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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
environmental science
Resilience management in social-ecological systems: A working hypothesis for a participatory approach
Ecology and Society, Volume 6, No. 1, Year 2002
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Approaches to natural resource management are often based on a presumed ability to predict probabilistic responses to management and external drivers such as climate. They also tend to assume that the manager is outside the system being managed. However, where the objectives include long-term sustainability, linked social-ecological systems (SESs) behave as complex adaptive systems, with the managers as integral components of the system. Moreover, uncertainties are large and it may be difficult to reduce them as fast as the system changes. Sustainability involves maintaining the functionality of a system when it is perturbed, or maintaining the elements needed to renew or reorganize if a large perturbation radically alters structure and function. The ability to do this is termed "resilience." This paper presents an evolving approach to analyzing resilience in SESs, as a basis for managing resilience. We propose a framework with four steps, involving close involvement of SES stakeholders. It begins with a stakeholder-led development of a conceptual model of the system, including its historical profile (how it got to be what it is) and preliminary assessments of the drivers of the supply of key ecosystem goods and services. Step 2 deals with identifying the range of unpredictable and uncontrollable drivers, stakeholder visions for the future, and contrasting possible future policies, weaving these three factors into a limited set of future scenarios. Step 3 uses the outputs from steps 1 and 2 to explore the SES for resilience in an iterative way. It generally includes the development of simple models of the system's dynamics for exploring attributes that affect resilience. Step 4 is a stakeholder evaluation of the process and outcomes in terms of policy and management implications. This approach to resilience analysis is illustrated using two stylized examples. Copyright © 2002 by the author(s). Published here under licence by The Resilience Alliance.
Authors & Co-Authors
Walker, Brian H.
Australia, Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Carpenter, Stephen R.
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Anderies, John Marty
Australia, Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Abel, Nick O.J.
Australia, Canberra
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Cumming, Graeme S.
United States, Gainesville
University of Florida
Janssen, Marco A.
United States, Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington
Lebel, Louis
Thailand, Chaing Mai
Chiang Mai University
Peterson, Garry D.
United States, Madison
University of Wisconsin-madison
Statistics
Citations: 1,049
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5751/es-00356-060114
ISSN:
17083087
Research Areas
Health System And Policy