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Rodrigo Martinez Pena

PhD student

My research focuses broadly on developing conceptual approaches to understand complex dynamics of social-ecological systems. My PhD research focuses on applying the mechanism-based approach to social-ecological phenomena, such as regime shifts.

Presentation

I am currently doing research on understanding the causal relations of coupled social-ecological systems. The analytical approach consists of looking at:

• How the societal and ecological context influences people’s behaviour

• How social interaction has effects on social-ecological interaction

• How social-ecological interactions brings about phenomena such as ecological collapse or governance change

My research is part of Cau-SES, a collaborative project with the SES-Link group at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Hulmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.

I am interested in connecting social-ecological theory and practice in order to promote sustainable and equitable change. I have worked at SwedBio, a science-policy interface, applying social-ecological science to case studies to inform international law on human rights.


Publications

2024

Tilman Hertz, T. homas Banitz, Rodrigo Martínez-Peña, Sonja Radosavljevic, Emilie Lindkvist, Goeran Johansson, Petri Ylikoski, Maja Schluter (2024) Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research Ecology and Society, Vol. 29, Article 14 Continue to DOI
Rodrigo Martínez Peña (2024) Complex causality: Bridging analytical sociology and social-ecological systems research

2022

Thomas Banitz, Maja Schlüter, Emilie Lindkvist, Sonja Radosavljevic, Lars-Göran Johansson, Petri Ylikoski, Rodrigo Martinez Pena, Volker Grimm (2022) Model-derived causal explanations are inherently constrained by hidden assumptions and context: The example of Baltic cod dynamics Environmental Modelling & Software, Vol. 156, Article 105489 Continue to DOI
Thomas Banitz, Tilman Hertz, Lars-Göran Johansson, Emilie Lindkvist, Rodrigo Martinez Pena, Sonja Radosavljevic, Maja Schluter, Karl Wennberg, Petri Ylikoski, Volker Grimm (2022) Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems Ecology & Society, Vol. 27, Article 31 Continue to DOI

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