primary discourse on influences from 35 semistructured interviews with landowners, women, and youth emphasized economic concerns, such as subsistence, and social-cultural factors, such as reticence to abandon traditional agriculture. Multivariate analysis showed that timing of family settlement helped determine proportion of forest cover, and place of origin helped determine proportion of short... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Eastern Panama; Deforestation; Forest cover; Indigenous migration; Land-cover mapping; Land-use change; Land-use decisions; Livelihood strategies; Local knowledge; Reforestation; Social-ecological landscape. Ano: 2015 Spatial Complexity, Resilience, and Policy Diversity: Fishing on Lake-rich Landscapes Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Carpenter, Stephen R; University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]; Brock, William A; University of Wisconsin-Madison; [email protected]. The dynamics of and policies governing spatially coupled social-ecological mosaics are considered for the case of fisheries in a lake district. A microeconomic model of households addresses agent decisions at three hierarchic levels: (1) selection of the lake district from among a larger set of alternative places to live or visit, (2) selection of a base location within the lake district, and (3) selection of a portfolio of ecosystem services to use. Ecosystem services are represented by dynamics of fish production subject to multiple stable domains and trophic cascades. Policy calculations show that optimal policies will be highly heterogeneous in space and fluid in time. The diversity of possible outcomes is illustrated by simulations for a hypothetical... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Angler dynamics; Fish habitat; Inclusive value; Lake; Lake management; Landscape ecology; Multiple attractors; Natural resource policy; Resilience; Social-ecological system; Spatial dynamics; Sport fishery; Sport fishery; Sport fishery management. Ano: 2004 Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: van der Leeuw, Sander; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Costanza, Robert; Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University; [email protected]; Aulenbach, Steve; NEON, Inc.; [email protected]; Brewer, Simon; University of Utah; [email protected]; Burek, Michael; National Center for Atmospheric Research; [email protected]; Cornell, Sarah; University of Bristol; [email protected]; Crumley, Carole; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Stockholm Resilience Centre; [email protected]; Dearing, John A; University of Southampton; [email protected]; Downy, Catherine; University of Bristol; [email protected]; Graumlich, Lisa J.; University of Washington; [email protected]; Heckbert, Scott; Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University; [email protected]; Hegmon, Michelle; Arizona State University; [email protected]; Hibbard, Kathy; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; [email protected]; Jackson, Stephen T.; University of Wyoming; [email protected]; Kubiszewski, Ida; Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University; [email protected]; Sinclair, Paul; Uppsala University; [email protected]; Steffen, Will; Australian National University; [email protected]. Many contemporary societal challenges manifest themselves in the domain of human–environment interactions. There is a growing recognition that responses to these challenges formulated within current disciplinary boundaries, in isolation from their wider contexts, cannot adequately address them. Here, we outline the need for an integrated, transdisciplinary synthesis that allows for a holistic approach, and, above all, a much longer time perspective. We outline both the need for and the fundamental characteristics of what we call “integrated history.” This approach promises to yield new understandings of the relationship between human–environment system. We... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis the past, present, and possible futures of our integrated Palavras-chave: Agency; Anthropocene; Backcasting; Causality; Contingency; Holistic approach; Integrated history; Long-term perspective; Resilience; Social and ecological systems. Ano: 2011 Resilience and regime shifts : assessing cascading effects Provedor de dados: 189 Autores: Kinzig, A. P.; Ryan, P.; Etienne, M.; Allison, H.; Elmqvist, T.; Walker, B. H. Most accounts of thresholds between alternate regimes involve a single, dominant shift defined by one, often slowly changing variable in an ecosystem. This paper expands the focus to include similar dynamics in social and economic systems, in which multiple variables may act together in ways that produce interacting regime shifts in social-ecological systems. We use four different regions in the world, each of which contains multiple thresholds, to develop a proposed “general model” of threshold interactions in social-ecological systems. The model identifies patch-scale ecological thresholds, farm- or landscape-scale economic thresholds, and regional-scale sociocultural thresholds. “Cascading thresholds,” i.e., the tendency of the crossing of one threshold... Tipo: Journal Article Palavras-chave: AIDE A LA DECISION; AGROECOLOGIE; ECOSYSTEME; SYSTEME SOCIOECONOMIQUE THRESHOLDS; REGIME SHIFTS; SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; CASCADING EFFECTS. Ano: 2006 URL: http://www.prodinra.inra.fr/prodinra/pinra/doc.xsp?id=PROD200855d0885&uri=/notices/prodinra1/2010/06/ Grizzly bear monitoring by the Heiltsuk people as a crucible for First Nation conservation practice Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Housty, William G.; Coastwatch Director, QQS Projects Society; [email protected]; Noson, Anna; Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana;; Scoville, Gerald W.; Department of Biological Sciences, Central Washington University;; Boulanger, John; Integrated Ecological Research;; Jeo, Richard M.; The Nature Conservancy; [email protected]; Darimont, Chris T.; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; Raincoast Conservation Foundation;; Filardi, Christopher E.; Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History ; [email protected]. Guided by deeply held cultural values, First Nations in Canada are rapidly regaining legal authority to manage natural resources. We present a research collaboration among academics, tribal government, provincial and federal government, resource managers, conservation practitioners, and community leaders supporting First Nation resource authority and stewardship. First, we present results from a molecular genetics study of grizzly bears inhabiting an important conservation area within the territory of the Heiltsuk First Nation in coastal British Columbia. Noninvasive hair sampling occurred between 2006 and 2009 in the Koeye watershed, a stronghold for grizzly bears, salmon, and Heiltsuk people. Molecular demographic analyses revealed a regionally... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports Palavras-chave: Bear population monitoring; British Columbia; Conservation; First Nations science; Grizzly bear; Noninvasive mark-recapture; Salmon; Social and ecological resilience; Traditional stewardship; Values. Ano: 2014 Strengthening the role of universities in addressing sustainability challenges: the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions as an institutional experiment Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Hart, David D.; Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, and School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine; [email protected]; Bell, Kathleen P.; School of Economics, University of Maine; [email protected]; Lindenfeld, Laura A.; Department of Communication and Journalism, and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, University of Maine; [email protected]; Jain, Shaleen; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine; [email protected]; Johnson, Teresa R.; School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine; [email protected]; Ranco, Darren; Native American Programs, and Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine; [email protected]; McGill, Brian; School of Biology and Ecology, and Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine; [email protected]. As the magnitude, complexity, and urgency of many sustainability problems increase, there is a growing need for universities to contribute more effectively to problem solving. Drawing upon prior research on social-ecological systems, knowledge-action connections, and organizational innovation, we developed an integrated conceptual framework for strengthening the capacity of universities to help society understand and respond to a wide range of sustainability challenges. Based on experiences gained in creating the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions (Mitchell Center), we tested this framework by evaluating the experiences of interdisciplinary research teams involved in place-based, solutions-oriented research projects at the scale... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis); Interdisciplinary research; Knowledge-action connections: organizational innovation; Place-based solutions; Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions; Social-ecological systems; Solutions-oriented research; Stormwater infrastructure; Sustainability science; Sustainability solutions; Tidal energy development; Universities. Ano: 2015 Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World Provedor de dados: 7 Autores: Liu, Jianguo; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Hull, Vanessa; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Batistella, Mateus; EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Campinas, SP, Brazil; [email protected]; DeFries, Ruth; Columbia University, USA; [email protected]; Dietz, Thomas; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Fu, Feng; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; [email protected]; Hertel, Thomas W.; Purdue University, USA; [email protected]; Izaurralde, R. Cesar; University of Maryland, USA; [email protected]; Lambin, Eric F.; Stanford University, USA; [email protected]; Li, Shuxin; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; McConnell, William J.; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Moran, Emilio F.; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Naylor, Rosamond; Stanford University, USA; [email protected]; Ouyang, Zhiyun; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; [email protected]; Polenske, Karen R.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; [email protected]; Reenberg, Anette; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; [email protected]; Simmons, Cynthia S.; Michigan State University, USA; [email protected]; Verburg, Peter H.; Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; [email protected]; Vitousek, Peter M.; Stanford University, USA; [email protected]; Zhang, Fusuo; China Agricultural University, Beijing, China; [email protected]; Zhu, Chunquan; International Union for Conservation of Nature, China; [email protected]. Interactions between distant places are increasingly widespread and influential, often leading to unexpected outcomes with profound implications for sustainability. Numerous sustainability studies have been conducted within a particular place with little attention to the impacts of distant interactions on sustainability in multiple places. Although distant forces have been studied, they are usually treated as exogenous variables and feedbacks have rarely been considered. To understand and integrate various distant interactions better, we propose an integrated framework based on telecoupling, an umbrella concept that refers to socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances. The concept of telecoupling is a logical extension of research on... Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis Palavras-chave: Agents; Causes; Coupled human-environment systems; Coupled human and natural systems; Coupled social-ecological systems; Dispersal; Distant interactions; Effects; Feedbacks; Flows; Globalization; Investment; Knowledge transfer; Migration; Socioeconomic and environmental interactions; Species invasion; Sustainability; Technology transfer; Teleconnection; Telecoupling; Trade; Transnational land deals; Water transfer. Ano: 2013