Ecosystems and People (Dec 2022)
The programme on ecosystem change and society (PECS) – a decade of deepening social-ecological research through a place-based focus
- Albert V. Norström,
- Bina Agarwal,
- Patricia Balvanera,
- Brigitte Baptiste,
- Elena M. Bennett,
- Eduardo Brondízio,
- Reinette Biggs,
- Bruce Campbell,
- Stephen R. Carpenter,
- Juan Carlos Castilla,
- Antonio J. Castro,
- Wolfgang Cramer,
- Graeme S. Cumming,
- María Felipe-Lucia,
- Joern Fischer,
- Carl Folke,
- Ruth DeFries,
- Stefan Gelcich,
- Juliane Groth,
- Chinwe Ifejika Speranza,
- Sander Jacobs,
- Johanna Hofmann,
- Terry P Hughes,
- David P.M. Lam,
- Jacqueline Loos,
- Amanda Manyani,
- Berta Martín-López,
- Megan Meacham,
- Hannah Moersberger,
- Harini Nagendra,
- Laura Pereira,
- Stephen Polasky,
- Michael Schoon,
- Lisen Schultz,
- Odirilwe Selomane,
- Marja Spierenburg
Affiliations
- Albert V. Norström
- Global Resilience Partnership, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bina Agarwal
- Global Development Institute, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Patricia Balvanera
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
- Brigitte Baptiste
- Universidad EAN, Bogotá, DC, Colombia
- Elena M. Bennett
- Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Bieler School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Eduardo Brondízio
- Department of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
- Reinette Biggs
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Bruce Campbell
- CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security c/o University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Stephen R. Carpenter
- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Juan Carlos Castilla
- Departamento de Ecología and Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas, Las Cruces, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Antonio J. Castro
- Andalusian Centre for the Assessment and Monitoring of Global Change (CAESCG), Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
- Wolfgang Cramer
- Institut Mediterranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université, Technopole Arbois-Mediterranée, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Graeme S. Cumming
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
- María Felipe-Lucia
- Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
- Joern Fischer
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Carl Folke
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Ruth DeFries
- Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
- Stefan Gelcich
- Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Juliane Groth
- Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
- Chinwe Ifejika Speranza
- Department of Applied Economics, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN USA
- Sander Jacobs
- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Johanna Hofmann
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Terry P Hughes
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
- David P.M. Lam
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Jacqueline Loos
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Amanda Manyani
- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Berta Martín-López
- Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Megan Meacham
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Hannah Moersberger
- Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
- Harini Nagendra
- Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Brussels, Belgium
- Laura Pereira
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stephen Polasky
- Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Michael Schoon
- Institute of Ecology, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Lisen Schultz
- Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Odirilwe Selomane
- Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- Marja Spierenburg
- Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2022.2133173
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 18,
no. 1
pp. 598 – 608
Abstract
The Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) was established in 2011, and is now one of the major international social-ecological systems (SES) research networks. During this time, SES research has undergone a phase of rapid growth and has grown into an influential branch of sustainability science. In this Perspective, we argue that SES research has also deepened over the past decade, and helped to shed light on key dimensions of SES dynamics (e.g. system feedbacks, aspects of system design, goals and paradigms) that can lead to tangible action for solving the major sustainability challenges of our time. We suggest four ways in which the growth of place-based SES research, fostered by networks such as PECS, has contributed to these developments, namely by: 1) shedding light on transformational change, 2) revealing the social dynamics shaping SES, 3) bringing together diverse types of knowledge, and 4) encouraging reflexive researchers.
Keywords
- Christian Albert
- Ecosystem social-ecological systems
- sustainability science
- transformations
- valuation
- co-production
