A practical procedure for assessing resilience of social-ecological system using the System Dynamics Approach
Newton Paulo Bueno
While growing attention has been paid to the idea of
resilience of social-ecological systems, it seems that
there still are a number of gaps to bridge before we
could really use this concept for practical purposes.
The main problem is that the most of the works in the
field are unclear on how to unequivocally measure
the degree of resilience of particular social-ecological
systems. In this paper, we suggest to be possible
identifying the loss of resilience of social-ecological
systems as a process of loop dominance shift. In
order to illustrate the argument, we use a very
stylized system dynamics model for irrigation
systems developed by scholars associated to the
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at
Indiana University. Full Text
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