Örjan

Bodin

PhD

Associate professor

orjan.bodin@su.se

+46 8 674 76 71, +46 703 410 121

@orjanbodin

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Örjan Bodin combines and integrates methods and theories from several scientific disciplines to develop better understanding of social-ecological systems

Profile summary

  • Social and ecological network analysis
  • Collaborative governance
  • Social-ecological fit
  • Institutional fit
  • Landscape ecology
  • Mixed methods

In his work, Bodin uses and develops theoretical/conceptual models and simulations, as well as engaging in empirical studies and empirical data analyses. Bodin often describes and models social, ecological, and coupled social-ecological systems as complex and intricate webs of interactions between, and among, different ecological and/or social components.

Cross-disciplinary network analytical approach allows him to apply the same set of methods and conceptualization in studying such different things as power asymmetries resulting from different patterns of social and economic relationships among small-scale fishermen to large-scale analyses of seed dispersals in human-dominated and fragmented landscapes. It thus facilitates systemic analyses of SES that bridge scientific disciplines.

Furthermore, Bodin also applies methods and techniques, such as: formal mathematical analysis; qualitative comparative analysis (QCA); in-depth interviews; qualitative data analysis; surveys; behavioral experiments; agent-based simulation modelling; GIS and spatial explicit modelling and analysis; mathematical graph-theory; and statistical modelling.

Bodin holds an MSc in Physics and a PhD in Systems Ecology/Natural Resource Management. Prior to his academic engagement, Bodin was working in the telecommunication and IT industries for nearly a decade. Bodin has published in both natural and social science journals, and has been engaged (in addition to several theoretically oriented studies) in case studies of small-scale fisheries in east Africa, high sea fishery in the Southern Ocean, agriculture in southern Madagascar, and regional land use management in Stockholm, Sweden.

He is also contributing to the development of new tools and methods for improved green area spatial planning in urban areas, with a geographical focus on Stockholm County.

SRC supervision:
Johanna Hedlund, PhD candidate

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ORCID: 0000-0002-8218-1153

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Publications by Bodin, Örjan

Evaluating heterogeneous brokerage: New conceptual and methodological approaches and their application to multi-level environmental governance networks

Hamilton, M., Hileman, J., Bodin, Ö.

2020 - Journal / article

We present two new approaches for assessing the relative contributions of different types of actors to heterogeneous brokerage in networks. These approaches distinguish between the tendency of certain types of actors to (1) mediate between dissimilar actors (heterogeneous brokerage “activity”), and (2) be the sole mediators between dissimilar actors (“exclusivity”). We present methods for implementing these approaches, using ...

Collaboration and conflict in complex water governance systems across a development gradient: addressing common challenges and solutions

Mancilla García, M., J. Hileman, and Ö. Bodin (Eds.).

2019 - Journal / article

Social ties explain catch portfolios of small‐scale fishers in the Caribbean

Alexander, S. M., Staniczenko, P.A., Bodin, Ö.

2019 - Journal / article

Small‐scale fisheries often involve weak management regimes with limited top‐down enforcement of rules and minimal support from legal institutions, making them useful model systems for investigating the role of social influence in determining economic and environmental outcomes. In such regimes, interpersonal relationships are expected to have a strong effect on a fisher's catch portfolio, the set of fish species targeted by a...

Toward a methodology for explaining and theorizing about social-ecological phenomena

Schlüter, M., Orach, K., Lindkvist, E., Martin, R., Wijermans, N. et al.

2019 - Journal / article

Explanations that account for complex causation, emergence, and social-ecological interdependence are necessary for building theories of social-ecological phenomena. Social-ecological systems (SES) research has accumulated rich empirical understanding of SES; however, integration of this knowledge toward contextualized generalizations, or middle-range theories, remains challenging. We discuss the potential of an iterative and ...

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