Micro-solutions to global problems: understanding social processes to eradicate energy poverty and build climate-resilient livelihoods

Tàbara, J. David; Takama, Takeshi; Mishra, Manoj Kumar; Hermanus, Lauren; Andrew, Sean Khaya; Díaz, Patricia Jaramillo; Ziervogel, Gina; Lemkow, Louis

doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02448-z

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“…Finally, three papers address the questions of which kind of enabling environment is needed for WWS to emerge, and what is the potential for scaling WWS. Tàbara et al (2019) examine a number of "micro" WWS in South Africa, Indonesia and India, addressing the question of what aspects of the social and cultural context have allowed these solutions to emerge. The authors find that the global Sustainable Development Goals may mean very little at the local level, especially when very pressing and basic needs need to be fulfilled.…”

Section: Comparing Win-win Strategies Across Cases At the Local Levelmentioning

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Transformative narratives for climate action

Hinkel¹,

Mangalagiu

Bisaro

et al. 2020

Climatic Change

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Arguably, a doom and gloom narrative, which emphasizes problems, costs and adverse impacts, is the most dominant narrative about climate change. Narratives are socially constructed "stories" that make sense of events and phenomena, integrating them into worldviews (van der Leeuw 2019). By doing so, narratives shape preferences and opinions giving direction to human action (Fløttum and Gjerstad 2017). In the context of climate change, it is widely acknowledged that narratives, rather than climate information per se, play the decisive role in motivating or demotivating climate action (Chapman et al. 2017; Fløttum and Gjerstad 2017; Hulme 2009; Moser 2010). Consequently, there has been intense debate about whether the doom and gloom narrative is counterproductive for climate action as fear may demotivate climate action (Chapman et al. 2017). Conversely, narratives can also empower people to act upon problems such as climate change. In this context, Tàbara et al. (2018), for example, put forward the notion of transformative narratives, which are bottom-up narratives that tell a positive and engaging story, articulate a vision of "where we want to go" and provide solutions for attaining this vision, rather than articulating problems to avoid. This special issue focuses on transformative narratives for climate action that highlight economic and other opportunities in climate action. The narratives have been co-developed and empirically validated in the GREEN-WIN project, an international transdisciplinary research collaboration supported by the EU from

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Section: Comparing Win-win Strategies Across Cases At the Local Levelmentioning

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Transformative narratives for climate action

Hinkel¹,

Mangalagiu

Bisaro

et al. 2020

Climatic Change

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“…[1] Cost-reduction-driven production input-related mitigation WWS Real-world example: a construction company employs an SPP for the construction of a building. Such an SPP has been produced, for example, in India, where fly-ash bricks are cheaper to make and produce less waste and fewer GHG emissions compared with traditional clay bricks (Tàbara et al 2019).…”

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“…[2] Cost-reduction-driven production input-related adaptation WWS Real-world example: Illova Sugar, Africa's largest sugar producer, purchases additional production inputs beyond its own estates from farmers that have made their production climate resilient through conducting climate risk assessment, supported by a partnership between the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Facility and Illova Sugar, and through taking adaptation measures, such as individual flood protection measures. Here, the adaptation product is upstream in the valueconsumption chain, encompassing adaptation goods (flood protection infrastructure) and services (climate risk assessment) that reduce climate risk for farmers (see Type [5]), and which can also lower the overall cost of the SPP to the company (Tàbara et al 2019).…”

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A typology for analysing mitigation and adaptation win-win strategies

Meissner¹,

Haas

Hinkel

et al. 2020

Climatic Change

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A sustainability transition in line with achieving global climate goals requires the implementation of win-win strategies (WWS), i.e. socioeconomic activities that enable economic gains while simultaneously contributing to climate change mitigation or adaptation measures. Such strategies are discussed in a variety of scientific communities, such as sustainability science, industrial ecology and symbiosis and circular economy. However, existing analyses of win-win strategies tend to take a systems perspective, while paying less attention to the specific actors and activities, or their interconnections, which are implicated in win-win strategies. Moreover, they hardly address adaptation WWS. To address these gaps and support the identification and enhancement of WWS for entrepreneurs and policy-makers, we propose a typology of WWS based on the concept of a value-consumption chain, which typically connects several producers with at least one consumer of a good or service. A consideration of these connections allows an evaluation of economic effects in a meso-economic perspective. We distinguish 34 different types of WWS of companies, households and the state, for which 23 real-world examples are identified. Further, contrary to prevailing views on the lack of a business case for adaptation, we do identify real-world adaptation WWS, though they remain underrepresented compared with mitigation WWS. Our typology can be used as an entry point for transdisciplinary research integrating assessment of individual transformative socioeconomic activities and highly aggregated approaches assessing, e.g. the macro-economic effects of WWS.

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“…Regardless of the methodological framework adopted, the analysis of the extent of poverty is an important factor when taking measures in the area of social policy. Reducing the poverty in urban and rural through the implementation of effective and inclusive policies and strategies is a major political challenge in each country (Romero et al 2018;Pojar 2018;Adusah-Poku and Takeuchi 2019;Tàbara et al 2019). According to statistical data, in 2017, 112.8 million people in the EU lived in households at risk of poverty or social exclusion (22.4% of the population).…”

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Outline of the Problem of Energy Poverty in Poland – Trend and Extent

Piwowar¹

2020

Hradec Economic Days

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Energy poverty is a social and economic phenomenon that consists in experiencing difficulties in meeting basic energy needs. This paper presents analyses of trends and current status in this respect in Poland. Statistical data of the Central Statistical Office in Poland and Eurostat provided the basis for this study. The analyses were carried out in the period of 2007-2017. The analyses show that an improvement in the extent of poverty and energy exclusion in Poland took place in the investigated period. However, a significant percentage of the population still struggles with problems related to energy poverty, such as maintaining an appropriate air temperature in living quarters and paying for electricity. It is necessary not only to continue to build awareness among local and national authorities and to monitor the situation, but also to create scenarios for the expected increase in electricity prices. Particular attention should be paid to helping the economically weakest households.

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Micro-solutions to global problems: understanding social processes to eradicate energy poverty and build climate-resilient livelihoods

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Transformative narratives for climate action

Transformative narratives for climate action

A typology for analysing mitigation and adaptation win-win strategies

Outline of the Problem of Energy Poverty in Poland – Trend and Extent

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