Print Email Facebook Twitter Comparison of frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems Title Comparison of frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems Author Binder, Claudia (Technische Universität München) Hinkel, Jochen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) Bots, P.W.G. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Pahl-Wostl, Claudia (University of Osnabrück) Date 2013 Abstract In this paper we compare 10 established frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems. We limited ourselves to frameworks that were explicitly designed to be used by a wider community of researchers and practitioners. Although all these frameworks seem to have emerged from the need for concepts that permit structured, interdisciplinary reasoning about complex problems in social-ecological systems, they differ significantly with respect to contextual and structural criteria, such as conceptualization of the ecological and social systems and their interrelation. It appears that three main criteria suffice to produce a classification of frameworks that may be used as a decision tree when choosing a framework for analysis. These criteria are (i) whether a framework conceptualizes the relationship between the social and ecological systems as being uni- or bidirectional; (ii) whether it takes an anthropocentric or an ecocentric perspective on the ecological system; and (iii) whether it is an action-oriented or an analysis-oriented framework. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:965b7d0f-f8b3-4e73-aaf1-828cb4d15eda DOI https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05551-180426 ISSN 1708-3087 Source Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, 18 (4) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2013 Claudia Binder, Jochen Hinkel, P.W.G. Bots, Claudia Pahl-Wostl Files PDF ES_2013_5551.pdf 269.72 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:965b7d0f-f8b3-4e73-aaf1-828cb4d15eda/datastream/OBJ/view