Social-environmental conflict and institutional change: understanding institutional nesting and social conflict via social networks analysis for rural development and natural resources management
- Autores: Pablo Andrés Ramos
- Directores de la Tesis: María del Mar Delgado-Serrano (dir. tes.), Florian Hoffmann (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universidad de Córdoba (ESP) ( España ) en 2015
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Florian Hoffmann (presid.), Frank Ettrich (secret.), María del Mar Delgado-Serrano (voc.)
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- Resumen
The Colombian Pacific region is considered one of the most important areas for biodiversity protection and conservation in the world. Furthermore, many different cultural groups co-exist in that area and exhibit complex interactional dynamics in terms of cultural, biological and institutional diversity. Therefore, the protection of biological diversity can only be achieved in conjunction with the protection of cultural and institutional diversity at local level. This thesis analyzes some of the links between social and ecological systems focusing on water and biodiversity in a case study on Afro-Colombian community lands.
The starting premise of this dissertation is that natural resource management requires a deep understanding of the multiple and highly complex interactions between social, economic and ecological systems. The second premise of this dissertation is that the social-ecological systems (SESs) approach could effectively help to include complex thinking in recognizing effective ways of governing natural resources. The last premise of this dissertation is that factors like social conflict and institutional change might be perceived positively and included in designs for adaptive and effective natural resource management strategies.
My original contribution to the pool of knowledge is the integration of factors such as social conflict and institutional change at local level via a social network analysis to enhance the SESs analysis. This research can help to provide the information necessary to encourage researchers and natural resource policy makers to address complexity and include long-term and integrated system perspectives. It includes a powerful set of methodological adaptations and recommendations for future research on SES sustainability. The ideas developed in this interdisciplinary research are valuable for gaining insight into factors that need to be taken into account when linking social and ecological systems.
