Bodin Örjan, Chen Haibin
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden.
College of Economics and Management, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China.
Natl Sci Rev. 2023 Jan 17;10(7):nwad019. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad019. eCollection 2023 Jul.
Increasing and intensifying the use of land represents a prominent sustainability challenge of particular importance in regions undergoing rapid change while at the same time exhibiting large natural and anthropocentrically induced variability. To reconcile the needs for both human prosperity and healthy ecosystems, a more integrated understanding of key biophysical and adaptation processes is paramount in such dynamic and deeply entangled social and environmental contexts. Interdisciplinary research utilizing a network perspective provides a novel methodological and theoretical approach to that end. We review and synthesize recent network-centric studies, and use this network perspective to show how rangeland managers in a dynamic pastoral region in the Qinghai Province of China form social relationships based on geographic proximity, social status and shared grazing areas. The results indicate that adaption to biophysical and socioeconomic changes is partly a social process in that rangeland managers develop their adaptive capacity jointly and in concert with others they trust and with whom they share grazing areas. Avenues for further development of this network perspective, in terms of how it might contribute important new insights about how to sustainably use land in dynamic landscapes undergoing rapid change, are suggested.
土地利用的增加和强化是一个突出的可持续性挑战，在经历快速变化同时又展现出巨大自然和人为诱发变异性的地区尤为重要。为协调人类繁荣与健康生态系统的需求，在这种动态且深度交织的社会与环境背景下，对关键生物物理和适应过程有更综合的理解至关重要。利用网络视角的跨学科研究为此提供了一种新颖的方法论和理论方法。我们回顾并综合了近期以网络为中心的研究，并利用这一网络视角展示了中国青海省一个动态牧区的牧场管理者如何基于地理 proximity、社会地位和共享放牧区域形成社会关系。结果表明，对生物物理和社会经济变化的适应在一定程度上是一个社会过程，因为牧场管理者与他们信任且共享放牧区域的其他人共同并协同发展其适应能力。文中还提出了从该网络视角进一步发展的途径，即它如何能为在经历快速变化的动态景观中可持续利用土地提供重要的新见解。
