"The problem I see and addressed in this research is that our view of social-ecological systems is incomplete because it misses a critical linkage, which is the role of infrastructure," said David Yu, ...

They also tend to assume that the manager is outside the system being managed. However, where the objectives include long-term sustainability, linked social-ecological systems (SESs) behave as complex ...

This model is a systems level approach, which provides a theoretical ... standards and strive for consistent consequences when standards are violated. The Social Ecological Model attends to the ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This paper explores the 20-year evolution of the social-ecological systems framework (SESs). Although a first definition of SES dates back ...

Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying social-ecological systems and often result in adverse social, economic and ecological ...

Here, we show that the dynamics of human behaviour in response to ecological changes can be crucial in determining the overall dynamics of the system. We find a social–ecological regime shift in a ...

The rapid, human-induced changes in the Earth system during the Anthropocene present humanity with critical sustainability challenges. Social-ecological systems (SES) research provides multiple ...

Using perspectives from complex systems theory ... More information: Unbalanced social-ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland, Proceedings of the National ...