The politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development
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2022-10-21
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Achieving most sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate targets depends on the fast transformation of complex socio-technical systems. Recent research has highlighted the importance of crossing positive tipping points to accelerate the transformation of complex energy, food, and transport systems. Yet, there is a lack of research on the politics of enabling such tipping points. Here, we argue that policy strategies enabling the creation and crossing of such points are needed. Such strategies should harness political feedbacks from both technological and behavioral changes over time. To inform such strategies, we need a better empirical understanding of how these feedbacks unfold, eventually resulting in tipping points. We propose a novel framework to structure such feedback research by linking it to three core sustainability principles, namely efficiency, sufficiency, and substitution. Our framework advances ongoing debates about the politics of enabling tipping points for sustainable development.
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5 (10)
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1100 - 1108
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Elsevier
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Tipping point; Politics; Socio-technical system transformation; Political feedbacks; Sufficiency; Efficiency; Substitution; Technological change; Behavioral change
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09571 - Mathys, Alexander / Mathys, Alexander
09564 - Finger, Robert / Finger, Robert
09550 - Schmidt, Tobias / Schmidt, Tobias
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Perspective.