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Applications and Diffusion of Panarchy Theory
Citation:
Gunderson, L., C. Allen, AND A. Garmestani. Applications and Diffusion of Panarchy Theory. Chapter 14, Lance H. Gunderson, Craig Reece Allen, and Ahjond Garmestani (ed.), Applied Panarchy. Island Press, Chicago, IL, , 291-312, (2022).
Impact/Purpose:
This chapter advances understanding of how to improve management of social-ecological systems, which has critical ramifications for improving environmental outcomes. This paper moves the research on social-ecological systems forward by analyzing the issue, and providing guidance for moving forward. In the long-term, improving management of social-ecological systems has broad-scale implications for the environment in the United States, with particular interest for Regions (2,4,5), communities (Puerto Rico, USVI, Florida, Wisconsin) and the general public.
Description:
In the two decades since the publication of the original Panarchy volume, scholarship has proceeded in at least three distinct research trajectories. One is the linkage between resilience related concepts (Holling 1973, Gunderson et al. 1995, Folke et al. 2004, Folke 2016) and Panarchy theory. The first Panarchy volume (Gunderson and Holling 2002) was produced as a result of a project challenging economic, political and social theory with ecological theories of non-linear change and resulted in dozens of books and tens of thousands of articles published on resilience in scientific journals (Folke 2016). The second thrust of Panarchy research is based upon scale and cross-scale dynamics and has achieved significant attention as well as numerous journal articles testing the theory and applying Panarchy theory to resource management (Garmestani et al. 2009a,b, Angeler et al. 2016). Panarchy theory also informs a growing body of scholarship in which the concepts have diffused into other scholarly areas. This third research trajectory includes governance and management of natural resources, law and policy, indigenous and traditional ecological knowledge, interdisciplinary approaches to agriculture and land management, and innovation, creativity and novelty (Allen et al. 2014).