Transformative territorial assessment of food systems: A post-normal science perspective

IF 3 3区 管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS
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Abstract

The importance of food systems’ transformations worldwide in order to achieve sustainability is recognised at all levels and scales, and the assessment of the said sustainability appears as a central element to understand the very aspects that need transforming. In parallel, the territorial scale is increasingly seen as the right one to produce such transformations, both in the scientific literature and in policy debates. There has been a proliferation of sustainability assessment methods and tools over the past couple of decades. Yet, researchers agree that these have been mostly unable to support the aforementioned transformations. A post-normal outlook may help in doing so, and it is of interest to identify the aspects that can help rendering assessment coherent with post-normal science. We identify three central categories that can help in doing so, and should thus be considered as central elements in sustainability assessment of Food Systems. These are interdependencies between system components, the system’s trajectories and actors’ participation. We draw elements from the scientific literature to justify the importance of these elements, and carry out a focused literature review of Food System sustainability assessment at the territorial scale to see the extent to which the methodologies proposed incorporate them.
粮食系统的变革性地域评估:后常态科学视角
世界范围内为实现可持续性而进行的粮食系统变革的重要性在各个层面和规模上都得到了认可,而对上述可持续性的评估似乎是了解需要变革的各个方面的核心要素。与此同时,无论是在科学文献中还是在政策辩论中,地域尺度越来越被视为实现这种转变的正确尺度。在过去的几十年里,可持续性评估方法和工具层出不穷。然而,研究人员一致认为,这些方法和工具大多无法支持上述转变。后常态视角可能有助于实现这一目标,而确定有助于使评估与后常态科学相一致的方面是有意义的。我们确定了三个有助于做到这一点的核心类别,因此应将其视为粮食系统可持续性评估的核心要素。它们是系统各组成部分之间的相互依存关系、系统轨迹和参与者的参与。我们从科学文献中汲取了一些要素,以证明这些要素的重要性,并对地域范围内的粮食系统可持续性评估进行了重点文献综述,以了解所提出的方法在多大程度上纳入了这些要素。
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Futures
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期刊介绍: Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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