Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations
Tàbara JD, Mangalagiu D, Frantal B, Mey F, Maier R, Lilliestam J, Sarrica M, Mandel A, Lieu J, Cottone P, Veland S, Martínez-Reyes A (2024)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Edited Volumes: Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability
Series: Springer Climate
Book Volume: Part F2470
Pages Range: 325-343
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50762-5_16
Abstract
A crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy usage of SETPs applied to accelerate structural regional sustainability transformations faces three key challenges: (I) integrating theoretical and empirical contributions from diverse social and ecological sciences, together with complexity theory (II) designing open transdisciplinary assessment processes able to represent multiple qualities of systemic change and enable regionally situated transformative capacities, and (III) moving away from one-directional metaphors of social change, or static or homogeneous conceptions of individual agency and single equilibrium in energy transitions; and instead, focus on understanding the conditions and capacities for the emergence of systemic transformations and regenerative processes across multiple levels and forms of agency. We refer to these complex and place-situated processes as learning to enable regional transformative emergence.
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Global Climate Forum (GCF)
Germany (DE)
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Austria (AT)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands (NL)
Università degli studi "La Sapienza"
Italy (IT)
Palacky University Olomouc / Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Czech Republic (CZ)
NEOMA Business School / École supérieure de commerce de Rouen
France (FR)
Paris School of Economics / École d'Économie de Paris
France (FR)
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Norway (NO)
Germany (DE)
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Austria (AT)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands (NL)
Università degli studi "La Sapienza"
Italy (IT)
Palacky University Olomouc / Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Czech Republic (CZ)
NEOMA Business School / École supérieure de commerce de Rouen
France (FR)
Paris School of Economics / École d'Économie de Paris
France (FR)
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Norway (NO)
How to cite
APA:
Tàbara, J.D., Mangalagiu, D., Frantal, B., Mey, F., Maier, R., Lilliestam, J.,... Martínez-Reyes, A. (2024). Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations. In Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability. (pp. 325-343). Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
MLA:
Tàbara, J. David, et al. "Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations." Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024. 325-343.
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