Understanding Human–Nature Interactions in Coastal Systems through Social-Ecological System Analysis
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: social-ecological system, coastal management, water resources management
Interests: social-ecological systems analysis and modelling, system dynamics modelling, ecosystem services and human well-being, boundaries (e.g., safe and just operating space, tipping point) for sustainable development, coastal management, risk and resilience of social-ecological systems
Interests: coupled human–nature systems, coastal hazards related to global change and anthropogenic processes, environmental governance, social-ecological-technical systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding human–nature interactions is important for optimizing human well-being and sustainable resource management. A social-ecological systems (SESs) approach provides a theoretical framework for analyzing interactions within coupled human and natural systems.
The coastal systems comprising social and ecological elements of interconnected reliance across multiple scales can be conceptualised as complex SESs. In the coastal SES, global change is rapidly shifting the boundary conditions of both human and ecological domains. The objective of this Special Issue is to advance our understanding of human–nature interactions within coastal settings through theoretical SES approaches and related analytical methods. We invite original research papers, reviews, and commentary/perspective papers including, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Transdisciplinary and participatory approaches for assessing coastal systems by using; SES approaches, such as system dynamics modelling, network analysis, agent-based modelling, and/or mixed methods;
- Operationalizing SES approaches for management and governance of coastal resources;
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of coastal SES;
- Social-ecological system archetypes and co-evolution for coastal SES management;
- Qualitative methods, including case studies, ethnographic and/or grounded theoretical approaches for examining coastal systems;
- Integrated frameworks for coupling social, institutional, and natural systems in coastal systems analyses;
- Social-ecological justice.
Deadline for Abstract Submission (to the Guest Editors): 31 May 2019
Deadline for Full Paper Submission (to Water): 30 October 2019
Dr. Animesh Kumar Gain
Dr. Md. Sarwar Hossain
Dr. Kimberly G. Rogers
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Social-ecological systems
- Coastal systems
- Sustainability
- Coupled human–nature systems
- Transdisciplinary
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