Turner B L, Zhou Bing-Bing
School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America.
School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States of America.
Jamba. 2023 Jul 26;15(1):1335. doi: 10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1335. eCollection 2023.
The first vulnerability framework for sustainability science was published about two decades ago. It embedded vulnerability analysis into the foundational lens of sustainability and resilience research - the social-environmental system (SES) - and called for an integration of the vulnerabilities of the social and environmental subsystems as opposed to the dominating attention given at the time to societal vulnerability. The framework recognised that the environment itself is vulnerable to disturbances and that the interactions of the two subsystems create a system-wide vulnerability central to questions of sustainability or sustainable development. It also provided multiple components of analysis that should be considered if vulnerability research and assessments were to contribute more fully to sustainability themes. Using bibliometric analysis and attention to subsequent vulnerability publications, various impacts of this original framework on vulnerability studies were examined in the study, including its recognition by citations, citation pathways and fields of study, and the degree to which its various dimensions were employed. It was found that its large citation recognition was not necessarily matched by attention to the dimensions the framework proposed, noting several exceptions.
The authors interpreted this discrepancy to have followed from the analytical complexity fostered by the framework and to the significant proportion of vulnerability interests that was and remains focused on societal vulnerability as opposed to the social-environmental one, even in this moment in which sustainability in the Anthropocene has become a paramount query.
可持续性科学的首个脆弱性框架大约在二十年前发布。它将脆弱性分析嵌入到可持续性与恢复力研究的基础视角——社会 - 环境系统（SES）中，并呼吁整合社会和环境子系统的脆弱性，而不是像当时那样主要关注社会脆弱性。该框架认识到环境本身容易受到干扰，并且两个子系统的相互作用会产生一个全系统的脆弱性，这对于可持续性或可持续发展问题至关重要。它还提供了多个分析要素，如果脆弱性研究和评估要更全面地为可持续性主题做出贡献，就应该考虑这些要素。通过文献计量分析以及对后续脆弱性出版物的关注，本研究考察了这个原始框架对脆弱性研究的各种影响，包括其被引用的认可度、引用路径和研究领域，以及其各个维度的应用程度。研究发现，尽管有一些例外情况，但它在被大量引用方面的认可度，并不一定与对该框架所提出维度的关注相匹配。
作者将这种差异解释为源于该框架所带来的分析复杂性，以及即使在人类世的可持续性已成为首要问题的当下，仍有很大比例的脆弱性研究兴趣过去和现在都集中在社会脆弱性而非社会 - 环境脆弱性上。
