Transforming communication and knowledge production processes to address high-end climate change

Tàbara, J. David; Clair, Asun Lera St.; Hermansen, Erlend Andre T.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.01.004

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“…Escaping high-emission trajectories and overcoming persistent unsustainability and maladaptation require the development and diffusion of radical alternatives (Tàbara et al 2017;Kivimaa et al 2017). Sustainability transitions, resilience and climate governance literatures alike endorse the development and testing of new ideas, narratives, practices, policies and solutions to transform established institutions, infrastructures, behaviours, economies, etc.…”

Section: Transformative Capacity: Creating and Embedding Noveltiesmentioning

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“…It manifests in conditions that enable proactive and flexible responses to continuous and uncertain change. Knowledge generation and integration about social-ecological system dynamics enable anticipating emergent disturbances and uncertainties and identifying available options in light of these (Chapin et al 2010;Tàbara et al 2017). Decentralised self-organisation and context-specific rule-making support the abilities of organisations, communities and individuals to independently and flexibly respond to changes and disturbances (Folke et al 2005;Dietz et al 2003;Garmestani and Benson 2013 Niche experimentation and leadership (Raven et al 2010;Brown et al 2013;Loorbach et al 2015); scaling and replicating (Ehnert et al 2018) Experimentation and leadership (Westley et al 2013;Moore and Westley 2011;Olsson et al 2006;Marshall et al 2012) Orchestrating: coordinating multi-actor processes Multi-actor processes across scales, sector and time; synergies and trade-offs; contestation and goal conflicts Orchestration (Abbott et al 2015;Abbott 2017;Chan et al 2015) Intermediation and meta-governance (Hodson and Marvin 2010;Hodson et al 2013;Loorbach 2014; Polycentric governance (Galaz et al 2011) Meta-governance (Sørensen 2006;Kooiman and Jentoft 2009;…”

Section: Capacities Framework For Transformative Climate Governancementioning

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Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2018

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In light of the persistent failure to reduce emissions decisively, facilitate long-term resilience against climate change and account for the connectedness of climate change with other social, environmental and economic concerns, we present a conceptual framework of capacities for transformative climate governance. Transformative climate governance enables climate mitigation and adaptation while purposefully steering societies towards low-carbon, resilient and sustainable objectives. The framework provides a systematic analytical tool for understanding and supporting the already ongoing changes of the climate governance landscape towards more experimental approaches that include multi-scale, cross-sectoral and public-private collaborations. It distinguishes between different types of capacities needed to address transformation dynamics, including responding to disturbances (stewarding capacity), phasing-out drivers of path dependency (unlocking capacity), creating and embedding novelties (transformative capacity) and coordinating multi-actor processes (orchestrating capacity). Our case study of climate governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, demonstrates how the framework helps to map the activities by which multiple actors create new types of conditions for transformative climate governance, assess the effectiveness of the capacities and identify capacity gaps. Transformative and orchestrating capacities in Rotterdam emerged through the creation of space and informal networks for strategic and operational innovation, which also propelled new types of governance arrangements and structures. Both capacities support stewarding and unlocking by integrating and mainstreaming different goals, connecting actors to each other for the development of solutions and mediating interests. Key challenges across capacities remain because of limited mainstreaming of long-term and integrated thinking into institutional and regulatory frameworks. As the ongoing changes in climate governance open up multiple questions about actor roles, effective governance processes, legitimacy and how effective climate governance in the context of transformations can be supported, we invite future research to apply the capacities framework to explore these questions.

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Section: Transformative Capacity: Creating and Embedding Noveltiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Capacities Framework For Transformative Climate Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2018

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“…The urgent challenges posed by climate change require the speedy design and implementation of institutional settings capable of making use of the best available and fit-for-purpose knowledge to support the management of complex problems emerging, often in an interrelated way, from different domains. Attaining such knowledge may require the construction of multi-scalar social action networks-rather than just data bases or information pools-in order to enhance the actual resilience and anticipatory capacities of social-ecological systems [6,30,31]. This is considered to favor institutional learning and more adaptive or, in our context, more transformative responses to fast environmental change [13,27,[32][33][34].…”

Section: Discussion: the Role Of Cross-border Co-operationmentioning

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“…The main purpose of this paper is to present an innovative participatory methodology that is designed to assess the knowledge needs, alternative future pathways and capacities of regional organizations and agents to promote institutional innovations capable of responding to the new challenges posed by HECC [5,6]. First, our exploration starts with the examination of the kinds of institutional arrangements that exist both in Portugal and Spain with regard to climate policy.…”

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Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

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Abstract:Either meeting the UNFCCC Paris agreement to limit global average warming below the 2-1.5 • C threshold, or going beyond it entails huge challenges in terms of institutional innovation and transformation. This research describes a participatory integrated assessment process aimed at exploring the options, opportunities, necessary capacities and implications for institutional co-operation and innovation in the Iberian Peninsula under High-End Climate Change (HECC). Using in-depth interviews and a novel participatory research approach, different scenario narratives and pathways about the future of Iberia have been identified using Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs). Special attention is given to the knowledge and policy options needed to implement cross-border organizational changes and co-operation mechanisms that would support the Integrated Climate Governance of the Tagus and Guadiana river basins. We show that a wealth of institutional innovation pathways and specific options and solutions exist not only to reduce GHG emissions (mitigation) and the negative impacts of climate change (adaptation), but, above all, to generate new forms of social-ecological system interactions aligned with sustainability (transformation). In particular, and depending on which scenario contexts unfold in the future in Iberia, different kinds of institutional and governance capacities and clusters of solutions may be needed in order to achieve transformation.

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“…In these conditions, it is increasingly clear that conventional solutions will not be enough to prevent the world moving towards global warming scenarios of 4°C or even 6°C by 2100. New science-policy assessment processes and modes of agent interaction, engagement, and knowledge coproduction are needed (Boucher et al 2016;Hulme 2016;Tàbara et al 2017). Required in particular are those with an orientation towards transformation and which go beyond the traditional sectoral, additive, and linear projections (still present in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report), and which are able to show a move towards more integrated, cross-sectoral, multiplicative, and non-linear developments.…”

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Defining transformative climate science to address high-end climate change

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Reg Environ Change

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High-end climate change requires transformative solutions, as conventional strategies and solutions will not be enough if major disruptions in social-ecological systems are to be avoided. However, conventional climate assessment approaches and methods show many limitations if they are to provide robust knowledge and support to the implementation of such solutions in practice. To this end, we define transformative climate science as the open-ended process of producing, structuring, and applying solutionsoriented knowledge to fast-link integrated adaptation and mitigation strategies to sustainable development. In particular, based on our experiences within regional cases in Central Asia, Europe, Iberia, Scotland, and Hungary, we have selected 12 dimensions that scientists and practitioners can use as a checklist to design transformative-oriented climate assessments. While it is possible to talk both about transformative adaptation and transformative mitigation, in this paper, we make the case that societal transformation does not depend on mitigation or adaptation policies and actions, mostly because they are related to sustainability innovations, which are endogenous developments derived from deliberate social learning

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Transforming communication and knowledge production processes to address high-end climate change

Cited by 53 publications

References 26 publications

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Exploring Institutional Transformations to Address High-End Climate Change in Iberia

Defining transformative climate science to address high-end climate change

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