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- Ahlborg, Helene, 1980, et al.
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Technology and social-ecological change: Scale mismatch, synergy and conflict in poor rural communities
- 2015
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- There is little communication and bridging between the research fields of social-ecological and socio-technical systems approaches, while both fields construct systems that share characteristics such as complexity, uncertainty and multi-actor involvement. Beyond that, little conceptual work has been done to understand socio-technical-ecological dynamics. In the real world, however, processes of socio-technical change are at the heart of human use of and relations to natural resources and environments. In this paper we argue that there is need to engage theoretically and empirically with the interfaces between society, technology and nature, to identify how these system conceptions overlap, where and how pressures and feedbacks emerge and what synergies, trade-offs and conflicts that appear as a result of interactions. In this paper, we aim to take the conceptual discussion forward by highlighting where the current discussion may be misleading and by providing an empirical example of how socio-technical change and social-ecological dynamics can be studied and analyzed together. In order to achieve this we draw on socio-technical systems thinking, the concept of scale mismatch and literature on common pool resources (CPR). Our conceptual points are developed using an empirical case study of an NGO-led micro-hydropower development project in Tanzania. The fieldwork took place in 2012-2013 over a period of three months, and multiple data sets were gathered; 142 semi-structured interviews, documentation from participatory observation, group discussions, workshops and documentation (project reports, a GIS study of soil erosion risk, a baseline study of local livelihoods).This case study of a small-scale decentralized energy system problematizes a proposal made recently by some socio-technical scholars: that collective action and CPR theories are relevant to apply in analyses of decentralized energy systems. These attempts at bridging theoretically between fields are valuable. However, the system characteristics are sometimes similar only at the surface, and the application of CPR theory can in some cases be misleading and theoretically flawed, in cases where the technology is poorly understood. Based on our case study and conceptual discussion, we conclude that introduction of a new technology can motivate influential members of a community to engage in natural resource management and environmental protection, also when this generates social conflict and has negative implications for local food security. Theoretically, we conclude that developed understanding of non-human elements, scale and relations of power are critical to advancing the bridging work while keeping complementary analyses genuinely grounded in the theoretical base of each field.
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- Geib, Jonathan, 1979
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Ett skepp kommer lastat...
- 2015
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ett skepp kommer lastat...: a Swedish children's game in which players recount, in accumulated succession, the imagined contents of an incoming ship. The metaphorical abundance and unknowability of the latter drove this cross-institutional, multi-disciplinary collaboration and PhD research case study which engaged with the Frölunda Kulturhus's theme of 'neighbors'. A constellation of twelve participatory workshops with children explored indirect dialogues between neighbors via architectural interfaces and perspectival reversals of researcher and subject. The project led to a three-week exhibition in the Frölunda Kulturhus's main exhibition hall and involved over 165 children and youth from three different schools.
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- Baumann, Henrikke, 1964, et al.
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Det specifika med miljösystemanalysen
- 1999
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sammanfattning av diskussion om vad forskning i ämnet miljösystemanalys innebär och innefattar.
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- Bergh Alvergren, Victor, 1991, et al.
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MeBeSafe Newsletter January 2020
- 2020
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The MeBeSafe project is entering its final year. The project aims to make traffic safer by soft measures, such as nudging and coaching. The newsletter describes the latest advancements in the project, including building the nudges in real life and testing on large amounts of people.
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- Bergh Alvergren, Victor, 1991
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MeBeSafe Newsletter June 2019
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- MeBeSafe is trying to make traffic safer by nudging and coaching. Nudging is a way of predictably altering people's behaviour on a subconscious level; without forbidding anything. A classic example of a nudge is to put the vegetarian option on top of a menu, which will make people much more likely to choose that one. MeBeSafe is using nudging to change people's behaviour on the roads, both for car drivers, cyclists and truckers. This newsletter describes the various efforts made by MeBeSafe and the latest breakthroughs in nudging. It also includes a summary of what nudging actually is.
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- Bergh Alvergren, Victor, 1991, et al.
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MeBeSafe Newsletter June 2020
- 2020
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The MeBeSafe project aims to make traffic safer by nudging and coaching measures. The penultimate newsletter decribes the various measures researched and how they work. This includes how to do interviews with people just passing by on the road, what really constitutes "good" driving, how truck drivers can help coach one another, how to nudge large amounts of cyclists. It also includes passages on nudging with privacy and how to use a nudge to merge traffic together.
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