Salience, Credibility and Legitimacy in a Rapidly Shifting World of Knowledge and Action

We are in a rapidly changing world where new dynamics are stressing the knowledge-action landscape: a greater understanding that cross-scale interactions are critical; increasing pressure to more fully address issues of equity in sustainable development challenges; rapidly transforming digital technologies; and the emergence of a “post-truth world”. These stressors are ripening at a time in which there is increased urgency in linking knowledge to action to solve some of the earth’s most pressing human-environment problems. This paper explores to what degree one model of knowledge-action may be useful in the face of these stressors. This model relies on co-production of knowledge across boundaries, and the importance of knowledge in meeting criteria of salience, credibility and legitimacy. Tentative explorations suggest utility of this model in responding to the changing knowledge-action landscape.

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INTERCONNECTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT COMPONENTS FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTH

EKONOMIKA I UPRAVLENIE: PROBLEMY, RESHENIYA ◽

10.36871/ek.up.p.r.2020.08.02.014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (8) ◽

pp. 101-110

Author(s):

N. N. ILYSHEVA ◽

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E. V. KARANINA ◽

G. P. LEDKOV ◽

E. V. BALDESKU ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Development ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Ecological Footprint ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

The North ◽

Strong Positive Relationship ◽

The Face ◽

The Relationship

The article deals with the problem of achieving sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the components of sustainable development, taking into account the involvement of indigenous peoples in nature conservation. Climate change makes achieving sustainable development more difficult. Indigenous peoples are the first to feel the effects of climate change and play an important role in the environmental monitoring of their places of residence. The natural environment is the basis of life for indigenous peoples, and biological resources are the main source of food security. In the future, the importance of bioresources will increase, which is why economic development cannot be considered independently. It is assumed that the components of resilience are interrelated and influence each other. To identify this relationship, a model for the correlation of sustainable development components was developed. The model is based on the methods of correlation analysis and allows to determine the tightness of the relationship between economic development and its ecological footprint in the face of climate change. The correlation model was tested on the statistical materials of state reports on the environmental situation in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra. The approbation revealed a strong positive relationship between two components of sustainable development of the region: economy and ecology.

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Tangibly understanding intangible complexities: Designing for distributed autonomous organizations

Ubiquity The Journal of Pervasive Media ◽

10.1386/ubiq_00007_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 47-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bettina Nissen ◽

Ella Tallyn ◽

Kate Symons

Keyword(s):

Distributed Systems ◽

Interaction Design ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Interactive Systems ◽

Collaborative Practice ◽

The Internet ◽

The Face ◽

Future Technologies ◽

The Internet Of Things

Abstract New digital technologies such as Blockchain and smart contracting are rapidly changing the face of value exchange, and present new opportunities and challenges for designers. Designers and data specialists are at the forefront of exploring new ways of exchanging value, using Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracting and the direct exchanges between things made possible by the Internet of Things (Tallyn et al. 2018; Pschetz et al. 2019). For researchers and designers in areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design to better understand and explore the implications of these emerging and future technologies as Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) we delivered a workshop at the ACM conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) in Edinburgh in 2017 (Nissen et al. 2017). The workshop aimed to use the lens of DAOs to introduce the principle that products and services may soon be owned and managed collectively and not by one person or authority, thus challenging traditional concepts of ownership and power. This workshop builds on established HCI research exploring the role of technology in financial interactions and designing for the rapidly changing world of technology and value exchange (Kaye et al. 2014; Malmborg et al. 2015; Millen et al. 2015; Vines et al. 2014). Beyond this, the HCI community has started to explore these technologies beyond issues of finance, money and collaborative practice, focusing on the implications of these emerging but rapidly ascending distributed systems in more applied contexts (Elsden et al. 2018a). By bringing together designers and researchers with different experiences and knowledge of distributed systems, the aim of this workshop was two-fold. First, to further understand, develop and critique these new forms of distributed power and ownership and second, to practically explore how to design interactive products and services that enable, challenge or disrupt existing and emerging models.

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Formulating Modes of Cooperative Leaning for Education for Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13063465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 3465

Author(s):

Jordi Colomer ◽

Dolors Cañabate ◽

Brigita Stanikūnienė ◽

Remigijus Bubnys

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Real Life ◽

Education For Sustainable Development ◽

Professional Life ◽

Global Challenges ◽

Life Problems ◽

The Face ◽

Contemporary Education ◽

The Impact

In the face of today’s global challenges, the practice and theory of contemporary education inevitably focuses on developing the competences that help individuals to find meaningfulness in their societal and professional life, to understand the impact of local actions on global processes and to enable them to solve real-life problems [...]

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The Leading Digital Technology Companies and Their Approach to Sustainable Development

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13126612 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (12) ◽

pp. 6612

Author(s):

Peter Jones ◽

Martin Wynn

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Digital Technology ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Sustainable Future

The increasingly stellar attraction of the digital technologies and the growing, though not universal, consensus of the need to build a sustainable future, are two powerful trends within society. The aim of this article is to offer an exploratory review of how the leading companies within the digital transformation market have addressed sustainable development. As such, the article’s originality and value lie in offering a review of current corporate thinking within that market. The study adopts an inductive, qualitative approach based on an examination of published company reports, and identifies six major sustainability themes being actively promoted and supported. The article concludes that the current sustainability objectives of the technology companies are driven as much by commercial reality as any altruistic motives, and that support and promotion of the circular economy may offer the best opportunity for digital technologies to meaningfully impact sustainable development.

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Mapping Senufo: Reframing Questions, Reevaluating Sources, and Reimagining a Digital Monograph

History in Africa ◽

10.1017/hia.2021.5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-45

Author(s):

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi ◽

Constantine Petridis

Keyword(s):

Computational Methods ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Knowledge Construction ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Historical Research ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Digital Publication ◽

Politics Of Knowledge ◽

Research Questions

Abstract Mapping Senufo: Art, Evidence, and the Production of Knowledge – an in-progress, collaborative, born-digital publication – will offer a model for joining theories about the construction of identities and the politics of knowledge production with research and publication practice. In this article, we examine how computational methods have led us to reframe research questions, reevaluate sources, and reimagine the form of a digital monograph. We also demonstrate how our use of digital technologies, attention to iteration, and collaborative mode of working have generated fresh insights into a corpus of arts identified as Senufo, the nature of evidence for art-historical research, and digital publication. We posit that the form of a digital publication itself can bring processes of knowledge construction to the fore and unsettle expectations of a tidy, authoritative narrative.

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Working Towards Sustainable Development in the Face of Uncertainty and Incomplete Knowledge

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning ◽

10.1080/15239080701622774 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 9 (3-4) ◽

pp. 245-262 ◽

Cited By ~ 42

Author(s):

Armin Grunwald

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Incomplete Knowledge ◽

The Face

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The Interrelation between Public Participation and Access to Justice in the eia Context in the Face of the Increasing Use of Digital Technologies: Comment on the cjeu Judgment in the A.Flausch et al Case (C-280/18)

Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law ◽

10.1163/18760104-18010004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1-2) ◽

pp. 39-55

Author(s):

Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou

Keyword(s):

Public Participation ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Specific Aspect ◽

Time Limit ◽

Access To Justice ◽

Eu Law ◽

The Public ◽

The Face ◽

Procedural Autonomy

Abstract The article analyzes the cjeu Judgment in the A. Flausch et al case, which concerns the compatibility of the Greek procedural rules relating to specific aspects of the public participation in the eia context and to a specific aspect of access to justice (time limit) with the respective EU Law provisions in the face of the increasing use of digital technologies in the public participation procedures. This ruling is important, because it sets limits to the procedural autonomy of ms when it comes to the rules that are applied to the eia-related disputes and those that concern the public participation arrangements. It demonstrates, though, the lack of a steady line in the Court’s jurisprudence concerning the standards for assessing the national procedural rules and the role of Article 47 cfr. Moreover, the Court did not lay the ground for an interpretation of the ΕU public participation provisions in a way that an obligation for taking measures could be established, with the aim to ensure equal participation opportunities.

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