Towards a Meta-Social-Ecological System Perspective: A Response to Gounand et al.

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 481-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Cyril Renaud ◽  
Fabio de O. Roque ◽  
Franco L. Souza ◽  
Olivier Pays ◽  
François Laurent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological System ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Social Ecological

The concept and classification of tourism land from a social ecological system perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
余中元 YU Zhongyuan ◽  
李波 LI Bo ◽  
张新时 ZHANG Xinshi
Keyword(s):  
Ecological System ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Social Ecological

scholarly journals Operationalising a social–ecological system perspective on the Arctic Ocean

AMBIO ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (S3) ◽  
pp. 475-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Crépin ◽  
Åsa Gren ◽  
Gustav Engström ◽  
Daniel Ospina
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Arctic Ocean

Application of payment for ecosystem services in China’s rangeland conservation initiatives: a social-ecological system perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbo Li ◽  
Mingming Fan ◽  
Wenjun Li
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Basin Of Attraction ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Payment For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Pastoral Systems ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Massive Scale

The Chinese government has adopted Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) as a main approach for preventing or restoring rangelands perceived as undergoing degradation on a massive scale. Using the PES project, known as the ‘retire livestock, restore rangeland’ project in Alxa of Inner Mongolia as an example, the long-term ecological consequences of such projects is assessed, and the causes of the associated problems from the perspective of social-ecological system explored. Study findings demonstrate that PES, as used in the case study area, is unlikely to achieve the expected outcome of rangeland restoration in the long term. The root cause of such failure is that the PES approach focuses on end-point ecosystem services (outputs), while at the same time decoupling the feedbacks among social and ecological systems that are the key to generating such services. This drives the overall social-ecological system into an undesirable basin of attraction. It is concluded that a PES program for pastoral systems should aim to improve resilience of such a coupled social-ecological system to external shocks and changes, instead of simply maintaining ecological services without considering the origins of such services in the inter-relationship of humans and environment. It is argued that ‘Payment for Ecosystem Services’ should be displaced by ‘Payment for Social-ecological System Resilience’ in future policy discussions.

scholarly journals Making Resilient Decisions for Sustainable Circularity of Fashion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celinda Palm ◽  
Sarah E. Cornell ◽  
Tiina Häyhä
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Ecological Impacts ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
State Response ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Industry Value Chain ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

AbstractThe fashion and textiles industry, and policymakers at all levels, are showing an increased interest in the concept of circular economy as a way to decrease business risks and negative environmental impacts. However, focus is placed mainly on the material ‘stuff’ of textile fashion and its biophysical harms. The current material focus has several shortcomings, because fashion is a social-ecological system and cannot be understood merely by addressing its environmental dimensions. In this paper, we rethink the fashion system from a critical social-ecological perspective. The driver-state-response framework shows social drivers and ecological impacts as an adaptive social-ecological system, exposing how these interacting aspects need to be addressed for sustainable and resilient implementation of circular economy. We show how current responses to global sustainability challenges have so far fallen short. Our overall aim is to expand possibilities for reframing responses that better reflect the complex links between the global fashion system, culture and creativity and the dynamics of the living planet. We argue that reducing planetary pressure from the global fashion and textiles industry requires greater recognition of the system’s social drivers with more emphasis on the many cross-scale links between social and ecological dimensions. Resilient decisions aiming for sustainable circularity of the fashion industry must therefore pay attention to social activities beyond the industry value chain, not just material flows within it.

A structured participatory method to support policy option analysis in a social-ecological system

2017 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 360-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Mehryar ◽  
Richard Sliuzas ◽  
Ali Sharifi ◽  
Diana Reckien ◽  
Martin van Maarseveen
Keyword(s):  
Policy Option ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Participatory Method

scholarly journals Managing Herder-Community-Based Tourism: An Institutional Framework for an Integrated Social–Ecological System

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 4001
Author(s):  
Undrakh Zagarkhorloo ◽  
Wim Heijman ◽  
Liesbeth Dries ◽  
Buyanzaya Batjargal
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Social

Improving household livelihoods through tourism, while at the same time achieving the goals of conservation, remains a challenge in high-value nature areas around the world. This paper studies a herder-community-based tourism system in Mongolia in light of these challenges. The social–ecological system (SES) framework was used as a conceptual foundation. The generic SES framework was adapted to the case of the herder-community-based tourism system. The adapted framework was then used to assess the economic, ecological, and social objectives of the herder-community-based tourism system characterised by natural resources and cultural landscapes. Primary data collection included interviews with key informants in the tourism sector: tourism researchers, representatives of donor projects, managers of tour operators, and guides. Based on their responses, the study site was selected in the buffer zone of the Hustai National Park, which is a protected area. Respondents in the second stage of interviews were herders who participate in herder-based tourism and who live in the vicinity of the protected area. Results show that the SES framework is able to diagnose the sustainability of the herder-community-tourism system, but sustainability outcomes indicate an imbalance between social, economic, and environmental performance. The herder-community-based tourism system is successful in conserving wildlife and habitats; however, the distribution of revenues gained from tourism shows that only a small and inequitable share reaches the herder community.

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