DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102132
论文题名: Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges
作者: Woroniecki S. ; Wendo H. ; Brink E. ; Islar M. ; Krause T. ; Vargas A.-M. ; Mahmoud Y.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2020
卷: 65 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Ecosystem-based adaptation
; Environmental justice
; Environmental peace-building
; Epistemological pluralism
; Performativity
; Subjectivity
英文关键词: decision making
; environmental change
; farmers knowledge
; knowledge
; power relations
; research work
; social problem
; sustainability
英文摘要: Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in high-level, decision-making arenas as a response to global policy challenges. Claiming to be transformative and pluralistic, NbS aim to resolve societal problems through a focus on nature, which is understood to be a benign ally. This uncritical framing of nature may have unintended and inequitable consequences that undermine the emancipatory potential of NbS. In this paper, we highlight the need to pay attention to epistemic and power dimensions that tend to be hidden in NbS. We assume that nature is neither passive nor external to human society, but is instead expressed in frames (reifying modes of expression) that reflect both knowledge and power in social encounters where NbS are used. Drawing upon five cases, we analyse how particular ways of framing nature express and reinforce the power relations that structure people's interactions. Each of the five cases relies on a nature-based frame to produce knowledge on climate adaptation, peacebuilding and justice. The analysis reveals how frames of nature are enacted in particular contexts, and how this conditions the potential for societal transformation towards sustainability and pluralistic knowledge. We demonstrate how frames of nature can constrain or enable opportunities for various groups to respond to environmental change. We discuss how the NbS paradigm might better incorporate diverse, situated knowledge and subjectivities, and conclude that this will require a more critical evaluation of NbS practice and research. © 2020 The Authors Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168256
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作者单位: Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Environmental Change Unit (TEMAM), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Adaptation Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya; Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, Visby, Gotland, Sweden; Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Woroniecki S.,Wendo H.,Brink E.,et al. Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,65