Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network
Many social-ecological system(SES)-based approaches have been proposed to address environmental problems. Most social-ecological frameworks developed to date, however, lack clear operational linkages between humans and nature to efficiently guide SESs toward resilience. A conceptual framework design...
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| author | Vincent Bretagnolle Marc Benoit Mathieu Bonnefond Vincent Breton Jon M. Church Sabrina Gaba Daniel Gilbert François Gillet Sandrine Glatron Chloé Guerbois Nicolas Lamouroux Marc Lebouvier Camille Mazé Jean-Marie Mouchel Annie Ouin Olivier Pays Christophe Piscart Olivier Ragueneau Sylvie Servain Thomas Spiegelberger Hervé Fritz |
| author_facet | Vincent Bretagnolle Marc Benoit Mathieu Bonnefond Vincent Breton Jon M. Church Sabrina Gaba Daniel Gilbert François Gillet Sandrine Glatron Chloé Guerbois Nicolas Lamouroux Marc Lebouvier Camille Mazé Jean-Marie Mouchel Annie Ouin Olivier Pays Christophe Piscart Olivier Ragueneau Sylvie Servain Thomas Spiegelberger Hervé Fritz |
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| description | Many social-ecological system(SES)-based approaches have been proposed to address environmental problems. Most social-ecological frameworks developed to date, however, lack clear operational linkages between humans and nature to efficiently guide SESs toward resilience. A conceptual framework designed to be operational is therefore necessary, as well as a network of research platforms with which to apply it. We defined explicit coupling processes that can be used as leverages to pilot an SES toward sustainability. We proposed to formalize an SES as a dynamic entity composed of two coupling interfaces, i.e., adaptive management and ecosystem services, both set within a landscape context to provide an actionable framework. These interfaces describe the way various actors, including scholars, benefit from and manage complex and changing interactions between the biophysical and social templates. Understanding the key processes underlying the interaction dynamics, especially those leveraging adaptive management processes, would help identify adaptive pathways for practices and collective actions, provide a crucial knowledge base for policy makers, and foster operationality as a requisite of an SES research agenda. Using several examples, we explained why long-term social-ecological research platforms provide an ideal operational network of research infrastructures to conduct place-based action-orientated research targeting the sustainability of SESs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f0be09333c74e53802e99850f8c998f2022-12-21T18:36:55ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872019-09-012431010.5751/ES-10989-24031010989Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research networkVincent Bretagnolle0Marc Benoit1Mathieu Bonnefond2Vincent Breton3Jon M. Church4Sabrina Gaba5Daniel Gilbert6François Gillet7Sandrine Glatron8Chloé Guerbois9Nicolas Lamouroux10Marc Lebouvier11Camille Mazé12Jean-Marie Mouchel13Annie Ouin14Olivier Pays15Christophe Piscart16Olivier Ragueneau17Sylvie Servain18Thomas Spiegelberger19Hervé Fritz20LTSER "Zone Atelier Plaine & Val de Sèvre," CEBC CNRS, Villiers-en-Bois, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Moselle," Vandoeuvre Les Nancy, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Loire," Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, EA 4630 Laboratoire Géomatique et Foncier, FranceLTSER, "Zone Atelier Territoires Uranifères," Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceUniversity of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, HABITER EA 2076, FranceUSC 1339, Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, INRA, Villiers-en-Bois, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Arc Jurassien," Besançon, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Arc Jurassien," Besançon, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Environnementale Urbaine," Strasbourg, FranceNelson Mandela University, Sustainability Research Unit, George Campus, George, South AfricaIRSTEA, UR RIVERLY, Lyon, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Antarctique," UMR Ecobio, Rennes, FranceLIENSs (UMR 7266), La Rochelle, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Seine," UMR METIS, Sorbonne-Université, CNRS, EPHE, Paris, FranceUMR DYNAFOR, INRA - Toulouse INP, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Hwange," Dete, ZimbabweLTSER "Zone Atelier Armorique," Univ. Rennes, UMR Ecobio, Rennes, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Brest-Iroise," CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, Univ. Brest, Plouzane, FranceLTSER "Zone Atelier Loire," Tours, FranceUniv. Grenoble Alpes, Irstea, UR LESSEM, Grenoble, FranceNelson Mandela University, Sustainability Research Unit, George Campus, George, South AfricaMany social-ecological system(SES)-based approaches have been proposed to address environmental problems. Most social-ecological frameworks developed to date, however, lack clear operational linkages between humans and nature to efficiently guide SESs toward resilience. A conceptual framework designed to be operational is therefore necessary, as well as a network of research platforms with which to apply it. We defined explicit coupling processes that can be used as leverages to pilot an SES toward sustainability. We proposed to formalize an SES as a dynamic entity composed of two coupling interfaces, i.e., adaptive management and ecosystem services, both set within a landscape context to provide an actionable framework. These interfaces describe the way various actors, including scholars, benefit from and manage complex and changing interactions between the biophysical and social templates. Understanding the key processes underlying the interaction dynamics, especially those leveraging adaptive management processes, would help identify adaptive pathways for practices and collective actions, provide a crucial knowledge base for policy makers, and foster operationality as a requisite of an SES research agenda. Using several examples, we explained why long-term social-ecological research platforms provide an ideal operational network of research infrastructures to conduct place-based action-orientated research targeting the sustainability of SESs.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art10/adaptive governanceecosystem serviceslandscapeltermanagementpracticesresearch infrastructuresocial-ecological systemssustainability |
| spellingShingle | Vincent Bretagnolle Marc Benoit Mathieu Bonnefond Vincent Breton Jon M. Church Sabrina Gaba Daniel Gilbert François Gillet Sandrine Glatron Chloé Guerbois Nicolas Lamouroux Marc Lebouvier Camille Mazé Jean-Marie Mouchel Annie Ouin Olivier Pays Christophe Piscart Olivier Ragueneau Sylvie Servain Thomas Spiegelberger Hervé Fritz Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network Ecology and Society adaptive governance ecosystem services landscape lter management practices research infrastructure social-ecological systems sustainability |
| title | Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network |
| title_full | Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network |
| title_fullStr | Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network |
| title_short | Action-orientated research and framework: insights from the French long-term social-ecological research network |
| title_sort | action orientated research and framework insights from the french long term social ecological research network |
| topic | adaptive governance ecosystem services landscape lter management practices research infrastructure social-ecological systems sustainability |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art10/ |
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