Embedding justice in the 1.5°C transition: A transdisciplinary research agenda

Cronin, Jennifer; Hughes, Nick; Tomei, Julia; Couto, Lilia Caiado; Ali, Muez; Kizilcec, Vivien; Adewole, Ayooluwa; Bisaga, Iwona; Broad, Oliver; Parikh, Priti; Eludoyin, Elusiyan; Hofbauer, Leonhard; Machado, Pedro Gerber; Butnar, Isabela; Anandarajah, Gabrial; Webb, Jeremy S.; Lemaire, Xavier; Watson, Jim

doi:10.1016/j.rset.2021.100001

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“…Therefore, building designs with low energy demand can help in reducing the building energy demand and subsequently reduce carbon emissions (Longo et al , 2019; Abediniangerabi et al , 2021). Therefore, building design teams can contribute to the current climate agenda of keeping the global temperature increase to within 1.5°C of pre-industrial levels to avoid severe climate change and extreme weather events (Cronin et al , 2021).…”

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Infrastructure design stage considerations for environmental sustainability in Zambia

Zulu

Chabala

et al. 2022

JEDT

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Purpose While previous studies have highlighted the importance of incorporating environmental sustainability in building designs, there is a paucity of studies that assess the extent to which design teams in developing countries consider environmental sustainability at the building design stage. Therefore, using Zambia as a case study, this study examined the extent to which infrastructure design teams in a developing country consider environmental sustainability at the design stage. Design/methodology/approach The study used a qualitative research approach using structured interviews because there are hardly any studies which have explored the extent to which designers incorporate environmental sustainability in infrastructure designs in developing countries. The data is analysed thematically using the ATLAS.ti software. Findings The results show that environmental sustainability is not an important design consideration because it is secondary to functional, technical and aesthetic considerations. Environmental considerations are also made in an ad hoc manner and when it is cost-effective for the project. Regulatory requirements pertaining to environmental protection are adhered to without any cost considerations. It was, therefore, theorised that building design teams in developing countries make technical, functional and aesthetic consideration during the infrastructure design stage ahead of environmental considerations. Originality/value There is a paucity of studies that have investigated whether building infrastructure designers consider issues of environmental sustainability at the design stage in developing countries. The findings have practical implications on how developing countries can foster environmental sustainability at the design stage and avoid generating a building infrastructure stock that will require environmental resilience adaptation in the future.

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Infrastructure design stage considerations for environmental sustainability in Zambia

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Chabala

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JEDT

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“…Systemic tipping points in culture, education and policy processes are largely dependent on the role played by human information and knowledge systems (HIKS; Tàbara & Chabay, 2013;van der Leeuw & Folke, 2021) and normative values (Horcea-Milcu et al, 2019;Jacobson et al, 2020); and as argued by Nyborg et al (2016), tipping points can also be understood as the moments in which vicious circles in collective behaviour turn into positive ones, e.g., by a change of social norms and perceptions, which in turn can be induced by deliberate policies or the role of minority groups reaching a critical mass (Centola et al, 2018). Justice in particular is also considered a key driver for sustainability transformations and a crucial component to understand radical shifts in power dynamics regarding gender, ethnicity youth inclusion or the social recognition of disadvantaged groups (Allen et al, 2019;Blythe et al, 2018;Ziervogel et al, 2017) and it is also of especial significance in energy transitions research (Cronin et al, 2021;Doyon, 2019;Patterson et al, 2018;Bouzarovski & Simcock, 2017). And in this regard, justice is both a driver and an outcome of positive tipping points.…”

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Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations

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Mangalagiu,

Frantal

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Springer Climate

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A crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy usage of SETPs applied to accelerate structural regional sustainability transformations faces three key challenges: (I) integrating theoretical and empirical contributions from diverse social and ecological sciences, together with complexity theory (II) designing open transdisciplinary assessment processes able to represent multiple qualities of systemic change and enable regionally situated transformative capacities, and (III) moving away from one-directional metaphors of social change, or static or homogeneous conceptions of individual agency and single equilibrium in energy transitions; and instead, focus on understanding the conditions and capacities for the emergence of systemic transformations and regenerative processes across multiple levels and forms of agency. We refer to these complex and place-situated processes as learning to enable regional transformative emergence.

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“…Extraction operations leave their mark on the soil, yet most of the time there are few if any redistributive advantages for the communities that live in the regions where extraction occurs. In addition, the mining of key minerals such as copper, cobalt, and lithium has been shown to be associated to acts of violence, conflict, and violations of human rights (Cronin et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration

2024

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Embedding justice in the 1.5°C transition: A transdisciplinary research agenda

Cited by 16 publications

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Infrastructure design stage considerations for environmental sustainability in Zambia

Infrastructure design stage considerations for environmental sustainability in Zambia

Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations

Handbook of Regional Cooperation and Integration

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