Social-Ecological Systems Insights for Navigating the Dynamics of the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23319652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Belinda Reyers (0000-0002-2194-8656, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Carl Folke (0000-0002-4050-3281, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), Michele-Lee Moore (0000-0002-8837-524X, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden), Michele‐Lee Moore (Stockholm Resilience Centre), Reinette Biggs (0000-0003-0300-4149, Stockholm Resilience Centre), Victor Galaz (0000-0002-7303-8849, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 267-289 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Environment and Resources (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1543-5938 • E-ISSN: 1545-2050 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085349 |
| OpenAlex | W2884987576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 195 |
Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four insights from contemporary SES literature on ( a) intertwined SES, ( b) cross-scale dynamics, ( c) systemic tipping points, and ( d) transformational change are explored. Based on these insights, shifts in sustainable development practice are suggested to recognize and govern the complex and codeveloping social and ecological aspects of development challenges. The potential susceptibility of SES to nonlinear systemic reconfigurations is highlighted, as well as the opportunities, agency, and capacities required to foster reconfigurative transformations for sustainable development. SES research proposes the need for diverse values and beliefs that are more in tune with the deep, dynamic connections between social and ecological systems to transform development practice and to support capacities to deal with shocks and surprises. From these perspectives, SES research offers new outlooks, practices, and novel opportunity spaces from which to address the challenges of the Anthropocene.
Agency (philosophy) · Anthropocene · Biology · Ecological systems theory · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Transformational leadership · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Ecology · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
Transformation of social‐ecological systems in the Songhua River Basin, Northeast China
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes
Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development
Towards a transformative governance of the Amazon
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems
Wayfinder
Praying for rain, resilience, and social stability in Murcia (southeast Spain)
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond
Fostering urban transformations in Latin America
Institutions and the resilience of biobased production systems
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded
The social dynamics of basins of attraction
Millennial Evolution of a Karst Socio-Ecological System
Anthropocene Dynamics in the Prehistoric Pacific
Volume 25, Número 2
Aprendendo a viver no Antropoceno
Dimensiones de valor pluralistas de los servicios ecosistémicos como una oportunidad hacia la transdisciplina
Sustainability Science
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability
Climate change induced socio-economic tipping points
Modeling social norms in social-ecological systems
Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience
Boundaries of the future
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism
Sustainable Ecosystem Services of a Time-Honored Artificial River Ecosystem—Enlightenments from the Carp Brook, in Northern Fujian Province, China
Colonize the desert vs. retreat to the mountains
The ‘Anthropocene Proposal’
The Threshold Effect of Urban Levels on Environmental Collaborative Governance
Can Inbound Tourism Improve Regional Ecological Efficiency? An Empirical Analysis from China
Understanding variation in sustainable development goal relationships across spatial scales matters for making consistent priorities
Both adaptive and transformative capacities are necessary to navigate global polycrisis
Planetary Caatingization
Unlocking the potential of boundary crossing research to address sustainability challenges
Linking coastal environmental and health observations for human wellbeing
Shock and place
Identification and Revitalization Strategies of Rural Regional System Types Based on Human‐Land Coupling
Engaging Environmental Education Through Pisa
Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning
Mitigating natural hazards through optimization of China’s ecological conservation redline
Deepening the Conversation on Systemic Sustainability Risks
Do social and ecological indicators have the same effect on the subjective well-being of residents
Structural Power Dynamics in Polycentric Water Governance Networks
Learning from past coevolutionary processes to envision sustainable futures
The science of mitigation
The map is not the territory
Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability
Reimagining alternative socioecological futures
Exploring different framings of nature-based solutions with respect to governance, and citizen participation, beneficiaries, and quality of life outcomes
Systems literacy
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept
Unity in diversity
Commentary
Sustainability transformations
Social protection and resilience
Keeping Each Other Safe
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
Shaping a resilient future in response to Covid-19
The contributions of resilience to reshaping sustainable development
Advancing eco-social strategic management
Agricultural land system transition based on resilience and vitality
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science
Immediate and cumulative stresses associated with the multiscale impacts of ecotourism on ecological status and resilience
Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways
Transforming sustainability science for practice
Cognition and behavior in context
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems
Interrelated transformative process dynamics in the face of resource nexus challenges
The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability
The Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society
The programme on ecosystem change and society (Pecs) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
‘Bunkering down’
Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany
Coastal fisheries adaptations to increasing climate change exposure in Japan
Satoumi
From the land to socio-ecological systems
River and watershed organizations in the U.S. Intermountain West
Social-ecological system approaches for water resources management
Digital technologies in ethnobiology and ethnoecology
Adaptation in the Scientific Method
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice
Exploring the dynamics of supply chain sustainability and resilience in the coconut agriculture
Untangling the coupling relationships between socio-economy and eco-environment in arid inland river basin
A scoping review of the development resilience literature
Archetype analysis of land governance
Navigating local environment and scientific knowledge in dryland social-ecological systems through linking ecological policy-household interactions with land surface dynamics
Evaluating the sustainability of rural territorial system with a social-ecological system framework
Systemic and explicit approaches to assessing the impact of natural and human drivers on the co-evolution of social-ecological systems in the Heihe River Basin, China
Resilience
Regenerating the food system
Resilience and regeneration for a world in crisis
Rethinking resilience and development
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems
Hitchhikers on floats to Arctic freshwater
Pathways to sustainable futures
Intersecting security, equity, and sustainability for transformation in the Anthropocene
Using long-term data to inform a decision pathway for restoration of ecosystem resilience
Insights from social-ecological systems thinking for understanding and preventing famine
Aristotle in the Anthropocene
The Great Mindshift
The Archipelago of Social Ecology and the Island of the Vienna School
Global Change and the Earth System
Dynamic Sustainabilities
The changing landscape
Policy
Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources
Early-warning signals for critical transitions
Is resilience a useful concept in the context of food security and nutrition programmes? Some conceptual and practical considerations
Nature experience reduces rumination and subgenual prefrontal cortex activation
Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change
A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation
Power in Sustainability Transitions
The Network of Global Corporate Control
Navigating the transition to ecosystem-based management of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health
Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security
Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
Systems integration for global sustainability
Environmental Governance for the Anthropocene? Social-Ecological Systems, Resilience, and Collaborative Learning
Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions
Navigating complexity through knowledge coproduction
Transformative Environmental Governance
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems
High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia
Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management
Globally networked risks and how to respond
Adaptive co‐management for social–ecological complexity
Changing Regimes of Workplace Governance, Shifting Axes of Social Mobilization, and the Challenge to Industrial Relations Theory
Getting the measure of ecosystem services
Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Bright spots
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources
Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?
International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations
Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems
Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital
Evaluating taboo trade-offs in ecosystems services and human well-being
Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being
Adaptive capacity and learning to learn as leverage for social–ecological resilience
Measuring and assessing resilience
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
Emergence, institutionalization and renewal
Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services
Determinants of woody cover in African savannas
Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
Defining the Anthropocene
Global Consequences of Land Use
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Planetary boundaries
Managing Transboundary Crises
Agency, Capacity, and Resilience to Environmental Change
Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research
Opportunities and limitations to detect climate-related regime shifts in inland Arctic ecosystems through eco-hydrological monitoring
Transformational capacity and the influence of place and identity
Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship
Off-stage ecosystem service burdens
Dossier
Regime shifts and management
Bridging ecological and social systems coevolution
Development betrayed. The end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future
Coevolutionary ecological economics
A systems perspective on the interrelations between natural, human-made and cultural capital
Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas
Essential Variables help to focus Sustainable Development Goals monitoring
Fostering collaboration for knowledge and action in disaster management in South Africa
Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being
Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability
The Ipbes Conceptual Framework — connecting nature and people
Integration
Human responses to social-ecological traps
Configuring transformative governance to enhance resilient urban water systems
Sustainable development
Social–ecological traps and transformations in dryland agro-ecosystems
Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response
Using social–ecological syndromes to understand impacts of international seafood trade on small-scale fisheries
Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems
The importance of social drivers in the resilient provision of ecosystem services
A social contract with the ancestors—Culture and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar
The globalization of socio-ecological systems
Mapping social–ecological systems
The role of social networks in natural resource governance
Introducing Resilience Practice to Watershed Groups
Linking Globalization to Local Land Uses
Leverage points for sustainability transformation
Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance
Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability
The Anthropocene
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Tipping Toward Sustainability
Resilience and Sustainable Development
Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises
Informing adaptation responses to climate change through theories of transformation
Subjectivity and the politics of transformation in response to development and environmental change
Response Diversity and Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Collaborative Networks for Effective Ecosystem‐Based Management
Governance and Complexity—Emerging Issues for Governance Theory
The Historical Dynamics of Social-Ecological Traps
| Unique citing works | 100 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 82 |