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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 7: Poster

SOE 7.5: Poster

Monday, March 18, 2024, 18:00–20:30, Poster D

Inclusion of Social Norms and Groups in a Stylised Social-Ecological Multilayer Network Model restructures safe operating spaces in renewable resource management — •Max Bechthold and Jonathan Donges — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg A 31, 14473 Potsdam

Social norms are a main socio-cultural influence on human behaviour, one of the primary drivers of climate change in the Anthropocene. As a potential social tipping element, they are suggested to play a pivotal role in politics and governance and thus form a possible intervention point for global-scale collective action problems in the World-Earth system. This contribution presents a multi-level network framework for conceptualised social norms. It focuses on a complex contagion process that mimics the presence of social norms, which are further divided into the sub-concepts of descriptive and injunctive norms. The framework also incorporates social groups as an important feature. This allows to capture cases in which, for example, social groups may include norms into their identity, accelerating or slowing down the uptake of new social norms in their members. Building upon this framework, a model with coupled social-ecological dynamics and a closed feedback loop is constructed in the copan:CORE framework for world-Earth modelling. The results of computational investigation of the influence of social norms, social groups and social inertia in the model and the resulting safe operating spaces for management of a renewable resource are presented in this contribution.

Keywords: Social-ecological systems; Social norms; Social groups; Multilayer network; Resource management