A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
Review article, 2021
Sustainability science needs to better mobilize a range of knowledge to support transformative change. This Perspective contends that such transformative, action-oriented knowledge emerges from integrating multiple kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing. Sustainability science needs more systematic approaches for mobilizing knowledge in support of interventions that may bring about transformative change. In this Perspective, we contend that action-oriented knowledge for sustainability emerges when working in integrated ways with the many kinds of knowledge involved in the shared design, enactment and realization of change. The pluralistic and integrated approach we present rejects technocratic solutions to complex sustainability challenges and foregrounds individual and social learning. We argue that research institutions devoted to sustainability should focus more on creating the conditions for experimenting with multiple kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing to foster sustainability-oriented learning.
Author
Guido Caniglia
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research
C. Luederitz
McGill University
University of Waterloo
T. von Wirth
Erasmus University Rotterdam
I Fazey
University of York
B. Martin-Lopez
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
K. Hondrila
University of Luxembourg
A. Koenig
University of Luxembourg
H. von Wehrden
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Niko Alexander Schäpke
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Physical Resource Theory
M. D. Laubichler
Arizona State University
Santa Fe Institute
Max Planck Society
D. J. Lang
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Nature Sustainability
23989629 (eISSN)
Vol. 4 2 93-100Subject Categories
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Business Administration
Information Systemes, Social aspects
DOI
10.1038/s41893-020-00616-z