Integrating inductive and deductive analysis to identify and characterize archetypical social-ecological systems and their changes

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Archetype analysis is a key tool in landscape and sustainability research to organize social-ecological complexity and to identify social-ecological systems (SESs). While inductive archetype analysis can characterize the diversity of SESs within a region, deductively derived archetypes have greater interpretative power to compare across regions. Here, we developed a novel archetype approach that combines the strengths of both perspectives. We applied inductive clustering to an integrative dataset to map 15 typical SESs for 2016 and 12 social-ecological changes (1999–2016) in Andalusia region (Spain). We linked these types to deductive types of human-nature connectedness, resulting in a nested archetype classification. Our analyses revealed combinations of typical SESs and social-ecological changes that shape them, such as agricultural intensification and peri-urbanization in agricultural SESs, declining agriculture in natural SESs or population de-concentration (counter-urbanization) in urban SESs. Likewise, we identified a gradient of human-nature connectedness across SESs and typical social-ecological changes fostering this gradient. This allowed us to map areas that face specific sustainability challenges linked to ongoing regime shifts (e.g., from rural to urbanized systems) and trajectories towards social-ecological traps (e.g., cropland intensification in drylands) associated with decreasing human-nature connectedness. This provides spatial templates for targeting policy responses related to the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems, the disappearance of traditional cropping systems and abandonment of rural lands, or the reconnection of urban population with the local environment, among others. Generally, our approach allows for different levels of abstraction, keeping regional context-specificity while linking to globally recognisable archetypes, and thus to generalization and theory-building efforts.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104199
JournalLandscape and Urban Planning
Volume215
Number of pages13
ISSN0169-2046
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.11.2021
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
We thank T. Torres-García for helpful discussions, C. Wordley for checking the language, and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions to improve this paper. We also thank the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Business (Project CGL2014-61610-EXP) for the financial support, as well as the Spanish Ministry of Education for the fellowship of MPR (FPU14/06782). MPR gratefully acknowledges funding from Fundación CEI·MAR for a research stay at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin to develop this study. This research was done within the LTSER Platforms of the Arid Iberian South East - Spain (LTER_EU_ES_027) and Sierra Nevada / Granada (ES- SNE) - Spain (LTER_EU_ES_010).

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    Research areas

  • Biophysical human-nature connectedness, Coupled human and natural systems, Landscape change, Nested archetype analysis, Social-ecological change, System mapping
  • Environmental planning

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