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Audouin, Michelle; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ; maudouin@csir.co.za; Preiser, Rika; Centre for Studies in Complexity, Stellenbosch University ; rika@sun.ac.za; Nienaber, Shanna; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; SNienaber@csir.co.za; 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 |
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Gutierrez Rodriguez, Lucas; Department of Ecology, Autonomous University of Madrid; Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia; L.GRodriguez@cgiar.org; Yang, Xiaosheng; Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; yxiaosheng@263.net; Xie, Jinzhong; Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; jzhxie@163.net; Fu, Maoyi; Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, China; fumy1@163.net. |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Bamboo culture; Bamboo economy; Bamboo farmers; Bamboo forests; Bamboo industry; Bamboo plantations; Bamboo tourism; China; Cultural services; Economic services; Forestry; Rural development; Rural livelihoods. |
Ano: 2014 |
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Plieninger, Tobias; University of Copenhagen; tobias.plieninger@ign.ku.dk; Kizos, Thanasis; University of the Aegean; akizos@aegean.gr; Bieling, Claudia; University of Hohenheim; claudia.bieling@uni-hohenheim.de; Budniok, Marie-Alice; European Landowners' Organization; legal@elo.org; Crumley, Carole L.; Uppsala University; crumley@live.unc.edu; Howard, Pip; Forest Communication Network Ltd.; pipahoward@gmail.com; Kolen, Jan; Leiden University; j.c.a.kolen@arch.leidenuniv.nl; Milcinski, Grega; SINERGISE; grega.milcinski@sinergise.com; Palang, Hannes; Tallinn University; palang@tlu.ee; Verburg, Peter H.; VU University Amsterdam; Peter.Verburg@ivm.vu.nl. |
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 |
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Lienert, Juri; University of Basel, Department of Social Sciences, Sustainability Research Group; juri.lienert@gmail.com; Burger, Paul; University of Basel, Department of Social Sciences, Sustainability Research Group; paul.burger@unibas.ch. |
Especially poor people in developing countries depend on biological resources to manage their livelihoods and to generate income. Because these resources are usually public goods, their use is often subjected to what is known as the tragedy of the commons, potentially leading to resource depletion, environmental degradation, and loss of biodiversity, which consequently undermines the availability and capacity of resources to contribute to residents’ well-being in the long run. We suggest addressing this typical sustainability issue from a new angle. Against the backdrop of identifiable shortcomings within two popular analytic approaches, the capability approach (CA) and the sustainable livelihood approach (SLA), we argue for an improved... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Capability approach; Sustainability analysis; Sustainable livelihood approach; Use of biological resources; Valuation; Well-being. |
Ano: 2015 |
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Evely, Anna C.; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; anna_evely@abdn.ac.uk; Fazey, Ioan; University of Wales, Aberystwyth; irf@aber.ac.uk; Pinard, Michelle; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; m.a.pinard@abdn.ac.uk; Lambin, Xavier; Institute of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen University; x.lambin@abdn.ac.uk. |
The benefits of increasing the contribution of the social sciences in the fields of environmental and conservation science disciplines are increasingly recognized. However, integration between the social and natural sciences has been limited, in part because of the barrier caused by major philosophical differences in the perspectives between these research areas. This paper aims to contribute to more effective interdisciplinary integration by explaining some of the philosophical views underpinning social research and how these views influence research methods and outcomes. We use a project investigating the motivation of volunteers working in an adaptive co-management project to eradicate American Mink from the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland as a... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive co-management; Interdisciplinarity; Philosophy; Social– Ecological resilience. |
Ano: 2008 |
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Thieken, Annegret H.; University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany; thieken@uni-potsdam.de; Kienzler, Sarah; University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany; kienzler@uni-potsdam.de; Kreibich, Heidi; Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany; heidi.kreibich@gfz-potsdam.de; Kuhlicke, Christian; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Urban and Environmental Sociology, Leipzig, Germany; christian.kuhlicke@ufz.de; Kunz, Michael; Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; CEDIM - Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; michael.kunz@kit.edu; Otto, Antje; University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany; anotto@uni-potsdam.de; Petrow, Theresia; University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany; Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.4 Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany; German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV), Bonn, Germany; thpetrow@uni-potsdam.de; Pisi, Sebastian; German Committee for Disaster Reduction (DKKV), Bonn, Germany; sebastian.pisi@gmx.de. |
Widespread flooding in June 2013 caused damage costs of €6 to 8 billion in Germany, and awoke many memories of the floods in August 2002, which resulted in total damage of €11.6 billion and hence was the most expensive natural hazard event in Germany up to now. The event of 2002 does, however, also mark a reorientation toward an integrated flood risk management system in Germany. Therefore, the flood of 2013 offered the opportunity to review how the measures that politics, administration, and civil society have implemented since 2002 helped to cope with the flood and what still needs to be done to achieve effective and more integrated flood risk management. The review highlights considerable improvements on many levels, in particular... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: August 2002 flood; Central Europe; Floods Directive; Governance; June 2013 flood; Risk management cycle. |
Ano: 2016 |
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Loring, Philip A; University of Alaska, Fairbanks; ftpal@uaf.edu. |
Resilience, adaptability, and transformability are all tightly linked to the notion of change, whether in respect to coping with, adapting to, or harnessing it. But in order to understand these forces of change, we first need to recognize its counterpart: identity. Identity of a social-ecological system is not merely a static set of quantifiable feedbacks or indicators, but a more qualitative characterization of what results from the overlap of the social and the ecological. To fully articulate these ideas, I turn to a unique and enduring phenomenon: the traveling circus. Through the many forms they have taken over the last 150 yr, circuses have changed significantly while sustaining a singular identity. As a successful and enduring social system, their... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Circus; Panarchy; Resilience; Sustainability; Tribe; Tribalism.. |
Ano: 2007 |
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Resilience thinking and ecosystems approaches to health (EAH), or ecohealth, share roots in complexity science, although they have distinct foundations in ecology and population health, respectively. The current articulations of these two approaches are strongly converging, but each approach has its strengths. Resilience thinking has developed theoretical models to the study of social–ecological systems, whereas ecohealth has a vast repertoire of experience in dealing with complex health issues. With the two fields dovetailing, there is ripe opportunity to create a dialog centered on concepts that are more thoroughly developed in one field, which can then serve to advance the other. In this article, we first present an overview of the ecohealth... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Complexity; Ecohealth; Ecosystem approaches to health; Health; Resilience thinking; Social– Ecological systems. |
Ano: 2014 |
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Loftin, M. Kent; SynInt Inc.; CAMNet; kloftin@synint.com. |
Managing large-scale water resources and ecosystem projects is a never ending job, and success should be measured in terms of achieving desired project performance and not just meeting prescriptive requirements of planning and constructing a project simply on time and within budget. Success is more than studying, planning, designing, or operating projects. It is developing the right plan, getting it implemented, and seeing that it is operated and performs properly. Success requires all of these, and failing any of these results in wasted resources and potential for doing great harm. Adaptive management can help make success possible by providing a means for solving the most complex problems, answering unanswered questions, and, in general, reducing... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Ecosystem restoration; Governance; Implementation; Integrating risk and uncertainty; Performance; Project management; Resolutional sufficiency; Resolving uncertainties; Risk management; Stakeholders; Success; Uncertainty. |
Ano: 2014 |
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Sarkki, Simo; Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland; simo.sarkki@oulu.fi; Komu, Teresa; Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland; Teresa.komu@oulu.fi; Heikkinen, Hannu I; Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland; hannu.i.heikkinen@oulu.fi; Herva, Vesa-Pekka; Archaeology, University of Oulu, Finland; vesa-pekka.herva@oulu.fi. |
Reindeer herding is an emblematic livelihood for Northern Finland, culturally important for local people and valuable in tourism marketing. We examine the livelihood resilience of Finnish reindeer herding by narrowing the focus of general resilience on social-ecological systems (SESs) to a specific livelihood while also acknowledging wider contexts in which reindeer herding is embedded. The questions for specified resilience can be combined with the applied DPSIR approach (Drivers; Pressures: resilience to what; State: resilience of what; Impacts: resilience for whom; Responses: resilience by whom and how). This paper is based on a synthesis of the authors’ extensive anthropological fieldwork on reindeer herding and other land uses in Northern... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Cumulative pressures; DPSIR approach; Environmental governance; Land use; Livelihood resilience; Pastoralism. |
Ano: 2016 |
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Freeman, Olivia E; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); o.freeman@cgiar.org; Duguma, Lalisa A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); L.A.Duguma@cgiar.org; Minang, Peter A; ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF); A.Minang@cgiar.org. |
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 |
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Opdam, Paul; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; Department of Land Use Planning, Wageningen University; paul.opdam@wur.nl; Pouwels, Rogier; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; rogier.pouwels@wur.nl; Rooij, Sabine van; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; sabine.vanrooij@wur.nl; Vos, Claire C; Alterra Landscape Centre, Wageningen University and Research; claire.vos@wur.nl. |
In highly developed regions, ecosystems are often severely fragmented, whereas the conservation of biodiversity is highly rated. Regional and local actor groups are often involved in the regional planning, but when making decisions they make insufficient use of scientific knowledge of the ecological system that is being changed. The ecological basis of regional landscape change would be improved if knowledge-based systems tailored to the cyclic process of planning and negotiation and to the expertise of planners, designers and local interest groups were available. If regional development is to be sustainable, goals for biodiversity must be set in relation to the actual and demanded patterns of ecosystems. We infer a set of prerequisites for the effective... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity targets; Ecosystem networks; Landscape ecology; Metapopulation persistence; Multifunctional landscapes; Multi-stakeholder decision making; Regional planning; Sustainable development. |
Ano: 2008 |
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Daniell, Katherine A.; Centre for Policy Innovation, The Australian National University ; katherine.daniell@anu.edu.au; White, Ian; The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; ian.white@anu.edu.au; Ribarova, Irina S.; University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy; ribarova_fhe@uacg.bg; Coad, Peter; Hornsby Shire Council; PCoad@hornsby.nsw.gov.au; Rougier, Jean-Emmanuel; Lisode; Jean-Emmanuel.Rougier@lisode.com; Hare, Matthew; UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), United Nations University; hare@unwater.unu.edu; Jones, Natalie A.; School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, University of Queensland; natalie.a.j@gmail.com; Popova, Albena; University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy; albena_krasimirova@abv.bg; Perez, Pascal; College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University; Marine and Atmospheric Research Division, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) ; pascal.perez@anu.edu.au; Burn, Stewart; Land and Water, Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) ; Stewart.Burn@csiro.au. |
Broad-scale, multi-governance level, participatory water management processes intended to aid collective decision making and learning are rarely initiated, designed, implemented, and managed by one person. These processes mostly emerge from some form of collective planning and organization activities because of the stakes, time, and budgets involved in their implementation. Despite the potential importance of these collective processes for managing complex water-related social–ecological systems, little research focusing on the project teams that design and organize participatory water management processes has ever been undertaken. We have begun to fill this gap by introducing and outlining the concept of a co-engineering process and examining... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Co-engineering; Conflict; Multiple objectives; Negotiation; Participatory process; Planning; Water management. |
Ano: 2010 |
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Bunch, Martin J; Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health; bunchmj@yorku.ca; Morrison, Karen E; Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph; Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health; karenm@uoguelph.ca; Parkes, Margot W; Health Sciences Program, University of Northern British Columbia; Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health; mwparkes@interchange.ubc.ca; Venema, Henry D; International Institute for Sustainable Development; Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health; hvenema@iisd.ca. |
In coupled social–ecological systems, the same driving forces can result in combined social and environmental health inequities, hazards, and impacts. Policies that decrease social inequities and improve social cohesion, however, also have the potential to improve health outcomes and to minimize and offset the drivers of ecosystem change. Actions that address both biophysical and social environments have the potential to create a "double dividend" that improves human health, while also promoting sustainable development. One promising approach to managing the complex, reciprocal interactions among ecosystems, society, and health is the integration of the ecohealth approach (which holds that human health and well-being are both dependent on... |
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Ecohealth; Ecosystem approach; Environment and health; Environmental determinants of health; Health promotion; Integrated water resources management; Resilience; Social determinants of health; Watershed governance; Watershed management. |
Ano: 2011 |
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