Socio-ecological system

A social-ecological system consists of 'a bio-geo-physical' unit and its associated social actors and institutions. Social-ecological systems are complex and adaptive and delimited by spatial or functional boundaries surrounding particular ecosystems and their context problems. The socio-ecological system consists of a bio-geophysical (the built and natural environment) unit and the social actors (the individual people, the organization, the governance) and institituions.