Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective
Resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social-ecological systems. However, the scholarly community may not be fully aware that social ecology, as a conceptual framework, has a long intellectual history, nor fully cognizant of its found...
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| author | Daniel Stokols Raul Perez. Lejano John Hipp |
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| description | Resilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social-ecological systems. However, the scholarly community may not be fully aware that social ecology, as a conceptual framework, has a long intellectual history, nor fully cognizant of its foundational theory. In this article, we trace the intellectual roots and core principles of social ecology and demonstrate how these principles enable a broader conceptualization of resilience than may be found in much of the literature. We then illustrate how the resulting notion of resilience as transactional process and multi-capital formation affords new perspectives on diverse phenomena such as global financial crises and adaptation to environmental stresses to communities and ecosystems. A social-ecological analysis of resilience enables the study of people-environment transactions across varying dimensions, time periods, and scales. Furthermore, in its openness to experiential knowledge and action research, the social ecology framework coheres well with participative-collaborative modes of inquiry, which traverse institutional, epistemological, and scale-related boundaries. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75949fb189274eec9b3f61444ac29de32022-12-21T19:12:47ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872013-03-01181710.5751/ES-05301-1801075301Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological PerspectiveDaniel Stokols0Raul Perez. Lejano1John Hipp2School of Social Ecology, University of California, IrvineSchool of Social Ecology, University of California, IrvineSchool of Social Ecology, University of California, IrvineResilience studies build on the notion that phenomena in the real world should be understood as dynamic social-ecological systems. However, the scholarly community may not be fully aware that social ecology, as a conceptual framework, has a long intellectual history, nor fully cognizant of its foundational theory. In this article, we trace the intellectual roots and core principles of social ecology and demonstrate how these principles enable a broader conceptualization of resilience than may be found in much of the literature. We then illustrate how the resulting notion of resilience as transactional process and multi-capital formation affords new perspectives on diverse phenomena such as global financial crises and adaptation to environmental stresses to communities and ecosystems. A social-ecological analysis of resilience enables the study of people-environment transactions across varying dimensions, time periods, and scales. Furthermore, in its openness to experiential knowledge and action research, the social ecology framework coheres well with participative-collaborative modes of inquiry, which traverse institutional, epistemological, and scale-related boundaries.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss1/art7/environment–behavior transactionsresiliencesocial capitalsocial ecology |
| spellingShingle | Daniel Stokols Raul Perez. Lejano John Hipp Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective Ecology and Society environment– behavior transactions resilience social capital social ecology |
| title | Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective |
| title_full | Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective |
| title_short | Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: a Social Ecological Perspective |
| title_sort | enhancing the resilience of human environment systems a social ecological perspective |
| topic | environment– behavior transactions resilience social capital social ecology |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss1/art7/ |
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