Resilience of social-ecological systems: drastic seasonal change is associated with economic but not social flexibility among fishers in the Brazilian Pantanal

Ecology and Society: a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

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Rafael M. Chiaravalloti¹  Daniel M. Freitas⁴  Rodrigo A. de Souza⁵  Sumalika Biswas¹  Andrea Markos⁶  Miraira Noal Manfroi⁷  Mark Dyble⁸ 

[1] Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center;Imperial College London - Center for Environmental Policy;IPE - Institute of Ecological Research;IBAMA, Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources;National Center for Monitoring and Environmental Information from Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources;Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Bolivia;Federal University of Santa Catarina;Department of Anthropology, University College London

关键词: fisheries;    resilience;    social-ecological systems;    socio-networks;    the Pantanal;   

DOI  :  10.5751/ES-12433-260230

学科分类：生物科学（综合）

来源: Resilience Alliance Publications

【 摘 要 】

In attempting to predict the impact of major ecological or climatic change on livelihoods, insights can be gained by looking at communities who experience extreme seasonal or annual variation. Here, we compare the ecology, economy, and social network of a community of traditional fishers in the Brazilian Pantanal between the dry season and the flood season in which their wetland ecosystem is transformed. Using data derived from satellite imaging we show that during the flood season of 2019 the total amount of open water accessible to fishers more than doubled and led to drastic qualitative changes. We show that although fishers adapted to this extreme seasonality by changing where, how, and what they fish between seasons, the structure of the social network in our study community did not differ. We argue that strong networks are especially important in social-ecological systems with extreme seasonal changes. More generally, we suggest that case studies of seasonal adaptation such as ours can contribute to a broader understanding of how communities may be able to successfully adapt to novel social-ecological changes.

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