Socioecological Resilience: contributions and challenges from Anthropology

The need of a complex understanding of the territories and its evolution is being addressed through notions such as adaptive complex system and socio-ecosystem. Environmental sensitivity is increasingly a socio-environmental sensitivity. So sustainability has begun to be reformulated from the Nature...

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Published in:Revista de antropología social 2011-01, Vol.20, p.109-135
Main Authors: Escalera Reyes, Javier, Ruiz Ballesteros, Esteban
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Costa Rica
Cultural Change
Ecuador
Ethnography
medio ambiente
Natural Environment
Resilience
resiliencia socio-ecológica
Social Anthropology
Social Participation
socioecosistema
sostenibilidad
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Summary:The need of a complex understanding of the territories and its evolution is being addressed through notions such as adaptive complex system and socio-ecosystem. Environmental sensitivity is increasingly a socio-environmental sensitivity. So sustainability has begun to be reformulated from the Nature Sciences through the concept of socio-ecological resilience, claiming a transdisciplinarity that is capable of operationally articulate the natural and cultural dimensions of the environment. The participation of Social Anthropology in this process is key insofar it can provide a solid perspective on: (1) the development of notions as socio-ecosystem and socio-ecological resilience; (2) the debate on the relationship between culture and nature; and (3) the ethnography as an especially appropriate methodology to understand socio-natural reality. The text goes forward in this theoretical and methodological reflection through our recent research in Ecuador and Costa Rica. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:1131-558X
1988-2831
DOI:10.5209/rev_RASO.2011.v20.36264