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Ana Maria Vargas Falla.

Ana Maria Vargas Falla

Studierektor för grundutbildningen

Ana Maria Vargas Falla.

Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges

Författare

  • Stephen Woroniecki
  • Hausner Wendo
  • Ebba Brink
  • Mine Islar
  • Torsten Krause
  • Yahia Mahmoud
  • Ana Maria Vargas Falla

Summary, in English

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining traction in high-level, decision-making arenas as a response to global policy challenges. Claiming to be transformative and pluralistic, NbS aim to resolve societal problems through a focus on nature, which is understood to be a benign ally. This uncritical framing of nature may have unintended and inequitable consequences that undermine the emancipatory potential of NbS. In this paper, we highlight the need to pay attention to epistemic and power dimensions that tend to be hidden in NbS. We assume that nature is neither passive nor external to human society, but is instead expressed in frames (reifying modes of expression) that reflect both knowledge and power in social encounters where NbS are used. Drawing upon five cases, we analyse how particular ways of framing nature express and reinforce the power relations that structure people’s interactions. Each of the five cases relies on a nature-based frame to produce knowledge on climate adaptation, peacebuilding and justice. The analysis reveals how frames of nature are enacted in particular contexts, and how this conditions the potential for societal transformation towards sustainability and pluralistic knowledge. We demonstrate how frames of nature can constrain or enable opportunities for various groups to respond to environmental change. We discuss how the NbS paradigm might better incorporate diverse, situated knowledge and subjectivities, and conclude that this will require a more critical evaluation of NbS practice and research.

Avdelning/ar

  • LUCSUS
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi
  • CIRCLE

Publiceringsår

2020-09

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Global Environmental Change

Volym

65

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Human Geography

Nyckelord

  • Ecosystem-based adaptation
  • Environmental peace-building
  • Environmental justice
  • Epistemological pluralism
  • Performativity
  • Subjectivity

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • Where the Favela Meets the Forest: Urban Ecosystem-Based Adaptation as a boundary object for Brazilian Sustainability Science
  • Urban ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0959-3780