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Ecology and Society | 2014

Studying the complexity of change: Toward an analytical framework for understanding deliberate social-ecological transformations

Michele-Lee Moore; Ola Tjornbo; Elin Enfors; Corrie Knapp; Jennifer Hodbod; Jacopo A. Baggio; Albert V. Norström; Per Olsson; Duan Biggs

Faced with numerous seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, many scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding how to actively engage and transform the existing systems holding such problems in place. Although a variety of analytical models have emerged in recent years, most emphasize either the social or ecological elements of such transformations rather than their coupled nature. To address this, first we have presented a definition of the core elements of a social-ecological system (SES) that could potentially be altered in a transformation. Second, we drew on insights about transformation from three branches of literature focused on radical change, i.e., social movements, socio-technical transitions, and social innovation, and gave consideration to the similarities and differences with the current studies by resilience scholars. Drawing on these findings, we have proposed a framework that outlines the process and phases of transformative change in an SES. Future research will be able to utilize the framework as a tool for analyzing the alteration of social-ecological feedbacks, identifying critical barriers and leverage points and assessing the outcome of social-ecological transformations.


Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences | 2015

Adapting a social-ecological resilience framework for food systems

Jennifer Hodbod; Hallie Eakin

The purpose of applying social-ecological resilience thinking to food systems is twofold: first, to define those factors that help achieve a state in which food security for all and at all scales is possible and second, to provide insights into how to maintain the system in this desirable regime. However, the resilience of food systems is distinct from the broader conceptualizations of resilience in social-ecological systems because of the fundamentally normative nature of food systems: humans need food to survive, and thus, system stability is typically a primary policy objective for food system management. However, society also needs food systems that can intensify sustainably, i.e., feed everybody equitably, provide livelihoods, and avoid environmental degradation while responding flexibly to shocks and uncertainty. Today’s failure in meeting food security objectives can be interpreted as the lack of current governance arrangements to consider the full and differential dimensions of food system functions—economic, ecological, and social—at appropriate scales: in other words, the multifunctionality of food. We focus on functional and response diversity as two key attributes of resilient, multifunctional food systems, respectively, the number of different functional groups and the diversity of types of responses to disturbances within a functional group. Achieving food security will require functional redundancy and enhanced response diversity, creating multiple avenues to fulfill all food system objectives. We use the 2013–2015 drought in California to unpack the potential differences between managing for a single function—economic profit—and multiple functions. Our analysis emphasizes how the evolution of the Californian food system has reduced functional and response diversity and created vulnerabilities. Managing for the resilience of food systems will require a shift in priorities from profit maximization to the management for all functions that create full food security at multiple scales.


The Journal of Environment & Development | 2015

A Comparative Analysis of the Equity Outcomes in Three Sugarcane-Ethanol Systems

Jennifer Hodbod; Julia Tomei; Tina Blaber-Wegg

This article identifies equity outcomes associated with three biofuel systems in Brazil, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. Acknowledging that winners and losers are socially and politically generated, the article identifies some of the factors behind the distribution of winners and losers along different stages of three sugarcane–ethanol supply chains. Analyzing the outcomes for equity within each case study reveals an uneven distribution that, we argue, is related to the procedure and structure of the given sugarcane–ethanol system, and the recognition of the impacts on different actors within those structures. Increasing equity in sugarcane–ethanol systems will require greater openness in decision-making processes, in order that multiple voices are taken into account in the promotion, production, and consumption of biofuels—particularly those of smaller and less powerful actors.


Energy research and social science | 2014

Integrating social-ecological dynamics and resilience into energy systems research

Jennifer Hodbod; W. Neil Adger


Chapters | 2007

Ecological and social resilience

W. Neil Adger; Jennifer Hodbod


Geography Compass | 2013

Demystifying the social impacts of biofuels at local levels: Where is the evidence?

Jennifer Hodbod; Julia Tomei


Journal of Environmental Management | 2016

Managing adaptively for multifunctionality in agricultural systems

Jennifer Hodbod; Olivier Barreteau; Craig R. Allen; Danièle Magda


Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2015

Incorporating equity into sustainability assessments of biofuels

Tina Blaber-Wegg; Jennifer Hodbod; Julia Tomei


Sustainability | 2018

Resilience of Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Country Contexts: A Framework and Assessment Approach

Ryan Vroegindewey; Jennifer Hodbod


Environmental Research Letters | 2018

Defining tipping points for social-ecological systems scholarship—an interdisciplinary literature review

Manjana Milkoreit; Jennifer Hodbod; Jacopo A. Baggio; Karina Benessaiah; Rafael Calderón-Contreras; Jonathan F. Donges; Jean Denis Mathias; Juan Carlos Rocha; Michael Schoon; Saskia E. Werners

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Julia Tomei

University College London

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Corrie Knapp

University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Ola Tjornbo

University of Waterloo

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