A nice reflection on knowledge integration within the recent and major IPBES values assessment work.
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss1/art16/
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In the broad field of social-ecological research, a new society was launched: the
SocSES – Society For Social-Ecological Systems
"The aim of the society is to advance and support social-ecological systems-based research, practice and action towards a just and sustainable future, by providing an intellectual home, community and identity for social-ecological systems researchers, practitioners, research institutes and networks."
As far as I can see, this society is mainly supported by highly recognized institutions, especially from the global north.
Just in case someone is interested in joining another society at the intersection of research, policy, and practice.
SocSESSocSES – Society For Social-Ecological SystemsSave the date! SocSES is Launching! We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES). Join us to celebrate and learn abo
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a new home for SES researchers is launching this month.
SocSES. https://socses.org
Different ways to operationalise the social in applied models and simulations of sustainability science: A contribution for the enhancement of good modelling practices. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380024003405?via%3Dihub
exciting news, a new Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES) is forming. https://socses.org/
virtual launch on 27th March 
SocSESSocSES – Society For Social-Ecological SystemsSave the date! SocSES is Launching! We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES). Join us to celebrate and learn abo
In an attempt to de-jargon and explain my phd project, I've written an introductory, no prior knowledge necessary, blog on it.
https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/2025/02/17/balancing-with-antarctica/
Joyful that Jean Donaldson has drawn illustrations for it 
tl;dr society/ecology + governance/geopolitics at the south pole.
A heart model of Earth Stewardship.
Shaking up science for positive futures.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eas2.12019
#askfedi I need help launching the Make in Place #Design Challenge. I'm looking for feedback, guidance, and mentorship, including incubator/accelerator programs that support #nonprofit initiatives. Do you know of a good fit?
#MakeinPlace proposes a global challenge to explore how #sustainable practices could support each other in #regenerative #circular #systems. Learn more at https://makeinplace.wordpress.com
New chapter on the Buzzwordcene https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15654-0.00024-4
Challenging #Anthropocene #SocialEcologicalSystems #PlanetaryBoundaries #EarthSystemBoundaries #SocialCapital #ClimateCrisis and more.
See also:
1. https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2023/01/25/planetary-boundaries-a-framework-against-geodynamics
2. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003017653-16/planetary-boundaries-ilan-kelman
#Sustainability #SustainableDevelopment #GeoEthics
Developing degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, a call for collaboration. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01483-9
SpringerLinkDegrowth scenarios for biodiversity? Key methodological steps and a call for collaboration - Sustainability ScienceStudies show that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss and that, after a certain threshold, it does not contribute to wellbeing. Thus, when developing biodiversity scenarios, considering societal futures where economic growth is not a pre-condition deserves special attention. However, to date, degrowth scenarios have not been explored for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing. In this paper, we explain how the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) and other approaches could be used to generate degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and good quality of life (GQL) based on multiple societal values. We present key methodological steps of such an endeavour, including: (i) producing degrowth visions for high-income countries; (ii) identifying leverage points and imagining degrowth pathways; (iii) identifying key social–ecological interactions; and (iv) modelling biodiversity, NCP, and GQL along degrowth scenarios. Our proposal is framed within current theoretical, empirical, and modelling work as well as within efforts to improve scenario development across the biodiversity and climate communities. To develop degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, NCP, and GQL, we call for collaboration across natural and social sciences, quantitative and qualitative approaches, and northern and southern perspectives. This collaboration could lead to a community of practice that tests and improves the degrowth scenarios in national and international science–policy interfaces as they set out to achieve the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.
A call for #collaboration:
Systemic #design can be daunting, and the critical nature of the #climatecrisis doesn’t make it less so. The work must be iterative, with contributing voices and ongoing feedback.
I need help with it. As a writer, I ask questions, document, and consider the larger picture. However, I’m not a subject-matter expert in any science or technique. #SocialEcologicalSystems call for collaboration. The more input, the better.
It's day 6 of the #AlterNetSummerSchool in beautiful and sunny Peyresq and we kick-off with Bruno Locatelli talking about "Social-Ecological transformations: Power and justice in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru"
#SocialEcologicalSystems
#TransformativeChange
#EnvironmentalJustice
#EcosystemServices
"Networks of action situations in social–ecological systems: current approaches and potential futures" Our editorial to the Special Feature on Networks of Action Situations in Social-Ecological Systems Research in Sustainability Science has been published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01278-w
#ecology #socialscience #socialecologicalsystems #transformation #science #sustainability @sociology @politicalscience @ecologies
SpringerLinkNetworks of action situations in social–ecological systems: current approaches and potential futures - Sustainability Science“Action situations”—instances of decision-making and agency—have become central to studying social–ecological systems. This special feature collects research using the network of action situations (NAS) approach to structure the way these action situations are embedded into broader interdependent instances of decision-making in different policy or discursive realms, spatial and jurisdictional context, or at different institutional levels. In this editorial, we summarize the key themes that emerged throughout the collection of the 17 articles included in this special feature. The editorial emphasizes the value of NAS in appropriately and sensitively reconstructing relations while pursuing consistency in modes of analysis. It highlights as key themes the complementarity of and disconnects between situations, temporality of NAS, and how NAS can structure the analysis of power in SES. Going further, we suggest expanding on the relational turn, developing NAS archetypes, and studying polycentric governance theories and hypotheses using the NAS approach.
Just out!! A new article led by Pablo F. Méndez.
We explore #power dynamics in the #governance of #SocialEcologicalSystems in networks of action situations:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01258-0
SpringerLinkUnderstanding the governance of sustainability pathways: hydraulic megaprojects, social–ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations - Sustainability ScienceTo enable sustainability pathways, we need to understand how social–ecological systems (SES) respond to different governance configurations, considering their historical, institutional, political, and power conditions. We advance a robust methodological approach for the integrated analysis of those conditions in SES traps. Our advancement consists of a novel combination of the networks of action situations approach with an agency-based polycentric power typology and the concept of discursive power. We test the approach by building on previous research on the Doñana estuary–delta SES (Guadalquivir estuary), which is characterized by a rigidity trap in the context of ecosystem and water governance. Specifically, we focus on a recent hydraulic megaproject involving deep dredging in the Guadalquivir estuary, finally canceled due to its broad negative socioeconomic and environmental repercussions. According to our analysis, certain governance, institutional, and informational mechanisms currently prevent further SES degradation in Doñana. However, key governance actors are caught in a lasting coordination failure prone to mutual defection strategies owing to power dynamics and discursive-institutional inertia. Although seemingly stable due to counteractive mechanisms among actors, this situation is at continuous risk of being unbalanced by powerful actors promoting large SES interventions such as deep dredging. Such interventions bear the systemic risk of strong suppression of SES functions, and a regime shift to a lock-in trap. This overall undesirable situation might be escaped through transformative policy designs that take into account meso-level mechanisms, such as discursive power and its role in non-decision-making, pragmatic inaction, and inefficient investment and infrastructure.
#Introduction post!
I am a #marsocsci researcher working with coastal communities, policy makers and practitioners to protect #marine #biodiversity and to achieve #socialjustice and #sustainability in #ocean resource use, under #climatechange.
#postdoc at #ciimar, the interdisciplinary centre of marine and environmental research, university of porto, #portugal.
Happy to learn and discuss about #socialecologicalsystems #consocsci #politicalecology #oceanequity #climatejustice.
#introduction My research focuses on #socialinnovation, #transformations to #sustainability & #justice, #watergovernance, #socialecologicalsystems #resilience & #complexsystems. Also #imagination, diverse #speculative #futures, #reflexivity & more
Love #processdesign, and lead #transdisciplinary education programs with amazing #changemakers from around the world!
Also love humour, too many things for a decent intro & hoping to contribute to a positive, supportive & diverse community here