An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research
An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research
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DOI：
10.1890/100068
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Whitmer, Ali C.
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作者：
Collins, Scott L.;Carpenter, Stephen R.;Whitmer, Ali C.
人类活动的全球范围影响着所有自然生态系统，因此最好将环境视为一个社会生态系统。因此，迫切需要一种更加综合的环境科学方法，一种连接生物物理和社会领域的方法。尽管存在社会生态系统的模型和框架，但很少有明确设计用于指导长期跨学科研究计划。在这里，我们提出了一个迭代框架“压力-脉冲动力学”（PPD），它通过了解人类行为如何影响“压力”和“脉冲”动力学和生态系统过程来整合生物物理和社会科学。这些动态和过程反过来影响生态系统服务，从而改变人类行为并启动影响原始动态和过程的反馈。我们相信，以 PPD 框架为指导的研究将带来对社会生态系统的更透彻的理解，并产生解决普遍存在的环境问题所需的知识。
The global reach of human activities affects all natural ecosystems, so that the environment is best viewed as a social-ecological system. Consequently, a more integrative approach to environmental science, one that bridges the biophysical and social domains, is sorely needed. Although models and frameworks for social-ecological systems exist, few are explicitly designed to guide a long-term interdisciplinary research program. Here, we present an iterative framework, "Press-Pulse Dynamics" (PPD), that integrates the biophysical and social sciences through an understanding of how human behaviors affect "press" and "pulse" dynamics and ecosystem processes. Such dynamics and processes, in turn, influence ecosystem services thereby altering human behaviors and initiating feedbacks that impact the original dynamics and processes. We believe that research guided by the PPD framework will lead to a more thorough understanding of social-ecological systems and generate the knowledge needed to address pervasive environmental problems.