Upscaling the resilience assessment through comparative analysis

Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: hydraulic megaprojects, social–ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations

“…the role of governance in change processes towards sustainability is critical at both empirical-theoretical (how does current change happen) and normative (how change ought to happen) levels (Berkes 2007;Patterson et al 2017;Turnheim et al 2018;Donges et al 2021;Pickering et al 2022). However, despite growing attention in the last decade, the understanding of the role of governance and its underlying processes remains underdeveloped (Muñoz-Erickson et al 2016;Patterson et al 2017;Kellner 2021;Orach and Schlüter 2021;Muiderman et al 2022;Rocha et al 2022). In particular, interventions to foster sustainability pathways must reflect on how social-ecological systems (SES) respond to different governance configurations, considering their local arrangements of actors, institutions and power, and historical legacies (Clark and Harley 2020).…”

Disrupting the governance of social-ecological rigidity traps: Can pluralism foster change towards sustainability?

“…Existing governance configurations can create conditions ripe for change (Olsson et al, 2006;Kemp et al, 2007;Chaffin et al, 2016;Plummer et al, 2020), or may need to be transformed to enable those conditions to emerge (Meadowcroft, 2007;Rijke et al, 2013;Schlüter et al, 2021). However, despite critical research around the capacity of governance to foster change towards sustainability, the understanding of such a role remains underdeveloped in the literature (Berkes, 2007;Muñoz-Erickson et al, 2016;Patterson et al, 2017;Kellner, 2021;Orach and Schlüter, 2021;Muiderman et al, 2022;Rocha et al, 2022). In this article, we contribute to fill that general gap with a focus on social-ecological systems (SES) traps, the situation where social and ecological feedbacks mutually reinforce each other to maintain or push the system toward an undesirable state Carpenter and Brock, 2008).…”

Making ‘resilience’ useful again: recognising health system resilience as an effective boundary object

“…Developing long-term prospective studies and methods to analyse temporal dynamics would enable a better understanding of the transitions people and health systems go through between shocks. Fifth, methods for multiscale analysis and empirical research are scarce 29 31. Many health system resilience (assessment) frameworks7 32 33 start from WHO’s six building blocks model, designed to assess health system strengthening, not resilience.…”