TY - CHAP
T1 - Adaptive capacity of coupled social-ecological systems to absorb climate extremes
AU - Rammig, Anja
AU - Bahn, Michael
AU - Vera, Carolina
AU - Knoke, Thomas
AU - Paul, Carola
AU - Vollan, Björn
AU - Erb, Karlheinz
AU - Bardgett, Richard D.
AU - Lavorel, Sandra
AU - Thonicke, Kirsten
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Ecosystems and society are strongly interlinked and are, therefore, considered as coupled social-ecological systems (SESs). A promising approach for assessing the impacts of climate extremes is based on the concept of social-ecological resilience (SER), which defines the capacity of a SES to delay the impact, reduce the severity of the impact and enhance recovery from it. The operationalization of the SER concept requires the integration of ecological resilience and of transformational processes of society. In this chapter, we provide examples from five transdisciplinary research projects, in which social and natural scientists have been involved, with a high degree of participation of nonacademic actors. We show how the resilience of coupled SESs is affected by climate extremes in different ways and how a transformation toward future SES and enhanced SER can be achieved. We show that, generally, diversification of ecosystems as well as of societal processes such as ecosystem management and communication strategies is an asset for increased resilience of SES to climate extremes.
AB - Ecosystems and society are strongly interlinked and are, therefore, considered as coupled social-ecological systems (SESs). A promising approach for assessing the impacts of climate extremes is based on the concept of social-ecological resilience (SER), which defines the capacity of a SES to delay the impact, reduce the severity of the impact and enhance recovery from it. The operationalization of the SER concept requires the integration of ecological resilience and of transformational processes of society. In this chapter, we provide examples from five transdisciplinary research projects, in which social and natural scientists have been involved, with a high degree of participation of nonacademic actors. We show how the resilience of coupled SESs is affected by climate extremes in different ways and how a transformation toward future SES and enhanced SER can be achieved. We show that, generally, diversification of ecosystems as well as of societal processes such as ecosystem management and communication strategies is an asset for increased resilience of SES to climate extremes.
KW - Climate extreme
KW - Management
KW - Resilience
KW - Social-ecological system
KW - Transdisciplinary
KW - Transformation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094610516&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-814895-2.00014-8
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-814895-2.00014-8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85094610516
SN - 9780128148969
SP - 257
EP - 278
BT - Climate Extremes and Their Implications for Impact and Risk Assessment
PB - Elsevier
ER -