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| McAlpine, Clive A.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; c.mcalpine@uq.edu.au; Seabrook, Leonie M.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; l.seabrook@uq.edu.au; Ryan, Justin G.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; justin.ryan@uq.edu.au; Feeney, Brian J.; The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management and National Environmental Decisions Research Hub, Brisbane, Australia; bjfeeney@gmail.com; Ripple, William J.; Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon; bill.ripple@oregonstate.edu; Ehrlich, Anne H.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; aehrlich@stanford.edu; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California; pre@stanford.edu. |
| Many ecologists and environmental scientists witnessing the scale of current environmental change are becoming increasingly alarmed about how humanity is pushing the boundaries of the Earth’s systems beyond sustainable levels. The world urgently needs global society to redirect itself toward a more sustainable future: one that moves intergenerational equity and environmental sustainability to the top of the political agenda, and to the core of personal and societal belief systems. Scientific and technological innovations are not enough: the global community, individuals, civil society, corporations, and governments, need to adjust their values and beliefs to one in which sustainability becomes the new global paradigm society. We argue that the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Behavioral change; Connectedness; Innovative leadership; Societal values; Transformational change; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University; marina.fischer-kowalski@uni-klu.ac.at; Rotmans, Jan; DRIFT (Drift Research Institute for Transitions) Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; rotmans@fsw.eur.nl. |
| This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social “transitions”: the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach. Sharing a similar understanding of sustainability transitions—namely as major transformational changes of system characteristics—and a background epistemology of complex systems, autopoeisis, and evolutionary mechanisms, they address the subject from different angles: one approach asks how transformative changes happen and what they look like, and the other approach tries answer the question of how to bring them about. The Viennese approach is almost exclusively analytical and... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Social metabolism; Sociometabolic regimes; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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| New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change. Adaptive management and transition management are two examples that evolved from the analysis of social–ecological and sociotechnical systems, respectively. Both feature strategies of collective experimentation and learning. In this paper, we ask how these two designs of reflexive governance consider politics. Based on a framework of different dimensions and levels of politics, we show that they are mainly concerned with problem solving by a focal process, but conflict and asymmetric power relations, as well as the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Embedding in political context; Governance design; Politics; Reflexive governance; Societal learning; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2011 |
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| Huitema, Dave; Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam; dave.huitema@ivm.vu.nl; Meijerink, Sander; Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen; S.Meijerink@fm.ru.nl. |
| This special feature aims to further our understanding of the way in which transitions occur in water management. We contend that if we want to understand such transitions, we need to understand policy change and its opposite, policy stability. These issues have attracted considerable academic attention. Our interest is, however, very specific and thereby unique: we review the role that (groups of) individuals play in the process of preparing, instigating, and implementing policy change. In this article, a review of the literature on policy change provides the basis from which we extract a set of strategies which are available to policy entrepreneurs. The questions for the rest of this special feature are first, can we detect the influence of policy... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Case studies; Policy change; Policy entrepreneurs; Transition management; Water management. |
| Ano: 2010 |
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| Kueffer, Christoph; Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich; kueffer@env.ethz.ch; Underwood, Evelyn; Alliance for Global Sustainability, ETH Zurich;; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude; Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich;; Holderegger, Rolf; Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich; WSL Swiss Federal Research Institute;; Pohl, Christian; Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich;; Schirmer, Mario; Eawag;; Stauffacher, Michael; Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich;; Wuelser, Gabriela; Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich;; Edwards, Peter; Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich; Alliance for Global Sustainability, ETH Zurich;. |
| Environmental problems caused by human activities are increasing; biodiversity is disappearing at an unprecedented rate, soils are being irreversibly damaged, freshwater is increasingly in short supply, and the climate is changing. To reverse or even to reduce these trends will require a radical transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural environment. Just how this can be achieved within, at most, a few decades is unknown, but it is clear that academia must play a crucial role. Many believe, however, that academic institutions need to become more effective in helping societies move toward sustainability. We first synthesize current thinking about this crisis of research effectiveness. We argue that those involved in producing... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Interdisciplinarity; Knowing-doing gap; Outreach; Participation; Post-normal science; Problem-oriented research; Research partnership; Research policy; Science-policy nexus; Social learning; Transdisciplinarity; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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| Moore, Michele-Lee; Department of Geography, University of Victoria; mlmoore@uvic.ca; Tjornbo, Ola; Waterloo Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience, University of Waterloo; ola.tjornbo@gmail.com; Enfors, Elin; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; elin.enfors@stockholmresilience.su.se; Knapp, Corrie; University of Alaska Fairbanks; corrieknapp@yahoo.com; Hodbod, Jennifer; Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University; jennifer.hodbod@asu.edu; Baggio, Jacopo A.; Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University; jbaggio@asu.edu; Olsson, Per; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University; per.olsson@stockholmresilience.su.se; Biggs, Duan; The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, University of Queensland; ancientantwren@gmail.com. |
| Faced with numerous seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, many scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in understanding how to actively engage and transform the existing systems holding such problems in place. Although a variety of analytical models have emerged in recent years, most emphasize either the social or ecological elements of such transformations rather than their coupled nature. To address this, first we have presented a definition of the core elements of a social-ecological system (SES) that could potentially be altered in a transformation. Second, we drew on insights about transformation from three branches of literature focused on radical change, i.e., social movements, socio-technical transitions, and... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social-ecological systems; Social innovation; Social movements; Transformation; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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