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Panarchy: ripples of a boundary concept [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
How do social-ecological systems change over time? In 2002 Holling and colleagues proposed the concept of Panarchy, which presented social-ecological systems as an interacting set of adaptive cycles, each of which is produced by the dynamic tensions between novelty and efficiency at multiple scales.
arxiv  

Transforming Management Education: Insights from Social‐Ecological Systems and Social Innovation Research

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract It is clear that contemporary management education (ME) needs to be transformed to tackle complex social‐ecological crises effectively. However, the concept of transformation is often ill‐defined in the context of ME; while there is also a lack of understanding about what concrete transformation trajectories (also called scaling pathways) are ...
Laura A. Colombo
wiley   +1 more source

The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The Circus as a Model for Viewing Identity, Change, and Chaos

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2007
Resilience, adaptability, and transformability are all tightly linked to the notion of change, whether in respect to coping with, adapting to, or harnessing it. But in order to understand these forces of change, we first need to recognize its counterpart:
Philip A. Loring
doaj   +1 more source

What Options Do We Have? The Supply Chain Resilience Funnel

open access: yesJournal of Supply Chain Management, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 74-105, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Supply chain resilience (SCRes) enables an organization to deal with disruptive changes over time. Previous research has often examined SCRes as a standalone concept, overlooking its multidimensional and complex roots that enable organizations to deal with change. This research integrates SCRes with connectedness and potential. Together, these
Kirstin Scholten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘long now’ of southern African water: Exploring aspects of enchantment and disenchantment in Brandfort

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2015
Strategies aimed at understanding contemporary South African water supply and sanitation problems require a broad view of factors such as migration, urbanisation and climate change.
Johann Tempelhoff
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability transition theories: Perpetuating or breaking with the status quo

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 52-68, February 2025.
Abstract How scientists frame problems impact the solutions offered. Since the late 1940s development has been equated with modernization, technology adoption, and economic growth. Contrasting to this technocentric view, an ecocentric view has developed since the 1960s.
Katharina Biely, Sabrina Chakori
wiley   +1 more source

The adaptive cycle and the ecosystem services: a social-ecological analysis of Chiloé Island, southern Chile

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2020
We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chiloé Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a social-ecological system.
Daniela C. Pérez-Orellana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supply chain transformative capabilities and their microfoundations for circular economy transition: A qualitative study in Made in Italy sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 33, Issue 8, Page 8695-8715, December 2024.
Abstract In today's rapidly evolving landscape, supply chains must develop specific dynamic capabilities for initiating and successfully governing their transformations toward new configurations to withstand pressures arising from competitions and global changes.
Raffaele Nacchiero   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redesigning mineral regimes to strengthen the environmental rule of law: A case study on lithium in brines

open access: yesReview of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 633-646, November 2024.
Abstract This article aims to contribute to aligning the legal regimes for energy transition minerals with sustainability and justice. The focus of the article is on effectively embedding the human right to a healthy environment into the design of these regimes.
Ana Elizabeth Bastida
wiley   +1 more source

A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2013
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage.
Ahjond S. Garmestani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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