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Heide Hackmann Stockholm, 31 January 2014. Introduction: process, objectives and audiences Why a world social science report on global environmental change? Content of the report Key messages Conclusion. Introduction Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities. Process. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Heide Hackmann
Stockholm, 31 January 2014
1. Introduction: process, objectives and audiences
2. Why a world social science report on global environmental change?
3. Content of the report
4. Key messages
5. Conclusion
Introduction1. Achievements2. Resources3. Challenges and opportunities
• International Editorial Team and Scientific Advisory Committee
• Global call for contributions and commissioned papers: 150+ authors from 23 disciplines and all regions of the world
• External peer review (40+ reviewers)• Co-published with UNESCO and the OECD• Publication formats: print, OECD iLibrary• Interactive blog
Process
Objectives
• Develop a social science understanding of global environmental change
• Showcase unique social science contributions
• Assess capacities, also to link science with policy and action
• Influence research programming and funding
• Mobilise the wider social science community
Audiences
• Social scientists• Their colleagues in other
fields• International scientific
organisations and programmes
• Research funders• Decision makers, policy
shapers, practitioners and other users
Why a World Social Science Report on global environmental change?
1. Achievements2. Resources3. Challenges and opportunities
Climate change “threatens our planet, our only home”
Thomas Stocker,IPCC Co-Chair, 27 September 2013
Timely knowledge
Indispensable knowledge
• The inseparability of environmental and social problems
• The centrality of people
• The urgent need for social transformation
Content of the report1. Achievements2. Resources3. Challenges and opportunities
Conceptual framework
The Transformative Cornerstones of Social Science Research for Global Change(ISSC Report: Hackmann and Lera St Clair, 2012)
Social science questions that have to be asked regardless of the concrete problem being addressed
• The complexity and urgency of global environmental change and sustainability
• Real-world consequences of global environmental change in different geographic, cultural and personal contexts
• The role of values, worldviews and belief systems in interpreting and responding to threats
• Conditions and visions for change in a rapidly changing world
• Ethical approaches and concerns about justice in developing policy solutions to global environmental change problems
• New approaches to governance and decision-making at different scales
• Social science capacities to undertake research on
global environmental change
• Annexes:• Statistics on the production of social science research• Bibliometric analysis of social science research on climate
change and global environmental change
Key messagesand priority action steps
1. Achievements2. Resources3. Challenges and opportunities
A new social science for sustainability
• Bolder in reframing global environmental change as a social process
• Better at infusing social science knowledge into real-world problem-solving
• Bigger in terms of having more social scientists addressing the issue
• Different in terms of its thinking and practice
Environmental change as social change
Frame the
change
Enable the
change
Build capacity
for change
• Developing social lenses• Revealing the social,
economic, political and cultural nature of the challenge
• Highlighting the role of people, behaviours, practices, institutions
• Opening up spaces for social innovation
Solutions that work for people and the planet
Frame the change
Enable the
change
Build capacity for
change
• Closing the gap between the pace of global environmental change and social responses
• Leading engagement with decision makers
• Working with societies in specific social-ecological settings
• Building open knowledge systems and networks of mutual learning
Meeting growing knowledge needs
Frame the change
Enable the
change
Build capacity
for change
• Increasing research production: human capital and institutional resources
• Building critical mass and communities of practice
• Communicating effectively and using what is already known
• Leading in integrated, solutions-oriented research
Transforming knowledge production and use
Frame the change
Enable the
change
Build capacity
for change
• Embracing interdisciplinarity• Integrating across scales• Building bridges across
different forms of knowledge• Getting serious about the co-
design and co-production of knowledge and action with policy makers, practitioners, civil society and private sector actors
Conclusion1. Achievements2. Resources3. Challenges and opportunities
The 2013 World Social Science Report
• A starting point for rallying further social science engagement
• A basis for discussion and the development of mobilisation and resource strategies
Moving in the right direction …
“Transformations to Sustainability” global funding programmeto be launched by the ISSC in 2014
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/