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{"title":"Institutional logics as an object of change: the experiences of a water organization using design thinking for climate adaptation in a multi-stakeholder process.","authors":"Florian Goldschmeding, René Kemp, Véronique Vasseur, Christian Scholl","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01660-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01660-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the search for solutions to complex challenges posed by climate change and sustainability transitions, organizations often turn to innovative approaches and new cognitive frames. Particularly in the public sector, however, entrenched institutional logics often impede progress toward novel solutions. This paper explores how a public organization in the Dutch water sector navigates competing and sometimes conflicting frames and institutional logics through design-thinking. The object of study is a 6-month project initiated by a regional water authority in response to a severe flooding in 2021. The project aimed to develop and reimagine instruments for inclusive and climate-adaptive water management in collaboration with diverse actors. Based on participant observation and qualitative interviews, we analyze a series of design-thinking workshops where diverse stakeholders co-created tools for climate-adaptive water management. The findings disclose the existence of significant conflicts between the frames and institutional logics and offer details on how these were addressed through repeated stakeholder interaction and institutional work. We found that individuals showed varied responses to the emerging institutional logics, and that dominant institutional logics were diversely interpreted by different actors within the organization. Our research shows how iterative, participatory design methods can help actors temporarily shift institutional logics, but also reveals persistent challenges in achieving enduring changes to dominant institutions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"759-776"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033102/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144028314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Achieving net-zero agriculture in Africa: perspective on policies, challenges, and opportunities.","authors":"Tersur Theophilus Akpensuen, M Jordana Rivero","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01666-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01666-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Africa, with 55 Member States and over 1 billion people, is projected to nearly double its population to 2.5 billion by 2050, presenting both opportunities and challenges for sustainable development. Agriculture employs 65% of the labour force and contributes 32% to gross domestic product. The aim of this perspective is to highlight the challenges and opportunities of achieving net-zero agriculture in Africa while proffering appropriate recommendations. The primary issues are how extreme weather events affect food security and how to cut emissions from livestock farming as well as rice cultivation and fertilizer usage alongside evaluating current policies that support climate-smart agricultural practices. Africa needs to investigate how its expanding young population along with research and innovation can advance the move towards net-zero agricultural practices. Challenges of insufficient data availability together with ineffective policy enforcement, financial barriers, and limited awareness, decreasing precipitation levels coupled with regional conflicts and population migration hinder progress in achieving net-zero agriculture on the continent. However, Africa possesses substantial opportunities through its extensive arable land combined with its youthful workforce and renewable energy capabilities. Africa needs to obtain climate funds and strengthen regional partnerships while enhancing climate information services and creating inclusive and gender-responsive policies to address these issues. Investing in innovative technologies alongside renewable energy sources and crops resistant to climate change stands as an essential strategy. The implementation of early warning systems along with the development of alternative livelihoods will enhance efforts towards sustainable management of climate-induced migration. Africa will develop a climate-resilient agricultural system by confronting existing challenges while capitalizing on emerging opportunities.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-025-01666-y.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"1117-1137"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033123/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144042080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool.","authors":"Benjamin Hofmann, Hanna Salomon, Sabine Hoffmann","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01619-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01619-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) research is increasingly called for and supported to promote sustainable transformation through knowledge co-production, knowledge integration, and solution development. The paper explores what is needed to support researchers in reflecting on their new roles in ITD research. We introduce a reflection tool that makes the growing literature on researchers' roles in sustainability science applicable to ITD projects. Its design is based on the arguments that each researcher can have several roles within one research project and that focusing on a few key roles increases clarity compared to differentiating many specialized roles. The tool consists of (1) a researcher survey that operationalizes six prominent roles (traditional scientist, self-reflexive scientist, knowledge integrator, knowledge broker, process facilitator, and change agent), (2) a visualization of role profiles from the survey, and (3) a set of reflection questions on related opportunities, challenges, and coping strategies on individual and project level. We empirically applied the tool in two ITD research projects focused on sustainable food production and water and forest ecosystem management. Comparative application of the tool yielded diverse role profiles of researchers in both projects, with different patterns for senior and junior researchers as well as natural and social scientists. The reflection produced a collection of opportunities, challenges, and coping strategies that corroborates and extends insights from ITD literature. We discuss how the tool triggers multi-dimensional reflection on roles (individual and project level, role combinations, self-perception and external perception) and outline opportunities for further strengthening such reflection in ITD research.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01619-x.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"777-792"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033213/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143992448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of land transformation, management and governance on subjective wellbeing across social-ecological systems.","authors":"Patricia Santillán-Carvantes, Alejandra Tauro, Patricia Balvanera, Juan Miguel Requena-Mullor, Antonio J Castro, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Berta Martín-López","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recognizing and understanding the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of individuals is essential for designing effective policies that promote human development and the sustainable management of social-ecological systems (SES). This is particularly important for smallholders, critical stewards of biodiversity who face acute livelihood challenges. This article explores how smallholders inhabiting tropical dry forests in Mexico perceive their SWB and how it changes across a spectrum of SES that undergo different land transformations, management intensities, and governance dynamics. Our aims are to identify the dimensions of SWB that smallholders perceive, understand how these dimensions change across SES, and examine how smallholders' perceptions of fulfilled material and non-material dimensions vary across SES. We analyzed the content of 25 in-depth interviews with farmers and identified 48 SWB items belonging to six categories: (1) social capital, (2) economic capital, (3) agency, (4) nature, (5) pleasant non-work activities, and (6) governmental services, and two additional dimensions referred to obstacles and enablers. We found two prevailing visions of SWB: 'living well' prevails especially in areas with communal governance and medium management intensity, and 'need to earn more' prevails in areas with individual governance and intensified land management. As management is intensified and governance fosters individualism, the lower the self-perceived material and non-material satisfaction. We discuss the different SWB found per SES, as well as strategies that can foster smallholder's SWB and SES dynamics that can motivate different conservation goals and sustainable uses of nature, especially in biodiverse areas.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-024-01584-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"469-483"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937195/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the urban shift: towards a relational degrowth spatial politics.","authors":"A Varvarousis, G Kallis, C Catanneo, F Sekulova, M Tsagkari, A Slamersak, M Conde, G Dalisa, K Hanacek, B Roy","doi":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11625-024-01590-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Degrowth is coming of age, and its analysis of what can be called <i>degrowth spatial politics</i> is advancing rapidly. In this article, we attempt to unravel the history of spatial thought in the degrowth literature to reveal its tendencies, tipping points, and blank spots. We argue that the more recent degrowth spatial literature overly focuses on the big urban scale by reversing what has purportedly been one of the weak spots of degrowth scholarship: its focus and preference for small-scale, relocalization, and decentralized communities. While we see the merit of this shift, first, we try to contextualize it in the broader sustainability discourse, and second, we contend that it has not been without problems and omissions. We see three predicaments stemming from it: first, a deficit of the degrowth spatial literature in recognizing and engaging with unsustainable rural transformations such as rural depopulation and shrinkage, as well as rural dispossession and depeasantisation. Second, a difficulty to account for urban and rural interconnectedness and engage with new epistemological frames that emerge in urban studies, such as planetary urbanization. Third, the urban shift may affect the capacity of degrowth to remain pluriversal, anti-colonial, and grassroots-fueled, or what Chertkovskaya et al. (Towards a political economy of degrowth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PuXaDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=info:c45bQLgYCfYJ:scholar.google.com&ots=5LsDF9Y_Er&sig=buZn4ogpUN4octi3_WFJf1mO9Lg) called <i>nomadic utopianism</i>. Finally, in the concluding part, we set the stepstones for a relational degrowth spatial politics, focusing on a solidary connection of space and place across the urban and rural and in multiple scales. This approach avoids the pitfalls of both degrowth proposals for relocalization and those who put excessive trust in urban transformations alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 2","pages":"485-498"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937061/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nothing about us without us: harnessing local voices in shaping community-based adaptation in the Pacific.","authors":"Hannah Turner, Briony Rogers, Sarah Kneebone, Diego Ramirez, Matthew French, Mere Jane Sawailau, Filise Volavola, Sholyn Baran, Kelera Matavesi, Orlando Newton, Maraia Batiota Luveniyali, Autiko Tela, Isoa Vakarewa","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01638-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01638-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As global temperatures rise, so does the frequency and intensity of severe weather events and their risks to people and assets. These risks are especially acute for Pacific Islanders in urban informal settlements, given their socio-economic vulnerabilities and limited political influence. There is growing awareness that national adaptation strategies may not fully meet the needs of these vulnerable communities, leading to a focus on community-led adaptation. However, these approaches are in their infancy and have been criticised for fostering paternalistic tendencies, prompting calls for external institutions to facilitate rather than direct community initiatives. This research utilises Photovoice, a method recognised for its cultural relevance and ability to amplify Indigenous and marginalised voices. It involves 42 households in Fiji's Greater Suva Urban Area, using resident-led photography and interviews to explore community-based flood adaptation. Through ethnographic content analysis and inductive coding, the study captures residents' experiences and strategies, identifying over 31 unique adaptation measures and underscoring the importance of resources, social networks, traditional knowledge, beliefs, and leadership in enhancing adaptive capacity. The findings demonstrate the complexity of factors influencing adaptation, with resource availability and social capital being crucial. The study advocates for adaptive processes that are community driven, calling for a shift in research and funding to support these programmes in a flexible, responsive, and inclusive manner. It also highlights the need to understand community dynamics to prevent paternalistic practices and integrate local insights effectively, ensuring community self-determination in adaptation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"877-902"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144047165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transformative capacities for navigating system change: a framework for sustainability research and practice.","authors":"Christopher J Orr, Sarah Burch","doi":"10.1007/s11625-025-01658-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01658-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the face of climate change and other ecological pressures, there is urgent need to transform human systems and their society-nature relationships. However, there is a gap between transformative ambitions and our ability to enable transformative change. The relationship between sustainability transformations in practice and the transformative capacities that enable them is complex and indirect, requiring integrative frameworks to clarify the relationships between what transformations entail and the capacities needed to enable them. We develop the integrative transformative capacities framework (TCF) to conceptualize how sustainability transformations relate to the capacities to realize them in terms of the focal system and the strategies needed to bring about a desired change. We illustrate this framework, proposing key features of sustainability transformations, then identifying strategies for change associated with each feature and the capacities required to implement each strategy. We conclude by discussing some challenges of theorizing, identifying, and building transformative capacities and how the TCF addresses these challenges. This framework can help researchers be explicit about their assumptions and decisions about systems change, strategies to influence change, and the capacities to enable different actors to meaningfully contribute to change.</p>","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"20 3","pages":"975-992"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12033196/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monitoring environmental sustainability in Japan: an ESGAP assessment","authors":"Masahiro Sato, Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liaño, Alison Fairbrass, Paul Ekins, Jusen Asuka","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01441-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"45 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Directing personal sustainability science toward subjective experience: conceptual, methodological, and normative cornerstones for a first-person inquiry into inner worlds","authors":"Pascal Frank, Johannes Wagemann, Julius Grund, Oliver Parodi","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01442-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"47 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139382244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical hydrologic impacts from climate change: addressing an urgent global need","authors":"Jim Falk, P. Gleick, Shinichiro Asayama, Faten Attig-Bahar, Swadin Behera, Joachim von Braun, Rita R. Colwell, Ashok K. Chapagain, Adel S. El-Beltagy, Charles F. Kennel, Masahide Kimoto, Toshio Koike, Agnes Asiimwe Konde, P. Koundouri, Sameh Kotb Mohamed Abd-Elmabod, Rattan Lal, Yuan Tseh Lee, C. Murray, Vina Nangia, Amy Sapkota, T. Saijo, Ismail Serageldin, J. Soussana, Kaoru Takara, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Thong Tran, David Victor, Chiho Watanabe, Kevin Wheeler, T. Yasunari","doi":"10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01428-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49457,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability Science","volume":"60 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}