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  • Human wellbeing and prosperity depend on social-ecological interdependencies.
  • Current development interventions prioritize economic growth, neglecting these interdependencies, which undermines resilience and development outcomes.
  • A gap exists in understanding how to integrate social-ecological dynamics into development planning.

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  • To propose and advance a coevolutionary perspective for rethinking development and its relationship with resilience.
  • To demonstrate how this perspective can improve development interventions by considering social-ecological interdependencies.
  • To encourage a radical rethinking of resilience and development conceptualization and practice.

Main Methods:

  • The study proposes a coevolutionary framework based on three propositions: social-ecological relationships coevolve through variation, selection, and retention in practices; resilience is the capacity to filter practices; and development is a coevolutionary process.
  • The framework is illustrated using a case study on agricultural biodiversity.
  • Conceptual analysis and synthesis of existing literature on development, resilience, and social-ecological systems.

Main Results:

  • Development interventions impact and are impacted by social-ecological relationships and their coevolutionary dynamics.
  • Ignoring these dynamics can lead to perverse outcomes, undermining resilience.
  • A coevolutionary approach offers a more integrated understanding of development and resilience.

Conclusions:

  • A coevolutionary perspective is crucial for effectively addressing development challenges and enhancing resilience.
  • Rethinking development interventions through a coevolutionary lens can lead to more sustainable and equitable outcomes.
  • This perspective is applicable across various scales, from global to local, and across diverse systems like agricultural biodiversity.