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Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology

Görg, Christoph ; Brand, Ulrich ; Haberl, Helmut ; Hummel, Diana ; Jahn, Thomas ; Liehr, Stefan

Sustainability, 2017-06, Vol.9 (7), p.1045 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Basel: MDPI AG

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  • Título:
    Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology
  • Autor: Görg, Christoph ; Brand, Ulrich ; Haberl, Helmut ; Hummel, Diana ; Jahn, Thomas ; Liehr, Stefan
  • Assuntos: Ecology ; Empirical analysis ; Hazards ; Land use ; Political ecology ; Politics ; Sustainability ; Transformation ; Water crises
  • É parte de: Sustainability, 2017-06, Vol.9 (7), p.1045
  • Descrição: Transformation has become a major topic of sustainability research. This opens up new perspectives, but at the same time, runs the danger to convert into a new critical orthodoxy which narrows down analytical perspectives. Most research is committed towards a political-strategic approach towards transformation. This focus, however, clashes with ongoing transformation processes towards un-sustainability. The paper presents cornerstones of an integrative approach to social-ecological transformations (SET), which builds upon empirical work and conceptual considerations from Social Ecology and Political Ecology. We argue that a critical understanding of the challenges for societal transformations can be advanced by focusing on the interdependencies between societies and the natural environment. This starting point provides a more realistic understanding of the societal and biophysical constraints of sustainability transformations by emphasising the crisis-driven and contested character of the appropriation of nature and the power relations involved. Moreover, it pursues a transdisciplinary mode of research, decisive for adequately understanding any strategy for transformations towards sustainability. Such a conceptual approach of SET is supposed to better integrate the analytical, normative and political-strategic dimension of transformation research. We use the examples of global land use patterns, neo-extractivism in Latin America and the global water crisis to clarify our approach.
  • Editor: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Idioma: Inglês
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