Panarchy, Transformation, and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens

Nick Stanger; Joy  Vance Beauchamp

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Panarchy, Transformation, and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens

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Panarchy, Transformation, and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens

Nick Stanger and Joy Vance Beauchamp

The Trumpeter, Vol.31(1), pp.14-38

27/05/2015

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This paper uses panarchy theory, a complexity theory used in environmental management, to describe transformation in social systems. To introduce the concept of panarchy, the authors reflect on the naming of their new son and the changes that their choice of name caused in their family. They then bridge this analogy into Author 1's, (first name) preliminary dissertation research findings that invited exemplary Canadians to revisit their childhood and adolescent transformative place. Using video ethnography and participatory action research, these interviews should be simultaneously viewed when reading this article at http://www.transformativeplaces.com/. The five components of panarchy, scale, time, holarchy, cycles, and cross-scale dependency are demonstrated by the interviewees' connection to their transformative outdoor childhood or adolescent place. Observing systems and the change that arises from 'release' events supports human and social resiliency. The terminology used in panarchy theory provides an ecological approach to describing social systems and their transformation.

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Title: Panarchy, Transformation, and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens
Creators: Nick Stanger - University of Victoria
Joy Vance Beauchamp - Royal Roads University
Publication Details: The Trumpeter, Vol.31(1), pp.14-38
Publisher: The Trumpeter
Identifiers: 991013133013302368
Copyright: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Panarchy, Transformation, and Place: Exploring Social Change and Resiliency Through an Ecological Lens

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