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课程名称：社会生态系统的可持续性：水、能源与食品的联系 课程概述：本课程将帮助您理解水-能源-食品联系以及跨学科思维的概念。您将学会将您的社区或国家视为一个复杂的社会生态系统，并以模式形式描述其水、能源和食品的代谢过程，同时绘制社会参与者的分类。我们将提供测量联系要素的工具，并能够在不同分析尺度和维度上进行连贯的分析。通过这种方式，您的定量分析将变得对明智的决策具有实用价值。您将能够发现并量化对非可再生资源的依赖以及环境问题的外部化（这是西方世界常见的“解决方案”）。案例研究将涵盖发达国家和发展中国家的实践，帮助您评估特定社区或国家的现状，并探索可能的解决方案。最后，您将从全新的视角看待紧迫的社会生态问题，如能源贫困、水资源短缺和不平等，并质疑过去所接受的信息。 课程大纲： 1. 简介：欢迎参与我们的课程，了解课程和平台的信息。 2. 基本概念介绍：从不同角度看待联系，解释其复杂性及其重要性，并介绍代谢分析所需的基本概念。 3. 揭示现有定量分析的不足：探讨叙事、框架和复杂性，分析不同叙事如何影响定量评估。 4. 食品核算的挑战：定义食品，探讨可核算的食品质量及其对可持续农业系统的影响。 5. 能源核算的挑战：建立能源分析的框架，讨论能源核算的复杂性及其对政策的影响。 6. 水核算的挑战：介绍水的代谢模式和多维度分析的必要性。 7. MuSIASEM 2.0的应用：通过实际案例展示理论概念的实际应用。 8. 完全不同的思考方式：反思定量分析的重要性，介绍后常规科学和基于定量的叙述方法。 注：部分结果和案例研究基于MAGIC和PARTICIPIA项目，课程不反映资助机构及项目合伙人的整体观点，案例研究仅出于教育和说明目的。
Name:Introduction
Description:Welcome to our course on the sustainability of social-ecological systems! Before getting started, we suggest you take a couple of minutes to read the information about the course and about the platform as given below.
Name:1. Introducing the basic concepts
Description:In this module we will look at the nexus from a different perspective: What is the nexus? Why is it getting all this attention right now? Is it just a buzzword, or something more? We will start by explaining what the nexus means in terms of complexity and propose the basic concepts needed for a metabolic analysis of the nexus. It might take a while to get your head around these concepts, but they are essential to understand what comes next. Finally, we will give examples of “elephants in the room” in the sustainability discourse – to show you that mainstream narratives are not always right.
Name:2. Acknowledging the poor quality of existing quantitative analyses
Description:This module is all about narratives, framing and complexity. You will see how different narratives affect quantitative assessments, and why numbers aren’t always right. We will delve deeper into the theoretical basis of complex systems, and propose alternative ways of doing sustainability analysis, through the use of grammars.
Name:3. The challenge of food accounting
Description:Having introduced the basis of metabolic analysis and complex systems, we will now focus on the different elements of the nexus, starting with food. We will start by answering some seemingly basic questions: what do we mean by food, and how can it be accounted? Which qualities of food can and cannot be accounted for in terms of numbers? Practical examples will guide you along the way, and by the end of the module you will see why the current agricultural system is unsustainable to its core.
Name:4. The challenge of energy accounting
Description:This module we will look at energy. As we did for food, we will start by looking at the problems of energy accounting, and setting a framework to allow us to carry out energy analyses across levels and scales. You will see why energy accounting is one of the most problematic aspects of sustainability, and through the example of the Energiewende we will explore how this affects policy.
Name:5. The challenge of water accounting
Description:This module is all about water. By now you should be familiar with the concept of grammar, and we will see how building one for water can help in dealing with its many dimensions. Through the example of an analysis of the Mauritius Islands, you will become familiar with the many aspects of water accounting, and by the end of the week you will understand the importance of water in nexus analysis, especially when it comes to policymaking.
Name:6. The metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems across multiple scales and dimensions
Description:We talked about scales and dimensions a lot, and this module we will explore and understand these concepts better. You will learn to account for human activity, an essential fund that is often left out from quantitative analysis, and how GIS tools can be incorporated with the methods you have learnt so far. This week is heavy on theory, to prepare you for week 7 which is all about applications.
Name:7. Applications of MuSIASEM 2.0
Description:How can the theoretical concepts explained so far be applied to practical examples? After introducing the basic building blocks of relational analysis needed for our applications, we will look at two real case examples: a nexus analysis of vegetable production in Almeria, and of a wind-powered desalination plant in the Canary Islands. By the end of this module you should be able to build processors and set up nexus analyses.
Name:8. Time for "something completely different": from the Cartesian dream to quantitative story-telling via evidence based policy
Description:We are ending the course with something a bit different (thanks to our guest lecturer Andrea Saltelli). This mldule we leave quantitative assessments behind, and take some time to reflect upon why it is important to do analyses in a different way. We will introduce the concepts of post-normal science and quantitative story-telling – this will allow you to think deeply about how you frame your analyses in the future.
In this course you will become familiar with the ideas of the water-energy-food nexus and transdisciplinary thinking. You will learn to see your community or country as a complex social-ecological system and to describe its water, energy and food metabolism in the form of a pattern, as well as to map the categories of social actors. We will provide you with the tools to measure the nexus elements and to analyze them in a coherent way across scales and dimensions of analysis. In this way, your quantitative analysis will become useful for informed decision-making. You will be able to detect and quantify dependence on non-renewable resources and externalization of environmental problems to other societies and ecosystems (a popular ‘solution’ in the western world). Practical case studies, from both developed and developing countries, will help you evaluate the state-of-play of a given community or country and to evaluate possible solutions. Last but not least, you will learn to see pressing social-ecological issues, such as energy poverty, water scarcity and inequity, from a radically different perspective, and to question everything you’ve been told so far. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Part of the results and case studies presented have been developed within two projects: MAGIC and PARTICIPIA. However, the course does not reflect the views of the funding institutions or of the project partners as a whole, and the case studies were presented purely with an educational and illustrative purpose.
