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- Linnér, Björn-Ola, et al.
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Conceptualising variations in societal transformations towards sustainability
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Science and Policy. - : ELSEVIER SCI LTD. - 1462-9011 .- 1873-6416. ; 106, s. 221-227
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Calls for societal transformations in response to climate change and unsustainable trajectories are surging in scientific journals, political proposals and news media. The multifaceted usages of the concept of transformation creates challenges for scientific assessments, such as those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, as well as for the implementation of the Paris Agreement process, the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, the EUs long-term climate strategy, the European Green Deal, and other political decisions. In this paper, we suggest an analytical framework to differentiate between how sustainability transformations are made sense of in terms of system level, pace and scope. We distinguish between four general modes of transformations: quantum leap, convergent, emergent, and gradual approaches. We also discuss how they can be used to make sense of interventions to foster major sustainability transformations. We expand on three examples of interventions that were pertinent in our cross-country studies: technological innovations, transformative learning and the formulation of new narratives of sustainable societies.
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- Linnér, Björn-Ola, et al.
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Drivers of sustainability transformations : leverage points, contexts and conjunctures
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability Science. - : Springer Nature. - 1862-4065 .- 1862-4057. ; 16:3, s. 889-900
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While increasing hopes are being attached to deliberate societal transformative change to achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, questions remain about whether and whereby such profound systemic change can be governed. This paper analyses how transformative changes are intended to be encouraged and achieved, where and when. The paper explores critical drivers and how they relate to leverage points at different places in the societal systems. The paper builds on a comprehensive sense-making analysis of scholarly literature, policy documents, including countries contributions to the Paris Agreement and national reviews of progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals, international news media and lay focus group discussions on five continents. There are great variations in how drivers were made sense of in the data. The many ongoing interacting transformations across societies involve different social, cultural, and political contexts, while the implementation of the 2030 Agenda also contains goal conflicts and unavoidable trade-offs. The paper highlights four categories of drivers as particularly important to consider in view of international transformation efforts: technological innovations, political economy redistribution, new narratives, and transformative learning. Four features are important for bringing clarity on how deliberate transformations can be encouraged: (1) the function of drivers in enabling and restricting transformations of societal systems characterised by detailed or dynamic complexity, (2) cultural and geographical contexts of transformations, (3) where in the systems the drivers are intended to intervene, and (4) the role of critical junctions in time, where transformative trajectories can branch out.
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| 59733. |
- Linnér, Björn-Ola, 1963-, et al.
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Dual high-stake emerging technologies : A review of the climate engineering research literature
- 2015
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Ingår i: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1757-7780 .- 1757-7799. ; 6:2, s. 255-268
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The literature on climate engineering, or geoengineering, covers a wide range of potential methods for solar radiation management or carbon dioxide removal that vary in technical aspects, temporal and spatial scales, potential environmental impacts, and legal, ethical, and governance challenges. This paper presents a comprehensive review of social and natural science papers on this topic since 2006 and listed in SCOPUS andWeb of Science. It adds to previous literature reviews by combining analyses of bibliometric patterns and of trends in how the technologies are framed in terms of content, motivations, stakes, and recommendations. Most peer-reviewed climate engineering literature does not weigh the risks and new, additional, benefits of the various technologies, but emphasizes either the potential dangers of climate engineering or the climate change consequences of refraining from considering the research, development, demonstration, and/or deployment of climate engineering technologies. To analyse this polarity, not prevalent in the literature on earlier emerging technologies, we explore the concept of dual high-stake technologies. As appeals to fear have proven ineffective in spurring public engagement in climate change, we may not expect significant public support for climate engineering technologies whose rationale is not to achieve benefits in addition to avoiding the high stakes of climate change. Furthermore, in designing public engagement exercises, researchers must be careful not to steer discussions by emphasizing one type of stake framing over another. A dual high-stake, rather than risk–benefit, framing should also be considered in analysing some emerging technologies with similar characteristics, for example, nanotechnology for pollution control.
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| 59734. |
- Linnér, Björn-Ola, 1963-, et al.
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From Stockholm to Kyoto and Beyond : A Review of the Globalisation of Global Warming Policy and North-South Relation
- 2008. - 1
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Ingår i: The Globalisation of environmental crisis. - London : Routledge. - 0415448271 - 9780415448277 ; , s. 121-134
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Previously published as a special issue of Globalizations, this collection of essays addresses what is arguably the most pressing and urgent issue of our day - the continuing development of global environmental crises and the need for new and urgent responses to them by the world community.The contributors include social scientists, environmental historians, anthropologists, and science policy researchers, and together they give an overview of the history of the globalization of environmental crisis over the past several decades, both in terms of the science of measurement and the types of policy and public responses that have emerged to date. The specific issue areas addressed in the book cover a wide range of topics, including international environmental governance, North-South inequalities, climate change, global warming, tropical forests, air pollution, economic and paradigm shifts, sustainability, indigenous peoples and eco-conservation, EU environmental policy, the United States and politicized climate science, and more.The Globalization of Environmental Crisis will be of particular interest to all those concerned with the on-going debate over the state of the global environment and what to do about it.
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- Linnér, Björn-Ola, 1963-, et al.
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Hugo Conwentz
- 1995
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Ingår i: Linköpings biblioteks handlingar. - 0280-2287. ; 15, s. 107-130
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
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- Linnér, Björn-Ola, 1963-
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Huvuddragen i Sammanfattning för beslutsfattare avSyntesrapporten av IPCC : s fjärde utvärderingsrapport
- 2007
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Ingår i: FN:s klimatpanel 2007 : syntesrapport : sammanfattning för beslutsfattare : fjärde utvärderingsrapporten från Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. - Stockholm : Naturvårdsverket. - 9789162057633 ; , s. -46
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- FN:s klimatpanels, IPCC, tredje delrapport i sin senaste utvärdering av klimatförändringen. Rapporten behandlar åtgärder för att begränsa klimatförändringarna Här presenteras en svensk översättning av sammanfattningen.
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- Linnér, Björn-Ola, et al.
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Innovation investments
- 2015
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Ingår i: Research handbook on climate governance. - Northamton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781783470594 - 9781783470600 ; , s. 547-554
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Linnér, Björn-Ola
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Kyoto Protocol
- 2012
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of global studies. - Thousands Oaks and London : Sage Publications. - 9781412964296
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes, including: the globalization of economies and technologies; the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the transnational aspects of social and political change; the global impact of environmental, technological and health changes; and the organizations and issues related to global civil society.
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