A5001012053- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Marine and fisheries research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Halal products and consumer behavior
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
Stockholm University
2014-2024
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2014-2024
Schlüter, M., L. J. Haider, S. Lade, E. Lindkvist, R. Martin, K. Orach, N. Wijermans, and C. Folke. 2019. Capturing emergent phenomena in social-ecological systems: an analytical framework. Ecology Society 24(3):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11012-240311
Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most pressing challenges twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked, we apply a social-ecological systems perspective review literature to identify six different types interactions (or “pathways”) between inequality biosphere. We find that research so far has only considered one-directional effects on biosphere, or vice versa. However, given potential for complex dynamics socioeconomic...
A key aim of sustainable development is the joint achievement prosperity, equality, and environmental integrity: in other words, material living standards that are high, broadly-distributed, low-impact. This has often been called "triple bottom line". But instead, what if there a "trilemma" inhibits simultaneous these three goals? We analysed international patterns trends relationships between per-capita gross national income, Gini coefficient for income distribution, ecological footprint...
Abstract When reasoning about causes of sustainability problems and possible solutions, scientists rely on disciplinary-based understanding cause–effect relations. These disciplinary assumptions enable constrain how causal knowledge is generated, yet they are rarely made explicit. In a multidisciplinary field like science, lack differences in impedes our ability to address complex problems. To support navigating the diversity reasoning, we articulate when during research process researchers...
The sustainable governance and management of small-scale fisheries (SSF) is challenging, largely due to their dynamic complex nature. Agent-based modeling (ABM) a computational approach that can account for the dynamism complexity in SSF by entities as individual agents with different characteristics behavior, simulate how interactions give rise emergent phenomena, such over-fishing social inequalities. structurally realistic design agent-based models allow stakeholder, experts scientists...
Abstract Meeting the objectives of sustainable fisheries management requires attention to complex interactions between humans, institutions and ecosystems that give rise fishery outcomes. Traditional approaches studying often do not fully capture, nor focus on these people ecosystems. Despite advances in scope scale encompassed by more holistic methods, for example ecosystem‐based approaches, no single method can adequately capture complexity human–nature interactions. Approaches combine...
Understanding causation in social-ecological systems (SES) is indispensable for promoting sustainable outcomes. However, the study of such causal relations challenging because they are often complex and intertwined, their analysis involves diverse disciplines. Although there agreement that no single research approach (RA) can comprehensively explain SES phenomena, a lack ability to deal with this diversity. Underlying diversity challenge dealing it different reasonings rarely explicit....
Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) in developing countries are expected to play a significant role poverty alleviation and enhancing food security the decades come. To realize this expectation, better understanding of their informal self-governance arrangements is critical for policies that can improve fishers' livelihoods lead sustainable ecosystem stewardship. The goal paper develop more nuanced micro-level factors-such as characteristics behavior-to explain observed differences Northwest...
Harvesting has received most theoretical, empirical, and policy attention towards understanding common-pool resource dilemmas. Yet, pre-harvesting post-harvesting activities influence harvesting outcomes as well. Broadening the analytical focus beyond is needed to imagine new ways of theorizing governing commons. Fishing—which synonymous with harvesting—is a case in point. We contribute beyond-harvesting research agenda by incorporating concepts from resources theory that have not enough...
Dynamical systems modeling (DSM) explores how a system evolves in time when its elements and the relationships between them are known. The basic idea is that structure of dynamical system, expressed by coupled differential or difference equations, determines attractors and, turn, behavior. This leads to structural understanding can provide insights into qualitative properties real systems, including ecological social-ecological (SES). DSM generally does not aim make specific quantitative...
Small-scale fisheries' actors increasingly face new challenges, including climate driven shifts in marine resource distribution and productivity. Diversification of target species fishing locations is a key mechanism to adapt such changes maintain fisheries livelihoods. Here we explore environmental institutional factors mediating how patterns spatial diversification (i.e., utilization alternative grounds) change over time. Using small-scale Baja California Sur (Mexico) as case study, adopt...
Models are widely used for investigating cause-effect relationships in complex systems. However, often different models yield diverging causal claims about specific phenomena. Therefore, critical reflection is needed on insights derived from modeling. As an example, we here compare ecological dealing with the dynamics and collapse of cod Baltic Sea. The addressed questions, but also vary system conceptualization complexity. With each model, certain factors mechanisms were analyzed detail,...
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) contribute substantially to global food security, sustainable marine ecosystems and poverty alleviation. Yet many SSF face problems of overexploitation calling for novel governance approaches that enhance human-wellbeing, equity ecological sustainability. External policies interventions support such transformations, however, need take their often self-governed nature into account. Common practices based on informal arrangements between different fishery actors can...
In social-ecological systems (SES), where social and ecological processes are intertwined, phenomena usually complex involve multiple interdependent causes. Figuring out causal relationships is thus challenging but needed to better understand then affect or manage such systems. One important widely used tool identify communicate visualization. Here, we present several common visualization types: diagrams of objects arrows, X-Y plots, X-Y-Z discuss them in view the particular challenges...
In this paper we extend the use of a relational approach to simulation modelling, widely used knowledge practice in sustainability science. Among modellers, there is awareness that model results can only be interpreted view assumptions inform construction and analysis, but less systematic questioning those assumptions. Moreover, current methodological discussions tend focus on integrating social ecological dynamics or diverse knowledges data within model. Yet choices regarding types...
As a consequence of global environmental change, management strategies that can deal with unexpected change in resource dynamics are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we undertake novel approach to studying growth problems using computational form adaptive find optimal for prevalent natural dilemmas. We scrutinize management, or learning-by-doing, better understand how simultaneously manage and learn about system when its unknown. study important trade-offs decision-making...
Local and regional trade networks in small-scale fisheries are important for food security livelihoods across the world. Such consist of both economic flows social relationships, which connect different production regions to types fish demand. The structure such networks, actions that take place within them (e.g., people fishing, buying, selling), can influence capacity provide sufficient a changing ecological context. In this study, we aim understand importance between traders access...
The sustainable governance and management of small-scale fisheries (SSF) is challenging, largely due to their dynamic complex nature. Agent-based modeling (ABM) a computational approach that can account for the dynamism complexity in SSF by entities as individual agents with different characteristics behavior, simulate how interactions give rise emergent phenomena, such over-fishing social inequalities. structurally realistic design agent-based models allow stakeholders, experts, scientists...