我们如何改变世界？

跨社会可持续性转变之可能

How do we change the world? 

Making sense of sustainability transformations across societies.

The concept of transformation is increasingly employed in science and policy debates. The surge in appeals for societal transformations to sustainability is reflected in United Nations 2030 Agenda’s tag line “transforming our world” and the recent IPCC 1.5°C report. Transformative change in societies across the world is needed to address the enormous societal challenges of rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and safeguarding the environment while increasing energy access, eradicating poverty and securing food and health for all. Nonetheless, in science and policy debates, decisive questions of what is to be transformed, by whom, and to what extent transformation can be governed tend to remain largely unarticulated and unclear. Upon scrutiny, the expectations concerning transformation vary significantly within and across societies. Drawing on a book soon to be published by Cambridge University Press, the talk will discuss transformation is made sense of in international politics, in countries contribution to the Paris agreement and the 2030 agenda, as well as among lay people in Cabo Verde, China, Fiji, USA, and Sweden, as well as historical examples. It will present what type of change is foreseen by different calls for societal transformations, how it may be governed, and what can be drivers of deliberate transformations.

Picture from forthcoming book in 2019: Linnér, B-O. and Wibeck, V. Sustainability Transformations across Societies: Drivers and Agents of Social Change. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, if you would like to use it.

主讲人简介

Björn-Ola Linnér是瑞典林雪平大学气候科学与政策研究中心的环境变化问题教授。同时，他也是斯德哥尔摩环境研究所合作研究员、牛津大学科学创新与社会研究所合作研究员、米斯特拉地缘政治项目负责人，以及瑞典斯德哥尔摩环境保护机构研究理事会的成员。

他的研究集中于气候变化与可持续发展的国际解决方案、可持续发展的社会转型，以及政策分析与对话方法。出版的专著包括《归来的马尔萨斯：环保主义与战后人口-资源危机》《气候变化应对的政治经济学》以及即将出版的《跨社会的可持续发展转型：社会变化的中介与动力》。