Spatial resilience is a model new and thrilling area of interdisciplinary evaluation. Resilience is generally considered the capacity to tolerate, absorb, cope with, and adjust to changing social or environmental conditions while retaining key elements of structure, function, and identity. Spatial resilience focuses on the importance of location, connectivity, and context for resilience, based on the idea that spatial variation in patterns and. Sustaining ecosystem services in social ecological systems edited by reinette biggs, maja schlter and michael l. First, although the explicit study of spatial resilience in socialecological systems is a relatively new development, the concepts from which it developed have a long and illustrious history. Although a number of authors have discussed the resilience of pastoralist social ecological systems e. Abstract conservation biology and applied ecology increasingly recognize. Resilience and sustainable development esdn quarterly report no 26 7 this exposes the strong need for sd governance to embrace resilience thinking.
This is the general plan, but please be prepared to be flexible. The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of socialecological systems. About a third of the papers were theoretical providing a background on resilience theory, defining and explaining key concepts, and identifying the principles or elements important in building resilience in integrated systems of people and nature. T1 exploring resilience in socialecological systems through comparative studies and theory development.
However, it is a troubled dialogue from which social scientists may feel detached. Request permission export citation add to favorites track citation. Different interpretations of what is meant by resilience, however, cause confusion. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in socialecological systems article pdf available in ecology and society 92, article 5 november 2003 with 12,831 reads how we measure reads. Incorporating the complexities of societies and economies into landscape ecology analyses will, however, require a broader. The framework we have presented for analyzing resilience in regionalscale socialecological systems is suggested as a basis for such management.
It focuses on the influence of spatial variation including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and selforganization play in generating spatial variation. Diversity and resilience of socialecological systems. It is argued that managing for resilience enhances the likelihood of sustaining desirable pathways for development in changing environments where the future is unpredictable. First, although the explicit study of spatial resilience in social ecological systems is a relatively new development, the concepts from which it developed have a long and illustrious history. Resilience and adaptation in the governance of social. Elinor ostrom on resilient socialecological systems youtube. The authors of resilience in social ecological systems. Landscape ecologists have already made considerable progress towards a more general understanding of the relevance of spatial variation for ecosystems. Socialecological resilience and geomorphic systems.
The development of a resilience workbook arose from requests to the resilience alliance for advice and assistance in how to assess the resilience of. Kajoba department of geography, university of zambia email. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems springerlink. Sep 14, 2011 the theme of the conference was capturing the complexity of the commons. There are two elements in examining the applicability of social resilience in terms of the physical environment. Disaster management requires multilevel governance systems that can enhance. Today we are finding these distinctions difficult to maintain and a profusion of research approaches including resilience, socialecological systems, political ecology, the livelihoods framework, assemblages, actornetwork theory and socionatures have emerged that challenge this division between humans and the environment. Introducing spatial resilience starting a book on the spatial resilience of socialecological systems is a somewhat daunting task for both author and reader. Spatial resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research.
It focuses on the influence of spatial variation including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and selforganization play in. Guest editorial, part of a special feature on exploring resilience in socialecological systems exploring resilience in socialecological systems through comparative studies and theory development. Vulnerability and resilience of socialecological systems. It focuses on the have an effect on of spatial variation along with issues like spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of difficult methods, and on the roles that resilience and selfgroup play in producing spatial variation. It involves a stakeholderdriven description of the system and the issues, leading to a limited set of scenarios that capture the major uncertainties in the systems future dynamics. Spatial relationships and spatial interactions affect the resilience in socialecological systems in complex ways. It is not only about being transdisciplinary and avoiding partial and oneviewpoint solutions. Building social and ecological resilience for disaster. Social dimensions of resilience in socialecological systems. The framework for a resilience assessment is constructed around the concept of a. Socialecological systems link social and ecological systems berkes and folke 1998. Resilience, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and social.
May 23, 2016 in this lecture on the foundations and current applications of resilience theory, dr. Starting a book on the spatial resilience of socialecological systems is a somewhat daunting task for both author and reader. Culturally grounded indicators of resilience in social. Socialecological resilience and biospherebased sustainability science. The first step in a resilience assessment is to define the socialecological boundaries of the system that will be assessed. The capacity of actors in a system to influence resilience. The papers that were invited for this special issue addressed the theme of resilience and adaptation in the governance of socialecological systems. Pdf resilience, adaptability and transformability in social. In reality, seeking to analyse the resilience of social systems by using analogies from the ecological systems is akin to endogenizing the r ole of social institutions in the wider environment pritchard etal.
The desired outcome is to demonstrate the critical role and value of natural systems in protecting social and economic community assets. The inherently transdisciplinary field of sesscholars has focused on resilience of sess and ways to govern resilience of sess. The concept of resilience has evolved considerably since hollings 1973 seminal paper. Response diversity and resilience resilience has been used in several different ways, including as an evocative metaphor in discourse on sustainability and as a quantity that is potentially measurable in a specific ses carpenter et al. An exciting recent development is to explicitly try to integrate landscape ecology and ideas about resilience in socialecological systems through the concept of spatial resilience. Resilience in social ecological systems has received a considerable amount of attention in the last 710 years walker et al. Social and ecological vulnerability to disasters and outcomes of any particular extreme event are influenced by buildup or erosion of resilience both before and after disasters occur. Resilient socialecological systems incorporate diverse mechanisms for living with, and learning from, change and unexpected shocks. Management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience. Sustaining ecosystem services in social ecological systems.
This cluster deals with various dimensions of coupled socialecological systems, with a focus on resilience, adaptive management, governance and polycentricity in the spirit of the various. Three related attributes of socialecological systems sess. In this lecture on the foundations and current applications of resilience theory, dr. Enhancing the resilience of humanenvironment systems. Vulnerability of food production systems of smallscale farmers to climate change in southern zambia. Cinner and barnes introduce key social factors that provide resilience in linked socialecological systems, including 1 assets, 2 flexibility, 3 social organization, 4 learning, 5. Resilience in social ecological systems social ecological systems, or systems where ecosystems and humans are inextricably linked, are facing unpredictable pressures and shocks due to global change and unsustainable human use of resources chapin et al.
Combined, these four principles contribute to an understanding of. The resilience alliance ra is a research organization comprised of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of socialecological systems. We regard socialecological systems as complex adaptive systems and use a social ecological resilience. We define resilience as the capacity of a system, be it an individual, a forest, a city or an economy.
New directions for understanding the spatial resilience of. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social. Combined, these four principles contribute to an understanding of resilience as facilitated growth amid. In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Socialecological systems are complex, and complex systems are, well. The unesco biosphere reserve program in australia and canada by kate a. During the last decade there has been increased attention to the study of socialecological systems sess. Two recent efforts of the resilience alliance are worth mentioning. Lejano, john hipp school of social ecology, university of california, irvine abstract resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social ecological systems. Socialecological resilience to coastal disasters science. The resilience perspective shifts policies from those that aspire to control change in systems assumed to be stable, to managing the capacity of socialecological systems to cope with, adapt to, and shape change berkes et al. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping social ecological systems. The resilience alliance ra is a research organization comprised of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social ecological systems.
Resilience in socialecological systems socialecological systems, or systems where ecosystems and humans are inextricably linked, are facing unpredictable pressures and shocks due to global change and unsustainable human use of resources chapin et al. Building resilience for complexity cambridge university press expectation that dynamics of socialecological systems will have multiple. Applying resilience thinking stockholm resilience centre. To explain this, we first scrutinize the meanings, attributes, and uses of resilience in ecology and elsewhere to construct a typology of definitions. While still based on resilience as a valueless, emergent property of complex systems, socialecological resilience additionally introduces an emphasis on navigating the complexity, uncertainty, and change in coupled systemsin other words, societys ability to manage system resilience in a humandominated biosphere berkes et al. Download spatial resilience in socialecological systems pdf. Pdf resilience, adaptability and transformability in. Coverage moves from concepts through models, methods and case study analysis, to central issues in the further development of the field.
A social ecological perspective daniel stokols, raul p. This article presents the origin of the resilience perspective and provides an overview of its development to date. Integrated systems of people and nature, socalled socialecological systems, also fall into this category. Dec 26, 2016 the concept of spatial resilience has brought a new focus on the influence of multiscale processes on the dynamics of ecosystems. Being complex and adaptive, they are far from being machines that you can take apart and investigate the pieces to understand the whole, jon norberg explains. This book synthesizes the core concepts and applications of spatial resilience to the study of socialecological systems. Jun 15, 2011 landscape ecology has a high potential to contribute to sustainability in the interactions of people and nature. The framework for a resilience assessment is constructed around the concept of a socialecological system. Several of the authors of the special issue on resilience in socialecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. A resilience approach has guided the development of this workinprogress procedure for assessing resilience in socialecological systems sess. Approximately 120 people participated in this event, and around 100 presentations were given. Spatial resilience offers a new way of looking at spatial phenomena in social ecological systems, but it does not require overthrowing or.
There are two elements in examining the applicability of. Week date reading presenter treats provider 1 th, jan 4 introduction to course, module 1 paper presentation. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems book. The emergence of a perspective for socialecological systems analyses.
Socialecological resilience thinking in environmental. Socialecological systems are complex, and complex systems are, well, complex. Culturally grounded indicators of resilience in socialecological systems eleanor sterling, tamara ticktin, te kipa kepa morgan, georgina cullman. Jun 15, 2017 this editorial, and the papers in the invited feature that it introduces, discuss three emerging themes in social. The word itself suggests that perhaps this discipline is already well beyond the grasp of ordinary mortals. The workshop laid the groundwork for the development of a socialecological urban analysis and mobile app within coastal resilience. The body of knowledge developed by the ra encompasses key concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability and. Scott thomas 2,3 1 the tauri group, llc, 6361 walker lane, suite 100, alexandria, va 22310, usa 2 stetson engineers inc. Exploring resilience in socialecological systems through. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems pdf free download. Resilience is often promoted as a boundary concept to integrate the social and natural dimensions of sustainability. Jan 25, 20 resilience in social ecological systems.
Three related attributes of socialecological systems sess determine their future trajectories. A heuristic model that portrays an endogenously driven fourphase cycle of social ecological systems and other complex adaptive systems. Socialecological systems emphasize the humansinnature perspective in which ecosystems are integrated with human society. Resilience in socialecological systems has received a considerable amount of attention in the last 710 years walker et al. Leaders in the field outline seven principles for building resilience in social ecological systems, examining how these can be applied to advance sustainability. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems request pdf. Spatial resilience in socialecological systems graeme s. The concept of resilience is central in this context. The authors of resilience in socialecological systems. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping socialecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked socialecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. Resilience of socialecological systems ecology and society. Initial ideas about spatial resilience focused on coral reefs and emphasized escalating anthropogenic disturbances across the broader seascape.
Cumming spatial resilience in socialecological systems 1. Resilience of a system needs to be considered in terms of the attributes that govern the systems dynamics. This perspective resonated with a new awareness of global drivers of change, such as growth in international trade and. Holling 1973 defined ecosystem resilience as the amount of disturbance a system can absorb and yet remain within the same state or domain of. Resilience of socialecological systems rem 660, simon fraser university spring 2018 mon 2. Global environmental changehuman and policy dimensions 163. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and. Response diversity and resilience in socialecological systems. It involves a stakeholderdriven description of the system and the issues, leading to a limited set of scenarios that capture the major uncertainties in the system s future dynamics. Assessing and managing resilience in socialecological. Models and field studies steve carpenter center for limnology, university of wisconsinmadison steve. Steve carpenter overviews the major concepts and historical evolution of resilience thinking.
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