Week 14: Resilience and complex adaptive systems

Class agenda

• Grant discussion: Draft Group C
• Lectures
• Reading discussion

Reading

• Gray, S., Voinov, A., Paolisso, M., Jordan, R., BenDor, T., Bommel, P., Glynn, P., Hedelin, B., Hubacek, K., Introne, J. and Kolagani, N., 2018. Purpose, processes, partnerships, and products: four Ps to advance participatory socio‐environmental modeling. Ecological applications, 28(1), pp.46-61.
• Barrios, R.E., 2016. Resilience: A commentary from the vantage point of anthropology. Annals of Anthropological Practice, 40(1), pp.28-38.
• Moritz, M., Behnke, R., Beitl, C.M., Bliege Bird, R., Chiaravalloti, R.M., Clark, J.K., Crabtree, S.A., Downey, S.S., Hamilton, I.M., Phang, S.C. and Scholte, P., 2018. Emergent sustainability in open property regimes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(51), pp.12859-12867.
• Lansing, J.S., 2003. Complex adaptive systems. Annual review of anthropology, 32(1), pp.183-204.
• Berkes, F. and Ross, H., 2016. Panarchy and community resilience: Sustainability science and policy implications. Environmental Science & Policy, 61, pp.185-193.
• Boserup, E., 1996. Development theory: An analytical framework and selected application. Population and Development Review, pp.505-515.

Media

• Radiolab: Emergence
• BBC In our time: Complexity
• SESYNC: Understanding environmental problems through a socio-environmental lens

Recommended

• Lansing, J.S. and Cox, M.P., 2019; Holling 1973; Lansing and Kremer 1993; Bliege Bird 2015

Assignments due for class discussion

• Draft Group C

Assignments due for all

• Final grant due Friday, May 9