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Enhancing the Resilience of Human-Environment Systems: A Social Ecological…

- - - - Important prerequisite
        
        Ensuring the longer-term sustainability of a human- environment system.
- - - - Refers to
        
        The study of communities from a broad, perspective that encompasses bioecological and macro-economic concerns.
        
        Gives greater attention to the social, psychological, institutional, and cultural contexts of people-environment relations.
      - Begins with
        
        Appreciation of how persons, groups, subsist in and through relationships among interacting natural and semiotic systems.
        
        Rather than
        
        View the material and semiotic as independent or even dialectically opposed systems.
        
        Enables us to
        
        View a continuous exchange between these systems called transactions, are bidirectional and mutually influencing.
- - - - Multidimensional structure of human environments
        
        Environmental settings can be characterized in terms of their
        
        Physical and social components. - Natural and built (or designed) features. - Objective (material, observable).
        
        Participants in environments include
        
        Individuals, small groups, and organizations that also comprise larger communities and populations.
        
        Subjective (perceived, semiotic) qualities. - Scale or immediacy to individuals and groups (proximal vs. distal).
    - - Multiple levels of analysis
        
        Diverse methodologies for assessing the resilience and healthfulness of settings and the well-being of individuals and groups.
        
        This multi-level perspective construes
        
        Human environments as complex systems in which local settings and organizations are nested within more complex and remote regions.
        
        Efforts to understand and enhance the resilience must take into account
        
        The interdependencies that exist among immediate and more distant environments
    - - Interdependence, homeostasis, negative feedback, and deviation amplification
        
        To understand the interrelations among people and their surroundings.
        
        Systems analyses suggest that resilience of particular settings and well-being of their participants are influenced
        
        By multiple facets of the physical environment (e.g., geography, architecture, technology).
        
        Social environment (e.g., culture, ethics, economics, politics, law).
        
        The resilience and healthfulness of these settings also influenced
        
        By the attributes of individual members including their genetic heritage, cognition, and behavior.
        
        From the vantage point of ecological systems theory
        
        Organizational or community resilience should be based
        
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    - - Emphasize a transdisciplinary action research
        
        Diverse knowledge cultures or epistemologies are brought together
        
        For purposes
        
        Better understanding and ultimately improving the resilience and sustainability of people-environment systems.
- - - - On the
        
        Achievement of social goals
        
        In turn
        
        Attempt to modify the environment in furtherance of these same goals.
  - - - One strategy for representing the level of resilience in a system
        
        Identify circumstances under which various kinds of people-environment transactions are
        
        Mutually supportive (progressive) Resilient
        
        Environmental changes in an ecosystem prompt its members to make various kinds of changes
        
        That are intended to
        
        Enhance the level of congruence or fit between themselves and their surroundings.
        
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        Mutually non-supportive (regressive) Less-resilient
        
        Environments are so rigidly constrained and unyielding that it becomes impossible for the actors to modify their surroundings in adaptive.
        
        The inability to modify
        
        Situational constraints in accord with personal or group goals, leading from behavioral states at times toward the unyielding environmental conditions.
        
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