Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges
Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precaution...
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| description | Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools. In particular, in a time of fake news and alternative truths a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue; the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust. The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-589232023-12-20T15:53:57Z Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges Spangenberg, Joachim H. HD72-88 sustainable development goals science-policy interface long-wave theory scenarios tweets sustainability indicators models and modes of science environmental innovation energy supply renewable energy gross domestic product GDP bio-economics data needs fake news European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) climate change goals Agenda 2030 Visit South Sardinia tourist destination indicators monitoring modelling institutions sustainable development grid flexibility global indicator framework microdata decision-making world views SDGs Germany challenges values sustainable production and consumption policies sustainability transition storage stakeholders innovation systems societal impact fossil energy system multi-level perspective household consumption biodiversity agency evolutionary economics energy transition material footprint transformation sustainable tourism opportunities policy advice international inequality resource indicator curtailment bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools. In particular, in a time of fake news and alternative truths a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue; the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust. The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems. 2021-02-12T02:56:16Z 2021-02-12T02:56:16Z 2019-03-21 15:50:41 2019 book 32596 9783038976721 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58923 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1170 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03897-673-8 10.3390/books978-3-03897-673-8 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783038976721 180 open access |
| spellingShingle | HD72-88 sustainable development goals science-policy interface long-wave theory scenarios tweets sustainability indicators models and modes of science environmental innovation energy supply renewable energy gross domestic product GDP bio-economics data needs fake news European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) climate change goals Agenda 2030 Visit South Sardinia tourist destination indicators monitoring modelling institutions sustainable development grid flexibility global indicator framework microdata decision-making world views SDGs Germany challenges values sustainable production and consumption policies sustainability transition storage stakeholders innovation systems societal impact fossil energy system multi-level perspective household consumption biodiversity agency evolutionary economics energy transition material footprint transformation sustainable tourism opportunities policy advice international inequality resource indicator curtailment bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies Spangenberg, Joachim H. Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title | Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title_full | Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title_fullStr | Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title_short | Scenarios and Indicators for Sustainable Development–Towards A Critical Assessment of Achievements and Challenges |
| title_sort | scenarios and indicators for sustainable development towards a critical assessment of achievements and challenges |
| topic | HD72-88 sustainable development goals science-policy interface long-wave theory scenarios tweets sustainability indicators models and modes of science environmental innovation energy supply renewable energy gross domestic product GDP bio-economics data needs fake news European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) climate change goals Agenda 2030 Visit South Sardinia tourist destination indicators monitoring modelling institutions sustainable development grid flexibility global indicator framework microdata decision-making world views SDGs Germany challenges values sustainable production and consumption policies sustainability transition storage stakeholders innovation systems societal impact fossil energy system multi-level perspective household consumption biodiversity agency evolutionary economics energy transition material footprint transformation sustainable tourism opportunities policy advice international inequality resource indicator curtailment bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies |
| topic_facet | HD72-88 sustainable development goals science-policy interface long-wave theory scenarios tweets sustainability indicators models and modes of science environmental innovation energy supply renewable energy gross domestic product GDP bio-economics data needs fake news European Tourism Indicator System (ETIS) climate change goals Agenda 2030 Visit South Sardinia tourist destination indicators monitoring modelling institutions sustainable development grid flexibility global indicator framework microdata decision-making world views SDGs Germany challenges values sustainable production and consumption policies sustainability transition storage stakeholders innovation systems societal impact fossil energy system multi-level perspective household consumption biodiversity agency evolutionary economics energy transition material footprint transformation sustainable tourism opportunities policy advice international inequality resource indicator curtailment bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics & emerging economies |
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