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Adaptive Policy Framework through the Lens of the Viability Theory: A Theoretical Contribution to Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

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  • Bates, Samuel
  • Saint-Pierre, Patrick

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The Earth is an evolutionary system that can be viewed as a Social-Ecological System built around Money (SESM) because of the coupling of the Anthropocene Era with globalization. Given the simultaneous (environmental-economic) risks of “total uncertainty” and “systemic aftermath”, several paradigmatic turns are required. Ecological economics is a cutting-edge field that tackles this issue. An integrative framework involving co-evolutionary modelling offers methods for addressing the regulation issue that arises from the significant uncertainty driven by global economic and ecological risks. We tackle the issue of adaptive policy for SESM regulation by answering the call for paradigmatic turns, which leads us to support tychastic vs. stochastic uncertainty, in time adaptation vs. optimal belated solutions, viability vs. stationary equilibrium, and interdisciplinarity and participatory processes in modelling and policy action. We describe step by step how to conceive SESM modelling through the lens of the mathematical viability theory (MVT), and we argue that this lens, when adjusted for anticipatory and adaptive governance (AAG), is relevant to examining sustainability for complex adaptive SESMs from a local or global perspective.

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  • Bates, Samuel & Saint-Pierre, Patrick, 2018. "Adaptive Policy Framework through the Lens of the Viability Theory: A Theoretical Contribution to Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages 244-262.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolec:v:145:y:2018:i:c:p:244-262
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.09.007
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    1. C. Tyler DesRoches, 2018. "What Is Natural about Natural Capital during the Anthropocene?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-10, March.
    2. Karlijn Muiderman & Aarti Gupta & Joost Vervoort & Frank Biermann, 2020. "Four approaches to anticipatory climate governance: Different conceptions of the future and implications for the present," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(6), November.
    3. Alvarez, Isabelle & Zaleski, Laetitia & Briot, Jean-Pierre & de A. Irving, Marta, 2023. "Collective management of environmental commons with multiple usages: A guaranteed viability approach," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 475(C).
    4. Alejandro Cleves & Eva Youkhana & Javier Toro, 2022. "A Method to Assess Agroecosystem Resilience to Climate Variability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-26, July.
    5. Lee, Chien-Chiang & Wang, Chih-Wei & Ho, Shan-Ju, 2022. "The dimension of green economy: Culture viewpoint," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 74(C), pages 122-138.

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