Paper/Poster/Presentation Title
Operationalizing Social Ecological Systems Resilience analysis using a Dynamic Index
Keywords
Social Ecological Systems, Resilience, System Dynamics, Governance, Sustainability
Start Date
28-6-2018 10:40 AM
End Date
28-6-2018 12:00 PM
Abstract
Governance of social ecological systems (SES) is a difficult task. Embrace its complexity, the coupled nature of social and ecological dimensions, feedbacks and non-linearity of its attributes and the necessity of dealing with society participation in the decision process make the challenge bigger. Resilience is a growing research field that can collaborate with this discussion. Resilience is a SES feature that enhance its capacity of maintain identity under different systems changes. This work uses system dynamics theory as foundation to build a Dynamic Resilience Index. This index uses Cobb-Douglas equation to encompass several resilience attributes as biodiversity, social networks, institutions, polycentric governance and others, and combine them with ecosystem services in a integrative and system based approach. The article concludes that system dynamics is a powerful tool to embrace resilience analysis and can collaborate with the social perspectives of social ecological systems analysis.
Operationalizing Social Ecological Systems Resilience analysis using a Dynamic Index
Governance of social ecological systems (SES) is a difficult task. Embrace its complexity, the coupled nature of social and ecological dimensions, feedbacks and non-linearity of its attributes and the necessity of dealing with society participation in the decision process make the challenge bigger. Resilience is a growing research field that can collaborate with this discussion. Resilience is a SES feature that enhance its capacity of maintain identity under different systems changes. This work uses system dynamics theory as foundation to build a Dynamic Resilience Index. This index uses Cobb-Douglas equation to encompass several resilience attributes as biodiversity, social networks, institutions, polycentric governance and others, and combine them with ecosystem services in a integrative and system based approach. The article concludes that system dynamics is a powerful tool to embrace resilience analysis and can collaborate with the social perspectives of social ecological systems analysis.
Stream and Session
C4: Building Urban Resilience of Coupled Infrastructure Systems
Organizers: Marco A. Janssen, Luis A. Bojórquez
Urban areas experience diverse social and environmental challenges including climate change and globalization. Stakeholder groups use integrated models to explore the possible futures. Using these models can lead to improving social infrastructure (institutional capacity) and urban resilience. For this session we aim to bring together scholars who develop integrated models of urban systems and use them for policy support on topics like water governance, hurricane impacts, urban metabolism, urban heat effects, etc. Those models include both social dimensions (actions of residents, political economy, evacuations, and land use change) as well as biophysical dimensions (urban climate, water runoff, subsidence, and pollution).