Abstract
Mancilla García, M., T. Hertz, M. Schlüter, R. Preiser, and M. Woermann. 2020. Adopting process-relational perspectives to tackle the challenges of social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society 25(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11425-250129
Highlights
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has developed as a field of interdisciplinary sustainability science (Schoon and van der Leeuw 2015)
We demonstrate that adopting a processrelational perspective, which focuses on nonequilibrium dynamics and relations between processes, provides novel opportunities to advance SES research
We propose concrete steps toward developing a process-relational perspective of SES and discuss how such a perspective can help us to overcome the challenges currently facing SES research
Summary
Social-ecological systems (SES) research has developed as a field of interdisciplinary sustainability science (Schoon and van der Leeuw 2015). CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM (SES) RESEARCH Several recent reviews of the state of SES research acknowledge its significant achievements, including a growing recognition that humanity depends on nature, an increase in collaboration and cooperation among disciplines ( beyond the scientific domain), and a growing influence of SES perspectives on major policy frameworks (Fischer et al 2015, Turner et al 2016, Kramer et al 2017, Guerrero et al 2018) These studies, point to major remaining challenges, of which the four most prevalent are (i) integrating the social and ecological, (ii) better accounting for complexity, (iii) better accounting for dynamics across scales (time and geographical), and (iv) better combining/ integrating different knowledge systems (see Table 1).
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