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Course 1: Social-Ecological Systems: Challenges & Approaches (15Hp) Stockholm University Version date: 17 August, 2020 Department of Biology Education Please check Athena for most updated schedule Master’s Programme: Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development Course 1: Social-ecological systems: challenges & approaches (15hp) Course leader: Sarah Cornell Last updated at SU-BIG: 29 July 2018 Course Content This course will present social-ecological challenges that research has identified. This course introduces students to the Anthropocene, one of several proposed terms for the new geological era in which we live, in which humanity has become the dominant force structuring the biosphere. It will address what this means for critical subsystems in the Earth system, for humanity, and for the development of Earth system governance. The course will then explore alternative approaches to coupled social-ecological systems from several disciplinary backgrounds in, for example, anthropology, geography, economics, ecology and Earth system science. Then the course will look at current approaches to measuring and monitoring how ecosystems support human wellbeing. Students will be introduced to theoretical concepts, methods for analysis, and conduct group and individual research projects that utilize these concepts and methods. Course Modules The course includes the following three modules, which are detailed in the following pages: Module 1: Challenges of the Anthropocene (4 hp), Module 2: Linking theory to research questions and design (4 hp), Module 3: Ecosystem support of humanity (7hp). Course Learning outcomes It is expected that the student, after taking the course, will be able to: • explain what key research areas for sustainability science are • understand and explain how humanity has changed the functioning of the Earth system • compare and contrast different disciplinary approaches to social-ecological systems, and explain in what contexts they are more or less useful • critique and apply methods for estimating human support from ecosystems, such as ecosystem services and ecological footprinting. General course reading What is Resilience? Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University. http://www.stockholmresilience.org/download/18.10119fc11455d3c557d6d21/145956024 2299/SU_SRC_whatisresilience_sidaApril2014.pdf Walker B. et al. 2002. Resilience management in social-ecological systems: a working hypothesis for a participatory approach. Conservation Ecology 6 (1) 14 http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss1/art14 Folke, C. 2016. Resilience (Republished). Ecology and Society 21(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09088-210444 Module 1: Challenges of the Anthropocene (4 hp) Module leader: Sarah Cornell ([email protected]) Instructors: Sarah Cornell SC, Celinda Palm CP Emmy Wassénius, Tim DuBois TdB, David Armstrong McKay DAM, Jen Hinton JH, David Collste DC, Kruger Nyasulu KN, Per Olsson PO and z Module description This module will introduce students to the global environmental situation from a social- ecological perspective. Students will learn about the Earth system and its functioning and history. They will be given an overview of the main strands of research that demonstrate how people have become a significant driver of global change processes, transforming the planet. The students will examine the main social and ecological trends in global change, and discuss how global change relates to benefits in human wellbeing and to emergent global risks. They will learn about multidisciplinary approaches to evaluating social-ecological questions, and be introduced to scientific visualization and the analysis of global datasets. Students will be introduced to the practice of reflecting on their learning and activities, and encouraged to maintain a personal reflections log. They will be encouraged to reflect on the challenges and opportunities that a global perspective on environmental change presents for the research processes of sustainability science, and for current actions towards global sustainability. Module content Concepts Methods Applications Week 1: Introducing the Anthropocene Resilience in the Anthropocene I (Intro) Resilience thinking Framing research questions The Earth as a social-ecological system Systems analysis Graphics of social-ecological Entering the Anthropocene Integrative methods and theory change Tracking global environmental change Global data synthesis Visualization techniques Week 2: Navigating the Anthropocene Measuring human development - planetary Transdisciplinary research Overview of contemporary boundaries and doughnuts design global challenges (reader) Resilience in the Anthropocene II (Dealing Stakeholder analysis with change and risks) Policy analysis Sustainability science for policy and society Global governance – adapting to change Week 3: Research in the Anthropocene Environmentalist’s paradox Reflexive research methods Outline research proposal 2 Class Schedule Online sessions will be held in Zoom. On-site sessions are divided between SRC rooms 250 and 251 unless otherwise noted. All on-site lecture sessions will also be accessible online and recorded allowing for later viewing. On-site sessions marked with * are group work needing real-time participation. Instructions for online activities and for mixed-mode learning are on Athena. Lectures Class exercises Home work Week 1: Introducing the Anthropocene AUGUST AM: Roll call, Module welcome, PM: How to be a researcher Watch online lectures Mon 31 Course Introduction [1 hr, Tim Q&A and discussion about the Prepare for module group 9:30-10:30 Daw, Cornelia Ludwig and SC] module and student life at SRC projects 11:00-12:00 AM: Introduction to Resilience in [max 2 hrs, SC and CP] 13:30-15:30 the Anthropocene - Q&A on On-site lecture and readings [1 hr, SC] SEPTEMBER AM: Earth as a social-ecological PM: Class activity: Group project work: Tues 1 system [2 hr, SC + CP] Backgrounds and Disciplines. Develop outline for the 10:00-12:00 On-site Introducing the project groups ‘Anthropocene reader’ 13:00-15:00 [max 2 hrs, SC and CP] * On-site Wed 2 AM: Entering the Anthropocene PM: Intro to data visualization Group project work 10:00-12:00 [2 hr, SC + EW] and science communications + individual reading 13:00-15:00 On-site [2 hr, CP and TdB] * On-site Thurs 3 AM: Sustainability science for PM: Sustainability science for Group project work 10:00-12:00 society: transformations [2 hr, PO] society: societal shifts and + individual reading 13:00-15:00 On-site pathways [2 hr, JH] * On-site Fri 4 READING DAY + GROUP PROJECT WORK – Off campus Week 2: Navigating the Anthropocene Mon 7 AM: Tracking global PM: How to be a researcher Individual research 10:00-12:00 environmental change Reflections on the first week question due. 13:00-15:00 [2 hr, KN + DAM] [2 hrs] On-site Tues 8 AM: What does resilience and PM: Group activity [with EW] Group project work 10:00-12:00 risk mean in the Anthropocene? * On-site + individual reading 13:00-15:00 [2 hr, EW] On-site Wed 9 AM: The big picture of human PM: Group project work Anthropocene reader due. 10:00-12:00 development: planetary Off campus 13:00-15:00 boundaries and doughnuts [2 hr, DC] On-site Thurs 10 AM: Sustainability science for PM: ONLINE Exploration of the Peer review of 10:00-12:00 policy: global governance Anthropocene readers Anthropocene readers 13:00-15:00 [2 hr TH, SC] Online On-site Fri 11 READING DAY + INDIVIDUAL WORK – Off campus Week 3: Research in the Anthropocene Mon 14 AM: Seminar: PM: How to be a researcher 10:00-12:00 Doing research in the Module review [1 hr] 13:00-15:00 Anthropocene (2 hr, Mod 1 Team) Student-led agenda [1 hr] Online On-site Tues 15 Individual module evaluation Due 15:00 Individual 15:00-16:30 [1.5 hr] Online research proposals. 3 Reading List – readings should be done prior to lectures! [Note: The group project will require other documents to be added to these readings] Week 1: Introducing the Anthropocene Cornell, S., Downy, C., Fraser, E. and Boyd, E. 2012. Earth system science and society: a focus on the anthroposphere. In: Understanding the Earth System: global change science for action, eds. S. Cornell and I.C. Prentice. Cambridge University Press, chapter 1. Waters, C., Zalasiewicz, J., Summerhayes, C., Barnosky, A.D., Poirier, C. et al. 2016. The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene. Science 351: aad2622 Reading Day 1: Embarking on sustainability science Nissani, M. 1992. Ten cheers for interdisciplinarity. The Social Science Journal, 34:201-216 Lövbrand, E., Stripple, J. and Wimand, B. 2009. Earth system governmentality: Reflections on science in the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change 19(1): 7-13 Week 2: Navigating the Anthropocene Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., Chapin, F.S., III, et al. 2009. Planetary boundaries: exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society 14(2): 32. Häyhä, T., Lucas, P.L., van Vuuren, D.P., Cornell, S.E. and Hoff, H. 2016. From Planetary Boundaries to national fair shares of the global safe operating space — How can the scales be bridged? Global Environmental Change 40: 60-72. O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb W.F. and Steinberger J.K. 2018. A good life for all within planetary boundaries. Nature Sustainability 1: 88–95 Watch: Doughnut economics – Kate Raworth, RSA Animations www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJL-cM8gb4 Reading Day 2: The practice of sustainability science Alon, U. 2009. How to choose a good scientific problem. Molecular Cell 35(6): 726-728. Kates, R.W. 2011. What kind of a science is sustainability science? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(49): 19449-19450. Week 3: Research in the Anthropocene Cornell, S.E., Berkhout, F., Tuinstra, W., Tàbara, J.D., Jäger, J. et al. 2013. Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change. Environmental Science & Policy 28: 60-70 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.11.008 Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Peterson, G.D., Tengö, M., Bennett, E.M., Holland, T., et al. 2010. Untangling the Environmentalist’s Paradox: Why is human well-being increasing as ecosystem services degrade? BioScience 60: 576-589.
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