ORCID Profile
0000-0002-4996-7234
Current Organisations
Stockholm University
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-01-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-11-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41893-022-00995-5
Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using and damaging the environment. We then operationalize ‘just access’ to minimum energy, water, food and infrastructure. We show that achieving just access in 2018, with existing inequalities, technologies and behaviours, would have produced 2–26% additional impacts on the Earth’s natural systems of climate, water, land and nutrients—thus further crossing planetary boundaries. These hypothetical impacts, caused by about a third of humanity, equalled those caused by the wealthiest 1–4%. Technological and behavioural changes thus far, while important, did not deliver just access within a stable Earth system. Achieving these goals therefore calls for a radical redistribution of resources.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13671
Abstract: Decades of research and policy interventions on bio ersity have insufficiently addressed the dual issues of bio ersity degradation and social justice. New approaches are therefore needed. We devised a research and action agenda that calls for a collective task of revisiting bio ersity toward the goal of sustaining erse and just futures for life on Earth. Revisiting bio ersity involves critically reflecting on past and present research, policy, and practice concerning bio ersity to inspire creative thinking about the future. The agenda was developed through a 2‐year dialogue process that involved close to 300 experts from erse disciplines and locations. This process was informed by social science insights that show bio ersity research and action is underpinned by choices about how problems are conceptualized. Recognizing knowledge, action, and ethics as inseparable, we synthesized a set of principles that help navigate the task of revisiting bio ersity. The agenda articulates 4 thematic areas for future research. First, researchers need to revisit bio ersity narratives by challenging conceptualizations that exclude ersity and entrench the separation of humans, cultures, economies, and societies from nature. Second, researchers should focus on the relationships between the Anthropocene, bio ersity, and culture by considering humanity and bio ersity as tied together in specific contexts. Third, researchers should focus on nature and economies by better accounting for the interacting structures of economic and financial systems as core drivers of bio ersity loss. Finally, researchers should enable transformative bio ersity research and action by reconfiguring relationships between human and nonhuman communities in and through science, policy, and practice. Revisiting bio ersity necessitates a renewed focus on dialogue among bio ersity communities and beyond that critically reflects on the past to channel research and action toward fostering just and erse futures for human and nonhuman life on Earth.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-08-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-021-01013-X
Abstract: Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue that addressing future sustainability challenges for achieving more equitable development in GEAs requires a more explicit role for bottom-up inspired futures. To this end, this paper employs an innovative global assessment framework for exploring alternative futures that are grounded in local realities and existing practical actions, and that can be appropriately scaled to the required decision-making level. This framework was applied in the context of the UN’s Global Environment Outlook 6, a major ex le of a GEA. We developed novel methods for synthesizing insights from a wide range of local practices and perspectives into global futures. We collected information from crowdsourcing platforms, outcomes of participatory workshops in different regions of the world, and an assessment of reported regional outlooks. We analysed these according to a framework also used by an integrated assessment model in the same GEA. We conclude that bottom-up approaches to identify and assess transformative solutions that envision future pathways towards greater sustainability significantly strengthen current GEA scenario-development approaches. They provide decision makers with required actionable information based on tangible synergistic solutions that have been tested on the ground. This work has revealed that there are significant opportunities for the integration of bottom-up knowledge and insights into GEAs, to make such assessments more salient and valuable to decision makers.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-03-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-07-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-08-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-06-2023
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-07-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-08-2020
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 14-09-2023
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 28-05-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-10-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-11-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-019-00749-X
Abstract: Creating a just and sustainable planet will require not only small changes, but also systemic transformations in how humans relate to the planet and to each other, i.e., social–ecological transformations. We suggest there is a need for collaborative environments where experimentation with new configurations of social–ecological systems can occur, and we refer to these as transformative spaces. In this paper, we seek a better understanding of how to design and enable the creation of transformative spaces in a development context. We analyse nine case studies from a previous special issue on Designing Transformative Spaces that aimed to collect ex les of cutting-edge action-oriented research on transformations from the Global South. The analysis showed five design phases as being essential: Problem Definition Phase Operationalisation Phase Tactical Phase Outcome Phase and Reflection Phase. From this synthesis, we distilled five key messages that should be considered when designing research, including: (a) there are ethical dilemmas associated with creating a transformative space in a system (b) it is important to assess the readiness of the system for change before engaging in it (c) there is a need to balance between ‘safe’ and ‘safe-enough’ spaces for transformation (d) convening a transformative space requires an assemblage of erse methodological frameworks and tools and (e) transformative spaces can act as a starting point for institutionalising transformative change. Many researchers are now engaging in transdisciplinary transformations research, and are finding themselves at the knowledge–action interface contributing to transformative space-making. We hope that by analysing experiences from across different geographies we can contribute towards better understanding of how to navigate the processes needed for the urgent global transformations that are being called for to create a more equitable and sustainable planet Earth.
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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