Readings
Week 1. Introduction to CHANS/SES
Week 2. Introduction to Ecosystem Services (ES) and Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES)
Week 3. Vulnerability Framework
Week 4. Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, Response (DPSIR) Framework
Week 5. Management and Transitions Framework (MTF)
Week 6. Social Ecological Systems Framework (SESF)
Week 7. Guest speaker: Dr. Kathy Halvorsen, Michigan Tech University, on collaboration across disciplines
Week 8. Guest panel from CHANS system in Veracruz, Mexico
- No Reading
Additional Readings (Not Required)
- Chapin et al. 2009. A framework for understanding change
- Kramer et al. 2017. “Top 40 Questions in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Research”
- Binder et al. 2013. Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems
- Bennett et al. 2015 “Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability”