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The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability Journal Article
Saltelli, Andrea; Benini, Lorenzo; Funtowicz, Silvio; Giampietro, Mario; Kaiser, Matthias; Reinert, Erik; Sluijs, Jeroen P.
In: Environmental Science & Policy, 106 , pp. 87–98, 2020, ISSN: 14629011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Bioeconomics, Circular economy, Controversy studies, Decarbonization, Ethical matrices, Ethics, European environment agency, Food ethics, Green growth, Heterodox economics, Honeybees, Insectageddon, Integrated assessment, Nexus water-energy-food, Non-ricardian economics, Post normal science, Relational ecology, Sensitivity auditing, sustainability, Transitions
@article{Saltelli2020,
title = {The technique is never neutral. How methodological choices condition the generation of narratives for sustainability},
author = {Andrea Saltelli and Lorenzo Benini and Silvio Funtowicz and Mario Giampietro and Matthias Kaiser and Erik Reinert and Jeroen P. Sluijs},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1462901119304721},
doi = {10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.008},
issn = {14629011},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-04-01},
journal = {Environmental Science & Policy},
volume = {106},
pages = {87--98},
abstract = {textcopyright 2020 The Authors How to tackle uncertainties and ensure quality in integrated assessment for sustainability? To what extent does the choice of the methodology condition the narrative produced by the analysis? The present work argues that the two questions are tightly coupled. The technique is never neutral. If we are the tools of our tools, as suggested by Thoreau, then it can also be said that language is not only a vehicle for communication, it is the driver as well. For this reason, in sustainability assessment it is not unusual to discern a close relationship between arguments made and methods adopted. In the present work a set of six reflexive analytical tools \textendash we call them lenses \textendash is suggested which could be pooled to the effect to appraise and improve the quality of integrated assessment and the resulting sustainability narratives, and to alleviate the constraints of the method-argument dependency. None of the lenses is new and each has been used before. Never have they been used together. The lenses are (i) Post-normal science (PNS), (ii) Controversy studies, (iii) Sensitivity auditing, (iv) Bioeconomics, (v) Ethics of science for governance, and (vi) Non-Ricardian economics. The six lenses are illustrated together with a set of case/narratives/arguments. The lenses allow some narratives \textendash or methodologies \textendash to be shown as either implausible or inadequate, and new narratives to be developed to tackle pressing sustainability issues, which expand the horizon of possible strategies for a solution.},
keywords = {Bioeconomics, Circular economy, Controversy studies, Decarbonization, Ethical matrices, Ethics, European environment agency, Food ethics, Green growth, Heterodox economics, Honeybees, Insectageddon, Integrated assessment, Nexus water-energy-food, Non-ricardian economics, Post normal science, Relational ecology, Sensitivity auditing, sustainability, Transitions},
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Constructing food sovereignty in Catalonia: different narratives for transformative action Journal Article
Masso, Marina Di; Zografos, Christos
In: Agriculture and Human Values, 32 (2), pp. 183–198, 2015, ISSN: 0889-048X.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Agricultural Economics, Ethics, Evolutionary Biology, general, History, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
@article{DiMasso2015,
title = {Constructing food sovereignty in Catalonia: different narratives for transformative action},
author = {Marina Di Masso and Christos Zografos},
url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-014-9528-0 http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10460-014-9528-0},
doi = {10.1007/s10460-014-9528-0},
issn = {0889-048X},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-06-01},
journal = {Agriculture and Human Values},
volume = {32},
number = {2},
pages = {183--198},
publisher = {Springer},
abstract = {Food sovereignty can be conceptualized as a political proposal for social change in the field of agri-food relations. However, specific strategies of how to achieve this transformative potential are diverse, and context-dependent. The paper explores this diversity by examining discourses on the food sovereignty construction process in Catalonia. Using Q methodology we have explored visions held by individuals participating in the social movement for food sovereignty, identifying five discourses: activism, anti-purism, self-management, pedagogy, and pragmatism. Key strategies of transformation include social mobilization, institutional negotiation, self-management, education to foster value change, and politics of the possible. The relevance assigned to ideological affinity explains different views on the subject of transformation, particularly regarding the involvement of the administration and the productive sector. As regards transformative strategies, discourses assign differing importance to the role of agency for effecting social transformation, which influences their assessment of individual actions as an effective means for social change. Forms of individualized and classic collective action currently coexist within the Catalan agri-food movement, but such diversity is not acknowledged as an effective alliance towards food sovereignty. Moreover, all discourses agree to a dual definition of food sovereignty, both as a process, that is, as democratization of the decision-making process in the agri-food sector, and as a result, that is, establishing an agri-food model alternative to the neo-liberal one. However, the discourses share an unclear view of democracy as decentralized collective decision-making that does not make explicit how this model should be implemented to achieve social control of the agri-food system.},
keywords = {Agricultural Economics, Ethics, Evolutionary Biology, general, History, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science},
pubstate = {published},
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}
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