Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, and context

Pulver, Simone; Ulibarri, Nicola; Sobocinski, Kathryn L.; Alexander, Steven M.; Johnson, Michelle L.; McCord, Paul; Dell’Angelo, Jampel

doi:10.5751/es-10280-230323

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“…widely used among CPR scholars and found no single framework sufficient to address all CPR-related research questions. Pulver et al (2018) in a follow up study of 6 other frameworks 4 confirmed this result and highlighted a trade-off between generality in theory and context specificity in application. Existing frameworks in the study of CPR governance differ in their conceptualization, goal and applicability, and temporal, social, and spatial scale addressed (Binder et al 2013;Pulver et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Pulver et al (2018) in a follow up study of 6 other frameworks 4 confirmed this result and highlighted a trade-off between generality in theory and context specificity in application. Existing frameworks in the study of CPR governance differ in their conceptualization, goal and applicability, and temporal, social, and spatial scale addressed (Binder et al 2013;Pulver et al 2018). Such differences may result, as McGinnis and Ostrom (2014) noted, from "investment in updating and improving" a framework.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…In response to these challenges, scholars have developed a range of metatheoretical CPR frameworks. These frameworks, constituted by specific worldviews, help interdisciplinary scholars build common vocabularies and shared understandings and thus work together toward CPR goverance theory building and model development (Binder et al 2013;McGinnis and Ostrom 2014;Pulver et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mapping Ostrom’s common-pool resource systems coding handbook to the coupled infrastructure systems framework to enable comparative research

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In the study of common-pool resource (CPR) governance, frameworks provide a metatheoretical language to describe system states, dynamics, elements, and relationships. The coding manuals which accompany CPR frameworks-in addition to providing guidelines for connecting empirical case work to conceptual variables-define a vocabulary of coding questions. For empirical work, connecting variables and coding questions with framework elements contributes to conceptual advance. In the process of analysis and publication, it is tempting to offer a novel framework without also developing, applying, or modifying the foundational questions and variables of coding manuals buttressing said frameworks. However, if the scholarly community is to generate robust knowledge for the study of CPR dilemmas, we must provide the underlying work of comparing across frameworks. In this paper, we report on one way the community might conduct such comparisons. We present results and challenges of using a group consensus process to link the more than 450 coding questions derived from the original Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IADF) to the recently proposed Coupled Infrastructure Systems Framework (CISF). Despite overlap, discrepancies in the conceptual positions of the IADF and CISF suggest a need to modify or create new coding variables related to concepts of system boundaries, externalities, cross-scale interactions, multi-functionality, and technological change. We suggest that such work needs provisioning if commons scholars are to navigate the continued challenges of tailoring frameworks and coding manuals to evolving CPR governance dilemmas.

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“…The authors argued that traditional location-specific studies were unable to pick out the complex cross-system configurations that may underlie human-environment interactions over distances. Further highlighting this tendency to focus on a single location, analytical tools available to social science researchers typically overlook the influences from external systems [40]. For smallholder studies, the integration in the globalized world is often overlooked, and most smallholder perspectives focus on their local context/conditions (place-based) without considering how flows/interactions with external systems affect these location-specific outcomes.…”

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Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

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Increasing connections and influences from near to far have changed social structures, access to natural resources, and essential livelihoods of smallholders (i.e., those with incomes generated primarily from natural resources on small rural properties). However, the potential benefits and negative impacts from these connections to smallholders' livelihoods and social-ecological effects remain understudied. In this paper, we applied the frameworks of pericoupling and telecoupling (human-nature interactions between adjacent and distant systems, respectively) to systematically investigate how the flows linking smallholder systems to other systems affect their livelihoods, and causing varying economic, social, and environmental effects from case to case. We synthesized 12 cases of smallholder systems around the world that are linked to adjacent and distant systems through flows of goods, people, resources, and/or information. In each case, we summarized smallholders' agency, i.e., capability on the formation or operation of these flows, and the changes on livelihoods on the economic, social, and environment effects. Results suggest that strong smallholder agency is associated more with positive than negative effects. Smallholders with medium to high agency have greater overall well-being within the area of interest. Smallholders integrated in pericoupled systems often have strong agency. Being spillover systems in an intercoupled system (e.g., large-scale agricultural investments) can often cause negative outcomes unless smallholders have additional pericoupling flows. Our findings suggest one potential approach to ending poverty and increasing well-being for smallholders is creating and increasing pericoupling flows to empower smallholders for desired livelihood and social-ecological outcomes.

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“…L. Turner et al, 2003;Billie Lee Turner et al, 2003) may provide the most fruitful analytical approach to understanding such interactions, especially in the Anthropocene during which we may face surprises founded on and amplified by the increasingly tight coupling of earth and social systems, more likely to cross thresholds into novel states (Steffen et al, 2015) . However, socio-environmental thinking and theory (Pulver et al, 2018) have yet to be fully applied to understanding extreme events. Further, natural science exploration tends to constrain analysis to the interacting elements on the biophysical side (Gill & Malamud, 2014) , and study of social impacts tend to focus on individual events or hazards (Colten, 2009;Klinenberg, 2003;Kreibich et al, 2014;Meyer et al, 2013) , neglecting the interacting factors that lead to extreme outcomes.…”

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Socio-environmental extremes: rethinking extraordinary events as outcomes of interacting biophysical and social systems

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Iglesias²,

Braswell³

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Extreme droughts, heat waves, fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides cause the largest losses in the United States, and globally, from natural hazards linked to weather and climate. There is evidence that the frequency of such extremes is increasing, particularly for heat waves, large fires, and intense precipitation, making better understanding of the probability and consequences of these events imperative. Further, these events are not isolated, but rather interact with each other, and with social and ecological vulnerability, to amplify impacts. Less is known about the nature and strength of these interactions. Natural and social science subfields frame extreme events with different definitions and analytical approaches, and most analyses neglect interactions and the subsequent novel extremes that can arise. Here we propose a framework for socio-environmental extremes, defined as extraordinary events that emerge from interactions among biophysical and social phenomena and have some degree of social impact. We review how different fields approach extremes as interacting phenomena and propose a synthetic framework for conceptualizing and defining extremes from both an environmental and social perspective. This approach recognizes multiple drivers and responses that yield extreme events and extreme outcomes, and reconciles the gap between understanding extremes as biophysical processes and their social underpinnings and impacts. We conclude with a future research agenda that adds clarity and direction to understanding the extreme events that matter to society. This agenda will help to identify where, when, and why communities may have high exposure and vulnerability to socio- environmental extremes—informing future mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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Frontiers in socio-environmental research: components, connections, scale, and context

Cited by 57 publications

References 60 publications

Mapping Ostrom’s common-pool resource systems coding handbook to the coupled infrastructure systems framework to enable comparative research

Mapping Ostrom’s common-pool resource systems coding handbook to the coupled infrastructure systems framework to enable comparative research

Understanding How Smallholders Integrated into Pericoupled and Telecoupled Systems

Socio-environmental extremes: rethinking extraordinary events as outcomes of interacting biophysical and social systems

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