The Social-Ecological System Approach in The Context of Integrated Coastal Management and Government

Abstract

Coastal zone is widely known as the most complex systems, both in terms of ecosystem and human system so that the need of integrated approach is considerably very important for enhancing efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives of such ecosystems. One of important approach in governing the coastal complex system is social‐ecological system approach (SES approach). Anderies, et.al (2004) define social‐ecological system as an ecosystem/biological unit intricately linked with and affected by one or more social systems. In this regards, Daly’s full and empty world theory would be relevant to identify the relations among social actors in the complex ecosystems or between social actors and complex ecosystem. In this lecture, principle of SES management and governance would be emphasized with some relevant case studies.