scholarly journals Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance Gunderson ◽  
Barbara A. Cosens ◽  
Brian C. Chaffin ◽  
Craig A. (Tom) Arnold ◽  
Alexander K. Fremier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

BioScience ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 665-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Leadley ◽  
Vânia Proença ◽  
Juan Fernández-Manjarrés ◽  
Henrique Miguel Pereira ◽  
Rob Alkemade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Regime Shifts

On coupled dynamics and regime shifts in coupled human-water systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachata Muneepeerakul ◽  
Mehran Homayounfar
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Water System ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Coupled Dynamics ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Floods And Droughts

<p>To clarify the nonlinear and intertwined dynamics in coupled human-water systems, we developed a stylized model that combines simple hydrological and social dynamics. In this model, neither too much nor too little water is good (think floods and droughts, respectively; this is a feature absent in previous models) and the population self-organizes to respond to relative benefits they derive from the water system and outside opportunities. Despite its simplicity, the model richly yields 6 different regimes. A closer look at the conditions giving rise to these different regimes sheds light on the design of policies and adaptation strategies for the coupled human-water system under different social-hydrological settings. Advantages and limitations of this modeling approach will also be discussed.</p>

scholarly journals Regime shifts in a social-ecological system

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Lade ◽  
Alessandro Tavoni ◽  
Simon A. Levin ◽  
Maja Schlüter
Keyword(s):  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Evolution and effects of the social-ecological system over a millennium in China’s Loess Plateau

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (41) ◽  
pp. eabc0276
Author(s):  
Xutong Wu ◽  
Yongping Wei ◽  
Bojie Fu ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Yan Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Slow Expansion ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Ecological Conservation

Understanding the regime shifts of social-ecological systems (SES) and their local and spillover effects over a long time frame is important for future sustainability. We provide a perspective of processes unfolding over time to identify the regime shifts of a SES based on changes in the relationships between SES components while also addressing their drivers and local and spillover effects. The applicability of this approach has been demonstrated by analyzing the evolution over the past 1000 years of the SES in China’s Loess Plateau (LP). Five evolutionary phases were identified: “fast expansion of cultivation,” “slow expansion of cultivation,” “landscape engineering for higher production,” “transition from cultivation to ecological conservation,” and “revegetation for environment.” Our study establishes empirical links between the state (phase) of a SES to its drivers and effects. Lessons of single-goal driven and locally focused SES management in the LP, which did not consider these links, have important implications to long-term planning and policy formulation of SES.

scholarly journals Food System Transformation: Integrating a Political–Economy and Social–Ecological Approach to Regime Shifts

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. Pereira ◽  
Scott Drimie ◽  
Kristi Maciejewski ◽  
Patrick Bon Tonissen ◽  
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Food Regimes ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Food

Sustainably achieving the goal of global food security is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. The current food system is failing to meet the needs of people, and at the same time, is having far-reaching impacts on the environment and undermining human well-being in other important ways. It is increasingly apparent that a deep transformation in the way we produce and consume food is needed in order to ensure a more just and sustainable future. This paper uses the concept of regime shifts to understand key drivers and innovations underlying past disruptions in the food system and to explore how they may help us think about desirable future changes and how we might leverage them. We combine two perspectives on regime shifts—one derived from natural sciences and the other from social sciences—to propose an interpretation of food regimes that draws on innovation theory. We use this conceptualization to discuss three examples of innovations that we argue helped enable critical regime shifts in the global food system in the past: the Haber-Bosch process of nitrogen fixation, the rise of the supermarket, and the call for more transparency in the food system to reconnect consumers with their food. This paper concludes with an exploration of why this combination of conceptual understandings is important across the Global North/ Global South divide, and proposes a new sustainability regime where transformative change is spearheaded by a variety of social–ecological innovations.

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