A co-evolutionary model of change in environmental management

Hadfield, Linda; Seaton, Roger

doi:10.1016/s0016-3287(99)00015-4

Cited by 22 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 1 publication

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The study of socio-ecological systems (SESs) and coupled human and natural systems (CHANS), involves many aspects similar to that of socio-hydrology: feedbacks (Runyan et al, 2012), non-linear dynamics (Garmestani, 2013), coevolution (Hadfield and Seaton, 1999), adaptation , resilience (Folke et al, 2010), vulnerability (Simelton et al, 2009), issues of complexity (Liu et al, 2007a), governance (Janssen and Ostrom, 2006), policy (Ostrom, 2009) and modelling (Kelly et al, 2013; are all involved in thinking around, and analysis of, SESs. As such, there is much that socio-hydrology can learn from this fairly established (Crook, 1970) discipline, and so in this paper a proportion of the literature presented comes from the field of socio-ecology due to its relevance.…”

Section: Socio-ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This unidirectional approach may have been more appropriate in the past when anthropogenic influences were smaller, but since the interactions between hydrology and society have changed recently (as has been described previously), "new connections and, in particular, more significant feedbacks which need to be understood, assessed, modelled and predicted by adopting an interdisciplinary approach" , and so the view of systems in models should appreciate this. Views and knowledge of the human-water system have changed over time, and these changes themselves have had a great impact on the systems due to the changes in areas of study and policy that perception and knowledge can bring about (Hadfield and Seaton, 1999). The concept of the hydrosocial cycle has been a step forward in the way that the relationship between humans and water is thought about, as it incorporates both "material and sociocultural relations to water" (Wilson, 2014).…”

Section: Human-water System Representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

Blair

Buytaert

2016

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

190

136

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract.Interactions between humans and the environment are occurring on a scale that has never previously been seen; the scale of human interaction with the water cycle, along with the coupling present between social and hydrological systems, means that decisions that impact water also impact people. Models are often used to assist in decision-making regarding hydrological systems, and so in order for effective decisions to be made regarding water resource management, these interactions and feedbacks should be accounted for in models used to analyse systems in which water and humans interact. This paper reviews literature surrounding aspects of socio-hydrological modelling. It begins with background information regarding the current state of socio-hydrology as a discipline, before covering reasons for modelling and potential applications. Some important concepts that underlie socio-hydrological modelling efforts are then discussed, including ways of viewing socio-hydrological systems, space and time in modelling, complexity, data and model conceptualisation. Several modelling approaches are described, the stages in their development detailed and their applicability to socio-hydrological cases discussed. Gaps in research are then highlighted to guide directions for future research. The review of literature suggests that the nature of sociohydrological study, being interdisciplinary, focusing on complex interactions between human and natural systems, and dealing with long horizons, is such that modelling will always present a challenge; it is, however, the task of the modeller to use the wide range of tools afforded to them to overcome these challenges as much as possible. The focus in socio-hydrology is on understanding the human-water system in a holistic sense, which differs from the problem solving focus of other water management fields, and as such models in socio-hydrology should be developed with a view to gaining new insight into these dynamics. There is an essential choice that socio-hydrological modellers face in deciding between representing individual system processes or viewing the system from a more abstracted level and modelling it as such; using these different approaches has implications for model development, applicability and the insight that they are capable of giving, and so the decision regarding how to model the system requires thorough consideration of, among other things, the nature of understanding that is sought.

show abstract

Section: Socio-ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Human-water System Representationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

Blair

Buytaert

2016

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

190

136

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For them, moving from a broad conception of coevolution to a more specific definition of evolving populations and renewal/selection processes may be increasingly more difficult than rewarding. Many scholars addressing social and environmental system change credit their thinking to a coevolutionary framework without demonstrably identifying variation and selection and what is evolving with what (Lemon et al 1998;Adger 1999;Hadfield and Seaton 1999;Krause and Glaser 2003).…”

Section: Mental Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coevolutionary contradictions: prospects for a research programme on social and environmental change

Norgaard

2011

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

. Insights from social system–environmental system coevolutionary thought experiments are abstract, mind opening, and can only be conveyed by leading readers through the experiment themselves. Undertaking applied coevolutionary analyses requires one to bound processes and fix some of the categories, contrary to the nature of the broad, opening nature of coevolution itself. Being conscious of these contradictions makes it difficult to engage in a sustained research programme or form a community of coevolutionary scholars. In this article we engage with the epistemological tensions of conducting coevolutionary research and put forward tentative strategies for managing them.

show abstract

“…A few other studies in EE also refer to coevolution (Dove 1993;Adger 1999;Lemon et al 1999;Hadfield and Seaton 1999;Aguilera-Klink et al 2000;Krause and Glaser 2003). Co-evolution in these articles is used as a synonym for codynamic change of social and environmental variables or feedbacks and impacts-responses between broadly defined social and environmental systems.…”

Section: Co-evolutionary Applications In Eementioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-environmental co-evolution: some ideas for an analytical approach

Kallis¹

2007

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A number of scholars, mainly in ecological economics, have been attracted to the concept of co-evolution for the analysis of socio-environmental change. Yet none has adopted and developed an applied analytical approach using an explicitly evolutionary framework. This paper discusses how other scholars in economics, technological studies, organization and political science have been using evolutionary explanations and draws some lessons for ecological economics. Evolutionary is a mode of explanation based on the selective retention of renewable variation. It accounts for phenomena of structural fit and change in a variety of domains. A co-evolutionary explanation, by extension, entails two or more evolving systems whose interaction affects their evolution. Socioenvironmental co-evolution involves human systems (material practices and non-material ideas and values) and non-human systems (living and physical). The challenge then is how to develop case-specific, empirical applications that define and elaborate the variants that co-evolve and specify the processes of mutual selection. Applications could benefit from existing classifications and causal propositions in the natural and social sciences. Co-evolution is part of a larger analytical toolkit for looking at complex socioenvironmental problems. Although distinct, there are strong synergies, complementarities and potential for combined uses between co-evolutionary, co-dynamic and complexity-based explanations.

show abstract

A co-evolutionary model of change in environmental management

Cited by 22 publications

References 1 publication

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

Coevolutionary contradictions: prospects for a research programme on social and environmental change

Socio-environmental co-evolution: some ideas for an analytical approach

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

A co-evolutionary model of change in environmental management

Cited by 22 publications

References 1 publication

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking &quot;why, what and how?&quot;

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking &quot;why, what and how?&quot;

Coevolutionary contradictions: prospects for a research programme on social and environmental change

Socio-environmental co-evolution: some ideas for an analytical approach

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"

Socio-hydrological modelling: a review asking "why, what and how?"