Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda

Sustainability Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 24, 2024

Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science contribute a sustainable future. This editorial contributes this effort by contemplating the agenda aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations board members of Sustainability Science journal review relevant literature, we identified 12 key topics. These topics are interpreted within strategic framework encompassing three themes: (1) goals that drive science, (2) approaches attain these goals, (3) tools research. In so doing, emphasizes development extending beyond 2030, fostering equity justice, tackling issues related power dynamics geopolitical conflicts. It underscores significance attaining particular, theorizing, co-production knowledge action, clarity conceptual descriptions, developing systems-oriented analytical frameworks. Additionally, highlights value place-based approaches, learning from significant systemic shocks, nurturing inner transformations. also underlines need explore emerging technologies data-intensive methodologies as tool address concerns. The systematic contemplation presented piece aims invoke further discussion among researchers practitioners about fresh promotes integration nature society.

Language: Английский

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The South African Model of Socio-Economic Constitutionalism: Features and Fault Lines

YSEC yearbook of socio-economic constitutions, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Climate Backlash and Policy Dismantling: How Discursive Mechanisms Legitimised Radical Shifts in Swedish Climate Policy

Environmental Policy and Governance, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 24, 2025

ABSTRACT Climate backlash and policy dismantling, that is, the reversal of existing decarbonisation policies, can be observed in an increasing number countries. Typically, change tends to slow, while climate unfold quite fast. How is such rapid political made possible? Here, we investigate case Sweden, where a newly elected government significantly revised changed policies. This was forecast increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them included abolishment While this process, hindsight, could thus seen as it characterised by highly ambiguous debate portrayed new approach superior much more effective previous governments' approaches, there little, if any, opposition these changes. To understand how radical possible, examine documents debates identify discursive mechanisms employed its legitimation. Our findings suggest parties used set speak different discourses—welfarism, liberalism nationalism—simultaneously. created effect call flipping, which qualitatively from blending, appeased potential both left right. As part this, creation epistemic confusion seemed particularly disarming opposition. We argue are useful conceptual tools legitimation change, here realised rendering discourses so became discursively difficult uphold.

Language: Английский

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Smallholder women rising: Intersectional dynamics of resistance to geothermal energy in Western Turkey

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 120, P. 103884 - 103884

Published: Dec. 12, 2024

Language: Английский

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