Dynamic models have long been a common tool to support management of ecological and
economic systems and played a prominent role in the early days of resilience research …

Conventional approaches to natural resource management are increasingly challenged by
environmental problems that are embedded in highly complex systems with profound …

The complex and interdisciplinary nature of socio-environmental (SE) problems has led to
numerous efforts to develop organizing frameworks to capture the structural and functional …

The social-ecological systems (SES) literature now widely recognises that SES can be
characterised as intertwined complex adaptive systems (CAS)(Berkes, Colding, and Folke …

Studying social-ecological systems (SES) can be a challenging task, as explained in
Chapter 2. Phenomena of interest and characteristics of SES research result from both …

As global environmental change continues to accelerate and intensify, science and society
are turning to transdisciplinary approaches to facilitate transitions to sustainability. Modeling …

Studying social–ecological interactions systematically is difficult when dealing with case
study data. The methodological flexibility inherent in case studies facilitates the discovery of …

This paper operationalizes an analysis of resilience for social‐ecological systems using
system dynamics (SD) modelling. Resilience is a versatile concept that continues to gain …

Although the growing field of research on social–ecological systems (SESs) deals with some
of the most important questions of our time, the study of SESs lacks an overarching …

Here, we synthesize conceptual frameworks, applied modeling approaches, and as case
studies to highlight complex social-ecological system (SES) dynamics that inform …