Toward a network perspective of the study of resilience in social-ecological systems

By Marco A. Janssen, Ö. Bodin, J. Marty Anderies, T. Elmqvist, H. Ernstson, R. McALLISTER, P. Olsson, Paul Ryan. 2006

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Formal models used to study the resilience of social-ecological systems have not explicitly included important structural characteristics of this type of system. In this paper, we propose a network perspective for social-ecological systems that enables us to better focus on the structure of interactions between identifiable components of the system. This network perspective might be useful for developing formal models and comparing case studies of social-ecological systems. Based on an analysis of the case studies in this special issue, we identify three types of social-ecological networks: ( 1) ecosystems that are connected by people through flows of information or materials, ( 2) ecosystem networks that are disconnected and fragmented by the actions of people, and ( 3) artificial ecological networks created by people, such as irrigation systems. Each of these three archytypal social-ecological networks faces different problems that influence its resilience as it responds to the addition or removal of connections that affect its coordination or the diffusion of system attributes such as information or disease.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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Integrating ecological, economic and social aspects to generate useful management information under the EU Directives' ‘ecosystem approach’ (2012, background): “Janssen et al. (2006) reviewed the importance of network analysis as an interdisciplinary tool which in this case was the social-ecological system (SES), while McMahon et al. (2001) provide tips to ecologists and social scientists interested in the use of network analysis.”
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Achieving social-ecological fit through bottom-up collaborative governance: an empirical investigation (2015, background): “A network perspective can been used to describe and analyze diverse patterns of social-ecological interactions (Janssen et al. 2006): Nodes can be used to describe actors and ecological components, and ties can be used to describe social connections, ecological connections, and social-ecological…”
Modelling climate change impacts on marine fish populations: process-based integration of ocean warming, acidification and other environmental drivers (2016, methodology): “using network models 904 (Janssen et al., 2006) or arising from individual actor behaviour in ‘agent-based’ models 905 (Gilbert and Terna, 2000).”
Describing human decisions in agent-based models - ODD + D, an extension of the ODD protocol (2013, background): “For example, trust between agents can be a basis for cooperation (Janssen et al., 2006), or traditional perspectives can represent an alternative strategy to purely economic profit maximisation (Millington et al., 2008) .”
Insight, part of a Special Feature on Managing Surprises in Complex Systems Ecological and Human Community Resilience in Response to Natural Disasters (2010, background): “This natural disaster reveals many of the problems, issues, and challenges facing planners and managers who attempt to understand and manage disasters in human communities (Pelling 2003, Scheffer et al. 2003, Adger et al. 2005, Barthel 2005, Elmqvist et al. 2003, Janssen et al. 2006).”
The Emergent Network Structure of the Multilateral Environmental Agreement System (2013, background): “Future research could also link the institutional network to a network map of global social-ecological systems (e.g., Janssen et al., 2006; Ekstrom and Young, 2009; Ernstson et al., 2010; Stein et al., 2011; Rathwell and Peterson, 2012).”
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The role of social networks in natural resource governance: What relational patterns make a difference? (2009, background): “…there is a need to balance several different and often opposing structural characteristics of social networks in order for them to be effective and efficient in the governance of natural resources (cf. Prell et al., in press; Bodin et al., 2006; Janssen et al., 2006; Frank et al., 2007).”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Adaptation to Global Environmental Change: North and South Perspectives Traditional ecological knowledge among transhumant pastoralists in Mediterranean Spain (2013, background): “The CDR has been characterized as a social-ecological network (sensu Janssen et al. 2006), i.e., an “adaptive network of biophysical and social flows generated and maintained by the movement of shepherds and livestock” (Oteros-Rozas et al. 2012a, p. 243).”
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