Titel:	The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability
Autor(en):	Pahl-Wostl, Claudia Odume, Oghenekaro Nelson Scholz, Geeske De Villiers, Ancois Amankwaa, Ebenezer Forkuo
ORCID des Autors:	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5220-3254 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2357-2410 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2294-6521
Zusammenfassung:	Path-breaking transformative change is needed in human-environment relations to move towards more sustainable development trajectories at local, national and global scales. Crises may trigger transformative change and learning in the short and in the long term. However, in particular, a short-term response to crises may also be reactive, strengthening established unsustainable practices and further perpetuating vulnerability and inequality rather than supporting transformative change towards a more sustainable path. To understand the nature and response to a crisis in the context of sustainability transformations, this paper elaborates on the following aspects of a crisis: What are the characteristics of a crisis? What and who shapes the narrative(s) of a crisis? What and who shapes the nature of the response to a crisis? Do responses to crises trigger higher levels of learning? Conceptual synthesis is complemented with an exploratory comparative analysis of the Cape Town water crisis and of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa. To this end the paper analyzes the interplay between mobilizing individual, collective and relational agency and navigating and transforming power relations to challenge and profit from already weakened unsustainable structures. This approach proves to be promising to understand the role of crises in catalysing and supporting transformative learning to eventually replace unsustainable structures.
Bibliografische Angaben:	Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Oghenekaro Nelson Odume, Geeske Scholz, Ancois De Villiers & Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa (2023): The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability, Ecosystems and People, 19:1
URL:	https://doi.org/10.48693/469 https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-2024020210445
Schlagworte:	Transformational learning; crises; sustainability transformation; COVID-19 pandemic; drought; Cape Town
Erscheinungsdatum:	26-Mär-2023
Lizenzbezeichnung:	Attribution 4.0 International
URL der Lizenz:	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publikationstyp:	Einzelbeitrag in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift [Article]
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	FB01 - Hochschulschriften Open-Access-Publikationsfonds

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