Social transformability is essential to move from a less desired trajectory into one where the capacity to manage ecosystems sustainably for human wellbeing is strengthened. A quantifiable framework for adapting to change meha jain abstract a majority of the literature discussing human adaptation to climate change in socialecological systems has not been quantitative in nature. It is also critical in navigating the larger sociopolitical and economic environment for resilience of the new socialecological system. Vulnerability and resilience of socialecological systems. Ecology and society formerly conservation ecology is a quarterly open access interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the resilience alliance. A representation of a system increasing resilience capacity, in which the difference between the two states being assessed is minimal and the system is reinforcing. Some began as localscale solutions and then developed as transformations across scales from local to regional kristianstad and northern wisconsin. Transformability refers to fundamentally altering the nature of a system. Water rats resilience, adaptability, and transformability in lake and wetland socialecological systems. Davies, pe, lefroy, ec, mitchell, m and clement, s 2014, governance design for adaptation and transformation in socialecological systems, paper presented at the third international science and policy conference on the resilience of social and ecological systems, may 2014, montpellier, france. Information about the openaccess article resilience, adaptability and transformability in socialecological systems in doaj. Navigating towards social ecological resilience and triggering deliberate transformations in coupled social ecological systems sess has become a priority in contemporary approaches to conservation, management, and sustainability science. Helping stakeholders assess the current resilience status of their systems is crucial for better decision making and monitoring of desired goals, especially since the. Krasny, cecilia lundholm and ryan plummer present the special issue on resilience in socialecological systems.
Resilience in this context is the capacity of a ses to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. Interdisciplinarity and social ecological systems resilience. Managing socio ecological systems to achieve sustainability. Resilience the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks has. Resilience, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and social. 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. Adaptability and transformability as prerequisites for ses resilience socialecological resilience is about people and nature as interdependent systems. The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of socialecological systems. This means basic concepts from resilience engineering may conflict with those from other related. The concept of resilience in ecological systems was first introduced by the canadian ecologist c. 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.
Assessing and managing resilience in socialecological. May 17, 2011 socialecological resilience thinking as a bridging concept in transdisciplinary research on climatechange adaptation. Exploring resilience in socialecological systems, csiro. It enables people to develop strategies that either enhances the resilience of an existing system, so that it can absorb and recover. Socialecological systems emphasize the humansinnature perspective in which ecosystems are integrated with human society. Water rats resilience, adaptability, and transformability in lake and wetland socialecological systems lance h. In a ses, adaptability is the collective capacity of the human actors in the system to manage resilience. Mcallister, per olsson and paul ryan 5 water rats resilience, adaptability, and transformability in lake and wetland socialecological systems. A resilience approach treats biophysical, social, and economic elements of a region as components of a single socialecological system ses. Sep 14, 2011 the theme of the conference was capturing the complexity of the commons. Socialecological systems resilience is a topic of interest for academics and practitioners due to the extensive and rapid global changes and other stressors that threaten both ecosystem services and human wellbeing. In practice many people still use the term resilience in the. Socialecological resilience thinking as a bridging concept.
Resilience is linked to dynamics of social systems such as adaptability and transformability policy strategy to ensure sustainability of natural resources and human communities vulnerability focuses on exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity policy strategies that emphasize assets of communities that will enhance adaptability. Adapting a social ecological resilience framework for food systems jennifer hodbod corresponding author postdoctoral fellow, walton sustainability solutions initiatives, julie ann wrigley global institute of sustainability, arizona state university, po box 875204, tempe, az 852875402, usa. There is a major distinction between resilience and adaptability, on the one hand, and transformability on the other. Resilience, adaptability, and transformability in the goulburnbroken catchment, australia. The papers that were invited for this special issue addressed the theme of resilience and adaptation in the governance of socialecological 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 some particular region. Ecology and society 154 find, read and cite all the. Resilience, and related concepts of adaptation and adaptive capacity and transformation and transformability are not easily quantified the dynamic concepts upon which they are. Resilience, sustainability and transformability of cities. Exploring resilience and transformability of a river basin in the. Addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct michael ungar dalhousie university more than two decades after e. System resilience is used in varying context that is always evolving and can be an imprecise concept. Operationalization and measurement of socialecological. Adaptability is the capacity of the social components in a system to manage ecological resilience walker et al.
The concept of resilience in complex adaptive social ecological systems ses provides a relatively novel way of thinking about change at all scale levels from the local to the global. Resilience, adaptability, and transformability in the. A cornerstone of undps work in building nations that can withstand crisis slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Culturally grounded indicators of resilience in social. This is true for local communities and their surrounding ecosystems, but the great acceleration of human activities on.
Water rats resilience, adaptability, and transformability. Different interpretations of what is meant by resilience, however, cause confusion. Vulnerability and resilience of social ecological systems rihn research project e04 research institute for humanity and nature rihn interuniversity research institute corporation, national institutes for the humanities. Insight, part of special feature on exploring resilience in socialecological systems. This interdisciplinary, graduatelevel seminar will provide an in depth exploration of the concept of resilience, both in theory and in practice. Resilience adaptability and transformability in social. The authors explore the role of education and learning in helping social ecological systems. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in socialecological systems article in ecology and society 92 december 2004 with 1,328 reads how we measure reads. An introduction to the resilience, adaptation pathways and. Resilience of a system needs to be considered in terms of the attributes that govern the systems dynamics. Resilience and adaptation in the governance of social. In all of them, the outcomes were determined by the interplay of their resilience, adaptability, and transformability. Resilience adaptability and transformability in social free download as pdf file. 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.
Here, we focus on six broad domains of social factors that create resilience to socialecological change, often referred to as adaptive capacity. Although the system as a whole selforganizes without intent, the capacities and intent of the human actors strongly influence the resilience and the trajectory of the ses. The authors of resilience in social ecological systems. Complex adaptive systems are characterised by crossscale nonlinear interactions and feedback loops between the ecological and socioeconomic components and they present stable dynamics characterised by three complementary attributes. Resilience is a property of these linked social ecological systems ses. Resilience has been defined in two ways in ecological literature. A resilience thinking approach tries to investigate how these interacting systems of people and nature or socialecological systems can best be managed to ensure a sustainable and resilient supply of the essential ecosystem services on which humanity depends. Adaptability and transformability for resilience of social. It emphasizes the capacity of a ses to continue delivering goods and services to people, and the tradeoffs associated with being in different regimes. The body of knowledge developed by the ra encompasses key concepts of resilience, adaptability and transformability and provides a foundation for sustainable development policy and practice.
Holling in order to describe the persistence of natural systems in the face of changes in ecosystem variables due to natural or anthropogenic causes. Its usage has evolved over time to encompass socialecological systems interwoven systems of human societies and ecosystems. Human actions influence resilience, either intentionally or. In resilience work adaptability is referred to as the capacity of people in a socialecological system to build resilience through collective action whereas transformability is the capacity of people to create a fundamentally new socialecological system when ecological, political, social, or economic conditions make the existing system. However, their measurement systems may be poorly aligned with local contexts, cultures, and needs. Ra members are leaders in the ecological and social sciences, covering a range of disciplinary expertise. The framework for a resilience assessment is constructed around the concept of a socialecological system. Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Resilience, climate change, and business as usual conservation in ecology, the concept of resilience was used to refer to recovery from disturbance. In a following essay, i explain what we can learn from theoretical and empirical academic work concerning how such complex socialecological systems can be governed. Models and field studies steve carpenter center for limnology, university of wisconsinmadison steve. Resilience and adaptability have to do with the dynamics of a particular system, or a closely related set of systems. Despite this, the extent to which resilience theory is applied to realworld management and decisionmaking remains in its infancy. May 18, 2018 in this essay, we tried to understand how interdisciplinary thinking has helped us better understand the complexities associated with earths socialecological systems.
Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social ecological systems ses. Csiro to develop a framework to identify indicators to assess resilience of socialecological systems. Understanding the social factors that can help build or undermine resilience in socialecological systems is an ongoing research agenda. The unesco biosphere reserve program in australia and canada by kate a. Commission members established the iucn cem resilience thematic group to clarify the concept of resilience with respect to simple and complex systems in operational terms, and to demonstrate the value of tools for resilience based natural resource stewardship, disaster risk reduction and ecosystembased adaptation. Resilience is a word found in nearly a dozen academic disciplines, yet there is no consistent definition or approach shared among them. Water rats resilience, adaptability, and transformability in lake and wetland socialecological systems article pdf available in ecology and society 111 june 2006 with 1,503 reads. Adaptability, transformability, and learning adaptability and transformability are related terms that contrast degrees of change in socialecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience perspective and provides an overview of its development to date. Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social. It covers an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the lifesupporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends. When resilience is enhanced, a system is more likely to tolerate disturbance events without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. Adapting a socialecological resilience framework for food. Pdf resilience, adaptability and transformability in social.
Cities can be understood as complexadaptive systems that have the opportunity to manage their resilience towards sustainability through processes of transformation. Governance design for adaptation and transformation in. Socialecological resilience and sociotechnical transitions. A social ecological perspective daniel stokols, raul p. Resilience of a system needs to be considered in terms of the attributes that govern the system s dynamics. Putting this definition in the context of stability landscapes. For the purpose of resource management, resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. Resilience library resilience engineering institute.
Adaptability and transformability as prerequisites for ses resilience social ecological resilience is about people and nature as interdependent systems. Part ii focuses on the legal dimensions of watershed governance that directly relate to ecological resilience and transformability of the socialecological systems and synthesizes the results of the basin assessments to advance the understanding of the role of law and governance as a trigger, facilitator, or barrier to adaptation and. Exploring resilience in socialecological systems through. Ecological systems ses and threaten their existence in the long term. Anderies, thomas elmqvist, henrik ernstson, ryan r. Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability author carl folke, stephen r.
Pdf resilience, adaptability and transformability in. The social ecological systems approach is one that recognizes the interactive nature of humannatural world activities, and thus recognizes in interdependence of people and nature. Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex socialecological systems ses. Carpenter 2, carl folke 3, per olsson 4 and garry peterson 5. Enhancing the resilience of humanenvironment systems. Three related attributes of socialecological systems sess determine their future trajectories. Social dimensions of resilience in socialecological systems. Approximately 120 people participated in this event, and around 100 presentations were given. Moreover, we provide some examples of ethnobiological studies that sought to understand the resilience of socialecological systems. Resilience thinking integrating resilience, adaptability. In this chapter, we present the concepts of resilience and adaptation, aiming to provide a scenario for ethnobiological studies that seek to investigate how socialecological systems respond to disturbances.
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