Archetypes depict representative patterns, i.e. similarities and differences, in socio-ecological interactions. With this generalisation, archetype analysis supports the scaling and transfer of knowledge from one place to another in a systematic way. The underlying assumption is that similarities in social-ecological conditions link to similarities in sustainability interventions.
Archetype analysis in sustainability research has been used to understand factors and processes that repeatedly determine the (un)sustainability of social-ecological systems. This includes development drivers and outcomes related to livelihood vulnerability, land use, economic development, food security, and climate adaptation, among others. Archetypes are useful to understand functional similarities and differences in a broader perspective and inform decisions that need to be made across diverse spatial scales, linking local realities with global change processes.
This working group will advance two pillars of GLP’s Science Plan 2016-2021. First, this working group will provide a platform to advance methodologies for analyzing and synthesizing recurrent patterns from contextualized case studies by using the archetype approach. Second, it will advance analysis on land governance including by building bridges to the research community of institutional analysis of the commons.
The specific objectives of this Working Group are:
to consolidate the archetype approach by taking stock of applications, methods, roots, opportunities and current limitations;
to push current methodological frontiers by encouraging methodological debate and cutting-edge applications;
to advance understanding of key sustainability challenges and opportunities by presenting new applications of archetype analysis;
to provide a platform to bridge land system science and institutional analysis/commons research communities to advance case study synthesis methods and analysis of land governance, and
to provide a platform for a next generation of archetype analysis.
GLP Themes: Land governance, Land management systems, Land use and conflict
Event
This workshop by the GLP Archetypes Working Group follow up on three successful workshops on archetypes held in Bern (2017), Berlin (2018) and Olomouc (2019). This time, the workshop will be held by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, with the option of joining remotely. The workshop invites new as well as established members of the Archetypes of Sustainability network.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany
University of Bern, Switzerland
Switzerland
Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Potsdam...
Germany
Bologna University
Italy
Mercator Reserach Group on Global Commons and...
Germany
GLP/Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
Switzerland
Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after...
Ukraine
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Sweden
Masaryk University Brno; WINS HU Berlin
Czech Republic
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Netherlands
CIRAD, University of Montpellier, CIFOR
Peru
CNRS-CIRAD
Thailand
Institute of Latin American Studies - Freie...
Germany
Independent
Canada
ATREE
India
University of California Los Angeles
United States
Universidad Rafael Landívar
Guatemala
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic; UFZ...
Czech Republic
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Sweden