Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice

Boillat, Sébastien; Martin, Adrian; Adams, Timothy; Daniel, Desiree; Llopis, Jorge C.; Zepharovich, Elena; Oberlack, Christoph; Sonderegger, Gabi; Bottazzi, Patrick; Corbera, Esteve; Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika; Pascual, Unai

doi:10.1080/1747423x.2020.1737257

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“…In contemporary land dynamics, actors mobilize multiple visions of justice. The conventional notion of the nation-state as the arbiter of justice, for instance, has been challenged by globalized supply chains and private governance systems (153,154). Further, as in other sustainability domains, social characteristics mediate experiences of environmental harms and benefits (155,156).…”

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Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Meyfroidt

Brémond

Ryan

et al. 2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help to explain the challenges of achieving sustainability in land use and thus also point toward solutions. The 10 facts are as follows: 1) Meanings and values of land are socially constructed and contested; 2) land systems exhibit complex behaviors with abrupt, hard-to-predict changes; 3) irreversible changes and path dependence are common features of land systems; 4) some land uses have a small footprint but very large impacts; 5) drivers and impacts of land-use change are globally interconnected and spill over to distant locations; 6) humanity lives on a used planet where all land provides benefits to societies; 7) land-use change usually entails trade-offs between different benefits—"win–wins" are thus rare; 8) land tenure and land-use claims are often unclear, overlapping, and contested; 9) the benefits and burdens from land are unequally distributed; and 10) land users have multiple, sometimes conflicting, ideas of what social and environmental justice entails. The facts have implications for governance, but do not provide fixed answers. Instead they constitute a set of core principles which can guide scientists, policy makers, and practitioners toward meeting sustainability challenges in land use.

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Section: A Large Proportion Of Land Globally Has Multiple Overlappingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

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Brémond

Ryan

et al. 2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Plural valuation (PV hereafter) focuses on eliciting and integrating the diverse values of nature into decision-making and action, with a holistic vision. It has increasingly been advocated for addressing the biodiversity crisis and specifically to respond to the need for environmental justice (Aragão et al, 2016;Rusch et al, 2017;Boillat et al, 2020). PV can be generally defined as a process that assesses the diversity of values that are attributed to nature in a given society, and how these values relate to each other, with the aim of bringing such plurality into decision making (Rincon-Ruiz et al, 2019).…”

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Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

Zafra‐Calvo

Balvanera

Pascual

et al. 2020

Global Environmental Change

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Plural valuation is about eliciting the diverse values of nature articulated by different stakeholders in order to inform decision making towards achieving more equitable and sustainable outcomes. We explore what approaches align with plural valuation on the ground, as well as how different social-ecological contexts play a role in translating plural valuation into decisions and outcomes. Based on a co-constructed analytical approach relying upon empirical information from ten cases from the Global South, we find that plural valuation contributes to equitable and sustainable outcomes if the valuation process: 1) is based on participatory elicitation approaches; 2) is framed with a clear action-oriented purpose; 3) provides space for marginalized stakeholders to articulate their values in ways that can be included in decisions; 4) is used as a tool to identify and help reconcile different cognitive models about human-nature relations held by different stakeholders; and 5) fosters open communication and collaboration between stakeholders. We also find that power asymmetries can hinder plural valuation. As interest and support for undertaking plural valuation grows, a deeper understanding is needed regarding how plural valuation may adapt to different purposes, approaches, and socialecological contexts to contributing to social equity and sustainability. Highlights• Plural valuation (PV) reveals diverse values of nature held by different stakeholders • PV's purpose, approach and context shape the achievement of equitable and sustainable outcomes • Participation, action-oriented purposes, inclusion of marginalized stakeholders and reconciliation of different cognitive models are crucial PV components • Power asymmetries can severely constrain PV's potential, which is strengthened by collaboration.

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“…The associated criteria call the attention to distant interactions and demand that the right to food, the access and control over productive resources, livelihood opportunities of distant actors, or the prospects of future generations must not be violated, undermined or disregarded when taking decisions. Particular attention is paid to the right to food in faraway places, who are indirectly connected through trade and power relations (Boillat et al, 2020), and to future generations (De Schutter, 2014) who will live with our legacy without being able to have a say in our decisions. Transparency in food systems is a crucial requirement for having a basis for decision making (Pereira, 2020).…”

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1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

Kortetmäki

2021

Justice and Food Security in a Changing Climate

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Both the planning of EurSafe2021 and the origin of this book were profoundly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic, and we are extremely pleased to see that so many contributions still arrived. We would like to thank all authors for sharing their work and insights and all reviewers for their muchappreciated expertise on the vast range of topics. We are grateful for the support and encouragement received from the EurSafe board and Svenja Springer, in preparing this conference despite the challenging circumstances. Our special thanks go to

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Why telecoupling research needs to account for environmental justice

Cited by 25 publications

References 80 publications

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Ten facts about land systems for sustainability

Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South

1. Food justice, food security, and climate engineering

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