This document reviews the literature on Social-Ecological Systems (SESs). The term Social-Ecological System (SES) was first coined by Ratzlaff in the 1970s (Colding, 2019) and first defined by Cherkasskii in the 1980s as a system ‘consisting of two interacting subsystems: the biological (epidemiological ecosystem) and the social (social and economic conditions of life of the society) subsystems, where the biological subsystem plays the role of the governed object and the social acts as the internal regulator of these interactions’ (Cherkasskii 1988:321). The concept first became a framework for the study of intertwined human and natural systems by Berkes and Folke (1998) and, since then, various SES frameworks have been developed. The SES approach to representing an area and ecosystem considers both ecological and social factors that may interact within a system. It takes the view that humans are part of the overall ecosystem, and that the SES is a holistic concept that manages the human influence and role within the bigger system (Knaps et al., 2022).