Emerging Issues in Decentralized Resource Governance: Environmental Federalism, Spillovers, and Linked Socio-Ecological Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Shobe
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Environmental Federalism ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Emerging Issues

Spillovers among jurisdictions are ubiquitous and likely to increase with increasing population and consumption, so the centralization or decentralization of environmental governance is of pressing concern in a world of tightly linked socio-ecological systems. Spillovers play a key role in federalism analysis because they tend to reduce benefits from decentralization. Laboratory federalism, a common rationale for decentralization, has not proven successful as a model of local policy innovation. Given a national policy toward a public good, differences in preferences across jurisdictions may push national policy toward a quantity instrument rather than a tax instrument. Finally, the lack of interaction between environmental federalism analysis and studies of adaptive governance and linked complex adaptive systems leaves both literatures incomplete. The increasing urgency of global sustainability issues argues for linking insights from environmental federalism with the literature on linked socio-ecological complex adaptive systems.

scholarly journals Bridging the policy-implementation gap in federal health systems: lessons from the Nigerian experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Mckenzie ◽  
Emmanuel Sokpo ◽  
Alastair Ager
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Global Alliance ◽  
Programme Design ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The Government

The Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria - Maternal, Newborn and Child Health initiative supports efforts by the government of Nigeria to bridge primary health care (PHC) policies and services at three levels of government: federal, state and local. The paper suggests that understandings informed by complexity theory and complex adaptive systems have been helpful in shaping policy and programme design across these levels. To illustrate this, three initiatives are explored: <em>Bringing PHC under one roof</em>, enhancing access to funding provided by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, and strengthening the midwives service scheme. These initiatives have demonstrated how concepts and experience developed at subnational level can influence national policy and practice, and how work at subnational levels can add value to nationally conceived and nationally driven plans for PHC.

The Role of Evolutionary Studies in Education for Sustainable Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Eirdosh ◽  
Susan Hanisch
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Evolutionary Studies ◽  
Complex Adaptive

Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) examines the emergence and persistence of complex adaptive systems, including human social-ecological systems. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aims to empower students with the skills to develop and sustain human social-ecological systems that reflect the shared values of our species. The aims of EvoS and ESD have clear overlaps, and yet these two fields remain as distant islands of thought with few academic bridges between them. This chapter explores the connections between EvoS and ESD from historical, theoretical, and applied perspectives and presents the value of an integrated approach. The authors argue the strengths of this approach include its cumulative evidence base from wide-ranging disciplines, its explanatory power, and its overall simplicity.

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Levin ◽  
Tasos Xepapadeas ◽  
Anne-Sophie Crépin ◽  
Jon Norberg ◽  
Aart de Zeeuw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Strategic Interactions ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling

AbstractSystems linking people and nature, known as social-ecological systems, are increasingly understood as complex adaptive systems. Essential features of these complex adaptive systems – such as nonlinear feedbacks, strategic interactions, individual and spatial heterogeneity, and varying time scales – pose substantial challenges for modeling. However, ignoring these characteristics can distort our picture of how these systems work, causing policies to be less effective or even counterproductive. In this paper we present recent developments in modeling social-ecological systems, illustrate some of these challenges with examples related to coral reefs and grasslands, and identify the implications for economic and policy analysis.

scholarly journals Multisystemic Resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 771-784
Author(s):  
Katrina Brown
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Complex Adaptive

This chapter examines the extent to which cross-disciplinary understandings of resilience support the development and application of multisystemic resilience approaches based on evidence in current literature. It focuses on how systems thinking—especially complex adaptive systems—has informed the evolution of social-ecological systems resilience analysis and the extent to which this provides an example of multisystemic resilience. It reviews some of the underlying concepts and principles in the field and the boundary-pushing areas of recent research. Finally, it identifies how systemic resilience analysis can make a difference in understanding key global challenges and suggests ways forward for development of a multisystemic resilience field.

scholarly journals Collaboration, Adaptation, and Scaling: Perspectives on Environmental Governance for Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schoon ◽  
Michael Cox
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Sustainability Governance ◽  
Communication And Coordination

In preview of the special issue on “Environmental Governance for Sustainability”, this manuscript examines three key themes on governance and sustainability. Governance for sustainability, by its nature, requires long-enduring institutional arrangements. Given the complex adaptive systems in which governance decision-making takes place, we explore three key characteristics of successful, long-term governance. The first of these is working across scale. This includes nested institutions as well as communication and coordination both horizontally and vertically between diverse governance groups. Second, we highlight the importance of collaboration. Building on the previous point, we draw on literature from collaborative governance and co-management to emphasize how collaboration can help to build more enduring governance structures. Third, we examine the importance of adaptation and evolution in the resolution of collective action dilemmas in complex systems filled with nonlinearities, unclear causal chains, and environments in which we have less than a full understanding of the ramifications of governance actions.

scholarly journals Linking Sustainable Business Models to Socio-Ecological Resilience Through Cross-Sector Partnerships: A Complex Adaptive Systems View

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032093501
Author(s):  
Domenico Dentoni ◽  
Jonatan Pinkse ◽  
Rob Lubberink
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Ecological Resilience ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Sustainable Business Models

A flourishing literature assesses how sustainable business models create and capture value in socio-ecological systems. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about how the organization of sustainable business models—of which cross-sector partnerships represent a core and distinctive mechanism—can support socio-ecological resilience. We address this knowledge gap by taking a complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective. We develop a framework that identifies the key strategic, institutional, and learning elements of partnerships that sustainable business models rely on to support socio-ecological resilience. With our analytical framework, we underpin the importance of assessing sustainable business initiatives in terms of their impact on resilience at the level of socio-ecological systems, not just of organizations. Therefore, we reveal how cross-sector partnerships provide the organizational support for sustainable business models to support socio-ecological resilience. By combining the key features of CAS and the key elements of partnerships, we provide insight into the formidable task of designing cross-sector partnerships so that they support socio-ecological resilience and avoid unintended consequences.

scholarly journals The Maxwell Demon: a proposal for modeling in ecological synthesis in art practices

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luzilei Aliel da Silva ◽  
Damián Keller ◽  
Rogério Luiz Moraes Costa
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Maxwell Demon ◽  
Complex Adaptive

This paper aims to expand the research on ecological synthesis models (KELLER, 1999) through the inclu- sion of improvisation practice. We propose a formalization of creative processes in sonic improvisatory-compositio- nal environments (targeting comprovisation), based on ecologically grounded creative practices. Our approach en- tails the use of socio-ecological models that deal with complex adaptive systems [SIBERTIN et al., 2011]. We develo- ped a performance/experiment called The Maxwell Demon, as a case study. The observations done during the study indicate that imitation is an important strategy for creative activities in socio-ecological systems. Improvisation may provide a relevant sonic content in ecological environments, enhancing their flexibility without losing consistency. Keywords: Comprovisation; Socio-Ecological System; Performance/Experiment 

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document