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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102132
	Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges
	Woroniecki S.; Wendo H.; Brink E.; Islar M.; Krause T.; Vargas A.-M.; Mahmoud Y.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	65
英文摘要	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. © 2020 The Authors
英文关键词	Ecosystem-based adaptation; Environmental justice; Environmental peace-building; Epistemological pluralism; Performativity; Subjectivity
语种	英语
scopus关键词	decision making; environmental change; farmers knowledge; knowledge; power relations; research work; social problem; sustainability
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/141990
作者单位	Department of Thematic Studies (TEMA), Environmental Change Unit (TEMAM), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Adaptation Consortium, Nairobi, Kenya; Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, Visby, Gotland, Sweden; Department of Human Geography, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Woroniecki S.,Wendo H.,Brink E.,等. Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges[J],2020,65.
APA	Woroniecki S..,Wendo H..,Brink E..,Islar M..,Krause T..,...&Mahmoud Y..(2020).Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges.Global Environmental Change,65.
MLA	Woroniecki S.,et al."Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges".Global Environmental Change 65(2020).