Leverage Points for Sustainability Transformation: Institutions, People and Knowledge

Project: Research

Project participants

Vilsmaier, Ulli (Project manager, academic)
Lang, Daniel J. (Project manager, academic)
Newig, Jens (Project manager, academic)
Fischer, Jörn (Project manager, academic)
Schomerus, Thomas (Project manager, academic)
von Wehrden, Henrik (Project manager, academic)
Sieveking, Annelie (Project staff)
Klaniecki, Kathleen Theresa (Project staff)
Dorninger, Christian (Project staff)
Clarke, Elizabeth Anne (Project staff)
Horcea-Milcu, Andra Ioana (Project staff)
Lam, David (Project staff)
Patru-Duse, Ioana Alexandra (Project staff)
Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm (Project staff)
Derwort, Pim (Project staff)
Patru-Duse, Ioana Alexandra (Project staff)
Apetrei, Cristina-Ioana (Project staff)
Freeth, Rebecca Claire (Project staff)
Engbers, Moritz (Project staff)
Peukert, Daniela (Project staff)
Berkau, Anne Jo (Project staff)
Lutz, Lotte Marie (Coordination)
Leventon, Julia (Project manager, academic)
Abson, David (Project manager, academic)

Description

Understanding how changes in interconnected social-ecological systems facilitate the transformation to sustainability represents one of the key challenges of sustainability science. Drawing on insights from systems thinking and solution-oriented transdisciplinary research, this project will focus on hitherto under-recognized leverage points—system properties where a small shift can lead to fundamental changes in the system as a whole.
The project is funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung, via the “Science for sustainable development” call, and is hosted by Leuphana University Lueneburg.

Status	Finished
Period	01.04.15 → 31.03.21
Links	https://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?ref=88652 https://twitter.com/LevPoints4Sust http://www.leveragepoints.org/

Activities

The journey to Balance Brings Beauty
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
How could this success model of the Agro-Eco-Viscri farming association (experience and knowledge) could be consolidated and transferred/adapted to Alma Vii?
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Co-Production of Knowledge
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
ReThink - ReStructure - ReConnect
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
25th World Congress of the International Political Science Association - IPSA 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Transformations 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Co-Production of Tools and Strategies to Upscale the Local Model of the Viscri Association by Involving a Policy Expert
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Problem Framing Workshop with Local NGOs
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Problem Framing Workshop with the Viscri Farming Association
Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Inside-Out Sustainability: The role of inner transformation for system change
Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer

Press/Media

Menschen sollen Bogen zur Nachhaltigkeit finden
Press/Media

Research outputs

Social Landart - Verbindungen zwischen (Land-)Wirtschaft und Kunst: Wie ein Eichelschweinprojekt zwischen künstlerischer Forschung und Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft vermittelt
Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
Leveraging Biodiversity Action From Plural Values: Transformations of Governance Systems
Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
How to Explain Major Policy Change Towards Sustainability? Bringing Together the Multiple Streams Framework and the Multilevel Perspective on Socio-Technical Transitions to Explore the German “Energiewende”
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Einblicken – Ausschau halten.
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to scientific reports › Research
Das Wirken von Nachhaltigkeitsräten in Politik und Gesellschaft
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer
Reflecting on the Roles and Skill Sets of Designers and Design Researchers
Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
Second comment on 'The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions'
Research output: Journal contributions › Comments / Debate / Reports › Research
Acknowledging temporal diversity in sustainability transformations at the nexus of interconnected systems
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Human–nature connection: a multidisciplinary review
Research output: Journal contributions › Scientific review articles › Research
Reconnecting with nature for sustainability
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Human–nature connectedness as a ‘treatment’ for pro-environmental behavior: making the case for spatial considerations
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Leverage points for sustainability transformation
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Assessing sustainable biophysical human-nature connectedness at regional scales
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives: a typology of amplification processes
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review