Gaining deep leverage? Reflecting and shaping real-world lab impacts through leverage points
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In: GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, Vol. 33, No. Supplement 1, 16.03.2024, p. 116-124.
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T1 - Gaining deep leverage? Reflecting and shaping real-world lab impacts through leverage points
AU - Schäpke, Niko
AU - Beecroft, Richard
AU - Wanner, Matthias
AU - Wagner, Felix
AU - Rhodius, Regina
AU - Laborgne, Pia
AU - Parodi, Oliver
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.
PY - 2024/3/16
Y1 - 2024/3/16
N2 - Real-world laboratories (RwLs) are gaining further traction as a means to achieve systemic impacts towards sustainability transformation. To guide the analysis of intended impacts, we introduce the concept of leverage points, discerning where, how, and to what end RwLs intervene in systems. Building on conceptual reasoning, we further develop our argument by exploring two RwL cases. Examining RwLs through the lens of the leverage points opens the way for a balanced and comprehensive approach to systemic experimentation. We invite RwL researchers and practitioners to further advance RwLs' transformative capacity by targeting the design and emerging direction of a system, contributing to a culture of sustainability.
AB - Real-world laboratories (RwLs) are gaining further traction as a means to achieve systemic impacts towards sustainability transformation. To guide the analysis of intended impacts, we introduce the concept of leverage points, discerning where, how, and to what end RwLs intervene in systems. Building on conceptual reasoning, we further develop our argument by exploring two RwL cases. Examining RwLs through the lens of the leverage points opens the way for a balanced and comprehensive approach to systemic experimentation. We invite RwL researchers and practitioners to further advance RwLs' transformative capacity by targeting the design and emerging direction of a system, contributing to a culture of sustainability.
KW - impact assessment
KW - real-world experiments
KW - sustainability science
KW - sustainability transformation
KW - transdisciplinarity
KW - urban transformation
KW - Sustainability Governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85188836830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0a980da2-089b-30bf-9c45-97ed82e9daf1/
U2 - 10.14512/gaia.33.S1.17
DO - 10.14512/gaia.33.S1.17
M3 - Scientific review articles
AN - SCOPUS:85188836830
VL - 33
SP - 116
EP - 124
JO - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
JF - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
SN - 0940-5550
IS - Supplement 1
ER -