Towards a Moral Compass to Guide Sustainability Transformations in a High-End Climate Change World

Grasso, Marco; Tàbara, J. David

doi:10.3390/su11102971

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“…In this regard, we could take both an emic ('from inside') and/or etic ('from outside') perspective; or we could decide to use models and quantitative indicators (e.g., when searching for tipping points in macroeconomic dynamics); or we might adopt a qualitative approach to the analysis of inter-subjective and community meanings, values, and worldviews; or we could make use of participatory or action-researchoriented processes. • Normative issues: make explicit at an early stage which normative criteria will be used and how they will be used to assess our system of reference and align the production of knowledge processes to sustainability goals or targets (Horcea-Milcu et al 2019;Grasso and Tàbara 2019). This entails making explicit which visions, values, and criteria will be taken into account to qualify changes in development trajectories as positive (or negative) and for whom, from both sustainability and justice points of view; or whether particular visions achieved what they were expected to achieve.…”

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On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia

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Notions, such as leverage points, sensitive interventions, social tipping points, transformational tipping points, and positive tipping points, are increasingly attracting attention within sustainability science. However, they are also creating confusion and unresolved questions about how to apply these concepts when dealing with urgent global challenges such as rapid decarbonisation. We propose a relational methodology aimed at helping how to identify and support the emergence of positive ‘Social-Ecological Tipping Points’ (SETPs) that could bring about sustainability transformations. Our approach emphasises the need to pay attention to processes of social construction and to time dynamics. In particular, in a given social-ecological system, three key moments need to be considered: (1) The building of transformative conditions and capacities for systemic change, (2) A tipping event or intervention shifting the system towards a different trajectory or systems’ configuration, and (3) the structural effects derived from such transformation. Furthermore, we argue that the discovery and enactment of positive SETPs require considering multiple ontological, epistemological, and normative questions that affect how researchers and change agents define, approach, and assess their systems of reference. Our insights are derived from examining the implementation of household renewable energy systems at regional level in two rural areas of Indonesia and Bangladesh.

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“…Le diverse nozioni di responsabilità riportate non dovrebbero essere enfatizzate in quanto nella realtà spesso si sovrappongono (Grasso, Tàbara 2019); tuttavia esse sono di aiuto per esplorare il terreno -scivoloso -delle responsabilità per la transizione verso la sostenibilità.…”

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Le responsabilità e il ruolo degli agenti di destabilizzazione nella transizione verso la sostenibilità: un framework teorico

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Randelli

2022

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Since it is not beneficial to everyone, the sustainability transition is a complex process and many mechanisms hinder its evolution. Some agents involved in this transition shoulder significant costs and burdens: even if some agents can shoulder part of them, it is unlikely that all agents will spontaneously comply with the responsibi-lity that the sustainability transition imposes on them. This paper intends to investigate how, in the context of the sustainability transition, the relevant agents must/can comply with the duties demanded by this responsibility (which can be defined as “first order” responsibility). Indeed, some agents do not comply with their own (first order) responsibility and with the consequent obligations. To induce such (first order) agents to act in accordance with their (first order) responsibility, the notion of “second order” responsibility – that is, the responsibility that other agents ensure that the first order agents act on the basis of their (first order) responsibility – should be employed. In this normative perspective, the work proposes a theoretical-analytical framework within which second order agents – which in a pragmatic perspective can be defined as “agents of destabilization” (divided into primary and operational) – take action to win the resistance of first order agents in order to favor the sustainability transition.

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“…The limitation of this approach to complexity emerges when it is necessary to update or completely change the paradigms of interpretation, administration, and governance. In particular, as demonstrated in references [16,17], it is highly complex to develop a coherent idea of the city capable of distributing the question of adaptation in a uniform and synergistic manner [18]. Already starting from the organisation of the response to extreme climate events, we are faced with "two communities of practices and research that do not correspond" [19]: that of emergency disaster reduction and that of the response to climate change.…”

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Reinterpreting Spatial Planning Cultures to Define Local Adaptation Cultures: A Methodology from the Central Veneto Region Case

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This paper focuses on recognising the underlying component of climate risk adaptation and management that is present at the local planning level. Starting from a comparative analysis of four Italian cities in the Central Veneto Area, the aim is to understand how plans and regulations have already directed their efforts toward adaptation and climate risk reduction over the years, without explicitly labelling these measures as such. This process is carried out by co-ordinating the technicians of local administrations in the recognition and classification of already active measures that can be brought within the framework of combating the effects of climate change. The analysis of the identified measures shows that there is already considerable attention to flooding-related and heat-related issues in the local planning corpus. Understanding this dimension of local planning allows access to a set of adaptation intervention models that are already integrated into the planning system and support incorporating adaptation practices in a more co-ordinated way at various planning levels.

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Towards a Moral Compass to Guide Sustainability Transformations in a High-End Climate Change World

Cited by 17 publications

References 58 publications

On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia

On the discovery and enactment of positive socio-ecological tipping points: insights from energy systems interventions in Bangladesh and Indonesia

Le responsabilità e il ruolo degli agenti di destabilizzazione nella transizione verso la sostenibilità: un framework teorico

Reinterpreting Spatial Planning Cultures to Define Local Adaptation Cultures: A Methodology from the Central Veneto Region Case

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