Regional analysis of social-ecological systems

Bourgeron, Patrick S.; Humphries, Hope C.; Riboli-Sasco, Livio

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“…Recent thinking on this issue has therefore led to focusing on the institutions' capacity for maintaining territories in a stable state and creating opportunities for change to reach another stable state [34] [38].…”

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“…The socialisation of nature suggested by this approach to humans' relationships with their environment refers to analogism, as defined by Descola [33]. The concept of the socio-ecological system and its process of regional analysis [34] [35] recalls here the need to include social and political compartments in the knowledge of ecosystems, their interactions, and their functions [36]. On this point, the compartmentalisation of scientific domains tends to produce a splintered approach in the analysis of changes that have occurred since the beginning of the Anthropocene Era, namely since the great scientific and industrial revolutions of the 18 th century.…”

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Living with or Eradicating Poisonous Snakes in Densely Populated Caribbean Islands—A Socio-Ecological Challenge for the French West Indies

Gros-Désormeaux¹,

Lagabrielle²,

Lesales³

et al. 2017

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The lancehead (Bothrops lanceolatus) is a poisonous snake endemic to Martinique, an island in the Lesser Antilles arc. Today, this snake is on the verge of extinction. The recorded number of snakes killed yearly between 1970 and 2002 decreased by 97%. Despite the production of an antivenom in 1993, the local authorities set up a financial reward to encourage the eradication of lancehead snakes. Today the local population still perceives the snake as a threat, due to its fatal venom and its fierce behaviour. The case study of the lancehead in Martinique highlights the need to develop integrated strategies to conserve species of poisonous snakes on densely populated islands. This requires innovative, cross-sectoral strategies that involve decision-makers working along with multi-disciplinary scientists. Approaching the complexity of ecosystems through the socio-ecological prism implies, conversely, linking up the domains of science and technology, life and environmental sciences, and human and social sciences, through interactions based on sharing common assumptions.

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Living with or Eradicating Poisonous Snakes in Densely Populated Caribbean Islands—A Socio-Ecological Challenge for the French West Indies

Gros-Désormeaux¹,

Lagabrielle²,

Lesales³

et al. 2017

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“…Beyond the existing observatories, this approach to SEOs as engagement systems expands upon many dimensions of integrated assessments that emerged in the 1980s, as scientists and policy makers struggled to tackle complex issues by integrating economic, land management, and climate-change data to guide decision making from local, regional, and national scales (Tol and Vellinga 1998; Lessard et al 1999;Jensen et al 2001;Bourgeron et al 2009). It enhances past methodologies in two ways.…”

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Understanding large‐scale, complex, human–environmental processes: a framework for social–ecological observatories

Bourgeron

Kliskey

Alessa

et al. 2018

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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There is a growing consensus that transdisciplinary environmental networks are required to generate knowledge of the dynamics of coupled human–natural systems (CHANs) and to assess societal and policy consequences of complex environmental issues. Few of the existing large environmental observatory networks collect much, if any, data on the CHANs coupling mechanisms, reaffirming the need to develop observing approaches and structures that address the interoperability of the diverse data being obtained from these systems. We review the characteristics of existing environmental observatories and similar initiatives used to monitor CHANs, and identify opportunities for interoperability among them. From a synthesis of the characteristics of environmental networks representing a wide spectrum of research approaches and applications, a conceptual framework of a typical Social–Ecological Observatory (SEO) is presented to support long‐term, multi‐scaled CHANs observations through a common set of principles for organizing the observatories. Finally, we identify three areas of emphasis where progress is needed to support the use and application of SEOs.

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“…NOTES 1. One can draw a parallel to the approaches that integrate environmental dimensions or think in terms of sustainable development (Bourgeron et al, 2009). Also founded on a paradigm of negotiation supposed to lead to a balanced distribution of rights and duties between the different local stakeholders, following a deliberation process, these works seek to take into account both the objectives and the constraints of an economic and environmental nature, in a perspective of weak sustainability.…”

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Introduction: the role of proximity relations in regional and territorial development processes

Torre¹,

Wallet²

2014

Regional Development and Proximity Relations

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Proximity analyses have nowadays turned out to be a part of the toolbox of regional scientists, and this notion has recently become very popular in the field of politics, and private or public stakeholders. Proximity is an argument for selling food or financial products, as well as a good slogan for local networks or social devices or even for policymakers.In parallel, the notion of proximity has spread in the academic literature and is now commonly used by scholars in regional science, geography and spatial economics. The use of the word proximity has increased and grown in importance, in particular for authors interested in the question of milieus, districts, distance analyses, or in recent advances in economic geography or evolutionary geography. Interest is now extending to works dedicated to innovation processes, links between science and industry, relations between users and producers or subcontractors, national systems of innovation, innovative milieus, and also local labour markets or urban policies. Indeed, the use of the concept of proximity, plural by nature through its spatial as well as non-spatial dimensions, is the key for overcoming the apparent opposition between the reaffirmation of the importance of the local and the death of distance and for escaping the sterile confinement in one or the other extreme positions.But despite the substantial literature on proximity processes and relations, only a few academic works have been devoted to studying the link between regional development and proximity relations. This book intends to fill this gap and to pave the way for future research in this field. We consider that the integration of the notion of proximity into the framework of regional development analysis provides interesting input due to its plasticity and ability to draw connections between spatial, economic and social dimensions; but also suggests ways of possible changes for regional and territorial policies. The main aim is to try to assess the importance of proximity relations (or obstacles led by proximity André Torre and Frédéric Wallet -9781781002889

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Regional analysis of social-ecological systems

Cited by 21 publications

References 62 publications

Living with or Eradicating Poisonous Snakes in Densely Populated Caribbean Islands—A Socio-Ecological Challenge for the French West Indies

Living with or Eradicating Poisonous Snakes in Densely Populated Caribbean Islands—A Socio-Ecological Challenge for the French West Indies

Understanding large‐scale, complex, human–environmental processes: a framework for social–ecological observatories

Introduction: the role of proximity relations in regional and territorial development processes

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