Social science for the

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• Social science for the
• Integrated Assessment of environmental risks and
  problems.
• DAY 5 Change and transitions
• of social-technological systems
• Dr. J. David Tàbara
• Institute of Environmental Science and Technology
• Autonomous University of Barcelona
• www.uab.cat/icta

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Some questions

• How and why societies change? Do societies
  change in the desired direction? What happened
  when they do not? What are the factors that
  condition the change of societies?

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Some key concepts

• AGENCY agents, individuals and organisations
  with capacity to change things
• Sometimes we can say that technologies have
  also agency. Agency is the dynamic part of
  societies.
• STRUCTURE formed by what is stable in society,
  like some rules or institutions its what does
  not change easily.

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Stages in a systems Transition (Rotmans, 2001)
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Possible Pathways of Transitions (Rotmans, 2005)
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Changing means and GOALS Learning by doing,
doing by learning.
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Energy and resources (E)
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Energy and resources (E)
Information and knowledge (I)
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Energy and recursos (E)
Information and knowledge (I)
Structure and rules (S)
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Energy and resources (E)
Information and knowledge (I)
Structure and rules (S)
(social) environmental change (C)
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Tàbara J. D. C. Pahl-Wostl. 2007.
Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use
and Management. Ecology and Society, 12 (2)
3 online URL http//www.ecologyandsociety.org/v
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Technique role game

• ROLES
• 3 Decision makers
• 1 car manufacturer from the petrol sector
• 1 car manufacturer from the gas sector
• 3 citizens representatives from Ashgabat
• Etc... Depending on the group
• DECISION TO BE TAKEN
• Whether to switch to gas cars in Ashgabat in the
  next 5 years.

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Modelling socio-technical and societal
transitions (Geels, Rotmans, et, al.)
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