Social-Ecological Systems Governance: From Paradigm to Management Approach

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki Frantzeskaki ◽  
Jill Slinger ◽  
Heleen Vreugdenhil ◽  
Els van Daalen
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological

This article presents the reframing of flood management practices in the light of social-ecological systems governance. It presents an exploratory theoretical analysis of social-ecological systems (SES) governance complemented by insights from case study analysis. It identifies a mismatch between the goals of the underlying ecosystem paradigms and their manifestation in management practice. The Polder Altenheim case study is an illustration of the consequences of flood management practices that do not match their underlying paradigm. The article recommends two institutional arrangements that will allow institutions to increase their capacity to co-evolve with SES dynamics: (a) institutional arrangements to ensure and enable openness in actor participation, and (b) institutional arrangements to enable updating of the management practices in response to SES dynamics.

scholarly journals A multi-method approach to study robustness of social–ecological systems: the case of small-scale irrigation systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO A. JANSSEN ◽  
JOHN M. ANDERIES
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Irrigation Systems ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Small Scale Irrigation ◽  
Method Approach

Abstract:Elinor Ostrom was a leader in using multiple methods to perform institutional analysis. In this paper, we discuss how a multi-method approach she pioneered may be used to study the robustness of social–ecological systems. We synthesize lessons learned from a series of studies on small-scale irrigation systems in which we use case-study analysis, experimental methods in laboratory and field settings, and mathematical models. The accumulated insights show the importance of creating institutional arrangements that fit the human ecology within the biophysical constraints of the system. The examples of work based on multiple methods approaches presented here highlight several lessons. For example, experimental work helps us better understand the details of how the ability to maintain trust relationships, low levels of inequality, and low transaction costs of coordination are critical for success. Likewise, the integration of case-study analysis and modeling helps us better understand how systems that can leverage biophysical characteristics to help address challenges of monitoring, sanctioning, and coordination may be able to increase their chances of success.

scholarly journals Water ethics, justice, and equity in social-ecological systems conservation: lessons from the Queensland Wild Rivers Act

Water Policy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 933-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameer H. Shah ◽  
Lucy Rodina
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Water Ethics ◽  
Natural Rivers

Abstract The protection of natural rivers and watersheds face important concerns related to environmental (in)justice and (in)equity. Using the Queensland Wild Rivers Act as a case study, we advocate that ethical water governance attends to multiple and diverse values, specifically in ways that: (i) locate them within stakeholders' claims of inequality that emerge from a given or practiced water ethic; and (ii) historicize and understand them as resonating or reflecting natural resource management frameworks that have led to structural injustices. This approach, combined with adaptive co-governance, can contribute to more inclusive water ethics and even support reflexive spaces where radical change in social-ecological resource governance can be imagined.

Exuberant Life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William H. Durham
Keyword(s):  
Human Impact ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Marine Iguanas ◽  
Systems Framework

Why is Galápagos so endlessly fascinating, whether to read about, to visit, or both? Reasons include its menagerie of truly unusual organisms (like tree daisies, marine iguanas, and flightless cormorants), its relatively low human impact (most of its endemic biodiversity is still extant), and its unrivalled role in the history of science ever since Charles Darwin. Exuberant Life offers a contemporary synthesis of what is known about the evolution of the curiously wonderful organisms of Galápagos, of how they are faring in the tumultuous world of human-induced change, and how evolution can guide efforts today for their conservation. In eight case-study chapters, the book looks at each organism’s ancestry, at how and when it came to Galápagos, and how and why it changed since its arrival, all with an eye to its conservation today. Such analysis often provides surprises and suggestions not previously considered, like the potential benefits to joint conservation efforts with tree daisies and tree finches, for example, or ways that a new explanation for peculiar behaviors in Nazca and blue-footed boobies can benefit both species today. In each chapter, a social-ecological systems framework is used, because human influence is always present, and because it allows an explicit link to evolution. We see how the evolutionary fitnesses of Galápagos organisms are now a product of both ecological conditions and human impact, including climate change. Historically, Galápagos has played a central role in the understanding of evolution; what it now offers to teach us about conservation may well prove indispensable for the future of the planet.

scholarly journals Exploring sustainable land use in forested tropical social-ecological systems: A case-study in the Wet Tropics

2019 ◽  
Vol 231 ◽  
pp. 940-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julen Gonzalez-Redin ◽  
Iain J. Gordon ◽  
Rosemary Hill ◽  
J. Gary Polhill ◽  
Terence P. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Wet Tropics

scholarly journals Resource intruders and robustness of social-ecological systems: an irrigation system of Southeast Spain, a case study

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Pérez ◽  
M. A. Janssen ◽  
A. Tenza ◽  
A. Giménez ◽  
A. Pedreño ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Irrigation System ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Southeast Spain

Scale mismatch in social–ecological systems: a Costa Rican case study of spring water management

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Welsh ◽  
Levi Keesecker ◽  
Renée Hill ◽  
Taylor Joyal ◽  
Jan Boll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Spring Water ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Scale Mismatch
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