Transforming Innovation for Sustainability

Leach, Melissa; Rockström, Johan; Raskin, Paul; Scoones, Ian; Stirling, Andrew; Smith, Adrian; Thompson, John; Millstone, Erik; Ely, Adrian; Arond, Elisa; Folke, Carl; Olsson, Per

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“…Therefore, sense of place brings potential new tools and language for SES and resilience research to engage further with issues of "power to and power over" (Boonstra 2016) in collective action and negotiations of stewardship in SES. It is important that future research considers how and why certain place meanings and interests are promoted and reproduced through guided transformations toward sustainability (Leach et al 2012) as well as in international decision making on sustainability issues such as climate change (Adger et al 2011). Examining different place meanings provides one way to acknowledge and analyze the values and attitudes of multiple stakeholders and how their relative positions may influence the https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art49/ outcome of interventions in SES (Masterson 2016).…”

Section: Whose Meanings Are Included and Favored And Why And Implicamentioning

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The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

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ABSTRACT. To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues. Sense of place theory and methods provide a rich source of insights that, like the socialecological systems perspective, assume an interconnected social and biophysical reality. However, these fields of research are only recently beginning to converge, and we see great potential for further engagement. Here, we present an approach and conceptual tools for how the sense of place perspective can contribute to social-ecological systems research. A brief review focuses on two areas where relation to place is particularly relevant: stewardship of ecosystem services, and responses to change in social-ecological systems. Based on the review, we synthesize specific ways in which sense of place may be applied by social-ecological systems researchers to analyze individual and social behaviors. We emphasize the importance of descriptive place meanings and evaluative place attachment as tools to study the patterned variation of sense of place within or among populations or types of places and the implications for resilience and transformative capacity. We conclude by setting out an agenda for future research that takes into account the concerns of resilience thinking such as the effects of dynamic ecology, interactions between temporal and spatial scales, and the interplay of rapid and incremental change on sense of place and place-related behaviors. This future research agenda also includes concerns from the broader sense of place literature such as the importance of structural power relationships on the creation of place meanings and how scaling up a sense of place may influence pro-environmental behavior.

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Section: Whose Meanings Are Included and Favored And Why And Implicamentioning

confidence: 99%

The contribution of sense of place to social-ecological systems research: a review and research agenda

Masterson¹,

Stedman²,

Enqvist³

et al. 2017

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“…Geels, 2002). Nevertheless, there is still much more to be done before we complete the transition to environmentally sustainable or 'green' innovation (Leach et al, 2012).…”

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Twenty Challenges for Innovation Studies

Martin

2015

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With the field of innovation studies now half a century old, the occasion has been marked by several studies looking back to identify the main advances made over its lifetime. Starting from a list of 20 advances over the field's history, this discussion paper sets out 20 challenges for coming decades. At a conference in 1900, David Hilbert put forward a list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems that were to have a profound influence on the work of mathematicians during the 20 th Century. The intention here is to prompt a debate within the innovation studies community on what are, or should be, the key challenges for us to take up, and more generally on what sort of field we aspire to be. It is argued that the empirical focus of our studies has not kept pace with the fast changing world and economy, especially the shift from manufacturing to services and the growing need for sustainability. Moreover, the very way we conceptualise, define, operationalise and analyse 'innovation' seems rooted in the past, leaving us less able to grapple with other less visible or 'dark' forms of innovation.Keywords: innovation studies; science policy; challenges; achievements; dark innovation Acknowledgements A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Lundvall symposium held at Aalborg University in February 2012. A short version (based on 15 challenges rather than 20) is being published, along with other contributions to that event, in a book on The Future of Innovation Studies (Fagerberg et al., 2013).

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“…Sustainability science goes beyond traditional hypothesis testing, and instead addresses real-world problems that "blend[s] theory and analysis with political awareness and policy concerns" (Galvin et al 2006 :159). Transdisciplinary teams of ecologists, anthropologists, and others come together to address questions of resilience, adaptive capacities that includes issues of inequality, class, gender and justice, and the sustainability of social-ecological systems (e.g., Folke et al 2002 ;Berkes et al 2003 ;Leach et al 2012 ).…”

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confidence: 99%