D.A. Sonnenfeld, Instructor
SUNY-ESF, Fall 2010
EST 603, Research Methods and Design – Handout
Supplemental Readings – Systems Approaches *
Anderies, J. M., M. A. Janssen, and E. Ostrom. 2004. "A framework to analyze the robustness of socialecological systems from an institutional perspective," Ecology and Society 9(1): 18. [online]
Available: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art18/
Baker, L.A., P.M. Hartzheim, S.E. Hobbie, J.Y. King, and K.C. Nelson. 2007. "Effect of consumption
choices on fluxes of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus through households," Urban Ecosystems 10(2):
97-117.
Decker, E.H., S. Elliot, F.A. Smith, D.R. Blake, and F.S. Rowland. 2000. "Energy and material flow
through the urban ecosystem," Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 25: 685-740.
Farley, Joshua, Jon D. Erickson, and Herman E. Daly. 2005. Ecological Economics: A Workbook for
Problem-Based Learning. Washington, DC: Island Press. [See esp., pp. 154-162]
Fiksel, Joseph. 2006. "Sustainability and resilience: toward a systems approach," Sustainability: Science,
Policy & Practice 2(2): 14-21. [online] Available: http://ejournal.nbii.org
Fischer-Kowalski, Marina. 1998a. "Society's metabolism, the intellectual history of materials flow
analysis, Part I, 1860–1970," Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(1):67-78.
------------. 1998b. "Society's metabolism, the intellectual history of materials flow analysis, Part II, 19701998," Journal of Industrial Ecology 2(4):107-136.
------------, and H. Weisz. 1999. "Society as a hybrid between material and symbolic realms: toward a
theoretical framework of society nature interrelation," Advances in Human Ecology 8:215-251.
Gunderson, Lance H., Craig R. Allen, and C.S. Holling, eds. 2010. Foundations of Ecological Resilience.
Washington, DC: Island Press.
Gunderson, Lance H., and C.S. Holling. 2001. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and
Natural Systems. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Haberl, Helmut, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann, Helga Weisz, Verena Winiwarter. 2004.
"Progress towards sustainability? What the conceptual framework of material and energy flow
accounting (MEFA) can offer," Land Use Policy 21(3):199-21.
Haberl, H., et al. 2006. "From LTER to LTSER: Conceptualizing the socioeconomic dimension of longterm socioecological research," Ecology and Society 11(2): 13.
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With thanks to colleagues in the Northeast Environmental Studies Network (NEES), at Wageningen University,
and in my home department.
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Holling, C.S. 1978. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
------------. 2001. "Understanding the complexity of economic, ecological, and social systems,"
Ecosystems 4: 390-405.
Liu, J., et al. 2007. "Complexity of coupled human and natural systems," Science 317(5844):1513-1516.
Luhmann, Niklas. 1995. [1984]. Social Systems. Tr., John Bednarz, Jr. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press.
Meadows, Donella H. 2008. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Ed., Diana White. White River Junction, VT:
Chelsea Green Publishing.
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008.
"Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research," Ecology and Society 13(2): 46.
[online]. Available: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art46/.
Newman, P.W.G. 1999. "Sustainability and cities: extending the metabolism model," Landscape and
Urban Planning 44: 219-226.
Norberg, Jon, and Graeme S. Cumming, eds. 2008. Complexity Theory for a Sustainable Future. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Redman, C. L., J. M. Grove, and L. H. Kuby. 2004. "Integrating social science into the long-term
ecological research (LTER) network: social dimensions of ecological change and ecological
dimensions of social change," Ecosystems 7:161-171.
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Stephen J. Walsh, B. L. Turner II, Jefferson Fox, and Vinod Mishra. 2004.
"Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues," Proceedings of the
National Academies of Science 101(39): 13976–13981.
Turner, B. L. II, et al. 2003. "Illustrating the coupled human-environment system for vulnerability
analysis: three case studies," Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 100(14):8080-8045.
Turner, B. L. II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg. 2007. "The emergence of land change science for
global environmental change and sustainability," Proceedings of the National Academies of Science
104(52): 20666–20671.
Walker, Brian, and David Salt. 2006. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a
Changing World. Washington, DC: Island Press.
ADDITIONAL SOURCES
See: http://www.esf.edu/cue/Library.htm