Resilience (Republished)

Folke, Carl

doi:10.5751/es-09088-210444

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“…Governing metacoupled systems can benefit from the experiences of governing complex systems (Duit and Galaz 2008, Djalante 2012, Folke 2016) because metacouplings result in increased systemic complexity and metacoupled systems are among the most complex systems in the world. The metacoupling framework can help address complex features such as nonlinearity (Garmestani 2014, Blenckner et al 2015, Monfared et al 2016, bifurcations (Suweis andD'Odorico 2014, Monfared et al 2016), oscillations (Innes et al 2013, Chaffin andGunderson 2016), time lags (Hamann et al 2016, Rova andPranovi 2017), legacy effects , Waylen et al 2015, path dependence (Hukkinen 2003, Manson 2008, Nykvist and von Heland 2014, and surprises associated with emergent properties (Heckbert et al 2010, ReyesGarcia et al 2016.…”

Section: Need For New Policy Governance and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration across a metacoupled world

Liu¹

2017

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ABSTRACT. Human-nature interactions are complex and have important implications for achieving sustainable development goals and addressing other global challenges. Although numerous studies have explored human-nature (or human-environment) interactions and generated useful insights, they are largely disintegrated. Because conceptual frameworks are the foundation of quantitative and qualitative integration, many have been proposed but focus mainly on human-nature interactions within a specific system. To reflect human-nature interactions between distant coupled systems, the framework of telecoupling (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) has been developed. However, no framework has explicitly integrated human-nature interactions between adjacent coupled systems, let alone within a coupled system as well as between adjacent and distant coupled systems simultaneously. To fill such an important gap, in this paper I present an integrated framework of metacoupling: human-nature interactions within a system (intracoupling), between distant systems (telecoupling), and between adjacent systems (pericoupling). A metacoupled system is a set of two or more coupled systems that interact internally as well as nearby and far away, facilitated by agents affected by various causes with various effects. By differentiating and integrating intracoupling, pericoupling, and telecoupling, the metacoupling framework advances a systems perspective on global sustainability and human well-being. The framework can help uncover hidden systemic connections such as spillovers and feedbacks that may not be apparent when focusing on a particular system. To demonstrate the utility of the metacoupling framework, I illustrate its application to human-nature interactions within a global flagship nature reserve as well as between the reserve and the rest of the world. The illustration suggests that the framework has the potential to help holistically understand and integrate human-nature interactions from local to global scales, over time, and among organizational levels. Finally, I offer suggestions for operationalizing the metacoupling framework and discuss the need for new policy, governance, and management for a sustainable future across the metacoupled world.

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Section: Need For New Policy Governance and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integration across a metacoupled world

Liu¹

2017

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“…Therefore, the dynamic spatial resilience became an effective analytic tool for this complex system, which can explain spatial linkages at multiple scales of the system disturbance. Spatial resilience is a dynamic concept not only applying to our understanding of ecosystem resilience, but also furthering our understanding of the transformation of socio-economic systems [35].…”

Section: The Framework For the Spatial Resilience Of The Gpsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept of "resilience" refers to the system capacity of resisting disturbance and has mainly been applied to engineering and ecology [35]. With its application to different disciplines to the research of social-ecological systems, in particular, it has greatly influenced global momentous scientific issues [36,37].…”

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Analysis Framework of China’s Grain Production System: A Spatial Resilience Perspective

Long

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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China's grain production has transformed from absolute shortage to a current structural oversupply. High-intensity production introduced further challenges for the eco-environment, smallholder livelihood, and the man-land interrelationship. Driven by urban-rural transformation, research on food security patterns and grain production has expanded into a new field. To analyze the challenges and required countermeasures for China's grain production system (GPS), this study constructed a theoretical GPS framework based on space resilience. Firstly, a new GPS concept was proposed and a functional system was established for protecting the regional food security, thus guaranteeing smallholder livelihood, stabilizing urban-rural transformation, and sustaining the eco-environment in terms of economic, social, and ecological attributes of the GPS. Secondly, based on a cross-scale interaction analysis that varied from a smallholder scale to a global scale, the systematic crisis of the GPS was analyzed. Thirdly, a cross-scale analytic framework of the GPS was formed from the perspective of spatial resilience, integrating both inner and external disturbance factors of the GPS. Both spatial heterogeneity and connectivity of internal and external disturbance factors are important contents of system space resilience. Finally, the hierarchy of spatial resilience of GPS became clear. The transformation of labor force and the land use transition form key thresholds of the GPS. In summary: based on protecting the basic functions of the GPS, the cross-scale effect of systematic disturbance factors and relevant countermeasures for spatial resilience are effectively influenced by the coordination of the interests of multiple stakeholders; spatial resilience is an effective analytical tool for GPS regulation, providing a reference for revealing the inherent mechanism and functional evolution of the GPS in the process of urban-rural transformation.

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“…Following this expanded understanding of SES resilience (Folke 2016), damming a river may fundamentally alter the flow regime, and critically for the cases we consider, limit historical and cultural human values as well as riparian ecosystem processes. The dynamics of the Elwha River watershed as an SES can be explained by applying Gunderson and Holling's (2002) adaptive cycle framework to examine the Elwha River with special emphasis on the decommissioning of the Elwha and Glines Canyon Dams; we apply this analysis here in order to highlight the innovative insights that this case provides as a successful river restoration initiative.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience

Hammersley¹,

Scott²,

Gimblett³

2018

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ABSTRACT. Rivers and riparian ecosystems have historically provided a range of beneficial goods and services to human societies. However, floodplains have also posed risks to the humans that came to rely upon them. Although riparian areas are among the most resource-rich and biodiverse ecosystems, they are also some of the most disturbed by human activity. Today, social and economic needs for water diverted off-stream are often pitted against the flow of water needed to maintain crucial instream ecological functions. The construction of dams has been a widely implemented method to control rivers for human purposes, particularly in the western United States. However, there is a growing movement to decommission dams, as stakeholders begin to recognize the ultimate value of restoring ecosystem services, including cultural ecosystem services; indeed, their restoration may be necessary to ensure lasting systemic resilience. Broader questions of dam decommissioning in the United States are receiving increasing attention by scholars and practitioners alike. In this paper, we adapt and apply seminal concepts from the adaptive cycle framework and cultural ecosystem services, particularly for Native Nations, and thereby assess the unfolding case of decommissioning and restoration on the Elwha River in northwest Washington State. The empirical evidence indicates that dam removal coincided with scalar and temporal alignment of multiple adaptive cycles and contributed to both short and long-term resilience. Further, the Elwha case represents an extremely important precedent in the evolution of river management practices, in which stakeholder-based collaborative governance incorporated knowledge coproduction and regulatory maneuvering to successfully overcome obstacles inherent in both dam decommissioning and subsequent restoration. We conclude by reflecting on lessons of broader relevance beyond the specific case of the Elwha.

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Resilience (Republished)

Cited by 636 publications

References 292 publications

Integration across a metacoupled world

Integration across a metacoupled world

Analysis Framework of China’s Grain Production System: A Spatial Resilience Perspective

Evolving conceptions of the role of large dams in social-ecological resilience

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