Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems

Dorninger, Christian; Abson, David J.; Apetrei, Cristina I.; Derwort, Pim; Ives, Christopher D.; Klaniecki, Kathleen; Lam, David P. M.; Langsenlehner, Maria; Riechers, Maraja; Spittler, Nathalie; Wehrden, Henrik von

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106570

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“…In sustainability transformations research there is a growing interest in understanding how shallow and deep interventions occur and interact in different contexts (Fischer and Riechers 2019). Current sustainability interventions often target the shallower LP, a common strategy adopted by policy makers and managers as they are easier to address despite their limited potential for transformative change (Abson et al 2017;Dorninger et al 2020). Our results show a different tendency for the environmental management projects involving indigenous peoples as their main actor.…”

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Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective

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Jiménez-Aceituno

Torres-Torres

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Ecosystems and People

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Indigenous peoples are key actors for environmental management because they hold valuable indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for the sustainable stewardship of nature. However, the consideration of ILK in environmental management is still limited. We explore how environmental government institutions in Colombia have involved indigenous communities in 2212 environmental management projects between 2004 and 2015. Only 1% of these projects involved indigenous peoples as main actors. We applied the Leverage Points (LP) perspective in a content analysis to identify 'where' and 'how' these projects promote transformative changes within indigenous territories. Moreover, we investigated the interactions between projects targeting shallow and deep LP using cluster analysis. Our results show that these projects mainly seek to improve the well-being of indigenous peoples and consider ILK in their interventions, which suggests changes in deep LP. Additionally, these projects usually combined interventions targeting both shallow and deep LP while using ILK to improve environmental management practices (e.g., Life Plans) and developing participatory land-use planning in the indigenous territories. We argue that the involvement of ILK in environmental management can lead to stronger human-nature connectedness and thus to more successful conservation policies. However, this involvement is still at an early stage in Colombia.

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confidence: 79%

Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective

Ayala

Jiménez-Aceituno

Torres-Torres

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“…A leverage points perspective helps to better understand how shallow and deep changes interact at different levels of systemic depth-describing how one type of change in a system precipitates another (Fischer and Riechers 2019). Deep leverage points for sustainability transformation are often neglected in research (Dorninger et al 2020). Our preliminary analysis suggests that export-oriented, industrial systems erode landscape values at multiple levels of systemic depth, in at least three dimensions (ecological, socialecological, and social).…”

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The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

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Context The global trend of landscape simplification for industrial agriculture is known to cause losses in biodiversity and ecosystem service diversity. Despite these problems being widely known, status quo trajectories driven by global economic growth and changing diets continue to lead to further landscape simplification. Objectives In this perspective article, we argue that landscape simplification has negative consequences for a range of relational values, affecting the socialecological relationships between people and nature, as well as the social relationships among people. A focus Keywords Agricultural intensification Á Diversified farming Á Human-nature connections Á Landscape sustainability science Á Smallholder farming Á Socialecological systems Maraja Riechers and Joern Fischer have equally contributed to the development of this paper and can be contacted as corresponding authors.

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“…We applied the leverage points perspective (Meadows 1999;Abson et al 2017;Fischer and Riechers 2019;Dorninger et al 2020) to better understand the transformative potential of participatory collective farming activities on HNC from a qualitative perspective. According to Manlosa et al (2019), we defined leverage points as domains for interventions that can result in observable changes within a system.…”

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Participatory collective farming as a leverage point for fostering human-nature connectedness

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García‐Llorente

Portilla

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Human-nature connectedness is key to foster environmental and socio-cultural sustainability in agricultural landscapes since it promotes the establishment of belonging, stewardship, and connections to nature. Cooperation, collective action, and the role of women at sustainable agroecological practices could be leverage points in which small interventions may hold great potential for system transformation. We analyse the different types of human-nature connectedness mediated by the Agrolab participatory collective farming initiative running in Madrid (Spain). Our results described and quantified a participatory collective farming initiative using the leverage point perspective, and identified factors explaining nature relatedness of participants (i.e. social importance of agricultural landscapes, linkages with farming activities, time spent outdoors, gender and a negative relationship with the rural residence). We found that women showed a stronger and broader worldview on the philosophical arguments about their connection with nature, while men identified themselves and nature through more cognitive responses. Our results give indication of participatory collecting farming as a leverage point to foster human-nature connectedness. Finally, we discussed how participatory collective farming activities are suitable for introducing nature into people's daily lives and may help to identify pathways towards a stronger human-nature connectedness.

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Leverage points for sustainability transformation: a review on interventions in food and energy systems

Cited by 102 publications

References 42 publications

Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective

Indigenous and local knowledge in environmental management for human-nature connectedness: a leverage points perspective

The erosion of relational values resulting from landscape simplification

Participatory collective farming as a leverage point for fostering human-nature connectedness

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