Resilience and all that jazz

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Chapter 26 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 375-386 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Environmental sciences in a book about social complexity? Certainly. The study of ecologies and natural systems has generated a wealth of insights about complexity that cannot be ignored by social scientists. Importantly, the distinction between social and natural or physical systems exists in imagination only. In reality, social life is deeply embedded in all sorts of ecological processes. It is common to think of this embedding or coupledness in terms of socio-ecological systems. This part of the tour surveys the complexity of that coupledness, for example, in terms of coevolution, and discusses its analytical implications for the study of social complexity. We spend ample attention on the concept of resilience because it originates from the study of coupled socio-ecological systems, and has gained more traction than many other concepts from the complexity sciences.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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