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I've heard this week @ESG_Project #ESG2021 that Leverage Points are mechanistic. I’d like to offer a rebuttal: LPs help us to integrate knowledge framings and grapple with complexity in systems change for #transformation 1/9
There are high profile papers (I wont link here!) that have reduced LPs to a mechanistic understanding. These are well cited and pop up everywhere (and make me sad inside). But that’s a limitation of the use, NOT the concept itself. 2/9
Here are some alternatives that deal with complexity and help us to ‘dance’ with systems, as Meadows encouraged us to do.donellameadows.org/archives/danci… 3/9
Our (@hengenlang)entire special issue grapples with complexity. Our editorial would be a good place to start and locate more papers!. We give you 9 reflective questions to dance with. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 4/9
Within this issue, you could read Davelaar, taking a critical look at framings of leverage points as a metaphor, and reshaping our systems metaphors – from icebergs to onions. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 5/9
And @AnnasQuestions paper from a practitioner perspective, where she absolutely is not reductive, but grapples with how framings help deal with complexity in practice. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 6/9
In dealing with complexity, leverage points, far from being mechanistic, can be a useful boundary object or structuring framework to bring together perspectives, problem framings and knowledge types @MarajaRiechers @ideas4sust besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… 7/9
It can also be a useful way to unpack interventions or problem framings, and consider how they fit within dominant systems framings, or seek fundamental change @StephenWoroniec @JamilaHaider @SannaStalhammar . tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 8/9
I suspect there is something ironic to be said about epistemic justice and how the most visible e.g.s of LPs in academic literature are the reductionist/mechanical applications. But I implore you to resist writing off the concept on this basis... please. 9/9

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Sep 6, 2021
Thread 🧵 of recent #transformation relevant work. Today on problem framings and knowledge types for transformative change. #ClimateAction #BiodiversityCrisis 1/11 Image
Here is @SalilBenegal @prof_mirya 's paper on the link between sexism and climate denial and policy blocking. link.springer.com/article/10.100… 2/11
“The consistent findings point to the central role that system justifying beliefs about gender play in shaping attitudes about climate change in the USA” Addressing climate change means engaging beyond the ‘problem framing’ of climate change. 3/11
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Jul 26, 2021
SOOOO many good papers giving knowledge about #Sustainability #Transformations in the last week+. Here are some highlights: We are talking POWER in governance and science today. 🧵 1/14
First up, @mmbuchs gives an excellent comparison of universal basic income and universal basic services according to their compatibility with planetary boundaries; needs satisfaction; fair distribution; & democratic governance. 2/14 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Milena concludes with “The sustainable welfare performance of both UBI and UBS is likely to be shaped by institutional contexts within which they operate”. Governance and decision-making processes are fundamental in transformations. 3/14
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Jul 2, 2021
Who wants some highlights of research published this week on transformations to sustainability? All of us – yippee 🥳! Here we are then 🧵1/10
Starting with @JefimVogel, @JKSteinberger et al., looking at how countries are meeting human needs, and their energy use. Economic growth is not necessary to meet human needs; rather we need public systems that provide these needs at low energy use sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 2/10
This is a fantastic illustration of what a transformed social and economic system looks like, and why we want it! Which means we all want to know how to get there. Which is where the next paper fits in… 3/10
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Jun 1, 2020
This is a thread about #racism in sustainability academia. I started Saturday thinking that I shouldn't raise this with my research group here in CZ. It felt distant. But I did some reading, and found (at least) 6 angles we need to educate ourselves on 1/8
1. Racism in the education system that prevents people joining us in academic research. For CZ, we could ask why, if Roma comprise 2-3% of the population here, we don't have Roma colleagues. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… 2/8
2. Environmental racism. How environmental problems are race problems. If we don't acknowledge this, how can we find solutions? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100… 3/8
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