Descripción del proyecto
Una investigación innovadora para lograr la transformación hacia la sostenibilidad
El cambio climático es un reto socioecológico fundamental y permanente para la sociedad. Los científicos especializados en sostenibilidad analizan retos ecológicos como el cambio climático para crear intervenciones que contribuyan a resolver estos problemas. Pero a menudo carecemos de los conocimientos necesarios para provocar una transformación positiva en una situación determinada (es decir, conocimientos de transformación). Financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, el equipo del proyecto LEVER pretende desarrollar y aplicar una teoría y una práctica que apoyen la producción de conocimiento transformador. En el proyecto se combinará la investigación transdisciplinar con experimentos de ciencias sociales para investigar los valores como puntos de apoyo para la transformación de la sostenibilidad y crear una teoría integrada de la investigación transformadora. LEVER representa un importante avance en la relación europea entre ciencia y sociedad.
Objetivo
Grand and persistent social-ecological challenges, such as climate change, push forward a rapidly growing discourse on how sustainability science can support society in dealing with today’s global crises. Between studying change and contributing to change, sustainability science seeks both to analytically understand sustainability problems, but also to design interventions that can contribute solution-options to these problems. However, knowledge about how to intervene in order to reach a desirable vision (i.e. transformation knowledge) is typically missing. Especially how to deliberately engage with values as places of intervention (leverage points), as proposed by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, remains a critical knowledge gap. To fill these gaps, LEVER aims to critically develop and apply a transformative theory and practice to support the (co-)production of transformation knowledge, including a focus on transformation knowledge necessary to investigate and unleash values as leverage points for sustainability transformation. To this end, LEVER originally combines transdisciplinary research with the empirically rigorous methods of social science experiments. The scientific breakthrough consists in delivering an integrated theory of transformative research, capable of representing the many co-evolving links between its design principles, philosophy of science, normative assumptions, and ethical dimensions. Methodologically, LEVER opens new avenues on how to produce transformation knowledge, by experimenting with, testing and evaluating novel transformative methods. Finally, LEVER seeks to answer the globally relevant and timely question of how to unleash values. Using a treatment and control group experimental design, LEVER assesses the impact of values-targeting interventions and demonstrates the potential of values as leverage points. LEVER pioneers a salient conscious science-society relationship in Europe.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social sciences
- humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophy
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
34125 Kassel
Alemania