Understanding the social factors that can help build or undermine resilience in social ecological systems is an ongoing research agenda. Lejano, john hipp school of social ecology, university of california, irvine abstract resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social ecological systems. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Spatial resilience in social ecological systems kindle edition by graeme s. In this chapter, we familiarize readers with ses resilience thinking and. New directions for understanding the spatial resilience of. Conceptualizing something as a socialecological system hides some aspects of reality to focus on others. For the purpose of resource management, resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks.
Navigating socialecological systems edited by fikret berkes. Jane jacobs critiqued modernist city planning in the now classic book the death and life of great american cities 1961. Elinor ostrom on resilient socialecological systems youtube. Resilience alliance a research network that focuses on social ecological resilience resilience alliance stockholm resilience centre an international centre that advances trans disciplinary research for governance of social ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience the ability to deal with change and continue to. Sustaining ecosystem services in social ecological systems published by. Interdisciplinarity and social ecological systems resilience. Response diversity and resilience resilience has been used in several different ways, including as an evocative metaphor in discourse on sustainability and as a quantity that is potentially measurable in a specific ses carpenter et al. The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of socialecological systems. The authors of resilience in social ecological systems. Managing for human and ecological context in the maine soft shell clam fishery success and failure in regional systems resilient resource management in mexicos forest ecosystems. The social ecology of resilience book subtitle a handbook of theory and practice editors. The book will become a shining star, a classic in the explosion of new ideas and approaches to studying and understanding socialecological systems. Socialecological urbanism and the life of baltic cities. This book merges forefront research from different.
The authors provide a great amount of detail of specific examples of traditional social systems influencing resource management systems in. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on coral reefs and emphasized escalating anthropogenic disturbances across the broader seascape. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how linked socialecological systems build capacity to adapt to uncertainty and. The body of knowledge developed by the ra encompasses key concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability and provides a foundation for sustainable development policy and practice. All seven principles presented require a nuanced understanding of how, where and when to apply them. The development of a resilience workbook arose from requests to the resilience alliance for advice and assistance in how to assess the resilience of. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems, graeme s. Could you suggest mustread literature of socioecological systems. Article is based on the book principles for building resilience. This proliferation of papers has been accompanied by several books such as panarchy gunderson and holling 2002, navigating socialecological systems berkes, colding, and folke 2003, resilience thinking walker and salt 2006, and principles of ecosystem stewardship.
Regime shifts will be analyzed from a theoretical and practical perspective, including the investigation of a set of case studies. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Nielsen book data summary it is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development is becoming increasingly obvious. Elinor ostrom on resilient socialecological systems stockholm resilience centre tv. In particular, the concept of resilience, and the associated model of the adaptive cycle, originally developed by c. Buzz holling, the father of resilience theory and recipient of the 2008 volvo environmental prize, pioneered the perspective. Building resilience for complexity and change 9780521061841. Response diversity and resilience in socialecological systems. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping social ecological systems. The book follows a trajectory from concepts through models, methods, and case study. System resilience is used in varying context that is always evolving and can be an imprecise concept. Social ecological system ses resilience thinking can inform wash service delivery approaches that adapt to changing conditions in order to sustain access for users rather than resist change. Steve carpenter overviews the major concepts and historical evolution of resilience thinking. Complex adaptive systems, socioecological systems and resilience.
Similarly, we define ecological resilience as an ecosystems ability to absorb or recover from disturbance and change while maintaining its functions and services carpenter et al. Socialecological resilience and law columbia university. The third section reports ongoing efforts and explorative work in resilience research toward understanding social ecological system dynamics and its implications for sustainability, a research integration that is still in its infancy. The resilience alliance is a research organization that focuses on resilience in social. May 23, 2016 in this lecture on the foundations and current applications of resilience theory, dr.
Abstract this paper explores the 20year evolution of the social ecological systems framework sess. This perspective resonated with a new awareness of global drivers of change, such as growth in international trade and. Dec 26, 2016 the concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multiscale processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Apr, 2000 it is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development is becoming increasingly obvious. Over the past decades, few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience, the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop. Ra members are leaders in the ecological and social sciences, covering a range of disciplinary expertise. Resilience in complex socioecological systems, volume 60. A resilience approach has guided the development of this workinprogress procedure for assessing resilience in socialecological systems sess. Resilience in complex socioecological systems, volume 60, the latest release in the advances in ecological research series, includes specific chapters that cover ecological resilience, socioeconomic resilience in agriculture, socio ecological resilience, adaptive capacity in ecosystems, tales of resilience from idiv and resilience robustness in agroecology, and resilience robustness in agro.
Indigenous social movements and ecological resilience. Krasny, cecilia lundholm and ryan plummer present the special issue on resilience in socialecological systems. The fourth aspect of resilience in relation to a stability landscapepanarchy pa. Difference between engineering, ecological and socialecological resilience. This article presents the origin of the resilience perspective and provides an overview of its development to date.
Abstract on integrating training, research and social learning for the collaborative management of complex socio ecological systems in the brazilian amazon, with video of a role play that illustrates the challenge of reconciling diverse interests and perceptions of different stakeholders. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Resilient socialecological systems respond to change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options, and provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The book will flip right into a shining star, a primary in the explosion of newest ideas and approaches to studying and understanding social ecological strategies. A particular focus will be understanding regime shifts, the reorganization of the structure and processes shaping a social ecological system. Ecological resilience and socialecological resilience instead emphasize that resilience is a valueless, nonnormative property of complex systemsresilience as the capacity of a system to withstand disturbance while still maintaining structure, function, feedbacks, and basic system identity. The social ecology of resilience a handbook of theory and practice. Resilience thinking investigates how interacting systems of people and nature can best be managed. Resilience thinking provides a bridging concept between knowledge of the biophysical system and governance principles to move systems of water and society to a more sustainable future. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping socialecological systems as they respond to change, through adaptation and. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems springerlink. How to download spatial resilience in social ecological systems pdf.
Resilience thinking resembles parsons general theory wherein intra and. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Building socioecological resilience to climate change. Seven principles for building resilience in social ecological systems. About a third of the papers were theoretical providing a background on resilience theory, defining and explaining key concepts, and identifying the principles or elements important in building resilience in integrated systems of people and nature. Socialecological resilience and geomorphic systems. Social ecological resilience and sustainability by shelley ross saxer and jonathan rosenbloom is designed to help students understand and address new, changing, and complex economic, environmental, and social systems. With roots in one branch of ecology and the discovery of multiple basins of attraction in ecosystems.
Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. Jacobs proposed that a city must be understood as a system of organized complexityin other words, as an ecosystemand that any intervention in the urban fabric with continue reading socialecological urbanism and the. Social dimensions of resilience in socialecological systems. Socialecological resilience and sustainability aspen. There has been an explosion of research into ways to promote or undermine the. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how linked social ecological systems build capacity to adapt to uncertainty and change. The socialecological systems perspective on resilience is rooted in ecology.
Difference between engineering, ecological and social. Several of the authors of the special issue on resilience in socialecological systems. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping socialecological systems as they respond to change, through adaptation and transformation. Governance and ecosystem management of coastal and marine systems. This means more than simply tinkering with existing approaches to management of natural resources. Enhancing the resilience of humanenvironment systems. Download spatial resilience in socialecological systems pdf. The resilience perspective began to influence fields outside ecology like anthropology where vayda and mccay 1975 challenged rappaports 1967 concept of culture as an equilibriumbased system, in ecological economics in relation to biological diversity perrings et al. The resilience of pastoral herding in sahelian africa. Here, we focus on six broad domains of social factors that create resilience to social ecological change, often referred to as adaptive capacity. We also thank all ra members past and present upon whose ideas and research forms the basis for this workbook. Resilience is a measure of the amount of perturbation a social ecological system can withstand while maintaining its structure and functions. This book introduces resilience and sustainability as analytical frameworks and illustrates how these concepts apply in various contexts. It requires building resilience into social ecological systems, including the law itself.
To advance our understanding of the resilience engineering concept for infrastructure systems, main pressing topics to address evolve around the. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social. Exploring the socialecological systems discourse 20 years. Carl folke, science director of the stockholm resilience centre and. Chapter 5 socialecological system resilience for wash. It is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development is becoming increasingly obvious. Rather than presenting a specific hypothesis and testing it, i offer an invitation to thought. In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. In this essay, we tried to understand how interdisciplinary thinking has helped us better understand the complexities associated with earths social ecological systems. The concept of resilience is central in this context. The social ecology of resilience a handbook of theory and.
Different interpretations of what is meant by resilience, however, cause confusion. The social ecology of resilience a handbook of theory. Social ecological resilience is the capacity to adapt or transform in the face of change in social ecological systems, particularly unexpected change, in ways that continue to support human wellbeing chapin et al. The range, prevalence, and spatial and temporal distributions of different responses may be crucial to the resilience or the transformation of a social ecological system and thus have a bearing on human vulnerability and wellbeing in the face of environmental, socioeconomic, and political change. The emergence of a perspective for socialecological systems analyses. Although a first definition of ses dates back to 1988, berkes and folke more thoroughly used the concept in 1998 to analyze resilience in local resource management systems. Resilient social ecological systems have the potential to sustain. Building resilience for complexity and change edited by fikret berkes, johan colding and carl folke frontmatter. The social ecology of resilience provides evidence for this ecological understanding of resilience in ways that help to resolve both definition and measurement problems.
Two recent efforts of the resilience alliance are worth mentioning. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and selforganization play in generating spatial variation. A working hypothesis for a participatory approach, abstract approaches to natural resource management are often based on a presumed ability to predict probabilistic responses to management and external drivers such as climate. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems graeme s. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked socialecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. Graeme cumming, central in the development of resilience thinking and theory, has produced a wonderful book on spatial resilience, the first ever on this topic. The authors of resilience in socialecological systems. Ive recently been teaching about socialecological systems and because i think it is important to conceptualize systems graphically these discussions caused me to reflect on the conceptual diagrams of socialecological systems. The concept of resilience is a promising tool for analysing adaptive change towards sustainability because it provides a way for analysing how to manipulate stability in the face of change. A great anthology of case studies that demonstrate how social and ecological systems are linked through resource management. Management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience. More than two decades after michael rutter 1987 published his summary of protective processes associated with resilience, researchers continue to report definitional ambiguity in how to define and operationalize positive development under adversity. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked socialecological systems, and build capacity to.
Resiliencebased natural resource management in a changing world chapin, kofinas, and folke 2009. Applying resilience thinking applying resilience thinking. This book is the first broad synthesis of spatial resilience in systems of humans and nature, and exposes the power of spatial approaches for interdisciplinary analyses of resilience. A social ecological perspective daniel stokols, raul p. Download spatial resilience in socialecological systems. Resilience thinking uses systems concepts to understand such abrupt changes. I first introduce a theoretical model for considering different facets of resilience, and then illustrate these dynamics and briefly discuss how to consider the current dominant system in this light. Director of the beijer institute of ecological economics. The resilience of social ecological systems is related to the degree of the shock that the system can absorb and remain within a given state. With as both the societies and the world in which we live face increasingly rapid and turbulent changes, the concept of resilience has become an active. In a following essay, i explain what we can learn from theoretical and empirical academic work concerning how such complex social ecological systems can be governed. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus.
Buzz holling, have promised both theoretical and substantive integration of social and ecological systems. For example, the stockholm resilience centre mentions principles 6 and 7 of the book principles for building resilience. Berkes and folke 1998 started to use socialecological systems as an integrated. Social systems that are of primary concern for this volume include those dealing with governance, as in property rights and access to resources. Linking social and ecological systems for resilience and. Defining the research agenda for the stockholm resilience centre. This essay explores the dynamics of resilience in social systems. Spatial resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research.
Frank thomalla is a research fellow at the stockholm environment institute sei where he leads the stockholmbased group of the risk, livelihoods and vulnerability programme and at the re. Small is beautiful is another great read about your topic of. The resilience assessment framework involves constructing a model of the system of. Conceptual background on socialecological systems and resilience. Building resilience for complexity and change by fikret berkes isbn. Sustaining ecosystem services in social ecological systems biggs, et al. T2 sustaining ecosystem services in social ecological systems. The unesco biosphere reserve program in australia and canada by kate a. The development of a resilience workbook arose from requests to the resilience alliance for advice and assistance in how to assess the resilience of some particular region. This pathbreaking book brings together leading scholars who offer new thinking on how law might better be reconciled with resilience science. Carl folke, science director of the stockholm resilience centre and director of the beijer institute of ecological economics. Navigating socialecological systems building resilience for. A general framework for analyzing sustainability of socialecological systems. Social and ecological vulnerability and resilience to climate change are inextricably linked and should be considered as integrated socioecological systems.