Research, part of a Special Feature on A Framework for Analyzing, Comparing, and Diagnosing Social-Ecological Systems Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems

By Claudia R. Binder, Jochen Hinkel, Pieter W. G. Bots, C. Pahl‐Wostl. 2013

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In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks seem to have emerged from the need for concepts that permit structured, interdisciplinary reasoning about complex problems in social-ecological systems, they differ significantly with respect to contextual and structural criteria, such as conceptualization of the ecological and social systems and their interrelation. It appears that three main criteria suffice to produce a classification of frameworks that may be used as a decision tree when choosing a framework for analysis. These criteria are (i) whether a framework conceptualizes the relationship between the social and ecological systems as being uni- or bidirectional; (ii) whether it takes an anthropocentric or an ecocentric perspective on the ecological system; and (iii) whether it is an action-oriented or an analysis-oriented framework.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Management Science and Operations Research

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Bringing Technology into Social-Ecological Systems Research—Motivations for a Socio-Technical-Ecological Systems Approach (2019, background): “, these approaches “differ significantly in their goal, their disciplinary background, their applicability, the temporal, social, and spatial scale addressed, and their conceptualization of the social and ecological systems as well as their interaction”, and there is little guidance on how to apply ”
A review of the social-ecological systems framework: applications, methods, modifications, and challenges (2018, background): “However, with these broad and often ambiguous goals, SES scholarship has become diverse and pluralistic (Miller et al. 2008, Binder et al. 2013, Partelow and Winkler 2016).”
Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches (2018, background): “This positioning forms the implicit conceptual point of departure for SES research (Bodin and Tengö 2012, Binder et al. 2013, Cumming 2014, Schlüter et al. 2014, Schoon and van der Leeuw 2015).”
Impacts of large‐scale forest restoration on socioeconomic status and local livelihoods: what we know and do not know (2016, background): “Even though several interdisciplinary frameworks have already been proposed to understand social-ecological systems (SES) and the connections between the production of ecosystem services and human well-being (Bodin & Teng€o 2012, Binder et al. 2013, Bennett et al. 2015), none of them address FLR.”