Case 1
In what Year was the Australian dairy Market Deregulated?
A: 2003
B: 1999
C: 2000
2000
What Post-crop Was the Catchment area transitioned out of:
A: Post-Maize
B: Post-Tobacco
C: Post-Soybean
Post-Tobacco
What dominates the Water management discourse of the Murray-Darling Basin:
A: The productive Agricultural economy
B: Degradation of Riverine Ecosystems
C: A and B
D: Introduction of of the Invasive Eurasian watermilfoil in riverine ecosystems
A and B
Which Area (or problematic area) does not belong?
A: focal scale and level
B: SES definition
C: narratives of change
D: Sociopolitical limitations
E:processes of knowledge production
F: social transition trajectories
G:social thresholds
D: Sociopolitical limitations
What term can be defined by a conceptual framework that encapsulates a multifaceted approach to describing and analyzing change in social-ecological systems (SES) as integrated social and environment subsystems.
Resilience Framework
What emerged as the most powerful player in the dairy market supply chain:
A: Supermarkets
B: Industrial Farms
C: Wholesale sellers
D:Ice Cream Magnates
A: Supermarkets
What type of landscape did the politicians narrative suggest it transitioned to?
A: Multifaceted Landscape
B: Multifunctional Landscape
C: Agrarian Landscape
C: Bricolage Landscape
B: Multifunctional Landscape
When boundary assumptions of knowledge claims about ecological responses to river flows were examined, it was found that they were:
A: Clearly established
B: were not clearly established
C: Never outlined
D: Boundary assumptions?
B: were not clearly established
Out of these options what is one challenge or criticism of a Reflexive approach:
A: Lack of preconception
B: Uncertainty in bias
C: Situational demarcation
D: Infinite Regress
D: Infinite Regress
What term can be defined by; embracing of subjective understandings of reality as a basis for thinking more critically about the impact of our assumptions, values, and actions on others.
Reflexivity
What Two elements relate to the degradation of social capital when applying resilience thinking as a lens.
Structural (related to the breakdown in producers’ social networks) and cognitive (related to the breakdown in trust between the producer and milk processor) Elements
The Catchment reorganized itself as a result of:
substantial amenity migration and the growth service industries, including tourism
What interests of the River SES were underrepresented and marginalized:
Aboriginal cultural values, and recreational and aesthetic uses of river
In this article, what is the term “problematic” used for?
to Identify the concept as a candidate for deconstruction
What “term” has been found difficult to define:
Social-ecological systems or SES's
At the farm level, What did the producers do after the dairy price cut?
producers upgraded farm infrastructure, adopted new practices, and attained new skills to enable them to increase production and lower production cost.
How many contradictory stakeholder narratives were revealed through the adaptive cycle, and what were two of them?
3 and the farmers narrative and the politicians narrative.
What are the main components of SES discussed in the article?
social, ecological, and institutional components
What Assumptions does Resilience Thinking need to reflect on?
agency, power, knowledge, and scale
What are the 4 phases of the adaptive cycle?
Exploitation, Conservation, Collapse and reorganization