Linking Social and Ecological Systems
Linking Social and Ecological Systems
Carl Folke, Stockholms Universitet
Johan Colding, Stockholms Universitet
£138.00
GBPIt is usually the case that scientists examine either ecological systems or social systems, yet the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of environmental management and sustainable development is becoming increasingly obvious. Developed under the auspices of the Beijer Institute in Stockholm, this new book analyses social and ecological linkages in selected ecosystems using an international and interdisciplinary case study approach. The chapters provide detailed information on a variety of management practices for dealing with environmental change. Taken as a whole, the book will contribute to the greater understanding of essential social responses to changes in ecosystems, including the generation, accumulation and transmission of ecological knowledge, structure and dynamics of institutions, and the cultural values underlying these responses. A set of new (or rediscovered) principles for sustainable ecosystem management is also presented. Linking Social and Ecological Systems will be of value to natural and social scientists interested in sustainability.
- Book results from a research study at the world-renowned Beijer Institute
- Contains insights into building flexibility into institutions so they are capable of proper ecosystem management
- Interdisciplinary study that brings much-needed integration of the social and scientific disciplines contributing to resources management
Reviews & endorsements
'This is a scholarly work, with an international focus, providing detailed ethnography and analysis of local and regional resource management systems. It should prove useful to ecologists, some anthropologists, cultural geographers and ecological economists … The systems-based, interdisciplinary, non-reductionist spirit that permeates this book represents a significant contribution to the understanding of human/nature relations.' Michael Redclift, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke brought together a remarkable group of people and organized their scholarly work to produce a splendid volume that marries the best research on social and ecological systems that exists today.' Ecological Economics
'These volumes offer the basis of a synthetic view of environment and human decision-making. Such work is of the highest importance, both as a basis for policy and for its inherent intellectual challenge.' W. M. Adams, TREE
'Berkes and Folke have produced a high quality publication which contributes to the laying of foundations for more harmonious socio-environmental relations in the future' Journal of Applied Ecology
'...an unusually coherent edited collection, which develops an unambiguous and compelling argument for adopting a rigorous interdisciplinary appraoch to natural resource management.' Journal of Applied Ecology
'A welcome contribution to the debate on the sustainable use of natural resources.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institution
Product details
February 1998Hardback
9780521591409
476 pages
236 × 160 × 36 mm
0.885kg
49 b/w illus. 15 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Linking social and ecological systems for resilience and sustainability Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke
- Part I. Learning from Locally Devised Systems:
- 2. People, refugia and resilience Madhav Gadgil, Natabar S. Hemam and B. Mohan Reddy
- 3. Learning by fishing: practical engagement and environemntal concerns GÃslà Palsson
- 4. Dalecarlia in Central Sweden before 1800: a society of social and ecological resilience Ulf Sporrong
- Part II. Emergence of Resource Management Adaptations:
- 5. Learning to design reslilient resource management: indigenous systems in the Canadian subarctic Fikret Berkes
- 6. Resilience and neotraditional populations: the caiçaras of the Atlantic forest and caboclos of the Amazon (Brazil) Alpina Begossi
- 7. Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rain forest ecosystem: a case study of the Yoruba of Ara, Nigeria D. Michael Warren and Jennifer Pinkson
- 8. Managing for human and ecological context in the Maine soft shell clam fishery Susan S. Hanna
- Part III. Success and Failure in Regional Systems:
- 9. Resilient resource management in Mexico's forest ecosystems: the contribution of property rights Janis B. Alcorn and Victor M. Toledo
- 10. The resilience of pastoral herding in Sahelian Africa Maryam Niamir-Fuller
- 11. Reviving the social system-ecosystem links in the Himalayas Narpat S. Jodha
- 12. Crossing the threshold of ecosystem resilience: the commercial extinction of northern cod A. Christopher Finlayson and Bonnie J. McCay
- Part IV. Designing New Approaches to Management:
- 13. Science, sustainability and resource management C. S. Holling, Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke
- 14. Integrated management of a temperate montane forest ecosystem through holistic forestry: a British Columbia example Evelyn Pinkerton
- 15. Managing chaotic fisheries James M. Acheson, James A. Wilson and Robert S. Steneck
- 16. Social mechanisms and institutional learning for resilience and sustainability Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes and Johan Colding
- Index.
