Klimatilpasning

• O'Brien, Karen; Carmona, Rosario; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Hochachka, Gail; Sygna, Linda & Rosenberg, Milda (2023). Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability. Ambio. ISSN 0044-7447. 52, s. 1448–1461. doi: 10.1007/s13280-023-01873-w. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract Responses to sustainability challenges are not delivering results at the scale and speed called for by science, international agreements, and concerned citizens. Yet there is a tendency to underestimate the large-scale impacts of small-scale, local, and contextualized actions, and particularly the role of individuals in scaling transformations. Here, we explore a fractal approach to scaling sustainability transformations based on “universal values.” Universal values are proposed as intrinsic characteristics that connect humans and nature in a coherent, acausal way. Drawing on the Three Spheres of Transformation framework, we consider how enacting universal values can generate fractal-like patterns of sustainability that repeat recursively across scales. Fractal approaches shift the focus from scaling through “ things ” (e.g., technologies, behaviors, projects) to scaling through a quality of agency based on values that apply to all. We discuss practical steps involved in fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability, provide examples, and conclude with questions for future research.

• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2023). Extinction Rebellion and the Future City. I Haarstad, Håvard; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen & Johnson, Eleanor (Red.), Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency. UCL Press. ISSN 9781800083295. s. 38–51. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bentz, Julia; O'Brien, Karen & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2022). Beyond ‘blah blah blah’: Exploring the ‘how’ of transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. 17(2), s. 497–506. doi: 10.1007/s11625-022-01123-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen & Milkoreit, Manjana (2022). Climate Politics and Social Change: What Can Cognitive and Quantum Approaches Offer? I Derian, James Der & Wendt, Alexander (Red.), Quantum International Relations: A Human Science for World Politics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197568248. s. 127–152. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197568200.001.0001. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2021). Individual and collective leadership for deliberate transformations: Insights from Indigenous leadership. Leadership. ISSN 1742-7150. 17(5), s. 519–541. doi: 10.1177/1742715021996486. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Deliberately transforming society toward equitable and sustainable futures requires leadership. But what kind of leadership? While the dominant understanding of leadership often centers on the individual, the concept of collective leadership is receiving increased attention. Yet, the relationship between individual and collective leadership remains elusive and has been given limited attention in the transformation literature. In this study, I explore how leadership is understood and enacted in an Alaska Native community engaged in transforming community systems toward enhanced sustainability. I draw on Indigenous leadership research, organized through four interrelated analytical lenses: the individual leader, leadership through culture, leadership through process, and leadership through integration. I find that leadership in the community can be seen as something simultaneously individual and collective and argue that an Indigenous relational ontology makes it possible to imagine leadership as an “individual-collective simultaneity.” In the discussion, I highlight the connections to emerging theories and approaches within “mainstream” leadership research, pointing to the potential for bridging disciplines and paradigms. For leadership and transformation researchers to engage in this bridging work, we must reflect on and reconsider our assumptions as to what agency for transformation is, with important implications for how we work to support transformations. While “ontological bridge building” creates tensions, it is through holding and working through these creative tensions that we can start to see pathways toward equitable and sustainable futures.

• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00960-9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract Climate change has been conceptualized as a form and a product of colonization. In this perspective, it becomes important to base climate change adaptation and transformation efforts on decolonizing practices and imaginaries. A central aspect of decolonization is contained in the Indigenous conceptualization of relationality. Exploring how decolonization and relationality might form the foundation for transformations research, we engage with the concept of ‘right relations’. In the context of this inquiry, we take ‘right relations’ to mean an obligation to live up to the responsibilities involved when taking part in a relationship—be it to other humans, other species, the land or the climate. We begin the paper by bringing together the literature on climate change adaptation, transformation and decolonization to show their interconnections and emphasize the need to engage with all three when talking about sustainability. Second, we invoke the idea of ‘right relations’ to address how non-Indigenous transformation researchers can further the process of decolonization as part of their research. Third, we offer insights from our own research experience with narrative practices to help exemplify how transformation researchers in all disciplines might embody ‘right relations’ centered around four characteristics: listening deeply, self-reflexivity, creating space and being in action. Embodying ‘right relations’ is a continuous process of becoming with no end point, and we do not wish to suggest that we hold the answers. Instead, we reflect on our role in this process and hope for these words to open a dialogue about how we might move towards a ‘decolonized humanity’. We suggest that willingness to be affected and altered by the process of reciprocal collaborations is key to imagining decolonial ways of being and that this in turn can be a powerful manner of generating equitable and sustainable transformations.

• Vogel, Coleen & O'Brien, Karen (2021). Getting to the Heart of Transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01016-8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals to the need for transformation. Yet while the scholarly literature on transformations is expanding rapidly, the concept risks becoming an empty buzzword or an alibi for superficial interventions and business-as-usual responses within research, policy and practice communities. In this perspective, we look more closely at what is needed to generate the deep and enduring changes that are called for to address multiple, interacting challenges. We do this by focusing on the prefix ‘trans-’, which signifies moving “across, over, or beyond” the current state of affairs, and we consider how the potential for equitable and sustainable transformations lies in our capacity to transcend entrenched boundaries and limits. Focusing on transdisciplinary, transgressive, and transcendent approaches, we reflect on how individuals, groups, and organizations can plant seeds and help to nurture the potential for radical transformative change at all scales.

• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00965-4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract The scientific evidence of climate change has never been clearer and more convergent, and calls for transformations to sustainability have never been greater. Yet, perspectives and social opinions about it remain fractured, and collaborative action is faltering. Climate policy seeks to forge a singular sense of climate change, dominated by an ‘information deficit model’ that focuses on transferring climate science to the lay public. Critics argue that this leaves out certain perspectives, including the plurality of meanings uncovered through participatory approaches. However, questions remain about how these approaches can better account for nuances in the psychological complexity of climate change, without getting stuck in the cul-de-sacs of epistemological relativism and post-truth politics. In this paper, I explore an approach through which we might find shared meaning at the interface of individual and collective views about climate change. I first present a conceptual framework that describes five psychological reasons why climate change challenges individual and collective meaning-making, and also provides a way to understand how meaning is organized within that. I then use this framework to inform the use of photo voice as a transformative (action-research) method, examining its ability to overcome some of the meaning-making challenges specific to climate change. I discuss how participants from a coffee cooperative in Guatemala reflected first on their own climate meanings and then engaged in a meaning-making process with other actors in the coffee value chain. Findings suggest a psychosocial approach to climate engagement—one that engages both subjectively and intersubjectively on the complexities unique to climate change—is helpful in acknowledging an ontological pluralism of ‘climate changes ’ amongst individuals, while also supporting a nexus-agreement collectively. This may in turn contribute to a more effective and ethical process of transformation.

• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Integrating the four faces of climate change adaptation: Towards transformative change in Guatemalan coffee communities. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 140, s. 1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105361. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Despite the complexity of climate change, the dominant definition and practice of adaptation remains reactive, incremental, and focused primarily on biophysical and techno-managerial changes. Researchers suggest this is necessary but insufficient, noting the importance of integrating subjectivity in a more comprehensive approach to adaptation and in moving toward deliberate transformation in a climate change context. Here, I consider how to expand the scope and depth of ‘adaptation’ as it is currently defined and practiced, presenting an Integral conceptual framework that integrates the ‘interior’ forms of adaptation and thus can account for the diverse ways that local people are responding to entangled changes at the local level. Drawing on case study research in Guatemala, I explore how a more balanced integration of subjective and objective adaptive capacities, in individuals and collectives, leads to four types of adaptation—personal, practical, critical-structural, and co-generative. Findings describe: 1)how critical-structural adaptations were helpful in disrupting structural arrangements in ways that practical adaptations alone were not; and 2) that the interior adaptations (personal and co-generative) were less emphasized overall but can be effectively integrated, either implicitly or explicitly, with dominant forms of adaptation practice. This study demonstrates how a more comprehensive approach to adaptation may better position communities to engage in transformative change.

• Leichenko, Robin; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin & O'Brien, Karen (2021). Teaching the “how” of transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00964-5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Arnold, Emma (2021). Mercurial images of the COVID-19 city. I Melik, Rianne van; Filion, Pierre & Doucet, Brian (Red.), Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Cities, Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility. Bristol University Press. ISSN 9781529219005. s. 199–212. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This chapter explores the changing image of the city during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at how the city has been transformed, the chapter suggests that we might gain inspiration for how we might re-imagine cities in the face of global challenges like climate change.

• Veland, Siri; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Maggs, David & Lynch, Amanda H. (2021). Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation? Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. 17, s. 637–651. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01032-8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and parallelisms that drive global crises. Decision-makers are familiar with these internal conflicts, and there is no shortage of frameworks, blueprints, and roadmaps to accelerate sustainability. However, thus far, inevitable trade-offs among competing priorities for sustainability are not catalyzing the types of transformations called for, indeed, demanded, by the SDGs. Habitual technocratic approaches, which the SDG lend themselves to, will report on indicators and targets, but will not adequately represent the ambitions of the goals themselves. Addressing these habitual tendencies, this paper therefore considers the inner dimensions of transformation, including emotions and meaning-making. Music offers a rich source of metaphor to reimagine interconnections and communicates affectively the feelings and embodied dimensions of intellectual thought and creativity. We draw on Western musical composition and history to offer insights on an intellectual path-dependency leading up to the current disembodied indicator-based management and regulation of global environmental and societal crises, and on potential alternatives. As metaphors, we consider what the SDGs might ‘sound like’ as either 12-tone, contrapuntal, or improvisational expression. We suggest that for the SDGs to release their transformative potential, ‘sustainability improvisers’ with a handle on both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of transformation are needed: harnessed with deep understanding of SDG indicators and targets, but with an ability to listen deeply and invite others to co-create transformative pathways.

• Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, E Lisa F; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nicolai & Brooks, Nick [Vis alle 20 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 141. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii) a retrofitting of adaptation into existing development agendas; and (iv) a lack of critical engagement with how ‘adaptation success’ is defined. Emerging literature shows potential avenues for overcoming the current failure of adaptation interventions to reduce vulnerability: first, shifting the terms of engagement between adaptation practitioners and the local populations participating in adaptation interventions; and second, expanding the understanding of ‘local’ vulnerability to encompass global contexts and drivers of vulnerability. An important lesson from past adaptation interventions is that within current adaptation cum development paradigms, inequitable terms of engagement with ‘vulnerable’ populations are reproduced and the multi-scalar processes driving vulnerability remain largely ignored. In particular, instead of designing projects to change the practices of marginalised populations, learning processes within organisations and with marginalised populations must be placed at the centre of adaptation objectives. We pose the question of whether scholarship and practice need to take a post-adaptation turn akin to post-development, by seeking a pluralism of ideas about adaptation while critically interrogating how these ideas form part of the politics of adaptation and potentially the processes (re)producing vulnerability. We caution that unless the politics of framing and of scale are explicitly tackled, transformational interventions risk having even more adverse effects on marginalised populations than current adaptation.

• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Sustainability. s. 1–10. doi: 10.1017/sus.2020.27. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the first half of 2020, a dramatic, fast and widespread series of changes occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in behaviors, mindsets, culture, and systems. Yet, despite the intergovernmental calls for precisely this kind of fundamental, transformative change across society regarding global warming, public opinion on climate change is fractured and collective action is slow. More research is needed on the psychosocial dimensions of climate change, to better understand what the bottlenecks are for realizing transformative change. In this paper, I examine what occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic response that could be learned for the climate crisis. I focus on three psychological aspects that made the COVID-19 response accessible and actionable in a way that climate change is not: the mental demands for under-standing complex issues; psychological distance and its impacts on motivation and agency;and finite attentional resources that can render certain issues as non-salient. Lessons for climate engagement include: (1) the usefulness of concrete, simple, and personally-relatable messaging; (2) more diverse and democratized climate understandings and stories; (3) greater recognition about how psychological distance affects meaning-making and sense of agency;and (4) appreciation of attentional crowding and the need for sense-making strategies about complex issues.

• Leichenko, Robin M. & O'Brien, Karen (2020). Teaching climate change in the Anthropocene: An integrative approach. Anthropocene. 30:100241, s. 1–4. doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100241. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Why are we still educating college and university students through a Holocene lens? How can we expect young people to engage with the transformative challenges required to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement when climate change education is organized in a narrow and linear fashion? Climate change courses and teaching modules largely emphasize scientific literacy through a focus on physical processes, documentation of rising emissions, and empirical evidence of a changing climate. Classroom explorations of responses to climate change are often limited to "business-as-usual" policy options, new technologies, and behavioral interventions to reduce emissions or promote adaptation. Such approaches make it difficult for students to recognize the social dimensions of climate change and to identify openings and entry points for sustainability transformations. This Viewpoint contribution argues that it is time to rethink climate change curricula within higher education and adapt it to the Anthropocene. We present an integrative approach to climate change education that focuses on humans as active and reflexive agents of large-scale systems change, incorporates economic, political, cultural, psychological, and emotional dimensions of the issue, and fosters active engagement with transformations to sustainability.

• Hochachka, Gail (2020). The scenic route: A developmental approach emphasizes the importance of human interiority in transformative approaches to climate change. Integral Review. 16(1), s. 187–214. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  What is effective climate change adaptation, at a time in history where the call for transformative change is on the increase? This article considers how to expand and deepen the largely techno-managerial concept of adaptation, often framed as that of reacting to and accommodating climate change, by integrating human interiority in a more balanced way. While the psychological and social dimensions of the climate change issue have been studied, they are less equally weighted alongside the climate science; some studies suggest that improving the integration of psycho-social change processes will be important for effective adaptation and may bode helpful in enacting transformative change. In this article, I explain my rationale and methods for including the lesser-known discipline of adult developmental psychology to examine how people make meaning of climate change, which may have important implications for adaptation policy and practice. Studies exist on ‘what’ people believe about climate change, but the insights from developmental psychology help to explain ‘why’ meaning is organized as it is. Explaining what understandings people hold is akin to the shortest distance between two points, but considering why meaning was construed as such is the scenic route. I argue that ‘taking the scenic route’ to consider the perspective-taking processes that produce such a spectrum of views on climate change may hold potential for a more comprehensive response to such a complex issue, not only to grasp why these meanings differ so vastly, but also to support improved collaboration and to help engage in adaptation as transformation.

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• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World. cCHANGE Press. ISBN 9788269181951. 179 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Three Spheres of Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Climate Change and Transformations To Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Transformations To Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Scaling Transformations to Sustainability: You Matter More than You Think. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). What’s the Risk? Engaging with Deliberate Transformations in Response to Climate Change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Quantum Social Change For a Thriving World: You Matter More Than You Think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). The Scales of Transformation: Indigenous Relationality as a Source of Sustainable and Effective Responses to Global Crisis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Fractals of Change: The Role of Agency in Transformations to Sustainability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). The Challenge of Global Change: How do we Transform? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability: What are they and how do we make them happen? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Taking the Urgency seriously: You matter more than you think. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Photography, composition, and the activist city. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Artivism: The art of creating social change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). 144. Karen O’Brien on Quantum Social Change & Mattering More Than We Think. [Internet]. The RegenNarration Podcast. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Prøvde å «ta» Munch: – Jeg ville ikke, men jeg måtte (by Torgeir Knutsen). [Internet]. https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/provde-a-ta-munch-jeg-v. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Vil vi klare å overholde Paris-avtalen? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Pathways for June 26, 2022: You Matter More Than You Think – Karen O’Brien. [Radio]. Pathways Radio by Paul O'Brien [Podcast]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). #37 - Quantum Social Change, med Karen O'Brien. [Radio]. Dekodet [Podcast]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Quantum Social Change: You Matter More Than You Think! [Keynote]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Climate Change and Sustainability: Three Spheres of Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformative Change and Biodiversity: Integrating the Practical, Political, and Personal Spheres of Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Importas más de lo que crees! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Quantum Social Change: You Matter More Than You Think. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Hope for the Paris Agreement? You matter more than you think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). The Human Dimensions: They matter more than you think! Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Climate Change: It’s a Relationship Problem. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformative Change: Integrating the practical, political, and personal spheres of transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Karen O’Brien skal lede utredning for FNs naturpanel. [Internet]. Universitet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Karen O’Brien: – Det er ikke CO2-utslippene som er det største problemet. [Journal]. Aftenposten A Magasinet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). Forska i Alaska: – Vi kan lære mykje av urfolk om omstilling til klimaendringar. [Internet]. Vestlandsforskning. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). En 30 dagers utfordring – for klima. [Internet]. NRK. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). – Jeg tror det er et paradigmeskifte på vei. [Internet]. Forskerforum. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). The Three Spheres of Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: It’s A Relationship Problem. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Quantum social change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Political Agency for Transformations: What does it take? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). From Problems to Solutions: Engaging People in Transformations to Sustainability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: It’s A Relationship Problem. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Transformative Change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Governing Transformations: It’s All About Relationships. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: We Matter More Than We Think. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Integrative Approaches to Transformations. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Education for Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Climate change, Social change, and The Humanities in the 21st Century. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Accelerating Action on Climate Change: Engaging with the practical, political, and personal spheres of transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a World in Crisis. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Social and Cultural Values and Fractal Perspectives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Transformation in Action. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). How can transdisciplinarity support actors to effect transformative responses to climate change? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Laws, Ana Luisa Sanchez; Broderstad, Else Grete; Carlsen, Anna Nordahl; Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa & Gross, Lena (2021). Civil disobedience, non-violence, democracy and climate change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Presentation and panel debate on civil disobedience, non-violence, democracy and climate change.

• O'Brien, Karen (2021). DF #21for21 - #8 - Karen O'Brien. [Internet]. Digital Society School [Podcast]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). ‘Right relations’ approach to working with Indigenous Peoples. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Karen O'Brien ~You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change For A Thriving World. [Radio]. WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A ... [Podcast]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen; Bjordam, Tone; Cooper, Lisa & Skadal, Martin (2021). Book Launch: "You Matter More Than You Think". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Conversations with Michael & Karen O'Brien ~Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. [Radio]. WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A ... [Podcast]. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Verdenskjent klimaforsker: – Det er nesten så vi er trent til å si at det vi gjør, ikke betyr noe. [Internet]. Universitet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Dekolonisering av paradigmer. I Ossavy, Nina & Kolbenstvedt, Marius (Red.), Naturtro. Om å dekolonisere naturen.. Iris forlag. ISSN 9788293359265. s. 67–68. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2021). Individual and collective leadership for deliberate transformation: Insights from Indigenous leadership. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’- a relational perspective on researching sustainability in the Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Coffee and Climate Change. [Internet]. Universitet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Møtereferat: En aften som skal snu opp-ned på tankemønstre. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). – Jeg håper at vi alle kan forstå, enten vi er bussjåfører, leger, arkitekter, eller musikere, at det vi gjør, betyr noe. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Education for Transformation: The significance of paradigms, politics, and practices. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Transformational Leadership for Sustainability. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Education for transformation: Aligning values and visions for a sustainable future. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). En helhetlig tilnærming til mobilitetsomstilling: Det handler om transformasjon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Taking the Climate Crisis Seriously: Three Spheres of Transformation. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Education for Transformation: Whose Values and Visions are Shaping the Future? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). The Adaptive Challenge of Sustainable Development: Looking beyond a purely technical approach. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). The Decade that Matters: Taking Transformations to Climate Change and Transformations to Sustainability Seriously. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2020). Why you matter for solving climate change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Paneldebatt: Hvordan lager vi en klimapolitikk som oppleves som rettferdig? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). A springboard in the transition to a low emission society. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2020). How fiction can persuade readers that climate change is real (by Anna Colivicchi). [Internet]. euronews. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Climate Change: From Alarmism to Anti-Fragility. [Internet]. Integral Justice Warrior with Diane Hamilton. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  What is the difference between being “resilient” and being “antifragile”? In this fascinating episode of Integral Justice Warrior, Diane and Corey are joined by Gail Hochachka and Rob McNamara to explore anti-fragile approaches to climate change. We are also joined by fellow integral enthusiast Deb Collins, who offers her own perspectives around the tragic wild fires that swept across the Australian continent. Antifragility is a concept made popular by author Nassim Nicolas Taleb in his book, Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder, in which Taleb posits three different characteristics any given system can have: Fragile systems tend to fall apart when hit with a system shock. Resilient systems (or “robust systems”) tend to stay the same when hit with a system shock. Antifragile systems actually change and evolve when hit with a system shock. As it becomes increasingly clear just how fragile our ecological, economic, and political systems have become, it is also becoming increasingly important that we begin to meet the many fragilities of our time with a genuinely anti-fragile response — after all, fragile reactions only produce more fragility. We are looking for solutions that are far more comfortable with volatility and uncertainty, and that can actually help systems and organizations evolve in the face of ongoing disruption. Solutions that do not deny the existence of fragility, but rather seek to increase their own anti-fragility by working to reduce fragility in the world, wherever we find it.

• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Love in the Time of Corona. [Internet]. Integral Justice Warrior with Diane Hamilton. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  A discussion about the coronavirus pandemic and how to manage the tremendous fear, anxiety, and uncertainty that can arise from it. We also explore some of the hopeful opportunities and wisdoms that are being brought to the surface by our new set of global life conditions, as well as some of the possible paths toward anti-fragility that our society can take in the wake of this pandemic.

• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Climate Change Solutions: Adapt or Transform? [Internet]. Integral Justice Warrior with Diane Hamilton. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this episode of Integral Justice Warrior we are joined by special guests Gail Hochachka and Rob McNamara to explore some of the critical strategies to climate change — some of which emphasize a total top-down transformation of our political and economic systems, and others that emphasize a more incremental and adaptive approach. So what is the best choice here — adapt, or transform? To integral viewers who are very accustomed to “both/and” thinking, the answer probably won’t be too surprising.

• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Intersubjectivity, Social Justice, and Climate. [Internet]. Integral Justice Warrior with Diane Hamilton. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Usually when we talk about climate change, we do so in either 3rd-person terms (e.g. the math, the models, the environmental consequences, political and economic solutions, etc.) or 1st-person terms (our values, our personal responsibilities, our own capacity for resilience and anti-fragility, etc.) This time we wanted to do something a little bit different — to take a look at climate change through the lens of 2nd-person intersubjectivity — how we live together, how we grieve together, how we create meaning together, how we relate with each other in the midst of crisis, and the many other ways that we are all in this together.

• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). How Relations Come to Matter: A Study of the Role of Relations for Deliberate Transformations in an Alaska Native Community. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This dissertation is about how relations come to matter for deliberate transformations toward sustainability. More specifically, it is about transformative change in a community context and how certain relations and perceptions of relations help and hinder this work. The dissertation presents a transdisciplinary study situated within transformations research and anchored in human geography and Indigenous studies. It responds to the growing concern that while the need for transformative change is becoming increasingly evident, it is less clear how to move society towards sustainability in ways that are both equitable and just. Grounded in ‘the relational turn’ within the humanities and social sciences, the research takes a ‘deep’ relational approach to the study of relations for deliberate transformations, engaging with Indigenous and posthumanist ontologies that center on the potentials and responsibilities inherent in a world of relations.

• Hochachka, Gail (2021). A Matter of Meaning: Integrating the Deeper Human Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation to Support Transformations to Sustainability in a Global Coffee Value Chain. Universitetet i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This thesis presents transdisciplinary research in climate change adaptation in Guatemalan coffee-producing communities, within the larger calls for transformation to sustainability. Through action research with actors in a global coffee value chain, the study seeks to understand why people make-meaning of climate change as they do, as well as how shared meaning and greater collaboration can be found within multi-actor groups. Attention is paid to human ‘interiority’ and processes of meaning-making as well as how these psychological and social aspects might be integrated in a more integral, transdisciplinary approach to adaptation. Findings include how a global coffee value chain is adapting and responding to the climate challenge, and how its innovations might be scaled. Additional insights are also provided regarding responses to COVID-19 pandemic compared to that of climate change, considering the significance of an integral approach to unprecedented, complex issues. The thesis is comprised of five articles which, taken together, consider how climate change adaptation can be engaged as transformative change.

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