Dear colleagues,
The deadline for this call for abstracts is approaching: 31st of August.
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Networks of action situations in social-ecological systems research *
Upcoming Special Feature in /Sustainability Science /
(online:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11625-020-00814-w.pdf
<https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17919144/data/v1>
)
The analysis of Networks of Action Situations (NAS) is becoming an
increasingly popular and powerful tool for social-ecological systems
research. Social-ecological systems are frequently shaped by decisions,
behaviours and practices resulting from multiple interdependent action
situations (e.g., Pahl- Wostl et al. 2010; McGinnis 2011; Lubell 2013;
Kimmich 2013; Villamayor et al. 2015). Action situations are events,
venues, arenas or spaces in which actions affect collective outcomes
(Ostrom 2005). The action situations relevant to sustainability science
are highly diverse. They include market transactions, resource
extraction, public good provision, deliberative fora, implementation of
legislation and many more. Typically, social (e.g. social networks and
institutions), economic (e.g. shared resources and transactions) and
biophysical (e.g. material and energy flows) ties link action situations
and the actors involved in multiple situations. Such complex networks
lack systematic research. How can we account for the heterogeneity of
networks and the distinct characteristics of situations and their
linkages? Which methods and models appear most promising? How can NAS
contribute to middle-range theory building?
*Objectives *
This special feature aims to
(A) consolidate the NAS approach by examining conceptualizations of
networks and action situations and by synthesizing the portfolio of
available methods and models to analyse NAS;
(B) explore how theoretical, empirical and transdisciplinary research
uses situation-centred network approaches to advance network analysis
and synthesis in sustainability science;
(C) identify those situations and network structures in empirical cases
that promise to be powerful levers in the transformation of
social-ecological systems to sustainable futures.
We invite contributions that advance theory, methods and empirical
insights of NAS research, covering a variety of approaches, including
ecologies of games, connectivity science, polycentricity, archetypes
approaches, telecoupling and nexus studies, as well as political economy
and political ecology studies, ecologies of practices and actor-network
approaches.
The special feature builds on a series of conference panels that have
been organized at the ESEE 2019, the IASC 2019, the ECPR 2020 and the
ESG 2020. It aims to include a number of high-quality articles that
complement invited contributions from the panels.
*Deadlines *
Expressions of interest are due on 31 August 2020. Please submit a
working title, authors’ names and an abstract of 200-250 words in an
email to the editors. Full papers need to be submitted by the end of May
2021. We provide further detail for full paper submissions once the
planned contributions have been selected. Papers will be published
online as soon as they are accepted.
*Special Feature Editors *
Dr. Christian Kimmich, IAS Vienna, AT, and Masaryk University Brno, CZ
(kimmich@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kimmich@xxxxxxxxxxx>)
Dr. Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, ETH Zürich, CH (melf.ehlers@xxxxxxx
<mailto:melf.ehlers@xxxxxxx>)
Dr. Elke Kellner, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, CH
(elke.kellner@xxxxxx <mailto:elke.kellner@xxxxxx>)
Dr. Christoph Oberlack, University of Bern, CH
(christoph.oberlack@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:christoph.oberlack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>)
Prof. Dr. Andreas Thiel, University of Kassel, DE (thiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:thiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
Dr. Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Autonomous University Barcelona, ES
(sergio.villamayor@xxxxxxx <mailto:sergio.villamayor@xxxxxxx>)
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Dr. C. Kimmich: Researcher at IAS Vienna <https://www.ihs.ac.at> and MU
Brno <http://humenv.fss.muni.cz/en>, associated fellow at WINS HU Berlin
<https://www.wins.hu-berlin.de> | Projects: I-CONN
<http://www.iconn.network>, MEDEAS <http://www.medeas.eu>, LIVES
<http://www.livesproject21.org> | Publications: Google Scholar
<https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=2Ptp6JEAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao> or
ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8638-8808>