Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis

Gotts, Nick

doi:10.5751/es-02017-120124

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“…Recognizing that understanding is necessarily distributed leads to the insight that economic activity, which is necessarily Social, depends on shared understandings, that is to say, correlated knowledge. This provides a clue as to the unpredictability and unevenness of knowledge accumulation, and, of course, the unpredictability of capitalism as a knowledge driven system [58], with all the expansion of European capitalism, based on hierarchical relationships between societies, and its distinctive social-ecological systems over the past five centuries [59].…”

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Building Sustainable Development through Technology Transfer in a Romanian University

Vac

Fiţiu

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:To improve university and commercial ties with industry, many universities operate a technology transfer office (TTO) as a vehicle to support the creation of spin-off companies. Run effectively, the TTO can define roles and responsibilities, structures and processes that support the creation and development of new ventures. The challenge for universities is to create TTOs with the right skill set. This paper aims to analyze the TTO activities to support transforming research outputs into commercialization in the context of the University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine from Cluj-Napoca, Romania (UASVMCN). Throughout this paper, different commercialization channels, the roles of technology transfer offices and multiple associative structures are further discussed with a special focus on agricultural open innovations and technologies. This study contributes to sustainable development of both Academia and agricultural Industry research, development and commercialization activities by illustrating current innovation and technology transfer activities produced by UASVMCN and its own TTO as a catalyst entity, a new model in Romania, so that the Academia-TTO-Economy partners association draw a functional and productive triple helix. In order to assess the sustainability of using the above-mentioned TTO, the methodological tools involving analysis are implemented. Finally, this paper states that correct operating of a university TTO is a real opportunity for technology transfer, both from the perspective of an alternative to research funding or entrepreneurship, and from the cultural perspective of the university correlation to the current trends in research, innovation and technology transfer, on a unique and entrepreneurial European market.

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confidence: 99%

Building Sustainable Development through Technology Transfer in a Romanian University

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Fiţiu

2017

Sustainability

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“…This multiscalar, systems perspective is well aligned with resilience thinking, particularly with the notion of panarchy . However, with the exception of Gotts' (2007) overview of synergies with resilience ideas, world systems approaches remain relatively unexplored in the resilience literature.…”

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Probing the interfaces between the social sciences and social-ecological resilience: insights from integrative and hybrid perspectives in the social sciences

Stone-Jovicich¹

2015

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ABSTRACT. Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience thinking's oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems. Resilience scholars have countered with "where is the ecology" in social analyses? My aim is to contribute to current efforts to strengthen inter-and transdisciplinary debate and inquiry between the social-ecological resilience community and the social sciences. I synthesize three social science perspectives, which stress the complex, dynamic, and multiscalar interconnections between the biophysical and social realms in explaining social-environmental change, and which place both the social and ecology centre stage in their analyses: materio-spatial world systems analysis, critical realist political ecology, and actor-network theory. By integrating, in a nondeterministic and nonessentialist manner, the biophysical environment into social inquiries (integrative approaches) or by altogether abolishing the ecology/nature and human/culture divide (hybrid perspectives), these three social-science perspectives are well placed to foster stronger inter-and transdisciplinary ties with social-ecological resilience. Materiospatial world systems analysis is highly compatible with resilience thinking. The emphasis on world systems structures and processes offers the potential to enrich resilience analyses of global environmental change, global governance and stewardship, planetary boundaries, and multiscale resilience. Critical realist political ecology offers avenues for more in-depth interdisciplinary inquiries around local/traditional/indigenous knowledge systems and power. It also challenges resilience scholars to incorporate critical analyses of resilience's core concepts and practices. Actor-network theory proposes a very different starting point for understanding and assessing social-ecological resilience. Its focus on "resilience-in-the-making" offers unique insights but also pushes the conceptual boundaries of resilience thinking.

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“…World-systems theorists have provided insights into the "Great European LandGrab" (Gotts 2007) and drawn attention to the cyclical nature of enclosure at different spatiotemporal scales. They have further acknowledged the importance of natural forces and population dynamics in food insecurity and famine, and certainly drawn attention to the doctrines contrived by empires before and during the capitalist era to naturalize and legalize their expansions amidst periods of rising and falling economic fortunes (Davis 2001;Anderson and Chase-Dunn 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%