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Petschel‐Held, Gerhard; Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim; Brückner, Thomas; Tóth, Ferenc L.; Hasselmann, Klaus

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“…The sequencing phase commences once the three streams are able to agree on the agenda and timeframe of the T2S during the learning phase. The envisaged milestone in this phase is the establishment of the rules and procedures of the T2S within the boundaries of the negotiated "tolerable window" [96,97]. For example, the tolerable window for the policies advancing the German Energiewende is oriented towards the principles of a soziale Marktwirtschaft (social market economy) that combines liberal economic and welfare policies [98,99].…”

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The Phases of Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) - Structuring the Complexity of Transformations and Sustainability through the Negotiation Perspective

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2022

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Conventional academic debate on sustainability and transformation has begun to be disputed by researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders from the private sector. The complexity of linking sustainability with transformation necessitates the development of new ways of understanding and explaining actors, processes, issues, structures, and outcomes related to transformation to sustainability (T2S). A persistent problem in understanding and managing the T2S is the implied notion of a monolithic transformation to achieve sustainability. This notion underestimates the diversity of actors as well as the historical contexts of transformations. At the same time, achieving T2S is highly dependent on technical solutions as well as policies that can stir needed behavioural change, whereas these technical solutions and policies are not always socially acceptable or politically implementable. Therefore, achieving T2S also calls for evaluating normative foundations of policies and actions needed to advance T2S. This article argues that T2S is composed of different phases, each of which having a different set of actors, resources and audience. This article explains how collective decision can be achieved through multiple levels and types of negotiations that occur in an orchestrated manner. To understand this, this article introduces a theoretical model as an analytical framework to structure how T2S unfolds. This model uses insights from negotiation studies to focus on the actors’ perspectives on T2S. It proposes the division of the transformation process into phases – entry point, learning, sequencing, disrupting and fortifying. Using the Germany’s energy transition (Energiewende), each of these phases is analysed to determine the “quality” of cooperation that can help fulfil the tasks required to master the so-called “cognitive games” of T2S (ripeness game, power game, bargaining game, policy game, scaling game). Moreover, insights are presented to explain how the designated milestone can be achieved that indicates the advancing to the next phase and eventually entrench the transformation process. The lessons and findings resulting from the analysis of the phases of T2S suggest that there is also the need to revisit underlying assumptions on negotiations, sustainability and transformation.

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The Phases of Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) - Structuring the Complexity of Transformations and Sustainability through the Negotiation Perspective

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2022

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“…Humans emerged as a planetary force, which is considered as a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002), increasing the risk to push the Earth system into a post-Holocene state with characteristics that potentially undermine system resilience and human well-being (Monastersky, 2015;Steffen et al, 2016). Such risks have been acknowledged by defining critical environmental limits to anthropogenic influences on the Earth system (e.g., Petschel-Held et al, 1999;Lenton et al, 2008), formulated later as "Planetary Boundaries" (Rockström et al, 2009). As a precautionary principle, the nine Planetary Boundaries-absolute biophysical thresholds or limitsdelineate the safe operating space for humanity, and thus sustainable long-term prosperity (Steffen et al, 2015).…”

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Agriculture's Historic Twin-Challenge Toward Sustainable Water Use and Food Supply for All

Jägermeyr

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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A sustainable and just future, envisioned by the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, puts agricultural systems under a heavy strain. The century-old quandary to provide ever-growing human populations with sufficient food takes on a new dimension with the recognition of environmental limits for agricultural resource use. To highlight challenges and opportunities toward sustainable food security in the twenty first century, this perspective paper provides a historical account of the escalating pressures on agriculture and freshwater resources alike, supported by new quantitative estimates of the ascent of excessive human water use. As the transformation of global farming into sustainable forms is unattainable without a revolution in agricultural water use, water saving and food production potentials are put into perspective with targets outlined by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The literature body and here-confirmed global estimates of untapped opportunities in farm water management indicate that these measures could sustainably intensify today's farming systems at scale. While rigorous implementation of sustainable water withdrawals (SDG 6.4) might impinge upon 5% of global food production, scaling-up water interventions in rainfed and irrigated systems could over-compensate such losses and further increase global production by 30% compared to the current situation (SDG 2.3). Without relying on future technological fixes, traditional on-farm water and soil management provides key strategies associated with important synergies that needs better integration into agro-ecological landscape approaches. Integrated strategies for sustainable intensification of agriculture within planetary boundaries are a potential way to attain several SDGs, but they are not yet receiving attention from high-level development policies.

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“…The method of tolerable windows is one option for policy analysis, but most of its implementations have focused on greenhouse gas concentrations and temperatures rather than on impacts (e.g. Petschel-Held et al, 1999). 4 Cost-benefit analysis of greenhouse gas emission reduction does estimate avoided impacts.…”

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Avoiding dangerous climate change

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Cited by 137 publications

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The Phases of Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) - Structuring the Complexity of Transformations and Sustainability through the Negotiation Perspective

The Phases of Transformation to Sustainability (T2S) - Structuring the Complexity of Transformations and Sustainability through the Negotiation Perspective

Agriculture's Historic Twin-Challenge Toward Sustainable Water Use and Food Supply for All

Avoiding dangerous climate change

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