Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications

By Simon A. Levin, T. Xepapadeas, A. Crépin, J. Norberg, A. de Zeeuw, Carl Folke, Terry P. Hughes, Kenneth J. Arrow, Scott Barrett, Gretchen Daily and 7 more. Environment and Development Economics, 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Safety Research

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Traps and Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: A Review (2018, background): “Both the broad and in-depth reviews are structured using a Social-Ecological Systems (SES) framework, which assumes that social and ecological dynamics interact as a complex adaptive system (Folke et al., 2010; Levin et al., 2013).”
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches (2018, background): “…The dynamic interactions that constitute CAS and their relations with the environment are nonlinear, which means that the magnitude of a system’s outputs cannot be measured in direct proportionality to the magnitude of its causes (Prigogine and Stengers 1984, Holling 2001, Levin et al. 2013).”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “Such approaches tend to view the concepts ‘social’ and ‘ecological’ as referring to different types of substance, entity, or component, that subsequently interact to produce emergent social-ecological outcomes (Berkes et al. 2003; Levin et al. 2013; Schlüter et al. 2019).”
Mapping social–ecological systems: Identifying ‘green-loop’ and ‘red-loop’ dynamics based on characteristic bundles of ecosystem service use (2015, background): “However, given that social–ecological systems are complex adaptive systems (Levin et al., 2013), we expect that these”
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “An emerging research area of complex adaptive socioecological systems might provide insights to identify key leverage points and understand connections between actors, norms, rules, and other system dynamics (151).”
Navigating the adaptive cycle: an approach to managing the resilience of social systems (2015, background): “Memory in a system is retained if a system has high modularity (Biggs et al. 2012), which helps to prevent failure from penetrating all aspects of system function (May et al. 2008, Levin et al. 2013).”
Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability (2020, background): “…conceptualizations of transformative change identified by the experts (Chan et al., 2019): ● Complexity theory and leverage points of transformation (Levin et al., 2013; Liu et al., 2007; Meadows, 2009); ● Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social–ecological systems (Berkes,…”
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk (2015, background): “A core idea found in both CAS theory and sociology is emergence—the spontaneous formation of a self-organized order out of chaos (Kauffman 1993, Prigogine & Stengers 1984).”