Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations

Tàbara JD, Mangalagiu D, Frantal B, Mey F, Maier R, Lilliestam J, Sarrica M, Mandel A, Lieu J, Cottone P, Veland S, Martínez-Reyes A (2024)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2024

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

Edited Volumes: Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability

Series: Springer Climate

Book Volume: Part F2470

Pages Range: 325-343

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50762-5_16

Abstract

A crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy usage of SETPs applied to accelerate structural regional sustainability transformations faces three key challenges: (I) integrating theoretical and empirical contributions from diverse social and ecological sciences, together with complexity theory (II) designing open transdisciplinary assessment processes able to represent multiple qualities of systemic change and enable regionally situated transformative capacities, and (III) moving away from one-directional metaphors of social change, or static or homogeneous conceptions of individual agency and single equilibrium in energy transitions; and instead, focus on understanding the conditions and capacities for the emergence of systemic transformations and regenerative processes across multiple levels and forms of agency. We refer to these complex and place-situated processes as learning to enable regional transformative emergence.

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APA:

Tàbara, J.D., Mangalagiu, D., Frantal, B., Mey, F., Maier, R., Lilliestam, J.,... Martínez-Reyes, A. (2024). Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations. In Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability. (pp. 325-343). Springer Science and Business Media B.V..

MLA:

Tàbara, J. David, et al. "Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations." Positive Tipping Points Towards Sustainability. Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024. 325-343.

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