The role played by social-ecological resilience as a method of integration in interdisciplinary research

Beichler, Simone A.; Hasibovic, Sanin; Davidse, Bart Jan; Deppisch, Sonja

doi:10.5751/es-06583-190304

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“…By facilitating collaboration between scholars from different fields, boundary objects are useful devices to leverage their respective disciplinary expertise (Newell and Cousins ). Previous studies have documented the effectiveness of using “resilience” and “urban metabolism” individually as boundary objects (Beichler et al ; Brand and Jax ; Cousins and Newell ), but not in combination as we propose here.…”

Section: Industrial Ecology and Resilience: Moving The Field Forwardmentioning

confidence: 80%

Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology

Meerow

Newell

2015

J of Industrial Ecology

131

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Resilience is an increasingly popular concept in academic research and public discourse and is closely connected to complex systems theory. This article reviews research on resilience and complexity in industrial ecology and the broader academy by conducting a bibliometric analysis of the academic literature over a 40-year period (1973-2014). The review revealed a large body of scholarship composed of five clearly identifiable intellectual communities, with resilience theory from ecology especially influential. Based on the study of ecosystems, these scholars conceptualize resilience as a dynamic and adaptive property of systems with multiple stable states that evolve over time. In comparison, resilience research in industrial ecology is limited and underdeveloped. Bibliometric analysis of this literature yielded just 37 publications and a scholarly network with no well-formulated research communities. This contrasts with industrial ecology scholarship on sustainability; a similar search yielded 1,581 publications. Given the emerging importance of the resilience concept and its relevance for sustainability issues, industrial ecology should expand research efforts in this area. The growing body of industrial ecology scholarship on complex systems provides a foundation to do so, as does the field's long-standing practice of using ecological principles to inform the study and design of industrial ecosystems. The article concludes by discussing how industrial ecology would benefit from incorporating principles of dynamic resilience and, conversely, how industrial ecology approaches could advance broader resilience scholarship.

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Section: Industrial Ecology and Resilience: Moving The Field Forwardmentioning

confidence: 80%

Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology

Meerow

Newell

2015

J of Industrial Ecology

131

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“…Even groups using the same framework used it in different ways. For example, the framework of social-ecological resilience was used as a normative argument for sustainability with partners of practice in the case of EE-Regionen, or as the bridging concept to initiate and facilitate processes of interdisciplinary integration in the case of plan B:altic (Beichler et al 2014).…”

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“…3/4; female Albers and Deppisch (2012), Deppisch and Hasibovic (2013), Beichler et al (2014) http://www.planbaltic.hcuhamburg.de 10 BioDiva How can genetic erosion of agrobiodiversity in rice-paddy systems be halted?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Ruppert-Winkel¹,

Arlinghaus²,

Deppisch³

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. Transdisciplinary sustainability science (TSS) is a prominent way of scientifically contributing to the solution of sustainability problems. Little is known, however, about the practice of scientists in TSS, especially those early in their career. Our objectives were to identify these practices and to outline the needs and challenges for early career scientists in TSS. To that end, we compiled 10 key characteristics of TSS based on a literature survey. We then analyzed research groups with 81 early career scientists against these characteristics. All of these research groups are funded by an ongoing federally funded German program for socialecological research whose main feature is to promote sustainability-oriented inter-and transdisciplinary research. We found that the practices of the 12 groups generally correspond with the characteristics for TSS, although there is ample variation in how they were addressed. Three major challenges were identified: (1) TSS demands openness to a plurality of research designs, theories, and methods, while also requiring shared, explicit, and recursive use of TSS characteristics; (2) researchers in TSS teams must make decisions about trade-offs between achievements of societal and scientific impact, acknowledging that focusing on the time-consuming former aspect is difficult to integrate into a scientific career path; and (3) although generalist researchers are increasingly becoming involved in such TSS research projects, supporting the integration of social, natural, and engineering sciences, specialized knowledge is also required.

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“…Originally, resilience thinking largely built upon insights from non-equilibrium ecology [7,12]. Over the years, resilience research has been expanded beyond the confines of its original ecological origins [8,13]. A resilience approach to social-ecological systems developed after the recognition that management systems based on optimization of a particular good or service (for example timber production) through getting rid of or altering change were not leading to either environmental or social sustainability [14].…”

Section: Resilience Thinkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Integrating Political Ecology into Resilience-Based Management

Quandt

2016

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Abstract:One of the biggest challenges faced today is how to sustainably manage social-ecological systems for both ecological conservation and human wellbeing. This paper explores two approaches to understanding such systems: resilience thinking and political ecology. Resilience thinking is a framework that emerged over the last 40 years as a management strategy for social-ecological systems, and a resilient social-ecological system is capable of absorbing disturbances and still retaining its basic function and structure. Political ecology is derived from cultural ecology and political economy and aims to critically examine how human-environment interactions are linked to environmental problems while exploring issues of power. Drawing from debates and theoretical issues both within and between these two theories, this paper proposes three main arguments for integrating political ecology into managing for resilience. First, political ecology could help fill in understanding gaps in resilience with its focus on society and politics, while resilience thinking's focus on ecology can ensure that political ecology engages with ecology. Second, the multiple lenses of political ecology may help define the system for resilience management. Third, political ecology's explanatory power may assist in identifying surrogates of resilience for indirectly measuring social-ecological resilience.

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The role played by social-ecological resilience as a method of integration in interdisciplinary research

Cited by 36 publications

References 33 publications

Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology

Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology

Characteristics, emerging needs, and challenges of transdisciplinary sustainability science: experiences from the German Social-Ecological Research Program

Towards Integrating Political Ecology into Resilience-Based Management

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