From early on in my studies, I’ve been fortunate enough to link in to the Resilience Alliance and work with many great researchers in that network.  Since 2008, I’ve been very involved in the RAYS – the Resilience Alliance Young Scholars, a broadly interdisciplinary group focused on social-ecological systems and resilience thinking,  and for the past few years I have had the good fortune to serve on the board for the Resilience Alliance, becoming co-chair with Garry Peterson in 2020. Below, I’ve attached links to a number of the key websites and blogs that I find very useful and informative.  I’ve also provided a link to Ecology and Society, an open access journal focused on sustainable social-ecological systems.

Relevant Links

One of my favorite academic journals:  Ecology and Society

The Network that serves as a source for a great deal of my inspiration and quite a lot of my perspiration:  The Resilience Alliance

A great blog on Resilience:  Garry Peterson’s Resilience Science Blog

Another blog on Adaptation and Governance in social-ecological systems:  Victor Galaz’s Adaptiveness Blog

And from the Stockholm Resilience Centre:  http://www.sdupdate.org

A blog on institutional diversity, resilience and robustness:  Marco Janssen’s Blog

My Published Research in this Field

As always, the links to these documents are available on the publication page.  If you can’t find what you’re looking for, please let me know.  I’d be happy to provide copies.

My first major work on this topic, as for every aspect of my research is my dissertation.

See also the following articles:

Schoon, Michael L. 2005. “A Short Historical Overview of the Concepts of Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation”, Working Paper W05-4, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Janssen, Marco A., Michael L. Schoon, Katy Borner, and Weimao Ke. 2006. “Scholarly Networks on Resilience, Vulnerability, and Adaptation.” Global Environmental Change 16 (3): 240-52.

Robards, Martin, Michael Schoon, Chanda Meek, and Nathan Engle. “The importance of social drivers in the resilient provision of ecosystem services”. Global Environmental Change 21, no. 2 (2011): 522-529.

Biggs, D., R. Biggs, V. Dakos, R. J. Scholes and M. Schoon. 2011. Are We Entering an Era of Concatenated Global Crises?. Ecology and Society 16 (2): 27. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art27/

Schoon, Michael L., Christo Fabricius, Marty Anderies, and Margaret Nelson. “Synthesis: Vulnerability, Traps, and Transformations – Long Term Perspectives from Archaeology”, Ecology and Society  16 (2): 24. [online] URL:  http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art24/.

Schoon, Michael L. and Michael E. Cox. 2012. “Understanding Disturbances and Responses in Social-Ecological Systems”. Society and Natural Resources 25(2): 141-155.

Resilience Alliance Young Scholars. (2012). “Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services”, Annual Review of Environment and Resources 37: 1-28.

Schoon, Michael L. 2013. “Governance Structures in Transboundary Conservation: How Institutional Evolution Influences Cross-Border Cooperation”, Conservation and Society 11(4): 420-428.

Norström, A. V., A. Dannenberg, G. McCarney, M. Milkoreit, F. Diekert, G., Engström, R. Fishman, J. Gars, E. Kyriakopoolou, V. Manoussi, K. Meng, M., Metian, M. Sanctuary, M. Schlüter, M. Schoon, L. Schultz and M. Sjöstedt. 2014.

“Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene”. Ecology and Society 19 (3): 8. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art8/

Cumming, Graeme, Craig Allen, Natalie Ban, Duan Biggs, Harry Biggs, David Cumming, Alta de Vos, Graham Epstein, Michel Etienne, Kristi Maciejewski, Raphael Mathevet, Christine Moore, Mateja Nenadovic and Michael Schoon. 2015. “Understanding Protected Area Resilience: a Multi-Scale, Social-Ecological Approach”, Ecological Applications 25 (2): 299-319.

Milkoreit, Manjana, Chanda Meek, Michele-Lee Moore, and Michael Schoon. 2015. “Resilience Scientists as Change Makers – Growing the Middle Ground Between Science and Advocacy?”, Environmental Science and Policy 53: 87-95.                                                    * Featured as a Research Highlight in Nature Climate Change

Biggs, Oonsie, Maja Schluter and Michael Schoon (eds.). 2015. Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Biggs, Oonsie, Maja, Schluter, and Michael Schoon. 2015. “The Resilience Approach: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems” In Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems, edited by Oonsie Biggs, Maja Schluter and Michael Schoon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Schoon, Michael, Martin Robards, Chanda Meek, Nathan Engle, and Katrina Brown. 2015. “Politics and the Selection of Ecosystem Services”. In Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems, edited by Oonsie Biggs, Maja Schluter and Michael Schoon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Schoon, Michael, Martin Robards, Chanda Meek, and Victor Galaz. 2015. “Promoting Polycentric Governance Systems”. In Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems, edited by Oonsie Biggs, Maja Schluter and Michael Schoon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Biggs, Oonsie, Maja, Schluter, Michael Schoon, Martin Robards, and Marty Anderies. 2015. “Building resilience in social-ecological systems: interactions among principles and implications for governance”. In Principles for Building Resilience: Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Social-Ecological Systems, edited by Oonsie Biggs, Maja Schluter and Michael Schoon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Schoon, Michael and Sander van der Leeuw. 2015. “The Shift toward Social-Ecological Systems Perspectives: Insights into the Human-Nature Relationship”, Natures Sciences Sociétés 23 (2): 166-174.

Ban, Natalie, Emily Boyd, Michael Cox, Chanda Meek, Michael Schoon, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas. 2015. “Linking classroom learning and research to advance ideas about social-ecological resilience”. Ecology and Society 20 (3): 35.

Barreteau, O., D. Giband, M. Schoon, J. Cerceau, F. DeClerck, S. Ghiotti, T. James, V. A. Masterson, R. Mathevet, S. Rode, F. Ricci and C. Therville. 2016. “Bringing together social-ecological system and territoire concepts to explore nature-society dynamics”, Ecology and Society 21 (4): 42.

Milkoreit, Manjana, Jennifer Hodbod, Jacopo Baggio, Karina Benessaiah, Rafael Calderon- Contreras, Jonathan F. Donges, Jean Denis Mathias, Juan Carlos Rocha, Michael Schoon, Saskia E. Werners. 2018. “Defining Tipping Points for Social-ecological Systems Scholarship”, Environmental Research Letters 13(3): 033005

Antoni, Carolin, Humberto Reyes Hernández, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Anuschka van´t Hooft, Michael Schoon. 2018. “Socio-ecological dynamic of a tropical agricultural region: historical analysis of system change and opportunities”, Land Use Policy 81: 346-59.

Cox, Michael, Natalie Ban, Graham Epstein, Louisa Evans, Forrest Fleischman, Mateja Nenadovic, Gustavo García-López, Frank van Laerhoven, Chanda Meek, Irene Perez Ibarra, Michael Schoon, and Sergio Villamayor-Tomas. 2020. “From concepts to comparisons: a resource for diagnosis and measurement in social-ecological systems”, Environmental Science and Policy 107: 211-216. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.02.009  

Mathias, Jean-Denis, John Anderies, Jacopo Baggio, Jennifer Hodbod, Sylvie Huet, Marco Janssen, Manjana Milkoreit, and Michael Schoon. 2020. “Exploring non-linear transition pathways in social-ecological systems”. Scientific Reports 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59713-w

Current Research Program

Right now, I am doing some fun, exciting work on tipping points in social and social-ecological systems.  I’m also working with current RAYS on Panarchy 2.0, with some interesting papers coming out on that.  Finally, I have a fun side project with Erin Bohensky on the adaptive cycle in the Torres Strait.