Overcoming the process-structure divide in conceptions of Social-Ecological Transformation

Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach and Julia Tschersich

Ecological Economics, 2019, vol. 164, issue C, -

Abstract: A fundamental transformation towards sustainability in face of complex social-ecological challenges needs to initiate deep changes of those incumbent system structures that support unsustainable trajectories, while at the same time encouraging a diversity of alternative practices. A review of transformation approaches towards sustainability shows that these do not (sufficiently) link processes of change at the micro level to deep leverages of change in wider system structures.

Keywords: Evaluation principles; Framework; Paradigms; Social-ecological resilience; Social-ecological transformation; Sustainability transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106361

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