Refining the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems Framework for comparative analysis of coastal system adaptation to global change

Anderies, John M.; Barreteau, Olivier; Brady, Ute

doi:10.1007/s10113-019-01529-0

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“…Hence, it fosters anticipatory governance capacity by testing assumptions, understanding interdependencies, and sparking discussions in order to avoid that policy makers acting in their own jurisdiction generate spillovers that modify evolution pathways of related SES or constrain adaptive capacity of other policymakers [35]. Lack of coordination between policy actors across jurisdictions, incomplete analysis of potential cascading effects in complex policy contexts can lead to maladaptation [35]. In this regard, our framework can participate in addressing those challenges a marine park was designed to face, being a social construction that has to build on historical heritage and be invested by new common means in order to reach legitimacy and deliver acceptable sustainable policies.…”

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Hybridizing research and decision-making: a path toward sustainability in marine spaces

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Mosseri

Agin³

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Projecting the combined effect of management options and the evolving climate is necessary to inform shared sustainable futures for marine activities and biodiversity. However, engaging multi-sectoral stakeholders in biodiversity-use scenarios analysis remains a challenge. Using a marine social-ecological case study, we coupled co-designed visioning narratives at the horizon 2050 with an ecosystem-based model. Our analysis revealed a mismatch between the stated vision endpoints at 2050 and the model predictions narrative objectives. However, the discussions that arose from the approach opened the way for previously unidentified transformative pathways. Hybridizing research and decision-making with iterative collaborative modelling frameworks can enhance adaptive management policies, levering paths toward sustainability.

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Hybridizing research and decision-making: a path toward sustainability in marine spaces

Boemare¹,

Mosseri

Agin³

et al. 2022

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“…The initial objective of this work was thus to diagnose the relations between environmental issues (biophysical phenomena) and the organization of public actions through the tracing of the logics of research and development projects. As spatial delimitation is problematic in coastal systems [59], we considered different overlapping spatial scales for knowledge and action, mainly related to water management (lagoon, watershed, karstic aquifer and municipalities).…”

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The Collaborative Process in Environmental Projects, a Place-Based Coevolution Perspective

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Environmental research and management organizations are mutually dependent when it comes to produce and use knowledge in favor of responsible action in an increasingly uncertain world. Still, science and practice interfacing remains a challenge when it comes to implementing and sustaining a collaborative process. In this paper, we develop a descriptive framework to study the coevolution of scientific and planning activities embedded in a territorial system. Scientists and managers dynamically interact through institutional arrangements, operationalization of knowledge and information and communication tools. We propose an approach to systematically document transdisciplinary pathways and characterize the bounding process between organizations on a typical case-study, the coastal Thau territoire (Mediterranean Sea, France). By tracing, illustrating and analyzing coupled trajectories of environmental sciences and planning for the last decades, the Systemic Timeline Multistep methodology tackles cross-fertilization mechanisms. The relational analysis draws on the elaboration of a synchronic timeline to question co-evolution and grasp causal mechanisms of research projects interactions with management pathways. Its application on the Thau territoire shows that scientific activities and public actions shaped each other in a continuous process of interaction. It also gives insights into the contributive roles of long-term place-based research and intermediate organizations for the emergence of new sociotechnical arrangements.

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“…The fourth is an example of using the Robustness Framework to design a tool for framing interactions in stakeholder workshops (Bonté et al 2019). The fifth and last takes a step back and reflects on refining the framework itself on the basis of the experiences of its use by the researchers who applied it to each case study (Anderies et al 2019). The refinement of the framework focuses on improving its suitability for conducting comparative analysis of regional-scale SES dominated by human-made infrastructures.…”

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“…Finally, Anderies et al (2019) build on these examples to refine the Robustness Framework. They focus on better describing possible links between various actors and infrastructures as these links are the mechanism by which to represent interdependencies in real-world systems.…”

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Governance principles for robust and resilient coastal systems in the face of global change

Anderies

Barreteau

2019

Reg Environ Change

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Coastal areas face special challenges resulting from global change. These challenges are related to three distinct features of coastal areas: concentration of environmental impacts, multiple thresholds, and high sensitivity to climate change. River networks and hydrological processes integrate the consequences of land use and human activities that take place over large areas and, as a result, concentrate their impacts in coastal areas. Coastal areas are characterized by numerous sensitive boundaries and thresholds, i.e., the land-water interface, the intersection of saline and freshwater environments, and constrained space for particular land use patterns. Hence, they are especially sensitive to climate change impacts: a small change in sea level has the potential to push the system beyond a critical threshold and induce radical change in the social-ecological system. Further, the stakes for decisionmaking are high: a relatively large proportion of the population lives in coastal areas, real estate is very valuable, they are often biodiversity hot spots, and are home to very productive agro-ecosystems. This creates a high potential for conflict across multiple user groups. Many policymakers are aware of this situation and generate adaptation plans at their jurisdictional levels. However, policymakers acting in their own jurisdiction may generate spillovers that modify evolution pathways of related social-ecological systems or constrain adaptive capacity of other policymakers operating in other jurisdictions. As a consequence, there are several warning signs of John M. Anderies

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Refining the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems Framework for comparative analysis of coastal system adaptation to global change

Cited by 23 publications

References 41 publications

Hybridizing research and decision-making: a path toward sustainability in marine spaces

Hybridizing research and decision-making: a path toward sustainability in marine spaces

The Collaborative Process in Environmental Projects, a Place-Based Coevolution Perspective

Governance principles for robust and resilient coastal systems in the face of global change

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