From Multidisciplinarity to Transdisciplinarity and from Local to Global Foci: Integrative Approaches to Systemic Resilience Based upon the Value of Life in the Context of Environmental and Gender Vulnerabilities with a Special Focus upon the Brazilian Amazon Biome

Anastasia Zabaniotou, Christine Syrgiannis, Daniela Gasperin, Arnoldo José de Hoyos Guevera, Ivani Fazenda and Donald Huisingh
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Anastasia Zabaniotou: Biomass Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Christine Syrgiannis: Group of Studies and Research on Interdisciplinarity, Futures and Spirituality, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05014-901, Brazil
Daniela Gasperin: Group of Studies and Research on Futures, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05014-901, Brazil
Arnoldo José de Hoyos Guevera: School of Management, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05014-901, Brazil
Ivani Fazenda: Educational Program-Interdisciplinarity, Leader of the Group of Studies and Research on Interdisciplinarity—GEPI, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05014-901, Brazil
Donald Huisingh: The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 20, 1-32

Abstract: Economic and environmental interventions in the Anthropocene have created disruptions that are threatening the capacity of socio-ecological systems to recover from adversities and to be able to maintain key functions for preserving resilience. The authors of this paper underscore the benefits of a workshop-based methodology for developing a vision and an approach to the inner processes of creation that can be used to increase resilience, to cope with societal vulnerabilities and to develop the tools for future planning at local, regional and global scales. Diverse areas of discourse ranging from climate science and sustainability, to psychoanalysis, linguistics and eco-philosophy, contributed meaningfully to the transdisciplinary approach for enhancing resilience. A framework is proposed that can be used throughout society, that integrates the importance of human subjectivity and the variability of human contexts, especially gender, in shaping human experiences and responses to climate change impacts and challenges such as the covid-19 pandemic. Within the domain of socio-economic research, the authors challenge researchers and policy makers to expand future perspectives of resilience through the proposed systemic resilience vision. Movement towards transformative thinking and actions requires inner exploration and visualization of desirable futures for integrating ecological, social, cultural, ethical, and economic dimensions as agencies for catalyzing the transition to livable, sustainable, equitable, ethical, and resilient societies.

Keywords: resilience; climate changes; systemic; awareness; value of life; gender equality; amazon region; covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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