The impacts of social-ecological system change on human-nature connectedness: A case study from Transylvania, Romania

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 104232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ágnes Balázsi ◽  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Tibor Hartel ◽  
Julia Leventon ◽  
Joern Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
System Change ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Nature Connectedness

scholarly journals Resilience for Whom? A Case Study of Taiwan Indigenous People’s Struggle in the Pursuit of Social-Ecological Resilience

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsing-Sheng Tai
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Trade Offs

While the notion of social-ecological system resilience is widely accepted and applied, the issue of “resilience for whom” is clearly ignored. This phenomenon has also occurred in Taiwan. This article explores the roots of, and a possible solution to, this issue through a case study in the context of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. The Danungdafu area, the focal social-ecological system, was studied. Qualitative research methods and an action-oriented research approach were employed. For a long period, the central government shaped the political, economic, social, institutional, and ecological contexts; dominated resilience discourses and determined the problem-framing and problem-solving agenda; defined the scale and levels at which social-ecological system governance issues were addressed; and determined the knowledge system used to define and solve problems. After 2011, a new participatory governance regime emerged. Multiple stakeholders, including indigenous communities, began to contribute to resilience discourses and influenced governance and trade-offs among differing governance goals. However, under the established structures dominated by Han people, indigenous views, rights, and well-being continue to be ignored. Affirmative action is required to recognize and safeguard indigenous rights. A practical institutional pathway is available to facilitate the transformation from “resilience for mainstream society” to “resilience for indigenous people” in indigenous territories.

scholarly journals Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Woiwode ◽  
Niko Schäpke ◽  
Olivia Bina ◽  
Stella Veciana ◽  
Iris Kunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
System Change ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Leverage Points ◽  
Leverage Point ◽  
Nature Connectedness ◽  
Concrete Elements ◽  
Structured Approach

AbstractThis article provides a rationale for inner transformation as a key and hitherto underresearched dimension of sustainability transformations. Inner transformation relates to various aspects of human existence and interactions such as consciousness, mindsets, values, worldviews, beliefs, spirituality and human–nature connectedness. The article draws on Meadows’ leverage points approach, as places to intervene in a system, to reveal the relevance of inner transformation for system change towards sustainability. Based on insights from a series of dialogue and reflection workshops and a literature review, this article provides three important contributions to sustainability transformations research: first, it increases our conceptual understanding of inner transformation and its relevance for sustainability; second, it outlines concrete elements of the inner transformation-sustainability nexus in relation to leverage points; and third, it presents practical examples illustrating how to work with leverage points for supporting inner transformation. In sum, the paper develops a systematized and structured approach to understanding inner transformation, including the identification of deep, i.e., highly influential, leverage points. In addition, it critically discusses the often contentious and divergent perspectives on inner transformation and shows related practical challenges. Finally, current developments in inner transformation research as well as further research needs are identified.

Museums for the Planet : Critical Realist Philosophy and the Possibility of an Eco-decolonial Museology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Thomas Carnegie Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Museum Practice

This study introduces dialectical critical realism into museology as a philosophical underlabourer for the development of new theoretical potentials for the transformation of museum practice. The idea of the museum is in a moment of fluidity evident in emergent decolonial and ecological perspectives and in the International Council of Museum’s process of redefinition of the museum. The potential to reimagine the museum lacks a coherent philosophical and theoretical foundation. The persistence of museological dualism separates the social from the ecological and absents the emergence of relational modes of thinking and practice. This study conceives an ecological-decolonial or eco-decolonial mode of museology that is disruptive of dualism and generative of relationality, and is thus generative of agency for deeper, more effective and enduring social-ecological justice. The core of this thesis is the development of the eco-decolonial mode of museology through the DCR onto-axiological chain or ‘MELD’ schema. At 1M a depth ontological analysis augmented by interviews with key informants establishes a dialectic of society and ecology in the museological context. 1M surfaces capitalism and the implicit neoliberal ontology of museology as deep causal mechanisms of the 2E persistence of museological human-nature dualism. The paradox of ‘emancipatory neoliberalism’ is a policy-practice contradiction that absents potentials for transformation of the museum and that is held in place by the grounding ontological activity of museology, collection. The 2E perspective on absences enables the emergence of new transformative pathways towards the 3L vision of the eco-decolonial mode of museology as a (4D) new way of thinking and working to resolve neoliberal restrictions. The fundamental 4D change envisioned for museum philosophy, theory and practice is an ontological transformation from traditionalist human-nature dualism to a progressive human-nature dialectic. A case study considers instances where museum workers exercised the agency to expand practice in this way. Future work using the expansive learning methodology of Change Laboratories will develop and implement the potentials generated by the onto-axiological chain for the eco-decolonial mode to bring real change to traditional, dualist museum practice, in order to ensure the relevance and the agency of the museum as a social structure in and for a changing world.

Green space indicators in a social-ecological system: A case study of Varanasi, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 102261
Author(s):  
Pramit Verma ◽  
Rishikesh Singh ◽  
Christopher Bryant ◽  
Akhilesh Singh Raghubanshi
Keyword(s):  
Green Space ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
System A ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Social-Ecological Resilience as Practice: A Household Perspective from Agua Blanca (Ecuador)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros ◽  
Paulino Ramos-Ballesteros
Keyword(s):  
Ecological System ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology

Within a social-ecological system (SES), households develop specific practices, the logics of which are not derived directly or exclusively from higher levels (community, social-ecological system). This article advocates paying closer attention to this micro level of social-ecological analysis in order to gain a better understanding of the SES dynamic and its resilience. It explores the links between the functioning of the SES and human agency by means of a household approach (economic strategies, collective participation). To illustrate this proposal, an ethnographic case study was conducted in Agua Blanca, a community in Ecuador. The evolution and current situation of the SES, its desirability and the factors that support its resilience, as well as the practices of the most recently formed households, are analysed. This analytical proposal affords a more consistent understanding of the heterogeneous social-ecological interactions within an SES (plasticity), showing how resilience is inherently linked to practices. For this purpose, ethnographic methodology offers an outstanding tool.

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