How Can Transformative Sustainability Research Benefit From Integrating Insights From Psychology?

Bruhn, Thomas

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.676989

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“…As Dayna Baumeister (2014) explained, "The real ideal is to create a biomimetic culture that looks to nature for advice in all endeavors " (p. 69). Changes in mindset and assumptions are challenging to achieve (Bruhn, 2021). Consequently, respect for nature must be at the inception of any initiative that embraces biomimetic leadership.…”

Section: Respectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetic Leadership: Core Beliefs for Sustainable Organizations

Somoza-Norton

Cárdenas²,

Pabigian³

et al. 2023

JoE

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Biomimetics is the science of applying nature-inspired designs and processes to human engineering and social innovation in order to solve complex problems. Emulating life’s blueprints and patterns, chemical processes, and ecosystem strategies leads to sustainable and regenerative solutions for a biosphere able to support all life on our planet. In a similar vein, Biomimetic Leadership encourages 21st century leaders to rediscover the value of nature, apply life’s design principles, and utilize biomimetic thinking for the sake of improving organizations. Four core beliefs—Respect, Relate, Reflect, and Replicate—provide the foundation for Biomimetic Leadership as a new type of leadership. Each belief is a source of inspiration and offers insights into a hands-on approach to leading in an era of unprecedented environmental and economic concerns. Educating leaders for Biomimetic Leadership is a challenge that must be addressed by organizations with the objective of reaching equality, and by doing so, focusing on incorporating the four core beliefs described in this paper.

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Section: Respectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetic Leadership: Core Beliefs for Sustainable Organizations

Somoza-Norton

Cárdenas²,

Pabigian³

et al. 2023

JoE

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“…To implement these approaches suitably, and particularly to ensure that sustainability science can continue to develop towards an integrative science in terms of appropriately supporting policy and societies in specific sustainability transformation contexts and linking knowledge with action [38], transformations in research processes and the science system in general will also be necessary, not least as an improved basis for sustainability-related education [74][75][76][77].…”

Section: Sustainability Researchmentioning

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Ways towards Transformation—Conceptual Approaches and Challenges

Hennen,

Kopfmüller,

Maia

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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This Special Issue brings together three fields of problem-oriented research, all addressing the current challenges of our society from different perspectives and respective research traditions, namely: technology assessment (TA), responsible research and innovation (RRI), and sustainability research. In this introductory paper, we point out that these approaches, nevertheless, face similar challenges observing and shaping the current transitions of our society. Conceptual and methodological commonalities and differences in the three approaches comprise issues of normativity in research activities, the interference with democratic decision-making processes, methods and approaches to cope with the expectations of society as well as dealing with the uncertainty and complexity of knowledge. The article closes with a reflection on considerations and decisions of relevance as an overarching challenge for all three concepts.

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“…(Thompson Klein 2004;Lang et al 2012;Jahn, Bergmann, and Keil 2012;Lawrence et al 2022;Hirsch Hadorn et al 2006;Felt 2010) These kinds of approaches require integrating aspects of human subjectivity, such as mental models (Meadows 2001;Meadows 1997) and mindsets for example as deep leverage points for systemic change (Abson et al 2017;Manuel-Navarrete 2015;Wamsler and Brink 2018;Kassel and Rimanoczy 2018;Maiteny 2002;Hermes and Rimanoczy 2018). Also in the context of transformative transdisciplinary research, there has been a growing call for reflexive practices as a way to integrate aspects around mindsets and inner transformation (Lang, Wiek, and von Wehrden 2017;Fazey et al 2018;Popa, Guillermin, and Dedeurwaerdere 2015;Bruhn 2021).…”

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Interactive network visualization on the integration of mindsets and sustainability – creating conditions for emergence through a relational narrative

Bruhn

Meier

Lawrence

2022

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Transdisciplinary research processes often involve the integration of knowledge and stakeholders from various backgrounds. Here, we introduce the story of the research project AMA (A Mindset for the Anthropocene) on the role of mindsets in the context of sustainability and present an interactive visualization tool that we developed for stakeholder mapping and research communication. Through this platform, we provide access and navigation to everyone interested in this field of research and we have simultaneously created a channel for all stakeholders to co-create content. Here, we describe the design and functionalities of the platform and the participatory way it was developed as part of our stakeholder engagement. We discuss upon how such a design allows for reflection of potential biases in transdisciplinary research processes and simultaneously catalyzing self-organization in stakeholder networks.

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How Can Transformative Sustainability Research Benefit From Integrating Insights From Psychology?

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Biomimetic Leadership: Core Beliefs for Sustainable Organizations

Biomimetic Leadership: Core Beliefs for Sustainable Organizations

Ways towards Transformation—Conceptual Approaches and Challenges

Interactive network visualization on the integration of mindsets and sustainability – creating conditions for emergence through a relational narrative

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