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Kristin Wilson

📝 🥗 A nice reflection on knowledge integration within the recent and major IPBES values assessment work.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/is

Ecology & Society - A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability · Ecology & Society: Making room for meaningful inclusion of Indigenous and local knowledge in global assessments: our experiences in the values assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesIn recognizing the urgent need to address global challenges such as biodiversity loss, food insecurity, and climate change, it is essential to incorporate diverse knowledge systems, including Indigenous worldviews and knowledge of nature. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has taken significant steps to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) as well as the viewpoints of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLC) into its thematic and methodological assessments. This inclusive approach enriches our understanding of nature and enhances our ability to tackle these pressing global issues. The recently published IPBES Report on Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature, also known as the values assessment (VA), includes Indigenous scholars and ILK experts as authors. The VA provides an interdisciplinary synthesis of existing knowledge on the various ways in which humans value nature, as well as the methods and approaches for understanding these values. It also examines the extent to which these values are integrated into decision-making structures and processes. We are a group of Indigenous scholars and ILK experts from the Global South who participated in the VA, specifically in Chapter 3’s “ILK Team.” The value of including IPLC in knowledge-synthesis initiatives is highlighted by our experiences. There are opportunities to improve the inclusion of ILK in similar assessments. The lessons we learned while working at the VA have motivated us to recommend that future assessments and similar initiatives should actively involve IPLC, their knowledge systems, and their ancestral wisdom.
#SocialEcologicalSystems#Science#KnowledgeIntegration
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Kristin Wilson

Developing degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, a call for collaboration. link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkDegrowth scenarios for biodiversity? Key methodological steps and a call for collaboration - Sustainability ScienceStudies show that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss and that, after a certain threshold, it does not contribute to wellbeing. Thus, when developing biodiversity scenarios, considering societal futures where economic growth is not a pre-condition deserves special attention. However, to date, degrowth scenarios have not been explored for biodiversity conservation and human wellbeing. In this paper, we explain how the Nature Futures Framework (NFF) and other approaches could be used to generate degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and good quality of life (GQL) based on multiple societal values. We present key methodological steps of such an endeavour, including: (i) producing degrowth visions for high-income countries; (ii) identifying leverage points and imagining degrowth pathways; (iii) identifying key social–ecological interactions; and (iv) modelling biodiversity, NCP, and GQL along degrowth scenarios. Our proposal is framed within current theoretical, empirical, and modelling work as well as within efforts to improve scenario development across the biodiversity and climate communities. To develop degrowth scenarios for biodiversity, NCP, and GQL, we call for collaboration across natural and social sciences, quantitative and qualitative approaches, and northern and southern perspectives. This collaboration could lead to a community of practice that tests and improves the degrowth scenarios in national and international science–policy interfaces as they set out to achieve the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature.
#interdisciplinary#openaccess#SocialEcologicalSystems
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G. Barrow | Make in Place

A call for #collaboration:

Systemic #design can be daunting, and the critical nature of the #climatecrisis doesn’t make it less so. The work must be iterative, with contributing voices and ongoing feedback.

I need help with it. As a writer, I ask questions, document, and consider the larger picture. However, I’m not a subject-matter expert in any science or technique. #SocialEcologicalSystems call for collaboration. The more input, the better.

makeinplace.medium.com/by-not-

Image of mother and child by Matt Hoffman on Unsplash @__matthoffman__
#postscarcity#degrowth
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Floriane Clement

Just out!! A new article led by Pablo F. Méndez.
We explore #power dynamics in the #governance of #SocialEcologicalSystems in networks of action situations:
link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkUnderstanding the governance of sustainability pathways: hydraulic megaprojects, social–ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations - Sustainability ScienceTo enable sustainability pathways, we need to understand how social–ecological systems (SES) respond to different governance configurations, considering their historical, institutional, political, and power conditions. We advance a robust methodological approach for the integrated analysis of those conditions in SES traps. Our advancement consists of a novel combination of the networks of action situations approach with an agency-based polycentric power typology and the concept of discursive power. We test the approach by building on previous research on the Doñana estuary–delta SES (Guadalquivir estuary), which is characterized by a rigidity trap in the context of ecosystem and water governance. Specifically, we focus on a recent hydraulic megaproject involving deep dredging in the Guadalquivir estuary, finally canceled due to its broad negative socioeconomic and environmental repercussions. According to our analysis, certain governance, institutional, and informational mechanisms currently prevent further SES degradation in Doñana. However, key governance actors are caught in a lasting coordination failure prone to mutual defection strategies owing to power dynamics and discursive-institutional inertia. Although seemingly stable due to counteractive mechanisms among actors, this situation is at continuous risk of being unbalanced by powerful actors promoting large SES interventions such as deep dredging. Such interventions bear the systemic risk of strong suppression of SES functions, and a regime shift to a lock-in trap. This overall undesirable situation might be escaped through transformative policy designs that take into account meso-level mechanisms, such as discursive power and its role in non-decision-making, pragmatic inaction, and inefficient investment and infrastructure.
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João Garcia Rodrigues

#Introduction post!

I am a #marsocsci researcher working with coastal communities, policy makers and practitioners to protect #marine #biodiversity and to achieve #socialjustice and #sustainability in #ocean resource use, under #climatechange.

#postdoc at #ciimar, the interdisciplinary centre of marine and environmental research, university of porto, #portugal.

Happy to learn and discuss about #socialecologicalsystems #consocsci #politicalecology #oceanequity #climatejustice.

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Michele-Lee Moore

#introduction My research focuses on #socialinnovation, #transformations to #sustainability & #justice, #watergovernance, #socialecologicalsystems #resilience & #complexsystems. Also #imagination, diverse #speculative #futures, #reflexivity & more

Love #processdesign, and lead #transdisciplinary education programs with amazing #changemakers from around the world!

Also love humour, too many things for a decent intro & hoping to contribute to a positive, supportive & diverse community here

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