Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability

Dedeurwaerdere, Tom

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“…Natural capital and human or economic capital are, in fact, complementary (Daly 2007). The current ecological and social crises suggest that the neoclassical weak sustainability adopted as policy by default is tantamount to unsustainability (Dedeurwaerdere 2014). Without changes to prevailing economic theory and policy, a socioecosystem approach to environmental policy is unlikely to foster sustainable development per se, but its Ecology and Society 23(2): 31 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss2/art31/ implementation could make policy outcomes more successful and sustainable through more informed, transparent, and flexible decision making.…”

Section: Monitoring and Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They have also led to a better understanding of humanity's role in the coevolving biosphere, in the framework of complex adaptive systems Holling 2002, Holland 2012), and to outlining proposals for jointly addressing the social, economic, and ecological boundaries of sustainable development (Daly 2007, Leach at al. 2012, Dedeurwaerdere 2014.…”

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenger¹,

Córdova²,

Chavero³

et al. 2018

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ABSTRACT. The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to converge on the socioecosystem concept as the most appropriate theoretical framework for research and public policy. The socioecosystem approach recognizes that social systems are integrated with natural systems and seeks to adaptively comanage socioecosystem coevolution for the sustainable development of both systems. We hypothesize that incorporation of this approach into environmental policy in Mexico could help resolve many of the problems that currently undermine policy effectiveness. To find out to what extent policy professionals might concur with this hypothesis, and what the opportunities and obstacles to implementing socioecosystem-based policy might be, research was conducted to elicit the expert opinion of officials responsible for formulating and implementing environmental policy in Mexico. The principle opportunities consist in the fact that experts intuitively understand the socioecosystem approach, and that most perceive advantages in adopting it because its policy attributes can potentially help to resolve many of the factors they identify as limiting the success of current environmental policies. Obstacles to its adoption include institutional barriers and the vested interests that benefit from the status quo.

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Section: Monitoring and Evaluationmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Challenger¹,

Córdova²,

Chavero³

et al. 2018

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“…Since the turn of the millennium, an emerging sustainability science community has been building the epistemological base of equitable science-society interaction (Spangenberg 2011). These sustainability scholars have been moving towards a strong theory of sustainabilityan understanding of sustainability as an emancipatory concept (Dedeurwaerdere 2014;Ott 2017). With this, they aim to acknowledge and mainstream notions of normativity, values, justice, and human rights.…”

Section: The Umbrella Challenge Of Sustainable Development and Socialmentioning

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Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Ribeiro

Bengtsson

Benneworth

et al. 2018

Journal of Responsible Innovation

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In this discussion paper, we outline and reflect on some of the key challenges that influence the development and uptake of more inclusive and responsible forms of research and innovation. Taking these challenges together, we invoke Collingridge's famous dilemma of social control of technology to introduce a complementary dilemma that of 'societal alignment' in the governance of science, technology and innovation. Considerations of social alignment are scattered and overlooked among some communities in the field of science, technology and innovation policy. By starting to unpack this dilemma, we outline an agenda for further consideration of social alignment in the study of responsible research and innovation.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…While scientists create a substantial amount of knowledge about the social-ecological dynamics of water scarcity, policy-making is rarely guided by this knowledge [40]. Rather, policy decisions are frequently designed to achieve short-term economic or political goals.…”

Section: Sustainability Challenge 2: Using Social-ecological Knowledgmentioning

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Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

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Globally, environmental and social change in water-scarce regions challenge the sustainability of social-ecological systems. WaterSES, a sponsored working group within the Program for Ecosystem Change and Society, explores and compares the social-ecological dynamics related to water scarcity across placed-based international research sites with contrasting local and regional water needs and governance, including research sites in Spain and Sweden in Europe, South Africa, China, and Alabama, Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas in the USA. This paper aims to provide a commentary on insights into conducting future solutions-oriented research on water scarcity based on the understanding of the social-ecological dynamics of water scarce regions.

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Sustainability Science for Strong Sustainability

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Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Opportunities and obstacles to socioecosystem-based environmental policy in Mexico: expert opinion at the science-policy interface

Introducing the dilemma of societal alignment for inclusive and responsible research and innovation

Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research

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