scholarly journals How Societal Values Determine the Local Use of Forest Resources—Findings from the Rural Community Kegong (Northwest Yunnan, China)

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Nassl ◽  
Jörg Löffler
Keyword(s):  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Forest Transition ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Northwest Yunnan ◽  
Scientific Attention ◽  
Local Use

The transition from net deforestation to net reforestation in China has received much scientific attention, in the hope that, by understanding the underlying drivers and processes, it might be reproduced in other regions of the world. The scientific literature has suggested that this process was driven by the creation of off-farm opportunities and huge state afforestation programs by economic growth. Recent publications, however, have noted a lack of inclusion of local dynamics in this analysis. We used the social-ecological interactions (SEI) framework, designed for the assessment of ecosystem services in socio-ecological systems, to trace the causes and patterns of the local use of forest biomass in a village in Northwest Yunnan. Our results suggest that societal values, in particular, are key to understanding the local resource use underlying the forest transition in Yunnan. However, societal values have been neglected, both in the analysis of forest transition as well as in social-ecological systems research, in general.

Improving Water Management in Pakistan Using Social-Ecological Systems Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-271
Author(s):  
Michael Mitchell ◽  
Catherine Allan ◽  
Jehangir F. Punthakey ◽  
C. Max Finlayson ◽  
Mobushir R. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Deltas in Crisis: From Systems to Sophisticated Conjunctions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1322
Author(s):  
Casper Bruun Jensen ◽  
Atsuro Morita
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Earth System Science ◽  
System Science ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social

In recent years, threatened deltas have emerged as a significant matter of concern in numerous fields. While Earth System science and social-ecological systems focus on topics like global water circulation and sediment transport, social scientists tend to consider the problems facing particular deltas in the context of modernization or (post)-colonial development. There is nevertheless broad agreement that the delta crisis raises fundamental questions about modern approaches to infrastructure planning. Thus, environmental and sustainability scientists have come to recognize “the social” as integral to the delta crisis. This understanding of “the social,” however, takes two quite different forms. As an object of social-ecological systems research, the social is modeled alongside ecological systems. However, as a context for scientific interventions in environmental policy it appears as an obstacle to achieving sustainable delta policies. Based on a careful examination of Earth System science and associated discourses, we show that this instability of “the social”, combined with the ambition to integrate ‘it’ in an encompassing system poses serious problems for interdisciplinary delta research and for more imaginative and inclusive collaborative efforts to tackle the delta crisis—including, but going considerably beyond, policy and governance. Rather than integrative systems, we argue that the situation requires the creation of sophisticated conjunctions of epistemologies, methods, and practices. Such conjunctions, we suggest, pave the way for a cosmo-ecological approach, where social, environmental and sustainability sciences work together with designers, urban planners, policy-makers, and affected or concerned citizens on solving multi-scalar delta problems by working across their differences.

Multiple values and knowledge integration in indigenous coastal and marine social-ecological systems research: A systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 100910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Dam Lam ◽  
Alexandros Gasparatos ◽  
Shamik Chakraborty ◽  
Horacio Rivera ◽  
Taira Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Synthesis and emerging frontiers in social-ecological systems research methods

2021 ◽  
pp. 453-479
Author(s):  
Maja Schlüter ◽  
Reinette Biggs ◽  
Hayley Clements ◽  
Alta de Vos ◽  
Kristine Maciejewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Social Ecological Dynamics of Catchment Resilience

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
W. Neil Adger ◽  
Katrina Brown ◽  
Catherine Butler ◽  
Tara Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Complex Adaptive Systems ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Ecological Dynamics ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Social Ecological

Catchment resilience is the capacity of a combined social ecological system, comprised of water, land, ecological resources and communities in a river basin, to deal with sudden shocks and gradual changes, and to adapt and self-organize for progressive change and transform itself for sustainability. This paper proposes that analysis of catchments as social ecological systems can provide key insights into how social and ecological dynamics interact and how some of the negative consequences of unsustainable resource use or environmental degradation can be ameliorated. This requires recognition of the potential for community resilience as a core element of catchment resilience, and moves beyond more structural approaches to emphasize social dynamics. The proposals are based on a review of social ecological systems research, on methods for analyzing community resilience, and a review of social science and action research that suggest ways of generating resilience through community engagement. These methods and approaches maximize insights into the social dynamics of catchments as complex adaptive systems to inform science and practice.

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