Beyond Reductionism - Multidisciplinary Insights Approach for an Effective Climate Change and Sustainability Policy

• Autorzy: Andrzej Strzałkowski

Warianty tytułu

Bez redukcjonizmu - podejście wglądu multidyscyplinarnego dla efektywnej polityki klimatycznej i zrównoważonego rozwoju

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Climate change and other sustainability problems represent unprecedented challenges to humanity today. Because of such challenges there is a need for fundamental social changes of current unsustainable society. There is essential advanced interdisciplinary scientific contribution for informing policy interventions. However, so far the state of development of this agenda is definitely insufficient. Scientific and policy discourse concerning climate change and sustainability is dominated by natural sciences, technical, and economic perspectives, while many crucial social sciences, especially sociology, anthropology, and ethnography are marginalized. Unfortunately, development of sustainability science and behavioural insights (behaviorally informed interventions, BIP) do not compensate this cognitive gap which could result in considerable ineffectiveness of current climate change and sustainability policy. From the observation that inconsiderate deepening of integration of various perspectives could lead to dramatic reduction in their explanatory power author moves to potential ways to diminish such threats and simultaneously successfully combining perspectives from different disciplines. Thereby, he proposes Multidisciplinary Insights Approach as a platform for practical collaboration between scientists from different disciplines and as a theoretical approach for developing more balanced and heterogeneous multidisciplinary agenda. The application of MIA was presented with the use of social practice theory, COM-B, and a couple other perspectives on the example of eating practice. This example showed that practice theory could be successfully used in indicating the general targets of interventions while the behavioral COM-B in detailed these interventions - all of these without excessive violations of both paradigms. (original abstract)

Zmiany klimatu i inne problemy zrównoważonego rozwoju reprezentują dziś bezprecedensowe wyzwania dla ludzkości. Z powodu takich wyzwań istnieję potrzeba fundamentalnych zmian współczesnego, niezrównoważonego społeczeństwa. Niezbędny jest zaawansowany, interdyscyplinarny wkład naukowy w celu wsparcia polityk publicznych w tym zakresie. Jednakże, jak dotychczas, stan rozwoju tej naukowej agendy jest zdecydowanie niewystarczający. Naukowy i polityczny dyskurs dotyczący zmian klimatu i zrównoważonego rozwoju jest zdominowany przez nauki przyrodnicze, techniczne i perspektywy ekonomiczne, a jednocześnie wiele kluczowych nauk społecznych, w szczególności socjologii, antropologii i etnografii jest marginalizowanych. Niestety, rozwój nurtu zrównoważonej nauki i podejścia behawioralnego (behawioralnych interwencji publicznych, BIP) nie rekompensuje tej luki poznawczej, której rezultatem może być znaczna nieskuteczność współczesnej polityki klimatycznej i zrównoważonego rozwoju. Z powodu obserwacji, że bezrefleksyjne pogłębianie integracji różnych perspektyw może prowadzić do dramatycznej redukcji ich mocy wyjaśniającej staram się podążyć w kierunki zmniejszenia takich zagrożeń, a jednocześnie z sukcesem wspólnie wykorzystać perspektywy z różnych dyscyplin. Tym samym, proponuję Podejście Multidyscyplinarnego Wglądu jako platformę dla współpracy naukowców reprezentujących różne dyscypliny i podejścia teoretyczne, tak aby rozwinąć bardziej zbalansowaną i zróżnicowaną naukową agendę. Zastosowanie MIA zostało zaprezentowane przy wykorzystaniu teorii praktyk społecznych, COM-B i paru innych perspektyw na przykładzie praktyki jedzenia. Przykład ten pokazał, że teoria praktyk może być z sukcesem wykorzystana do wyznaczania ogólnych celów interwencji podczas gdy behawioralne COM-B do ich uszczegóławiania tych interwencji - wszystko to bez nadmiernego naruszania założeń obu paradygmatów. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Climate policy; Sustainable development; Interdisciplinarity

PL

Polityka klimatyczna; Rozwój zrównoważony; Interdyscyplinarność

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: nr 4
• Strony: 1351--1379

Twórcy

autor

Andrzej Strzałkowski

• University of Warsaw, Poland

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DOI

10.25167/ees.2018.48.10