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Heide Hackmann Stockholm, 31 January 2014

Heide Hackmann Stockholm, 31 January 2014. Introduction: process, objectives and audiences Why a world social science report on global environmental change? Content of the report Key messages Conclusion. Introduction Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities. Process.

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Heide Hackmann Stockholm, 31 January 2014

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  1. HeideHackmann Stockholm, 31 January 2014

  2. Introduction: process, objectives and audiences Why a world social science report on global environmental change? Content of the report Key messages Conclusion

  3. Introduction Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities

  4. Process • International Editorial Team and Scientific Advisory Committee • Global call for contributions and commissioned papers: 150+ authors from23 disciplines andall regions of the world • External peer review (40+ reviewers) • Co-published with UNESCO and the OECD • Publication formats: print, OECD iLibrary • Interactive blog

  5. Objectives Develop a social science understanding of global environmental change Showcase unique social science contributions Assess capacities, also to link science with policy and action Influence research programming and funding Mobilise the wider social science community

  6. Audiences Social scientists Their colleagues in other fields International scientific organisations and programmes Research funders Decision makers, policy shapers, practitioners and other users

  7. Why a World Social Science Report on global environmental change? Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities

  8. Timely knowledge Climate change “threatens our planet, our only home” Thomas Stocker, IPCC Co-Chair, 27 September 2013

  9. Indispensable knowledge The inseparability of environmental and social problems The centrality of people The urgent need for social transformation

  10. Content of the report Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities

  11. Conceptual framework The Transformative Cornerstones of Social Science Research for Global Change (ISSC Report: Hackmann and Lera St Clair, 2012) Social science questions that have to be asked regardless of the concrete problem being addressed

  12. The complexity and urgency of global environmental change and sustainability Real-world consequences of global environmental change in different geographic, cultural and personal contexts

  13. The role of values, worldviews and belief systems in interpreting and responding to threats Conditions and visions for change in a rapidly changing world

  14. Ethical approaches and concerns about justice in developing policy solutions to global environmental change problems New approaches to governance and decision-making at different scales

  15. Social science capacities to undertake research on global environmental change Annexes: Statistics on the production of social science research Bibliometric analysis of social science research on climate change and global environmental change

  16. Key messages and priority action steps Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities

  17. A new social science for sustainability Bolder in reframing global environmental change as a social process Better at infusing social science knowledge into real-world problem-solving Bigger in terms of having more social scientists addressing the issue Different in terms of its thinking and practice

  18. Environmental change as social change Developing social lenses Revealing the social, economic, political and cultural nature of the challenge Highlighting the role of people, behaviours, practices, institutions Opening up spaces for social innovation

  19. Solutions that work for people and the planet Closing the gap between the pace of global environmental change and social responses Leading engagement with decision makers Working with societies in specific social-ecological settings Building open knowledge systems and networks of mutual learning

  20. Meeting growing knowledge needs Increasing research production: human capital and institutional resources Building critical mass and communities of practice Communicating effectively and using what is already known Leading in integrated, solutions-oriented research

  21. Transforming knowledge production and use Embracing interdisciplinarity Integrating across scales Building bridges across different forms of knowledge Getting serious about the co-design and co-production of knowledge and action with policy makers, practitioners, civil society and private sector actors

  22. Conclusion Achievements Resources Challenges and opportunities

  23. The 2013 World Social Science Report A starting point for rallying further social science engagement A basis for discussion and the development of mobilisation and resource strategies

  24. Moving in the right direction … “Transformations to Sustainability” global funding programme to be launched by the ISSC in 2014

  25. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/

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