DOI: 10.1002/wcc.384
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84958543005
论文题名: Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation
作者: Gillard R ; , Gouldson A ; , Paavola J ; , Van Alstine J
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2016
卷: 7, 期: 2 起始页码: 251
结束页码: 265
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Ecology
; Climate change mitigation
; Inherent limitations
; Social changes
; Social theory
; Sociotechnical
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; climate change
; governance approach
; interdisciplinary approach
; social change
; social theory
英文摘要: There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental adjustments, aiming instead for society-wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical (ST) transitions and social-ecological (SE) resilience are two prominent normative agendas. Reviewing these literatures reveals how both share a complex-systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregrounding material over social drivers of change. Further interdisciplinary dialogue with social theory is essential if these frameworks are to become more theoretically robust and capable of informing effective, let alone transformational, climate change governance. To illustrate this potential, ideas from Deleuze and Guattari's political writing as well as other approaches that utilize the notion social fields (as opposed to sociosystems) are combined to more fully theorize the origins and enactment of social change. First, the logic of systems is replaced with the contingency of assemblages to reveal how pluralism, not elitism, can produce more ambitious and politicized visions of the future. In particular, this view encourages us to see social and ecological tensions as opportunities for thinking and acting differently rather than as mere technical problems to be solved. Secondly, the setting of social fields is introduced to situate and explain the power of ideas and the role of agency in times of uncertainty. The potential of such insights is already visible in some strands of climate change mitigation and adaptation research, but more needs to be done to advance this field and to bring it into dialogue with the mainstream systems based literature. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76236
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: School of Earth and Environment, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Gillard R,, Gouldson A,, Paavola J,et al. Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2016-01-01,7(2)