Tag: systems change
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Reparative Water Governance with Neha Mungekar
Neha Mungekar (LinkedIn →) is a sustainability researcher at IHE Delft working on water systems governance and their transitions to sustainability. We discuss transition management as a way to frame complex sustainability problems, but also its limits when it is applied too technocratically or without context. We also talk about her critique of importing transition…
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the drivers of transition
What might it “look like” to “achieve sustainability”? It seems to me that this desirable process wouldn’t occur as a “monolithic”, simultaneous, homogenous, all-encompassing global or societal movement, but rather as the converging transitions of many, many different individual systems and sub-systems. These could be, for example, a city’s mobility system, a region’s water system,…
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evolutionary aspects of the multi-level perspective
In the last few articles, we examined the need for a “systems science” in order to “achieve sustainability”. We further examined one specific scientific “theory”, the Multi-level Perspective on Socio-technical Transitions (MLP), that has gained prominence over the years as an approach to understand systems change. In this article, we will take a closer look…