Commentary : Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: A Handful of Frontiers

Folke, Carl; Haider, L. Jamila; Lade, Steven J.; Norström, Albert V.; Rocha, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102400

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“…The pattern that seems to underlie these concepts applied to urban planning is the incorporation of nature as a central element for the adaptation of cities in the face of climate change, as part of the quest for (re)connection between human needs and the capacity of the biosphere. This interpretation closely resembles the concept of resilience from a socialecological perspective, based on the notion that building resilience not only means adapting or responding to crisis and change, but also to transforming social-ecological systems to offer greater sustainability, where resilience is seen as a transformational capacity, involving new ways of planning cities and of conceiving the relationship between the natural and built environments [48,49].…”

Section: Research Approaches In the Urban Environment Involving Diffe...mentioning

confidence: 95%

Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning: A Review of the Contribution of the Concept to Adaptation in Urban Areas

2022

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The effects of climate change have a negative impact on urban areas and projections indicate these impacts will worsen in the coming years. In this context, cities need to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. Potential solutions proposed in the literature for this adaptation include the use of Ecosystem Services. However, of the large volume of publications, few articles provide a structured analysis of the contribution and use of the concept in urban planning and adaptation to climate change. The objective of the present study was to review the literature on the subject and provide a structured analysis of the state of the art, main authors, countries, and references addressing the topic, together with key concepts emerging from this research, and challenges for future studies. Thus, a hybrid method of bibliometric analysis and in-depth reading of key articles held on the Web of Science electronic database was applied. The results revealed a growing scientific interest in the subject, a trend of greater interdisciplinarity in research, use of different evaluation methods, both economic and non-economic, and a systemic perspective that approaches sustainability not only as an environmental problem, but as a complex phenomenon.

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Section: Research Approaches In the Urban Environment Involving Diffe...mentioning

confidence: 95%

Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning: A Review of the Contribution of the Concept to Adaptation in Urban Areas

2022

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“…Others see resilience in terms of adaption and transformation, changing the system in response to shocks and stresses. 23 Here, the phrases 'build back better' or 'leave no-one behind' suggest that disasters and emergencies are not only moments to address vulnerabilities but also to engage with their causes and so addressing inequality and injustice. 24 25 Many also argue that resilience does not exist simply as a system property, but that it has to be built through a process of assemblage of practices and relationships.…”

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“…Others see resilience in terms of adaption and transformation, changing the system in response to shocks and stresses. 23 Here, the phrases ‘build back better’ or ‘leave no-one behind’ suggest that disasters and emergencies are not only moments to address vulnerabilities but also to engage with their causes and so addressing inequality and injustice. 24 25 …”

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“…This engineering view is carried over into some of the more instrumental interpretations used in the global health and development literature, with the image of ‘bouncing back’ from disasters such as pandemics being central. Others see resilience in terms of adaption and transformation, changing the system in response to shocks and stresses 23. Here, the phrases ‘build back better’ or ‘leave no-one behind’ suggest that disasters and emergencies are not only moments to address vulnerabilities but also to engage with their causes and so addressing inequality and injustice 24 25…”

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What is ‘community resilience’? Responding to COVID-19 in rural Zimbabwe

Bwerinofa¹,

Mahenehene²,

Manaka³

et al. 2022

BMJ Glob Health

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Based on real-time recording and reflection of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this article identifies the features of ‘community resilience’ across sites in rural Zimbabwe. The findings confirm the importance of local knowledge, social networks and communication, as highlighted in the literature. In addition, a number of other aspects are emphasised, including the importance of adaptable livelihoods, innovation and collective learning. Flexible adaptation was especially important for responding to lockdowns, as livelihoods had to be reconfigured in response to public health measures. Meanwhile, innovation and shared learning was vital for generating local treatment responses to the disease. In the Zimbabwe context, these adaptation and innovation capabilities emerge from a particular historical experience where resilience in the face of harsh economic conditions and in the absence of state support has been generated over years. This is often a more resigned coping than a positive, empowering, transformational form of resilience. While adaptation, innovation and shared learning capabilities proved useful during the pandemic, they are not evenly spread, and there is no singular ‘community’ around which resilience emerges. The article therefore argues against seeing ‘community resilience’ as the magic bullet for disaster preparedness and response in the context of pandemics. Instead, the highly differentiated local practices of adaptation, innovation and shared learning—across gender, age and wealth differences—should be seen as an important complement to public, state-led support in health emergencies and so are part of a wider, plural health system.

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“…This perspective implies more than just one equilibrium for a supply chain system (Folke, 2006;Walker 2020), and emphasizes the ability to adapt and transform the system in an unpredictable disruptive environment (Wieland, 2021). The application of the social-ecological perspective to this field is still in an early stage of development (Adobor, 2020) but represents an ongoing frontier of discovery (Flynn et al, 2020;Folke et al, 2021).…”

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Service supply chain resilience: a social-ecological perspective on last-mile delivery operations

Lin

Chen

Zhong

et al. 2022

IJOPM

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PurposeConsidering the last-mile delivery service supply chain as a social-ecological system rather than just a firm-based service system, this research exploit the COVID-19 pandemic disruption to investigate how the supply chain develops resilience from a viewpoint that integrates a social-ecological perspective with the traditional engineering one.Design/methodology/approachThis research adopt a multi-case study approach using qualitative data collected via semi-structured interviews with executive-level managers from nine leading UK last-mile delivery companies. Data analysis is guided by a research framework which is developed by combining the social-ecological perspective with the structure–conduct–performance paradigm. This framework aids the investigation of the impacts of external challenges on companies' resilience strategies and practices, as well as performance, in response to disruptions.FindingsThe research identifies three distinct pathways to resilience development: stabilization, focussing on bouncing back to the original normal; adaptation, involving evolutionary changes to a new normal; transformation, involving revolutionary changes in pursuit of a new normal-plus. Three strategic orientations are identified as operating across these pathways: people orientation, digital orientation, and learning orientation.Originality/valueIn contrast to the manufacturing supply chain focus of most current research, this research concentrates on the service supply chain, investigating its resilience with a social-ecological perspective alongside the traditional engineering one.

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Commentary : Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: A Handful of Frontiers

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning: A Review of the Contribution of the Concept to Adaptation in Urban Areas

Ecosystem Services and Urban Planning: A Review of the Contribution of the Concept to Adaptation in Urban Areas

What is ‘community resilience’? Responding to COVID-19 in rural Zimbabwe

Service supply chain resilience: a social-ecological perspective on last-mile delivery operations

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