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Role of sustainability science in promoting collaboration across disciplines and engagement
with stakeholders for implementing the SDGs
Third Symposium on Sustainability Science: Towards Guidelines on Research and Education
UNESCO, Paris, May 31 - 1 June 2017
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Department of Anthropology
Center for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Landscapes (CASEL)
Indiana University – Bloomington
Science Committee, Future Earth
Co-Chair, IPBES Global Assessment
Sustainability Sciences
Collaboration Across Disciplines
Implementation SDGs
Interdependent, complex and mutually reinforcing challenges
Appropriate knowledge
Solving problems, understanding dilemmas and trade-offs
Cooperation and complementarity
Academic freedom and academic responsibility
New capacities of individual scientists
Holistic view of human-environment interactions
Critical perspectives to Human-Environment analysis
New conceptual models linking dimensions and scales
New methodologies for data collection and analysis
Interdependence of multiples worldviews, values, meanings
Co-design - Co-production - Co-implementation
Key Principles
Evolving Conceptual Frameworks:Biophysical Systems
Social-Ecological SystemsMultiple Values
The Bretherton framework
The MA framework
The IPBES framework
Problem-OrientedMeta-Theoretical Tools Interdisciplinary CollaborationsProgressive understanding of complexityHypothesis testing and qualitative explorations
Multiplicity of Conceptual Frameworks
Sustainable Development GoalsBasic needs
Major inequality gapsSocial opportunities
Biophysical determinants
Multiplicity of Indicators vs. Framework for science-policy collaboration
17 Goals, 160 Targets, >230 Indicators
1. Broadening appreciation for complementary evidence
2. Critical view and historical understanding of development
3. System thinking with political ecology perspective
Sustainability Sciences
Collaboration Across Disciplines
Implementation SDGs
Challenges and Opportunities
Factual Subjective
Observation
Inference
Nat
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Nature of questions
Problem Questions Types of evidence Evaluative criteria
1. Broadening appreciation for complementary evidence
Factual Subjective
Observation
Inference
1. Broadening understanding of evidence and values
Agro-biodiversityAgronomic arrangements
BiogeochemestryLabor arrangements
ProductionImpact and benefits
Planting ritualsChoice of varieties
Social normsEcological knowledgeImpacts and benefits
Food preferenceChoice of variety
Ecological relationsImpacts and benefits
Aesthetics meaningSocial meaningSymbolic logic
Impacts and benefits
Geothermal plant, glass, hydrolectric
Logging, Biofuel plantations, REDD
National and global agendas, progress and reactions
Unsolved rural and urban inequalities
Urban growth and energy demand
2. Critical view and historical understanding of development
-Social sciences long-term reflection on colonialism and development ideology
BF-Deltas Project: Participatory landscape mapping of impacts and hazards: delta sub-regions and relevant hazards in the Amazon Estuary-Delta
Spaces for collective deliberations and discussions of multiple values
Co-design and Co-production
3. System thinking with political ecology perspective
Trade-offs focused on equity, justice, fairness VS.
Trade-offs based on food production, energy, conservation
Beyond Mystery House SyndromeSustainability Sciences as a framework to foster
collaboration and complementarities
Reference based on D. J. Watts Nature-Human Behavior (Jan 10, 2017)
THANKS!
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