'Opening up' the governance of water-energy-food nexus: Towards a science-policy-society interface based on hybridity and humility.

Autor: Urbinatti AM; School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, 715, Dr. Arnaldo Av. - Cerqueira César, São Paulo, SP 01246-904, Brazil. Electronic address: albertourbinatti@usp.br., Dalla Fontana M; School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, 715, Dr. Arnaldo Av. - Cerqueira César, São Paulo 01246-904, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: mdallafontana@usp.br., Stirling A; Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Sussex House, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH, United Kingdom. Electronic address: A.C.Stirling@sussex.ac.uk., Giatti LL; School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, University of São Paulo, 715, Dr. Arnaldo Av. - Cerqueira César, São Paulo 01246-904, SP, Brazil. Electronic address: lgiatti@usp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2020 Nov 20; Vol. 744, pp. 140945. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140945
Abstrakt: The governance of the nexus between water, energy, and food (hereafter, 'the nexus') is permeated by complex interactions of knowledge at a science-policy-society interface. This paper starts from a literature review to find the main narratives that allow us to understand what is at stake in this interface. By thematically synthesising 19 select articles, we reached three layers of knowledge interaction: 'knowledge application', 'knowledge integration', and 'knowledge transformation'. To avoid misleading simplifications, we discussed the constraints on this debate and some pressures for what we consider as 'closing down' knowledge about the nexus. We then developed a conceptual framework based on the 'technologies of humility' proposed by Jasanoff (2003, 2007) to create opportunities to 'open up' the nexus approach. Finally, we illustrated the four pillars proposed by some studies to describe what we have termed 'nexus of humility': framing, vulnerability, distribution, and learning. These foci seek to enable a humbler appreciation on all sides of the persistent sources of uncertainty, divergence, and conditionality in sustainability governance. This framework also contributes towards necessary transformations of knowledge about nexus and its challenging implementation.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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