• Course Overview
  • Course Resources
  • Week 1: Introduction and history of theory in Ecological Anthropology
  • Week 2: Human behavioral ecology
  • Week 3: Collective action and cooperation
  • Week 4: Common pool resources
  • Week 5: Social-relational approaches
  • Week 6: Networks and Resource Management
  • Week 7: Historical Ecology and the Anthropocene
  • Week 8: Signaling theory and symbolic capital
  • Week 9: Ethnoecology
  • Week 10: Cultural domain analysis and Decolonizing ecological knowledge
  • Week 11: Resource access: Territorality and Frontiers
  • Week 12: Resource access: Dispossession and Rights
  • Week 13: Political ecology - conservation and science
  • Week 14: Resilience and complex adaptive systems

ANTH722: Ecological Anthropology

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.

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; Boserup 1996

Assignments due for class discussion

  • Draft Group C