SES

• Social-ecological systems

  Complex, integrated systems in which humans are part of nature
• Social-ecological systems

  • The social and ecological subsystems are equally important, unlike socio-ecological systems where the social subsystem has less than equal status
• Core subsystems of SES (Ostrom 2009)


  • Resource units
  • Resource system
  • Governance system
  • Users
• Other factors in SES


  • Settings
  • Outcomes
  • interactions
  • Related ecosystems (ECO)
• Telecoupling


  An umbrella concept that includes various distant interactions (e.g. trade, species invasion, migration, tourism)
• Telecoupling


  • Promotes systematic, multidisciplinary studies on different types of distant interactions and their interrelationships
• Telecoupling example

  • Philippine Pangolin (Manis culionensis) in Palawan
• Sending systems


  Origins, sources, or donors from which flows of material, energy, or information move outward (e.g. exporting)
• Receiving systems


  Destinations or recipients that obtain flows from the sending systems (e.g. importing countries)
• Spillover systems


  Systems that affect and/or are affected by the interactions between sending and receiving systems (e.g. migratory bird stopover, port/airport connections, oil spill by tanker in transit, third party in trade agreement)
• System


  An interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something, consisting of elements, interconnections and a function or purpose
• Systems thinking

  • Looking at the big picture

  2. Taking a wider perspective

  3. Considering multiple perspectives

  4. Peeling back the layers of the onion

  5. Examining how things relate

  6. Looking for root causes and improvements

  7. Challenging
• "social-ecological"


  emphasizes that the two subsystems are equally important
• "socio-" 


  is a modifier in socio-ecological, implying a less than equal status of the social subsystem
• resource units

  • trees
  • shrubs
  • plants
• resource system

  • national park (forest, wildlife, water system)
• governance system

  • park management
• users

  • individual who use the park
• settings

  • social
  • economic
  • political
• outcomes

  • sustainability measure
• interaction

  • among the different subsystems
• related ecosystems (ECO)

  • telecoupling ( climate patterns )
• ESD

  • Education for Sustainable Development
• "tele"


  originated from the Greek adjective tele meaning "far off"