Tag: systems change
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Spiritual Ecology, Climate Justice & Systems Change with Abhayraj Naik
How is the climate crisis a crisis of “perception”, and what role does spirituality play in addressing this? How can we live prefiguratively in the climate future we might want, right now? Why, and how, should climate action be decentralized for effective systems change? How can we transcend boundaries and choose our work in the…
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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…