Social-ecological resilience thinking as a bridging concept in transdisciplinary research on climate-change adaptation

Deppisch, Sonja; Hasibovic, Sanin

doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9821-9

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“…The readiness of public health systems to adapt to the impacts of climate change has been described as facing delays because of limitations on the inclusion of social-ecological concepts in the planning process (Deppisch and Hasibovic, 2013;Downes et al, 2013;Few, 2007;Folke, 2006;Gallopin, 2006). For example, large-scale environmental changes such as biochemical pollution, extreme temperature events, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services occur simultaneously, and will have cumulative and interactive adverse impacts on population health (Houghton and English, 2014;Sheridan and Allen, 2015;Zell, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is the need to reduce uncertainty by expanding indicators of predictive models of climate change vulnerability assessments (Bell, 2011;Deppisch and Hasibovic, 2013;Houghton and English, 2014). This is because the expansion will allow indicators from non-health sectors to be incorporated into public health management strategies towards resilience building (Linnenluecke and Griffiths, 2012;Pascal et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

Dovie

Dzodzomenyo

Ogunseitan

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

Dovie

Dzodzomenyo

Ogunseitan

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The recognition that social and ecological systems are interconnected (Cundill et al 2005, Fischer et al 2015 has resulted in strong emphasis on the need to involve stakeholders in research on social-ecological change and to find ways to integrate their needs and knowledge in research (Deppisch andHasibovic 2013, Mauser et al 2013). Research funding organizations have absorbed these ideas and often demand that researchers form consortia that include societal partners, from both the public and private sectors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is assumed that this will facilitate the emergence of a common understanding of social-ecological problems, as well as the smooth uptake and implementation of both new knowledge and proposed solutions (Cundill et al 2013, Mauser et al 2013. Stakeholder involvement, therefore, is believed to contribute in a positive way to resilience, which is also increasingly defined in a social-ecological manner (Deppisch and Hasibovic 2013).…”

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Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa

Brandt¹,

Josefsson²,

Spierenburg³

2018

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ABSTRACT. Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our discussion is built on knowledge generated by extensive research on the impacts of private farm conversions to game farms in South Africa, where significant increases in farm conversions have been observed since the 1990s. The studies had a particular focus on the consequences for farm dwellers, one of the most marginalized groups in the South African countryside. The research findings challenge the dominant narrative that game farming offers a win-win situation for nature conservation and rural development. Based on data from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, we extended the narrow technical and economic framing of the narrative to include the socio-political meanings of the conversions. We reflect on a series of multistakeholder workshops that we organized, partly as a requirement of the funding agency. The workshop aims were to disseminate our research findings among the stakeholder groups and explore ways to mitigate the negative impacts of conversions. We discuss how we organized the engagement process in ways that sought to address the power differences between game farmers, the State, and farm dwellers. The main challenge appeared to be that farm dwellers were not recognized as stakeholders. This "invisibility" has multiple reasons, in particular, the historical and current trajectories of land dispossession. It is also linked to specific institutional and personal relations in the two provinces, resulting in different uses of the workshop spaces. By considering the complexities of stakeholder relations in the farm conversion context, we gained a deeper understanding of the politics of land and belonging in the still unequal postapartheid rural landscape. Based on experiences from the research as well as the workshops, we take a critical stance regarding mainstream notions of stakeholder engagement and resilience building. We argue that if we fail to consider power relations and politics explicitly in these processes, we risk neglecting important conflicts and reproducing the invisibility of marginalized stakeholders.

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“…In addition, concepts have evolved that stress a particular boundary action, such as bridging, resulting in various studies of bridging concepts and bridging organisations (e.g. Deppisch and Hasibovic, 2013;Prager, 2015a). (physical, social and institutional) and their enabling and constraining effects, and boundary management as actions by means of arrangements.…”

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Making a difference : boundary management in spatial governance

Westerink¹

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Social-ecological resilience thinking as a bridging concept in transdisciplinary research on climate-change adaptation

Cited by 62 publications

References 22 publications

Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

Sensitivity of health sector indicators' response to climate change in Ghana

Power and politics in stakeholder engagement: farm dweller (in)visibility and conversions to game farming in South Africa

Making a difference : boundary management in spatial governance

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