Jennifer Hodbod
Arizona State University
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Ecology and Society | 2014
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
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
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
Jennifer Hodbod; W. Neil Adger
Chapters | 2007
W. Neil Adger; Jennifer Hodbod
Geography Compass | 2013
Jennifer Hodbod; Julia Tomei
Journal of Environmental Management | 2016
Jennifer Hodbod; Olivier Barreteau; Craig R. Allen; Danièle Magda
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2015
Tina Blaber-Wegg; Jennifer Hodbod; Julia Tomei
Sustainability | 2018
Ryan Vroegindewey; Jennifer Hodbod
Environmental Research Letters | 2018
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