A regional PECS node built from place-based social-ecological sustainability research in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rafael Calderón-Contreras; Patricia Balvanera; Micaela Trimble; Alfonso Langle-Flores; Esteban Jobbágy; Manuel Maass Moreno; Jorge Marcone; Néstor Mazzeo; Minerva M. Muñoz Anaya; Iván A. Ortiz-Rodríguez; Maria Perevochtchikova; Sophie Avila-Foucat; Martha Bonilla-Moheno; Laurie B. Clark; Miguel Equihua; Bárbara Ayala-Orozco; Isabel Bueno; Loni Hensler; Juana C. Leyva Aguilera; Miguel Martínez Ramos; Juliana Merçon; M.A. Mesa-Jurado; Henrik Österblom; Raul Pacheco-Vega; Bonifacio Pérez Alcántara; Octavio Pérez-Maqueo; Luciana Porter-Bolland; Sandra Quijas; Laura E. Quiroz Rosas; Eduardo Rios Patron; Juan C. Rocha-Gordo; Iskra A. Rojo Negrete; Luz P. Romero-Duque; Julieta A. Rosell; Marten Scheffer; Luis B. Vázquez; Mariana Villada Canela; Mónica Velázquez

doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.2000501

A regional PECS node built from place-based social-ecological sustainability research in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rafael Calderón-Contreras^*, Patricia Balvanera, Micaela Trimble, Alfonso Langle-Flores, Esteban Jobbágy, Manuel Maass Moreno, Jorge Marcone, Néstor Mazzeo, Minerva M. Muñoz Anaya, Iván A. Ortiz-Rodríguez, Maria Perevochtchikova, Sophie Avila-Foucat, Martha Bonilla-Moheno, Laurie B. Clark, Miguel Equihua, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco, Isabel Bueno, Loni Hensler, Juana C. Leyva Aguilera, Miguel Martínez RamosJuliana Merçon, M.A. Mesa-Jurado, Henrik Österblom, Raul Pacheco-Vega, Bonifacio Pérez Alcántara, Octavio Pérez-Maqueo, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Sandra Quijas, Laura E. Quiroz Rosas, Eduardo Rios Patron, Juan C. Rocha-Gordo, Iskra A. Rojo Negrete, Luz P. Romero-Duque, Julieta A. Rosell, Marten Scheffer, Luis B. Vázquez, Mariana Villada Canela, Mónica Velázquez

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Sustainability requires a combination of meaningful co-production of locally relevant solutions, synthesis of insights gained across regions, and increased cooperation between science, policy and practice. The Programme for Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS) has been coordinating Place-Based Social-Ecological Sustainability Research (PBSESR) across the globe and emphasizes the need for regional scientific nodes from diverse biocultural regions to inform sustainability science and action. In this paper, we assess the strengths of the PBSESR communities in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). We provide an overview of PBSESR literature associated with this region and highlight the achievements of two prominent regional networks: The Social-Ecological Systems and Sustainability Research Network from Mexico (SocioEcoS) and the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies from Uruguay (SARAS Institute). Finally, we identify the potential in these nodes to constitute a regional PECS node in Latin America and discuss the capacity needed to ensure such function. The results of the literature review show that while still loosely interconnected across the region, networks play key roles in connecting otherwise cloistered teams and we illustrate how the SocioEcoS network (focusing on transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge towards sustainability) and the SARAS Institute (focusing on innovative approaches for looking at complex social-ecological problems, rooted in slow science and arts) operate as key connectors in the region. We conclude that these organizations combined can embody a Latin American node for PECS, and would thereby not only contribute to regional but also global capacities to advance the sustainability agenda.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Journal	Ecosystems and People
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.2000501
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

Interdisciplinary research networks
network analysis
place-based research
Reinette Biggs
social-ecological systems
sustainability
transdisciplinary collaboration

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Calderón-Contreras, R., Balvanera, P., Trimble, M., Langle-Flores, A., Jobbágy, E., Maass Moreno, M., Marcone, J., Mazzeo, N., Muñoz Anaya, M. M., Ortiz-Rodríguez, I. A., Perevochtchikova, M., Avila-Foucat, S., Bonilla-Moheno, M., Clark, L. B., Equihua, M., Ayala-Orozco, B., Bueno, I., Hensler, L., Leyva Aguilera, J. C., ... Velázquez, M. (2022). A regional PECS node built from place-based social-ecological sustainability research in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ecosystems and People, 18(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.2000501

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