Scale limits to sustainability: Transdisciplinary evidence from three Danish cases

Ramiller, Alex; Schmidt, Patrick

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2017.10.001

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“…The location of the incineration plant features significant urban potential due to its close proximity to a new residential area, the Opera House, and the Queen's Palace [16]. The facility exemplifies the challenge of sustainability in political and economic global interdependence [27]. Launched in 2017, the waste incinerator was designed with a ski slope integrated into the architecture on the roof of the facility, which engages the community and draws public attention [23].…”

Section: World Incinerator Architecture Pro-environmental and Pro-soc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental and Architectural Solutions in the Problem of Waste Incineration Plants in Poland: A Comparative Analysis

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Thermal waste transformation plants (waste incineration plants) are a strong architectural accent in the existing site context. They often function as power plants or combined heat and power plants, producing heat and/or electricity by recovering energy from flue gases. The main objective of this study was to demonstrate the relationship between the architectural quality and protection of the natural environment through the technological solutions applied. The indirect aims of the study include the demonstration of the educational message conveyed through architectural and environmental solutions. The relationships defined by the objective were verified in comparative studies of eight operating waste incineration plants in Poland, located in: Bialystok, Bydgoszcz, Konin, Krakow, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, and Warsaw. The results were presented in three problem areas: (i) architectural quality, (ii) environmental solutions, and (iii) educational message. The results of the study led to the following conclusions: (i) waste incineration plants operating in Poland show a relationship between the architectural quality and broadly understood pro-environmental solutions, (ii) and all waste incineration plants operating in Poland show educational solutions.

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Section: World Incinerator Architecture Pro-environmental and Pro-soc...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental and Architectural Solutions in the Problem of Waste Incineration Plants in Poland: A Comparative Analysis

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“…The example of the upstream-downstream challenges facing WRUAs in Kenya brings us to the third theme: scale. A debate is emerging about extending, linking or merging successful NbS case studies -often described as "scaling-up" (Fastenrath et al 2020;Ramiller and Schmidt 2018). Despite increasing interest in mainstreaming NbS (Nesshöver et al 2017;Wamsler et al 2017), little is known about the mechanisms and conditions necessary for scaling them up in practice.…”

Section: Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Misinterpretation of scale can produce suboptimal outcomes for the resilience and sustainability of human-environmental systems (Fastenrath et al 2020). Particularly challenging are the social scale limits such as adjusting to and/or the introduction of newly-established institutional arrangements to drive and coordinate socio-ecological change (Ramiller and Schmidt 2018). The two main components of scale which are mostly emphasized among physical scientists are time and space.…”

Section: Scalementioning

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Spotlight on social equity, finance and scale: Promises and pitfalls of nature-based solutions

Barquet¹,

Leander²,

Green³

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Human activity has modified and deteriorated natural ecosystems in ways that reduce resilience and exacerbate environmental and climate problems. Physical measures to protect, manage and restore these ecosystems that also address societal challenges in sustainable ways and bring biodiversity benefits are sometimes referred to as “nature-based solutions” (NBS). For example, reducing deforestation and restoring forests is a major opportunity for climate mitigation, while protecting or restoring coastal habitats can mitigate damage to coastal areas from natural hazard events, in addition to potentially providing co-benefits related to livelihood, recreation, and biodiversity. There is now an impetus to shift towards greater deployment of nature-based solutions. Not only do they offer an alternative to conventional fossil fuel-based or hard infrastructure solutions but, if implemented correctly, they also hold great promise for achieving multiple goals, benefits and synergies. These include climate mitigation and resilience; nature and biodiversity protection; and economic and social gains. 2020 saw an explosion in publications about NBS, which have contributed to filling many of the knowledge gaps that existed around their effectiveness and factors for their success. These publications have also highlighted the knowledge gaps that remain and have revealed a lack of critical reflection on the social and economic sustainability aspects of NBS. Building on these gaps, we decided to launch this mini-series of four briefs to provoke a more nuanced discussion that highlights not only the potential benefits, but also the potential risks and trade-offs of NBS. The purpose is not to downplay the importance of NBS for biodiversity, ecosystems, and coastal mitigation and adaptation, but to ensure that we establish a dialogue about ways to overcome these challenges while leaving no one behind.

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“…This paper is based on the intuition, derived from recent advances in the geography of transitions Ramiller and Schmidt, 2017), that the high degree of stability and lock-in that hinders the destabilization of incumbent industries has much to do with the ways in which they are embedded on regional and national scales. We therefore combine the Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (Penna and Geels, 2012) with insights from the geography of transitions to answer the following research questions:…”

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Global pressures vs. local embeddedness: the de- and restabilization of the Estonian oil shale industry in response to climate change (1995–2016)

Sillak

Kanger

2020

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

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Scale limits to sustainability: Transdisciplinary evidence from three Danish cases

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

Environmental and Architectural Solutions in the Problem of Waste Incineration Plants in Poland: A Comparative Analysis

Environmental and Architectural Solutions in the Problem of Waste Incineration Plants in Poland: A Comparative Analysis

Spotlight on social equity, finance and scale: Promises and pitfalls of nature-based solutions

Global pressures vs. local embeddedness: the de- and restabilization of the Estonian oil shale industry in response to climate change (1995–2016)

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