Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change

Adger, W. Neil; Eakin, Hallie; Winkels, Alexandra

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“…In the globalized social-ecological system, intricate crossscale interactions play out in novel ways (Lambin et al 2003;Holling 2004;Adger et al 2009;Galaz et al 2010). Urban fads, life-style changes, emergent markets, flows of resources, people, and information create new cross-scale linkages and feedbacks that increasingly connect distant peoples and places and shape the capacity of the biosphere to sustain human wellbeing in new ways.…”

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“…Other important cross-scale linkages include changes in variability of rainfall patterns that will most likely expose regions to changes in frequencies, magnitude and durations of droughts, fires, storms, floods, and other shocks and surprises, affecting for example, food production, trade and possibly sociopolitical stability (Fraser and Rimas 2011). Global time-space compression, in which actions taken in one place may have direct and immediate consequences at other places worldwide are becoming more common and increasingly result in ''teleconnected vulnerabilities'' (Adger et al 2009). …”

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“…There is lack of effective institutions at the appropriate levels and of synthetic institutions that address interactions between biogeophysical and socio-economic systems (Walker et al 2009b). Hence, current institutions run the risk of ignoring critical feedbacks, fail to address vulnerabilities that connect regions (Adger et al 2009;Renaud et al 2010) or are unable to respond to feedbacks to maintain or transform the social-ecological system into desirable and sustainable regimes (Fig. 7).…”

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

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Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social-ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social-ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social-ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere-a global sustainability agenda for humanity.

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“…Yet most risk assessments ignore networked threats 2,3 . The annual Global Risks report of the World Economic Forum considers risks qualitatively, based on the views of experts 4 .…”

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“…Risk reports also neglect the collective impacts of personal choices 3 . For example, eating more beef causes deforestation and biodiversity loss in the Amazon.…”

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Global change: Put people at the centre of global risk management

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iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to study socio‐hydro‐ecological systems

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Urbanization, climate, and ecosystem change represent major challenges for managing water resources. Although water systems are complex, a need exists for a generalized representation of these systems to identify important components and linkages to guide scientific inquiry and aid water management. We developed an integrated Structure-Actor-Water framework (iSAW) to facilitate the understanding of and transitions to sustainable water systems. Our goal was to produce an interdisciplinary framework for water resources research that could address management challenges across scales (e.g., plot to region) and domains (e.g., water supply and quality, transitioning, and urban landscapes). The framework was designed to be generalizable across all human-environment systems, yet with sufficient detail and flexibility to be customized to specific cases. iSAW includes three major components: structure (natural, built, and social), actors (individual and organizational), and water (quality and quantity). Key linkages among these components include: (1) ecological/hydrologic processes, (2) ecosystem/geomorphic feedbacks, (3) planning, design, and policy, (4) perceptions, information, and experience, (5) resource access and risk, and (6) operational water use and management. We illustrate the flexibility and utility of the iSAW framework by applying it to two research and management problems: understanding urban water supply and demand in a changing climate and expanding use of green storm water infrastructure in a semi-arid environment. The applications demonstrate that a generalized conceptual model can identify important components and linkages in complex and diverse water systems and facilitate communication about those systems among researchers from diverse disciplines.

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Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change

Cited by 314 publications

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Global change: Put people at the centre of global risk management

iSAW: Integrating Structure, Actors, and Water to study socio‐hydro‐ecological systems

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