Transitions through the dynamics of adaptive cycles: Evolution of the Finnish agrifood system

Kuhmonen, Irene; Kuhmonen, Tuomas

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103604

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“…Tutkimukseni empiiriset aineistot perustuvat kahteen, vuosina 2010 ja 2018 tehtyyn viljelijäkyselyyn (Kuhmonen 2017;2020;Kuhmonen & Sil taoja 2022) sekä Suomen ruokajärjestelmän historiaa kartoittavaan kir jallisuuskatsaukseen (Kuhmonen & Kuhmonen 2023a;2023b). Tulokset osoittavat, että viljelijät pyrkivät valinnoissaan yhteensovittamaan laa jemman toimintaympäristön (esim.…”

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Regiimin kahlitsemat? Maanviljelijöiden toimijuus ja maatilojen resilienssi ruokajärjestelmän kestävyyssiirtymässä

Kuhmonen

2024

maaseutututkimus

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Regiimin kahlitsemat? Maanviljelijöiden toimijuus ja maatilojen resilienssi ruokajärjestelmän kestävyyssiirtymässä

Kuhmonen

2024

maaseutututkimus

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“…Coordinating the relationship between wilderness spaces and rural areas, enhancing wilderness space planning protection measures, and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems is essential to sustain a 'green-loop' that avoids long-term ecosystem degradation. The change and fluctuation pattern represents the most vulnerable phase, potentially leading to an irreversible loss of resilience [73]. Within this pattern, the rural-dominated system primarily focuses on grain supply, with a high proportion of arable land but low land quality, resulting in inefficient land resource utilization.…”

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Integrating System Spatial Archetypes and Archetypical Evolutionary Patterns of Human Settlements: Towards Place-Based Sustainable Development

Gao,

Lyu,

Liu

2023

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Effectively managing the diversity and complexity of human settlements is pivotal in tackling the sustainability challenges we face in the Anthropocene. Conceptualizing a city’s human settlement as a unified social–ecological system and investigating its system archetype and evolutionary pattern offer a promising approach to understanding sustainability challenges within specific spatio-temporal contexts. This study introduced a novel approach to assessing and characterizing human settlements using a spatio-temporal two-tier structure archetype analysis for human settlement systems. Applying inductive clustering to an integrated dataset, we identified five typical human settlement systems for 2019 and eight change patterns (2001–2019) in the Yangtze River Delta region. By linking inductively recognized human settlement systems into deductive categories of human-nature connectedness and associating inductive change patterns with deduced phases within the adaptive cycle, we defined five system spatial archetypes and three archetypical evolutionary patterns, revealing the typical interaction between them. This enabled us to understand sustainability challenges for each interaction, formulating seven tailored solutions to promote place-based development in human settlements. Generally, our approach showcases considerable potential in uncovering human settlement challenges, ultimately contributing to addressing these challenges at the local level within the broader context of global sustainability issues.

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“…The theory of adaptive systems represents an effective framework for the analysis of the dynamics of systems in terms of their transitions. Since cyclical evolution seeks equilibrium when changes arise, the agri-food sector articulates a type of complex adaptive system in which there is an exchange of matter, energy, and information both internally and with external structures, through the ability to self-manage, which corresponds to its systemic functionality [ 12 ].…”

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Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

Leon-Romero,

Zamora-Polo,

Luque-Sendra

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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The transformation of the food and industrial agricultural production system into adaptative and sustainable systems capable of being productive within social, environmental, and economic limits is a crucial factor in reducing the risk to food security and to economic growth. However, the analysis structure of the effect of these variables in sustainable environments remains unknown, whereby the technology and processes are considered as variables of the equivalent critical level as those already described. The purpose of this study is to design a model that enables the characterisation of the agri-food sector based on the determination of sustainable variables from a sustainable and integral systemic approach. Tools, such as the viable system model, are employed to analyse the dynamics and generate the balanced scorecard, to which the items of learning and continuous improvement are added. Lastly, the impact of the principles of sustainability versus the variation of sustainability in the agri-food system is revealed, which is useful in determining the appropriate levels to guarantee a balance in the foundations of circularity. From a systemic approach, this model can be adopted by agronomists and scientists to design alternative strategies for the management of food sustainability.

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Transitions through the dynamics of adaptive cycles: Evolution of the Finnish agrifood system

Cited by 9 publications

References 76 publications

Regiimin kahlitsemat? Maanviljelijöiden toimijuus ja maatilojen resilienssi ruokajärjestelmän kestävyyssiirtymässä

Regiimin kahlitsemat? Maanviljelijöiden toimijuus ja maatilojen resilienssi ruokajärjestelmän kestävyyssiirtymässä

Integrating System Spatial Archetypes and Archetypical Evolutionary Patterns of Human Settlements: Towards Place-Based Sustainable Development

Characterisation and causal model of the holistic dynamics of the integral sustainability of the agri-food system

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