Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production

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• dc.contributor.author Lancelotti, Carla
• dc.contributor.author Zurro, Debora
• dc.contributor.author Whitehouse, Nicki J.
• dc.contributor.author Kramer, Karen L.
• dc.contributor.author Madella, Marco
• dc.contributor.author García Granero, Juan José
• dc.contributor.author Greaves, Russell D.
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-20T09:42:19Z
• dc.date.available 2020-05-20T09:42:19Z
• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract The origins of agriculture and the shift from hunting and gathering to committed agriculture is regarded as one of the major transitions in human history. Archeologists and anthropologists have invested significant efforts in explaining the origins of agriculture. A period of gathering intensification and experimentation and pursuing a mixed economic strategy seems the most plausible explanation for the transition to agriculture and provides an approach to study a process in which several nonlinear processes may have played a role. However, the mechanisms underlying the transition to full agriculture are not completely clear. This is partly due to the nature of the archeological record, which registers a practice only once it has become clearly established. Thus, points of transitions have limited visibility and the mechanisms involved in the process are difficult to untangle. The complexity of such transitions also implies that shifts can be distinctively different in particular environments and under varying historical and social conditions. In this paper we discuss some of the elements involved in the transition to food production within the framework of resilience theory. We propose a theoretical conceptual model in which the resilience of livelihood strategies lies at the intersection of three spheres: the environmental, economical, and social domains. Transitions occur when the rate of change, in one or more of these domains, is so elevated or its magnitude so large that the livelihood system is unable to bounce back to its original state. In this situation, the system moves to an alternative stable state, from one livelihood strategy to another.
• dc.description.sponsorship This paper is the result of a two-day workshop funded by ICREA (Catalan Higher Research Institution) and organized at the ICTA (Institute for Environmental Studies) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Department of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The workshop was cofounded by the SimulPast project (former Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, CSD2010-00034). CL, DZ, MM, and JJGG are part of CaSEs (Complexity and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group), a Grup de Recerca Emergent of the Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR-e 1417). CL is currently a UPFellow; JJGG was supported by a JAE PreDOC PhD scholarship (Spanish National Research Council and European Social Fund) and the SimulPast project.
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• dc.identifier.citation Lancelotti C, Zurro D, Whitehouse NJ, Kramer KL, Madella M, García-Granero JJ et al. Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production. Ecol Soc. 2016;24(1):8. DOI: 10.5751/ES-08757-210408
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08757-210408
• dc.identifier.issn 1708-3087
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44610
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Resilience Alliance
• dc.relation.ispartof Ecology and Society. 2016;24(1):8
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2010-00034
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• dc.subject.keyword ABM
• dc.subject.keyword Resources
• dc.subject.keyword Social-ecological dynamics
• dc.subject.keyword Subsistence strategies
• dc.subject.keyword Transition to agriculture
• dc.title Resilience of small-scale societies’ livelihoods: a framework for studying the transition from food gathering to food production
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