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Social-Ecological Systems (SES)

From Risks and Insecurity to Viability and Resilience

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Editors:
  1. Mohamed Behnassi

    1. College of Law, Economics and Social Science of Agadir, Center for Environment, Human Security & Governance (CERES), Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco

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  2. Himangana Gupta

    1. JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo & Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Mahjoub El Haiba

    1. College of Law, Economics and Social Science of Casablanca, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Rabat, Morocco

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  4. Gopichandran Ramachandran

    1. NTPC School of Business, NOIDA, India

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  • Promotes the understanding of current main drivers of vulnerability of social–ecological systems
  • Analyzes empirically the security implications of environmental/climate change for social–ecological systems
  • Includes the best practices to enhance the resilience of social–ecological systems

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  2. Effectiveness of Disaster Risk Governance and Resilience Building: Linkages, Knowledge, Inclusiveness, and Regulation

    • Mohamed Behnassi, Himangana Gupta, Nira Ramachandran, Matsa Winniefridah, Gopichandran Ramachandran, Silvana Lakeman et al.
    Pages 1-37

  3. Benefits of Evaluating Ecosystem Services for Implementation of Nature-based Solutions Under the Paris Agreement

    • Himangana Gupta, Lokesh Chandra Dube
    Pages 39-56

  4. The Common Heritage of Humankind (CHH): Visions of Developed Countries vs. Developing Countries

    • Elhoucine Chougrani, Moulay Hicham El Amrani
    Pages 57-73

  5. Climate Change Induced Disaster, Gender Conflicts, Risks, and Insecurity in Lower-Gweru Community of Zimbabwe: Towards Capacity Building and Resilience in the Face of Social-Ecological Threats

    • Winniefridah Matsa
    Pages 75-94

  6. Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: At the Limits of Hegemonic Masculinity

    • Mukoni Manuku
    Pages 95-109

  7. Gendered Perspective: Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Malawi

    • Linus Agbleze
    Pages 111-135

  8. The Effects of Land Cover Change on Sustainability: Human Security and Environmental Change in Semi-arid Ecosystems

    • Taisser H. H. Deafalla, Elmar Csaplovics, Osman Elkhair, Mustafa M. El Abbas
    Pages 137-158

  9. Resilience building Initiatives to Counter Shocks and Stressors Affecting Rural Communities in Chiredzi District, Zimbabwe

    • Rameck Defe, Mark Matsa
    Pages 159-177

  10. Chances of Conflict on Account of Large-Scale Influx of Climate Refugees in India

    • Devangana Gupta, Manish Sharma
    Pages 179-188

  11. Key Knowledge Gaps at the Interface of Chemical Ecology and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Planning: A Public Policy Perspective

    • Gopichandran Ramachandran
    Pages 189-199

  12. When Environmental Inequalities Lead to Social Inequalities!

    • Moulay Hicham El Amrani
    Pages 201-212

  13. Approaching Sonic Devices from a Multicriteria Sustainable Approach to Enhance the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems

    • Gueiros Teixeira Suzana, Jules Ghislain Slama, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, Carlos Eduardo Milagres Pereira
    Pages 213-238

  14. The Anatomy of Uncertainty and Implications for Preventive Environmental Management

    • Gopichandran Ramachandran, Mohamed Behnassi, Gireesh Chandra Tripathi
    Pages 239-253

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 255-265
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About this book

This book contributes to the multidisciplinary debate about social–ecological systems (SES) within the perspective of rethinking the nature of interaction between these systems, especially in the Anthropocene Era. Most chapters either deliberate on risk dynamics threatening current SES or stimulate thought processes to manage such risks and related negative implications. After analyzing the main drivers of SES vulnerability, the book highlights the shifts to be made to enhance the sustainability and resilience of these systems, mainly the integration and restructuring of governance frameworks, the reorganization of production and consumption systems far from conventional models based on consumerism, the elaboration of mitigation, adaptation, and SDGs implementation measures from a co-benefit perspective, and the consideration of appropriate approaches and paradigms while elaborating and implementing response mechanisms. This volume is relevant to researchers/experts, students, practitioners, and decision-makers from different scales and spheres.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Law, Economics and Social Science of Agadir, Center for Environment, Human Security & Governance (CERES), Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco

    Mohamed Behnassi

  • JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo & Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan

    Himangana Gupta

  • College of Law, Economics and Social Science of Casablanca, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Rabat, Morocco

    Mahjoub El Haiba

  • NTPC School of Business, NOIDA, India

    Gopichandran Ramachandran

About the editors

Mohamed Behnassi, Ph.D is Professor at the College of Law, Economics, and Social Sciences, Ibn Zohr University of Agadir, Morocco. He is a Senior Researcher of international law and politics of environment and human security. He holds a PhD in International Environmental Law and Governance (Hassan II University of Casablanca, 2003) and a Diploma in International Environmental Law and Diplomacy (University of Eastern Finland and UNEP, 2015). He is currently the Founding Director of the Center for Environment, Human Security and Governance (CERES) – Former North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS). From 2015 to 2018, he was the Director of the Research Laboratory for Territorial Governance, Human Security and Sustainability (LAGOS) in the same university. Recently, he was appointed as Expert Evaluator for the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST/Morocco), and selected as Expert by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MEDECC) to take part in global and regional assessments, respectively. Accordingly, he is among the Lead Authors who elaborate the 1st Assessment Report (MAR1): Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin - Current Situation and Risks for the Future (MEDECC, 2021). Dr. Behnassi has published considerable number of scientific papers and book chapters in addition to 15 books, including Human and Environmental Security in the Era of Global Risks (Springer, 2019); Climate Change, Food Security and Natural Resource Management: Perspectives from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands (Springer, 2019); Environmental Change and Human Security in Africa and the Middle East (Springer, 2017). He organized as well many international conferences covering the above research areas and managed many research and expertise projects on behalf of various national and international organizations. Dr. Behnassi is regularly requested to provide scientific expertise nationally and internationally. Other professional activities include social compliance auditing and consultancy by monitoring human rights at work and the sustainability of the global supply chain.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social-Ecological Systems (SES)

  • Book Subtitle: From Risks and Insecurity to Viability and Resilience

  • Editors: Mohamed Behnassi, Himangana Gupta, Mahjoub El Haiba, Gopichandran Ramachandran

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76247-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76246-9Published: 13 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76249-0Published: 14 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76247-6Published: 12 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 265

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ecology, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Risk Management, Social Policy, Environment, general

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