An Introduction to Practical Panarchy: Linking Law, Resilience, and Adaptive Water Governance of Regional Scale Social-Ecological Systems

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Cosens ◽  
Lance Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Water ethics, justice, and equity in social-ecological systems conservation: lessons from the Queensland Wild Rivers Act

Water Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer H. Shah ◽  
Lucy Rodina
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Water Ethics ◽  
Natural Rivers

Abstract The protection of natural rivers and watersheds face important concerns related to environmental (in)justice and (in)equity. Using the Queensland Wild Rivers Act as a case study, we advocate that ethical water governance attends to multiple and diverse values, specifically in ways that: (i) locate them within stakeholders' claims of inequality that emerge from a given or practiced water ethic; and (ii) historicize and understand them as resonating or reflecting natural resource management frameworks that have led to structural injustices. This approach, combined with adaptive co-governance, can contribute to more inclusive water ethics and even support reflexive spaces where radical change in social-ecological resource governance can be imagined.

scholarly journals Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bolognesi ◽  
Andrea K. Gerlak ◽  
Gregory Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Data Cube ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Social Ecological

The Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework serves as a valuable framework to explore and understand social and ecological interactions, and pathways in water governance. Yet, it lacks a robust understanding of change. We argue an analytical and methodological approach to engaging global changes in SES is critical to strengthening the scope and relevance of the SES framework. Relying on SES and resilience thinking, we propose an institutional and cognitive model of change that institutions and natural resources systems co-evolve to provide a dynamic understanding of SES that stands on three causal mechanisms: institutional complexity trap, rigidity trap, and learning processes. We illustrate how Data Cube technology could overcome current limitations and offer reliable avenues to test hypothesis about the dynamics of social-ecological systems and water security by offering to combine spatial and time data with no major technical requirements for users.

Polycentricity of urban watershed governance: Towards a methodological approach

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (16) ◽  
pp. 3525-3544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Watershed ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Governing System ◽  
Watershed Governance ◽  
Middle Rio Grande

This paper makes an initial contribution towards building a polycentricity index to account for the governing of social–ecological systems. It develops three indices and an overall index, using an approach based on network science, to measure the extent to which actors develop ordered relationships to address scale mismatches in urban water governance. These indices are discussed with respect to the overarching system of rules governing actors’ decisions within the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) urban watershed. The analysis and discussions herein suggest that the governance of the MRG is a predominantly monocentric governing system with elements of polycentricity. They also suggest that polycentricity in governing the MRG urban water commons could primarily be about the politics of power and resource distribution as actors reconfigure their positionalities and align themselves and their interests strategically. The paper concludes with a succinct discussion about how quantitative measures of an overarching system of rules could be incorporated into future indices.

Reconfiguring Water Governance for Resilient Social-Ecological Systems in South America

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Micaela Trimble ◽  
Pedro R. Jacobi ◽  
Tomás Olivier ◽  
Miguel Pascual ◽  
Cristina Zurbriggen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Structural and Contentual Complexity in Water Governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9751
Author(s):  
Rudy Vannevel ◽  
Peter L. M. Goethals
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Institutional Organization

Social-ecological systems and governance are complex systems and crises that affect those systems are likely to be complex as well. Environmental topics are multi-faceted with respect to both structure and content. Structural complexity is about societal and institutional organization and management, whereas contentual complexity deals with environmental (or societal) analyses, knowledge, and problem-solving. Interactions between both are manifold, and it is essential they are included in decision-making. Describing these interactions results in a series of nineteen units, arranged in a matrix according to their prevailing mutual dependencies. These units show dominant processes and concepts, representative of environmental analysis. This approach, called ACCU (aggregation of concepts and complex adapted systems units), is provided with evidence through practices of, in particular, water governance.

scholarly journals Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bolognesi ◽  
Andrea Gerlak ◽  
Gregory Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Data Cube ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Social Ecological

The Social-Ecological Systems framework serves as a valuable framework to explore and understand social and ecological interactions, and pathways in water governance. However, it lacks a robust understanding of change. We argue an analytical and methodological approach to engaging global changes in SES is critical to strengthening the scope and relevance of the SES framework. Relying on SES and resilience thinking, we propose an institutional and cognitive model of change where institutions and natural resources systems co-evolve. Our model of change provides a dynamic understanding of SES that stands on three causal mechanisms: institutional complexity trap, rigidity trap, and learning processes. We illustrate how data cube technology could overcome current limitations and offer reliable avenues for testing hypotheses about the dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems and water security by offering to combine spatial and time data with no major technical requirements for users.

scholarly journals Explaining and Measuring Social-Ecological Pathways: The Case of Global Changes and Water Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Bolognesi ◽  
Andrea K. Gerlak ◽  
Gregory Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Data Cube ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Technical Requirements ◽  
Social Ecological

The Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework serves as a valuable framework to explore and understand social and ecological interactions, and pathways in water governance. Yet, it lacks a robust understanding of change. We argue an analytical and methodological approach to engaging global changes in SES is critical to strengthening the scope and relevance of the SES framework. Relying on SES and resilience thinking, we propose an institutional and cognitive model of change that institutions and natural resources systems co-evolve to provide a dynamic understanding of SES that stands on three causal mechanisms: institutional complexity trap, rigidity trap, and learning processes. We illustrate how Data Cube technology could overcome current limitations and offer reliable avenues to test hypothesis about the dynamics of social-ecological systems and water security by offering to combine spatial and time data with no major technical requirements for users.

Trees on the move: using decision theory to compensate for climate change at the regional scale in forest social-ecological systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 1427-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Benito-Garzón ◽  
Bruno Fady ◽  
Hendrik Davi ◽  
Natalia Vizcaíno-Palomar ◽  
Juan Fernández-Manjarrés
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Theory ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

Systems theories

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc J. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Real World ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Effective Governance ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Real World Problem

This chapter covers systems theories relevant to understanding and working to enhance the resilience of social-ecological systems. Social-ecological systems contain natural resources, users of those resources, and the interactions between each. The theories in the chapter share lessons about how to build effective governance structures for common pool resources, how to facilitate the spread of worthwhile ideas across social networks, and how to promote collaboration for greater collective impacts than any one organization alone could achieve. Each theory is summarized succinctly and followed by guidance on how to apply it to real world problem solving.

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