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Project: SSLM

 

Scoal-ecological systems modelling and sustainable land management

Goal

The overall aim of the project is to integrate social-ecological systems (SES approach) into sustainable land management in order to understand SES dynamics (e.g. interaction, feedback, and delay) in Kenya, Switzerland, and Bangladesh.

The specific objectives are to

  1. understand the co-evolution (drivers, trends, change points) of social-ecological systems in the context of sustainable land management practices and transformation towards sustainability.

  2. understand and model the social-ecological dynamics using system dynamics approach.

  3. identify trade-offs and policy implications using model outputs in order to manage sustainability challenges in social-ecological systems.

  4. operationalize concepts such as tipping points, early warning signals and the safe and just operating space using real-world case studies in the context of sustainable land management.

 

Project data

Project team: Prof. Dr. Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (Principal Investigator), Dr. Md. Sarwar Hossain Sohel (Co-Investigator)

Duration: 2017 - 2018

Funding: Sustainable Land Management Unit, University of Bern

Contact: Dr. Md. Sarwar Hossain Sohel, sarwar.sohel@giub.unibe.ch

Publications and other deliverables

  1. Hossain MS, Dearing JA, Ramirez J, Szabo S, Eigenbrod F, Johnson FA, Ifejika Speranza C (2020) Participatory modelling for conceptualizing the social-ecological system dynamics in the Bangladesh delta. Regional Environmental Change.  20, 28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01599-5

  2. Hossain MS, Ramirez J, Tina H; Ifejika Speranza C, Romppainen-Martius O, Mayer H, Keiler M (2020) A coupled human and landscape conceptual model of risk and resilience in Alpine mountain communities. Science of the Total Environment. 730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138322 

  3. Jendoubi, D., Hossain, M. S., Giger, M., Tomićević-Dubljević, J., Ouessar, M., Liniger, H., & Speranza, C. I. (2020). Local livelihoods and land users’ perceptions of land degradation in northwest Tunisia. Environmental Development, 33, 100507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2020.100507

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Risk and Resilience to Natural hazards in Swiss Alps - Risk and Resilience Cluster

Mountain community shocks and recovery trajectory of mountain communities exposed to shocks. (Sources: mb.ntd.tv, floodlist.com, zermatt.ch) (Source: Risk & Resilience Cluster 2018)

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Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2018: Session 23: Sustainable social-ecological systems: from local to global challenges

In this session, our objective was to gather contributions that deal with core questions of sustainability by addressing social-ecological interactions, including:

  • Long-term trends and transitions in interactions between ecological and social systems

  • Risk and resilience in social-ecological systems

  • Theories and models of social-ecological systems, e.g. safe and just operating space

  • Distant social-ecological interactions, e.g. “telecouplings”

  • Sustainable management of land systems

  • Sustainability assessments and trade-offs between human-wellbeing and environmental sustainability

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Making the Planetary Boundaries Concept Work

24-25 April 2017, Berlin Germany

The conference was hosted by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Society (BMUB), the German Environment Agency (UBA) and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU).

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