Titre
Using the ‘regime shift' concept in addressing social-ecological change : Social-ecological regime shifts
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Kull, Christian A.
Auteure/Auteur
Kueffer, Christoph
Auteure/Auteur
Richardson, David M.
Auteure/Auteur
Vaz, Ana Sofia
Auteure/Auteur
Vicente, Joana R.
Auteure/Auteur
Honrado, João Pradinho
Auteure/Auteur
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ISSN
1745-5863
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2018
Volume
56
Numéro
1
Première page
26
Dernière page/numéro d’article
41
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Notes
First published: 08 November 2017
Résumé
‘Regime shift’ has emerged as a key concept in the environmental sciences. The concept has roots in complexity science and its ecological applications, and is increasingly applied to intertwined social and ecological phenomena. Yet what exactly is a regime shift? We explore this question at three nested levels. First, we propose a broad, contingent, multi-perspective epistemological basis for the concept, seeking to build bridges between its complexity theory origins and critiques from science studies, political ecology, and environmental history. Second, we define the concept in a way that is consistent with this epistemology, building on previous work on speed, scale, stickiness, and interrelationships, but also emphasising human perceptions and rhetorical uses of the notion. Third, we propose a novel typology of the ways in which the regime shift concept is used in analysing social–environmental phenomena in geography and beyond. These uses are categorised along two axes. On the one side, we distinguish between description of past or present changes and normative prescriptions for the future. On the other side, we distinguish between whether the focus is on material shifts (social and ecological) or conceptual shifts (discourses and ideas). We illustrate the typology with reference to social–environmental changes in landscapes around the world that are dominated by plantations or the widespread naturalisation of Australian Acacia species. We conclude that the regime shift concept is a boundary object with value as both an analytical and communicative tool in addressing social–environmental challenges.
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serval:BIB_7AE0CD1FE3A6
Date de création
2018-01-25T14:49:51.111Z
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2025-05-21T03:42:41Z
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Kull et al Regime shifts GR authors version.pdf
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serval:BIB_7AE0CD1FE3A6.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_7AE0CD1FE3A61
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