Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs

Messerli, Peter; Kim, Eun-Mee; Lutz, Wolfgang; Moatti, Jean Paul; Richardson, Katherine; Saidam, Muhammad; Smith, David A.; Eloundou‐Enyegue, Parfait M.; Foli, Ernest G.; Glassman, Amanda; Licona, Gonzalo Hernández; Murniningtyas, Endah; Staniškis, Jurgis Kazimieras; Strihou, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de; Furman, Eeva

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“…Ambitious and pressing sustainability aspirations such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (1) require rapid and sustained transformational change over timetermed pathwaysacross local, national, and regional scales (2,3). Traditional disciplinary approaches are inadequate for developing pathways in complex societal, economic, and environmental systems that have multiple stakeholders with different needs, values, and interests (4). Practical research projects and science funding agencies suggest that researchers and stakeholders (i.e., local experts, decisionmakers, civil society) should work together to co-create pathways for making progress in this complex space (5).…”

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Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

Haan¹,

Hadjikakou²,

Malekpour³

et al. 2020

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is a preprint and has been submitted for publication in Earth's Future. Please note that, the manuscript's status in the journal is currently 'contacting potential reviewers' for a peer-review process. It has yet to be accepted for publication. Subsequent versions of this manuscript may have slightly different content. If accepted, the final version of this manuscript will be available via the 'Peer-reviewed Publication DOI' link on the righthand side of this webpage. Please feel free to contact the corresponding author; we welcome feedback.

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Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

Haan¹,

Hadjikakou²,

Malekpour³

et al. 2020

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“…Academic environmental research can play a key role in informing the design, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable urban strategies at the global scale. In addition, the active involvement of various non-academic actors in the production of urban knowledge for policy, 'as well as the multitude of actors involved in urban affairs (beyond government) requires the scholarly community to look beyond academia and forge new collaborations to enhance research use into urban strategies' [9] (p. 14). Dominant research modes are not enough to guide the societal transformations necessary to achieve the 2030A.…”

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“…Dominant research modes are not enough to guide the societal transformations necessary to achieve the 2030A. Researchers, practitioners, decision makers, funders, and civil society should work together to achieve universally accessible and mutually beneficial sustainability science [14]. New approaches to science, such as action research [15], mode two knowledge production [16], transdisciplinary research [17,18], and post-normal science [19], propose that scientists should engage in deliberative learning processes with societal actors, with a view to jointly reflect on existing development visions and create new, contextualized ones [20].…”

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Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performance and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management

Vilches

Gutiérrez-Pérez

Pozo-Llorente

2020

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The United Nations’ (UN) 2030 Agenda brings new governance challenges to municipal environmental planning, both in large urban centres and in metropolitan peripheries. The opportunities of the new framework of action proposed by the United Nations (UN) and its integrative, global, and transversal nature constitute advances from the previous models of municipal management based on the Local Agenda 21. This text provides evidence to apply quality criteria and validated instruments of participatory evaluation. These instruments have been built on the foundation of evaluative research, a scientific discipline that provides rigour and validity to those decisions adopted at a municipal level. A case study focused on a metropolitan area serves as a field of experimentation for this model of the modernization of environmental management structures at a local level. Details of the instruments, agents, priority decision areas, methodologies, participation processes, and quality criteria are provided, as well as an empirically validated model for participatory municipal management based on action research processes and strategic planning that favours a shared responsibility across all social groups in the decision-making process and in the development of continuous improvement activities that are committed to sustainability. Finally, a critical comparison of weaknesses and strengths is included in light of the evidence collected.

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“…`Academic environmental research can play a key role in informing the design, implementation and evaluation of sustainable urban strategies at the global scale. In addition, the active involvement of various non-academic actors in the production of urban knowledge for policy, as well as the multitude of actors involved in urban affairs (beyond government) requires the scholarly community to look beyond academia and forge new collaborations to enhance research use into urban strategies´ [13](p. 14). Dominant research modes are not enough to guide the societal transformations necessary to achieve the 2030A.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dominant research modes are not enough to guide the societal transformations necessary to achieve the 2030A. Researchers, practitioners, decision makers, funders and civil society should work together to achieve universally accessible and mutually beneficial sustainability science [14]. New approaches to science, such as action research [15], mode two knowledge production [16]: transdisciplinary research [17,18] and post-normal science [19] that propose that scientists should engage in deliberative learning processes with societal actors, with a view to jointly reflecting on existing development visions and creating new, contextualized ones [20].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performant and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management

Vilches¹,

Gutiérrez-Pérez²,

Pozo-Llorente³

2019

Preprint

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The UN’s 2030 Agenda brings new governance challenges to municipal environmental planning, both in large urban centres and in metropolitan peripheries. The opportunities of the new framework of action proposed by the United Nations (UN) and its integrative, global and transversal nature constitute advances from the previous models of municipal management based on the Local Agenda 21. This text provides evidence to apply quality criteria and validated instruments of participatory evaluation. These instruments have been built on the foundation of Evaluative Research, a scientific discipline that provides rigour and validity to those decisions adopted at a municipal level. A case study focused on a metropolitan area serves as a field of experimentation for this model of the modernization of environmental management structures at a local level. Details of the instruments, agents, priority decision areas, methodologies, participation processes and quality criteria are provided, as well as an empirically validated model for participatory municipal management based on action research processes and strategic planning that favours a shared responsibility across all social groups in the decision-making process and in the development of continuous improvement activities that are committed to sustainability. Finally, a critical comparison of weaknesses and strengths is included in light of the evidence collected.

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Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs

Cited by 247 publications

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Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

Evaluating participatory modelling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability

Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performance and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management

Quality Criteria to Evaluate Performant and Scope of 2030 Agenda in Metropolitan Areas: Case Study on Strategic Planning of Environmental Municipality Management

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