Regime shifts in social-ecological systems

Maciejewski, Kristi; Biggs, Reinette; Rocha, Juan Carlos

doi:10.4337/9781786439376.00021

Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems 2019

DOI: 10.4337/9781786439376.00021

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Regime shifts in social-ecological systems

Kristi Maciejewski¹,

Reinette Biggs²,

Juan Carlos Rocha³

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The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective

Idrobo,

Leblanc,

O’Connor

2024

Hum Ecol

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We present a perspective on how the Eeyou (James Bay Cree) from Eeyou Istchee (Eastern James Bay, Québec) understand the transformation of their traditional fall goose hunt system as a consequence of social and environmental changes across marine and terrestrial ecosystems with drivers operating at the local, regional and continental scales. Eeyou land users from the Chisasibi and Wemindji First Nations report that their traditional fall goose hunt underwent a “turning point” during the early 2000s. Not only did the abundance of Canadian geese reach a historical low, but their feeding and migratory behavior became unpredictable. Eeyou land users associate such abrupt changes with the massive eelgrass die-off of the late 1990s, the onset of the effects of climate change on coastal habitats experienced since the 1970s, and agricultural development along geese flyways. This manuscript is an outcome of the Eeyou Knowledge component of the Coastal Habitat Comprehensive Research Project (2016–2022) and followed a community-based case study approach that included 28 semi-structured interviews and 14 mapping interviews with Eeyou research contributors. The findings presented here underscore the capacity of Indigenous knowledge to make sense of the multifaceted impacts of environmental change across various dimensions and layers of their social-ecological system, including management strategies and values.

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The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective

Idrobo,

Leblanc,

O’Connor

2024

Hum Ecol

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Inclusive Sustainability Approaches in Common-Pool Resources from the Perspective of Blackologists

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The tragedy of the commons posits that depletion of common resources harms all stakeholders. Although such a downward spiral is plausible, the potential outcomes are far more complex. In the present article, we report on this coupled feedback between resource strategies and the environment from the perspective of Blackologists. We fully embrace that our understanding and appreciation for nature are inherently shaped by our identity, culture, and lived experiences. First, we deconstruct the uses and beneficiaries of the shared resource. Then, we identify potential cascades of conflict through the lens of resource partitioning, plasticity, and mitigation strategies recognizing the inherent human dimension nested within these dynamics. We emphasize that who studies these processes can alter the framing and outcome of the tragedy through several case studies. We recommend that avoidance of environmental tragedies is possible with inclusive engagement, interdisciplinarity, and oversight at different spatial and temporal scales.

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Tipping points in coupled human–environment system models: a review

Farahbakhsh,

Bauch,

Anand

2024

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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Abstract. Mathematical models that couple human behavior to environmental processes can offer valuable insights into how human behavior affects various types of ecological, climate, and epidemiological systems. This review focuses on human drivers of tipping events in coupled human–environment systems where changes to the human system can abruptly lead to desirable or undesirable new human–environment states. We use snowball sampling from relevant search terms to review the modeling of social processes – such as social norms and rates of social change – that are shown to drive tipping events, finding that many affect the coupled system depending on the system type and initial conditions. For example, tipping points can manifest very differently in human extraction versus human emission systems. Some potential interventions, such as reducing costs associated with sustainable behavior, have intuitive results. However, their beneficial outcomes via less obvious tipping events are highlighted. Of the models reviewed, we found that greater structural complexity can be associated with increased potential for tipping events. We review generic and state-of-the-art techniques in early warning signals of tipping events and identify significant opportunities to utilize digital social data to look for such signals. We conclude with an outline of challenges and promising future directions specific to furthering our understanding and informing policy that promotes sustainability within coupled human–environment systems. Non-technical summary. Mathematical models that include interactions between humans and the environment can provide valuable information to further our understanding of tipping points. Many social processes such as social norms and rates of social change can affect these tipping points in ways that are often specific to the system being modeled. Higher complexity of social structure can increase the likelihood of these transitions. We discuss how data are used to predict tipping events across many coupled systems.

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Regime shifts in social-ecological systems

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The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective

The “Turning Point” for the Fall Goose Hunt in Eeyou Istchee: A Social-Ecological Regime Shift from an Indigenous Knowledge Perspective

Inclusive Sustainability Approaches in Common-Pool Resources from the Perspective of Blackologists

Tipping points in coupled human–environment system models: a review

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