The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later
The problem of fit is about the interplay between the human and ecosystem dimensions in social-ecological systems that are not just linked but truly integrated. This interplay takes place across temporal and spatial scales and institutional and organizational levels in systems that are increasingly...
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2007-06-01
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| author | Carl Folke Lowell Pritchard, Jr. Fikret Berkes Johan Colding Uno Svedin |
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| description | The problem of fit is about the interplay between the human and ecosystem dimensions in social-ecological systems that are not just linked but truly integrated. This interplay takes place across temporal and spatial scales and institutional and organizational levels in systems that are increasingly being interpreted as complex adaptive systems. In 1997, we were invited to produce one of three background papers related to a, at that time, new initiative called Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDEG), a research activity of the International Human Dimensions Program of Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The paper, which exists as a discussion paper of the IHDP, has generated considerable interest. Here we publish the original paper 10 years later with an extended introduction and with reflections on some of the issues raised in the original paper concerning problems of fit. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9c89e79bd21461c8abbb34bc96fb73d2022-12-21T21:46:02ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872007-06-011213010.5751/ES-02064-1201302064The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years LaterCarl Folke0Lowell Pritchard, Jr.1Fikret Berkes2Johan Colding3Uno Svedin4Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesEvangelical Environmental NetworkUniversity of ManitobaRoyal Swedish Academy of SciencesSwedish Research Council for the EnvironmentThe problem of fit is about the interplay between the human and ecosystem dimensions in social-ecological systems that are not just linked but truly integrated. This interplay takes place across temporal and spatial scales and institutional and organizational levels in systems that are increasingly being interpreted as complex adaptive systems. In 1997, we were invited to produce one of three background papers related to a, at that time, new initiative called Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDEG), a research activity of the International Human Dimensions Program of Global Environmental Change (IHDP). The paper, which exists as a discussion paper of the IHDP, has generated considerable interest. Here we publish the original paper 10 years later with an extended introduction and with reflections on some of the issues raised in the original paper concerning problems of fit.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art30/ |
| spellingShingle | Carl Folke Lowell Pritchard, Jr. Fikret Berkes Johan Colding Uno Svedin The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later Ecology and Society |
| title | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later |
| title_full | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later |
| title_fullStr | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later |
| title_short | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later |
| title_sort | problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions ten years later |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art30/ |
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