Relational approaches to sustainability transformations: walking together in a world of many worlds

S West, LJ Haider, T Hertz… - Ecosystems and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Transformations to sustainability require alternatives to the paradigms, practices, and
policies that have generated social-ecological destruction and the Anthropocene. In …

Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach

J Böhme, EM Spreitzer, C Wamsler - Sustainability Science, 2024 - Springer
Scholars and practitioners are urgently highlighting the need to apply a relational approach
to effectively address societal crises. At the same time, little is known about the associated …

Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science

M Schlüter, T Hertz, M Mancilla García, T Banitz… - Ambio, 2024 - Springer
When reasoning about causes of sustainability problems and possible solutions,
sustainability scientists rely on disciplinary-based understanding of cause–effect relations …

The relational nature of citizen science

K Moon, S Yates, CT Callaghan… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most citizen science research inherently separates the observer (citizen science participant)
from the observation (eg data point), placing artificial boundaries around what matters and …

Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: Lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858 …

IJ Sutherland, K Copes-Gerbitz, L Parrott… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context Many landscapes are constrained into pathways featuring deforestation, loss of
biodiversity, and rising mega-disturbances due to legacies and feedbacks preserved in …

Science with society: Challenges of early‐stage researchers engaging with transdisciplinary research in sustainability science

K Thapa, WJV Vermeulen, P Deutz - Sustainable development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing social and ecological crises create urgency in academia and elsewhere to
devise actionable problem‐solving knowledge to tackle sustainability challenges …

From situated knowledges to situated modelling: a relational framework for simulation modelling

A Klein, K Unverzagt, R Alba, JF Donges… - Ecosystems and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we extend the use of a relational approach to simulation modelling, a widely
used knowledge practice in sustainability science. Among modellers, there is awareness …

Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science: embracing the elephant in the room

A Lazurko, LJ Haider, T Hertz, S West… - Sustainability …, 2024 - Springer
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability
challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research …

Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research

T Hertz, R Martínez-Peña, S Radosavljevic… - Ecology and …, 2024 - diva-portal.org
Understanding causation in social-ecological systems (SES) is indispensable for promoting
sustainable outcomes. However, the study of such causal relations is challenging because …

Exploring a process-relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science

MM García, C Abunge, SO Bandeira… - People and …, 2024 - search.proquest.com
As sustainability scientists increasingly put forward the relevance of process-relational
approaches to make sense of social-ecological phenomena, an inquiry on which methods …