Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict

Spoor, Max

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“…Individuals draw on these narratives to understand and explain what happens in the world and their interactions with it and with others. The dynamic relationship of mental models and emergent, shared narratives, which we will refer to as "meta-narratives, " about a problem domain legitimize and justify particular individual and collective action, and, when informing processes of governance, can be codified in institutions (Spoor et al, 2004;Pahl-Wostl et al, 2010). It is through the translation of cognitive models to meta-narratives and then into to action and policy, that meta-narratives, as intangible constructs, become materialized as part of the physical world (Eakin et al, 2017).…”

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Mental Models, Meta-Narratives, and Solution Pathways Associated With Socio-Hydrological Risk and Response in Mexico City

Eakin

Siqueiros-García

Hernández-Aguilar

et al. 2019

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Cities are far more than the people who reside within them, the activities that drive urban dynamism, and hard and soft infrastructure that create urban structure and form. Cities are also composed of stories-narratives-that emerge from the experiences, ideas, knowledge and agendas of urban residents, administrators, and individuals with stakes in the city's future. These narratives collectively not only reflect how the material landscape is perceived and socially and culturally appropriated, but also, by motivating and rationalizing human actions, contribute to shaping that material world, including the behavior and attitudes of humans within it. Here, we explore the narratives and associated solution pathways that have emerged and consolidated around the issue of water scarcity and flooding in the megalopolis of Mexico City. Effective and sustainable management of water resources has long been considered essential to the city's future, yet many scholars consider the city "stuck" in path-dependent development trajectories that seems unable to address pervasive social inequity, infrastructure fragility, and the city's precarious supplies. Through mental model data elicited from qualitative interviews and workshops with a cross section of urban stakeholders, we identify dominant narratives that articulate distinct causal premises and consequences associated with water related risk in the city. We juxtapose these narratives with the current and proposed solution pathways proposed by the interviewees. Our analysis demonstrates how, on the one hand, dominant narratives may quell innovation, and on the other, narratives collectively can foster the seeds of urban sustainability transformation.

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Mental Models, Meta-Narratives, and Solution Pathways Associated With Socio-Hydrological Risk and Response in Mexico City

Eakin

Siqueiros-García

Hernández-Aguilar

et al. 2019

Front. Sustain. Cities

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The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions

Lubchenco

Haugan

2023

The Blue Compendium

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The ocean is the ultimate commons. Sustainability narratives now recognise what science continues to demonstrate—that ecosystems on land, rivers, deltas, estuaries and the ocean are intrinsically linked (Mathews et al. 2019). There is a growing consensus that the prosperity and well-being of humanity depends on the health of the ocean environment, including the ocean-climate nexus (OECD 2016; IPCC 2019). Critical indicators reveal that business as usual is going to result in the collapse of key biophysical ocean functions, with major implications for the global economy and societies (IPCC 2019). Science has demonstrated that these close systemic interlinkages in and among ecological, economic and social systems require solutions which are responsive and flexible, robust yet elastic (SDG 2019).

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Defining Features for Resilience Governance

2021

Legal Design for Social-Ecological Resilience

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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict

Cited by 6 publications

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Mental Models, Meta-Narratives, and Solution Pathways Associated With Socio-Hydrological Risk and Response in Mexico City

Mental Models, Meta-Narratives, and Solution Pathways Associated With Socio-Hydrological Risk and Response in Mexico City

The Ocean Transition: What to Learn from System Transitions

Defining Features for Resilience Governance

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