Interdisciplinary Construction of a Socio-ecological Vulnerability Trajectory Based on the Quatre Montagnes (Isère, France) Area from 1950 to 2016

Abstract

This project was partially funded by LabEx ITEM and the GICC ADAMONT program. The authors extend their thanks to Marie-Pierre Arlot for the initiative and follow-up of this project, as well as François Véron for his contribution as an expert on the area.

Historical reconfigurations of a social–ecological system adapting to economic, policy and climate changes in the French Alps

“…In the second stage, we applied a timeline analysis, which is a deductive qualitative method for the systemic and temporal analyses of the past trajectory of a SES (Bergeret et al 2015;Spiegelberger et al 2018). The chronosystemic timeline construction follows four steps.…”

“…These drivers are shared characteristics of mountain SES and associated paradoxes of "Policies by outsider" and "in and out migration" (Klein et al 2019), along with ageing population (Ianni et al 2015). While many mountain regions have experienced similar trajectories (Locatelli et al 2017), other trajectories have been observed, particularly in terms of agricultural and tourism development (Spiegelberger et al 2018). For example, as few regions have been able to maintain agricultural activity, land abandonment is widespread in the Alps causing significant landscape transformation (Hinojosa et al 2019;Schirpke et al 2019).…”

Trajectory of a coastal social-ecological system: analyzing co-evolution and regime shifts in the Thau lagoon (Mediterranean Sea, France), 1970–2018

“…The full implementation of the "chronosystemic timeline" approach presupposes the formation of a multidisciplinary team of researchers (Bergeret et al 2015;Spiegelberger et al 2018). This work was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of researchers (one ecologist, three social scientists) as recommended for the methodology, but due to the limited number of researchers, we applied a simplified version (Fig.…”

“…The original and operational methodology used to depict the trajectory of a coastal SES proposed in this paper, which combines qualitative and quantitative information, proved to be particularly appropriate to reveal the dynamics of coevolution of the social and ecological components of a complex coastal system along with regime shifts. As recommended by Bergeret et al (2015) and Spiegelberger et al (2018), the trajectory of a SES must be studied using a holistic approach, calling on interdisciplinary expertise and using timelines as boundary objects between the natural sciences and social sciences. This holistic approach is in accordance with the theories developed by researchers studying complex systems (Holland This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections.…”

“…Several recent operational methods proposed for resilience assessment recommend building the first stages of the study of an SES based on timelines and historical profiling and on interviews with key stakeholders (Resilience Alliance 2020; Enfors- Kautsky et al 2021;Biggs et al 2021). The qualitative part of the methodology proposed in the present paper is adapted from the "chronosystemic timeline" approach (Bergeret et al 2015;Spiegelberger et al 2018), which consists in an interdisciplinary and holistic analysis of the trajectory of local territories based on literature searches and interviews with stakeholders. The quantitative part of the assessment used time-series analyses based on DPSIR indicators, including ES assessments, as proposed by Santos-Martín et al (2019) to scrutinize long-term socialecological dynamics at national scale.…”