Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations

Riechers, Maraja; Loos, Jacqueline; Balázsi, Ágnes; García‐Llorente, Marina; Bieling, Claudia; Ayala, Aracely Burgos; Chakroun, Leila; Mattijssen, T.J.M.; Muhr, Maximilian M.; Pérez-Ramírez, Irene; Raatikainen, Kaisa J.; Rana, Sakshi; Richardson, Miles; Rosengren, Linda; West, Simon

doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.1912829

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“…Given the dynamic and processual character of sustainability transformations, society-nature relations are in a constant flux, situated in specific contexts, and continuously negotiated and challenged within power relations. This also means that multiple ways of understanding and transforming sustainable society-nature relations are possible (Riechers et al 2021 ). As thinking-with is an acknowledgement of multiplicity which makes a “longing […] for fixed realities” impossible (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 : 72), this mode of thinking might call on us to nurture key skills, such as openness and “curiosity about the connected heterogeneities composing an entity, a body, a world, that troubles boundaries” (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 : 71).…”

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A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021

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Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science has emerged as a viable answer to current sustainability crises with the aim to strengthen collaborative knowledge production. To expand its transformative potential, we argue that Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science needs to thoroughly engage with questions of unequal power relations and hierarchical scientific constructs. Drawing on the work of the feminist philosopher María Puig de la Bellacasa, we examine a feminist ethos of care which might provide useful guidance for sustainability researchers who are interested in generating critical-emancipatory knowledge. A feminist ethos of care is constituted by three interrelated modes of knowledge production: (1) thinking-with, (2) dissenting-within and (3) thinking-for. These modes of thinking and knowing enrich knowledge co-production in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science by (i) embracing relational ontologies, (ii) relating to the ‘other than human’, (iii) cultivating caring academic cultures, (iv) taking care of non-academic research partners, (v) engaging with conflict and difference, (vi) interrogating positionalities and power relations through reflexivity, (vii) building upon marginalised knowledges via feminist standpoints and (viii) countering epistemic violence within and beyond academia. With our paper, we aim to make a specific feminist contribution to the field of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and emphasise its potentials to advance this field.

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A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

2021

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“…This action of turning species into icons may mostly work with charismatic species, as discussed in the literature (Macdonald et al 2015). Some have argued, however, that protecting a flagship species usually means protecting its ecosystem and protecting other, less charismatic species (Kellert 1986). In the end, workshop participants certainly honed in on the fact that there can be benefits and potential detrimental components to the effort.…”

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Beyond Human-Wildlife Conflicts. Ameliorating Human/Nonhuman Animal Relationships through Workshops on Terminology

Yahya Haage

2023

Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism

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Human-Wildlife Conflicts (HWCs) occur when nonhuman animals’ needs clash with those of humans. One recent effort regards shifting HWCs into Human-Human Social Conflicts, where conflicts are about humans disagreeing on how to deal with nonhuman animals. This method can help reduce guilt placed on nonhuman animals, but also robs them of their agency. Conversely, some in the field of biology seek to increase animal agency and their moral status, even making them key stakeholders. A helpful relationship may seek both aspects. Fourteen workshops (147 participants, 40 subgroups), with relevant stakeholders, were run on this topic. Participants were involved in biology and/or environmentalism and/or sustainability. They sought to develop terminology diminishing guilt in HWCs, while maintaining agency. Common themes were then brought out. Eight subgroups argued for more inclusive terms, like “sentient beings” and 21 argued for diminishing human/nature dichotomies. Both fit well with increasing agency, and giving nonhumans greater moral status, by narrowing human/nonhuman animal gaps. Participants also discussed nonhuman animals as “icons”, which 26/30 subgroups saw as, at least potentially, problematic, arguing it conceptually “freezes” species, ignoring their dynamism. In sum, the workshops aid in framing healthier relationships with the natural world.

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“…Human constructions of value demarcate and delimit governance spaces for environmental actions, which are sites of continual negotiation, contest and compromise (Miller 2020 ). As boundary objects (Leventon et al 2021b ; Riechers et al 2021 ), leverage points are useful for understanding how these shifting hierarchies of sector-level valuations might be integrated into more inclusive and effective policy regimes (Fischer and Riechers 2019 ). Here, we emphasize the potential of plural valuations to leverage connections between relational values , the “manifold relationships between humans and nature” (Mattijssen et al 2020 , p. 402) that inform how different groups of people perceive and interact with particular land/waterscapes.…”

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Leveraging plural valuations of mangroves for climate interventions in Indonesia

Miller

Tonoto

2023

Sustain Sci

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Mangrove forests are globally significant blue carbon sinks that remain critically under-governed and under threat. In Indonesia, the rapid rate of mangrove loss over the past three decades, combined with the promise of these carbon-dense ecosystems to mitigate climate change impacts, has catalyzed the world’s largest replanting program. Institutional and ideological divisions between advocates of conservation and commodification approaches to mangrove governance, however, have historically compromised Indonesia’s ability to meet its climate commitments. Market valuations of mangroves as blue carbon have further complicated their governance by opening up new opportunities for environmental collaboration and resource exploitation. Drawing on the concept of leverage points, this study examines how plural valuations of mangroves might be applied to sustainability interventions in Riau Province, Indonesia. Using document analysis and interviews with public, private and societal stakeholders, we examine how sector-level values translate into collaborative actions through mangrove partnerships. We posit that integrating indigenous knowledge and place-based values into mangrove policy development could help to address the existing conservation–commodification divide. As plural values are mutually transformative, we argue that recognizing areas of strategic compatibility creates space for flexible and adaptive cross-sector cooperation. Such recognition is especially important for mangrove communities, whose marginal socioeconomic position reinforces their need to remain ideologically and tactfully open to areas of compatibility with shifting market valuations, both to sustainably develop locally important resources and to avoid livelihood capture by predatory development interests. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01297-1.

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Key advantages of the leverage points perspective to shape human-nature relations

Cited by 27 publications

References 76 publications

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

A feminist ethos for caring knowledge production in transdisciplinary sustainability science

Beyond Human-Wildlife Conflicts. Ameliorating Human/Nonhuman Animal Relationships through Workshops on Terminology

Leveraging plural valuations of mangroves for climate interventions in Indonesia

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