The Second Darwinian Revolution: Steps Toward a New Evolutionary Environmental Sociology

McLaughlin, Paul

doi:10.3167/nc.2012.070301

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“…110 Rather than viewing changing infrastructure as driven either by technological innovation or by social change, a reasonable theory of socio-technical transition must consider a co-evolutionary process in which many actors try to shape the direction of the evolution. 111,112 This points to the possibility of self-sustaining paths by which adoption of emissions-reducing behaviors could raise both IF and BP and thus drive further adoption.…”

Section: Integrating If and Bp Into Policy Analysesmentioning

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Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

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Limiting global warming to 2 C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of transformational change required across sectors and actors in society raises critical questions of feasibility. Much of the literature on mitigation pathways addresses technological and economic aspects of feasibility, but overlooks the behavioral, cultural, and social factors that affect theoretical and practical mitigation pathways. We present a tripartite framework that ''unpacks'' the concept of mitigation pathways by distinguishing three factors that together determine actual mitigation: technical potential, initiative feasibility, and behavioral plasticity. The framework aims to integrate and streamline heterogeneous disciplinary research traditions toward a more comprehensive and transparent approach that will facilitate learning across disciplines and enable mitigation pathways to more fully reflect available knowledge. We offer three suggestions for integrating the tripartite framework into current research on climate change mitigation.

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Section: Integrating If and Bp Into Policy Analysesmentioning

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Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

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“…Despite its limitations, the diagram reminds us that there are multiple scales at which analyses can be conducted. Each level provides a context in which the levels below it operate, is constituted by those lower levels, and is shaped by the higher levels that provide a context for it, what Mayr has called "population thinking" (85)(86)(87)(88)(89).…”

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Drivers of Human Stress on the Environment in the Twenty-First Century

Dietz

2017

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Human actions are transforming ecosystems across the globe. Six frameworks aid in understanding the forces that drive human stress on the environment and human responses to this stress. Two of them, the stochastic impacts by regression on population, affluence and technology (STIRPAT) model and decomposition analysis, are approaches to analyzing data. Four describe the interrelated system of human actions and environmental responses: driving forces, pressures, states, impacts, responses (DPSIR); the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) framework; coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) and telecoupling; and social-ecological systems (SES). In applying these frameworks, attention must be given to the scale of analysis and to the effects of context. In addition to the frameworks there are four substantial research literatures providing theory and empirical analysis of how drivers place stress on the environment: a macrocomparative tradition, work on household energy consumption, land change science, and research on commons. Although these traditions remain somewhat separate, they are largely complementary.

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“…Structural human ecology (SHE) is a term that covers the research of a network of scholars who examine the interplay between structure and agency in humanenvironment interactions. 2 The perspective of SHE is very much grounded in Darwinian thinking (Dietz & Burns, 1992;McLaughlin, 2001McLaughlin, , 2012. The structures of the physical, biological and social worlds constrain human action by shaping the responses that will result from a human decision.…”

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Introduction: Progress in Structural Human Ecology

Dietz¹,

Jorgenson

2015

HER

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Structural human ecology is a vibrant area of theoretically grounded research that examines the interplay between structure and agency in humanenvironment interactions. This special issue consists of papers that highlight recent advances in the tradition. Here, the guest co-editors provide a short background discussion of structural human ecology, and offer brief summaries of the papers included in the collection.

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The Second Darwinian Revolution: Steps Toward a New Evolutionary Environmental Sociology

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

Improving Climate Change Mitigation Analysis: A Framework for Examining Feasibility

Drivers of Human Stress on the Environment in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction: Progress in Structural Human Ecology

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