Klimatilpasning (avsluttet)

• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2023). Extinction Rebellion and the Future City. I Haarstad, Håvard; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Kjærås, Kristin Edith Abrahamsen & Johnson, Eleanor (Red.), Haste: The slow politics of climate urgency. UCL Press. ISSN 9781800083295. s. 38–51.
• O'Brien, Karen; Carmona, Rosario; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Hochachka, Gail; Sygna, Linda & Rosenberg, Milda (2023). Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability. Ambio. ISSN 0044-7447. 52, s. 1448–1461. doi: 10.1007/s13280-023-01873-w. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Bentz, Julia; O'Brien, Karen & Scoville-Simonds, Morgan (2022). Beyond ‘blah blah blah’: Exploring the ‘how’ of transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. 17(2), s. 497–506. doi: 10.1007/s11625-022-01123-0.
• O'Brien, Karen & Milkoreit, Manjana (2022). Climate Politics and Social Change: What Can Cognitive and Quantum Approaches Offer? . I Der Derian, James & Wendt, Alexander (Red.), Quantum International Relations: A Human Science for World Politics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780197568248. s. 127–152. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197568200.001.0001.
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Integrating the four faces of climate change adaptation: Towards transformative change in Guatemalan coffee communities. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 140, s. 1–15. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105361. Vis sammendrag

  Despite the complexity of climate change, the dominant definition and practice of adaptation remains reactive, incremental, and focused primarily on biophysical and techno-managerial changes. Researchers suggest this is necessary but insufficient, noting the importance of integrating subjectivity in a more comprehensive approach to adaptation and in moving toward deliberate transformation in a climate change context. Here, I consider how to expand the scope and depth of ‘adaptation’ as it is currently defined and practiced, presenting an Integral conceptual framework that integrates the ‘interior’ forms of adaptation and thus can account for the diverse ways that local people are responding to entangled changes at the local level. Drawing on case study research in Guatemala, I explore how a more balanced integration of subjective and objective adaptive capacities, in individuals and collectives, leads to four types of adaptation—personal, practical, critical-structural, and co-generative. Findings describe: 1)how critical-structural adaptations were helpful in disrupting structural arrangements in ways that practical adaptations alone were not; and 2) that the interior adaptations (personal and co-generative) were less emphasized overall but can be effectively integrated, either implicitly or explicitly, with dominant forms of adaptation practice. This study demonstrates how a more comprehensive approach to adaptation may better position communities to engage in transformative change.

• Eriksen, Siri; Schipper, E Lisa F; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan; Vincent, Katharine; Adam, Hans Nicolai & Brooks, Nick [Vis alle 20 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 141. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105383. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii) a retrofitting of adaptation into existing development agendas; and (iv) a lack of critical engagement with how ‘adaptation success’ is defined. Emerging literature shows potential avenues for overcoming the current failure of adaptation interventions to reduce vulnerability: first, shifting the terms of engagement between adaptation practitioners and the local populations participating in adaptation interventions; and second, expanding the understanding of ‘local’ vulnerability to encompass global contexts and drivers of vulnerability. An important lesson from past adaptation interventions is that within current adaptation cum development paradigms, inequitable terms of engagement with ‘vulnerable’ populations are reproduced and the multi-scalar processes driving vulnerability remain largely ignored. In particular, instead of designing projects to change the practices of marginalised populations, learning processes within organisations and with marginalised populations must be placed at the centre of adaptation objectives. We pose the question of whether scholarship and practice need to take a post-adaptation turn akin to post-development, by seeking a pluralism of ideas about adaptation while critically interrogating how these ideas form part of the politics of adaptation and potentially the processes (re)producing vulnerability. We caution that unless the politics of framing and of scale are explicitly tackled, transformational interventions risk having even more adverse effects on marginalised populations than current adaptation.

• Arnold, Emma (2021). Mercurial images of the COVID-19 city. I van Melik, Rianne; Filion, Pierre & Doucet, Brian (Red.), Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Cities, Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility. Bristol University Press. ISSN 978-1529219005. s. 199–212. Vis sammendrag

  This chapter explores the changing image of the city during the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at how the city has been transformed, the chapter suggests that we might gain inspiration for how we might re-imagine cities in the face of global challenges like climate change.

• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Finding shared meaning in the Anthropocene: engaging diverse perspectives on climate change. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00965-4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00960-9. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2021). Individual and collective leadership for deliberate transformations: Insights from Indigenous leadership. Leadership. ISSN 1742-7150. 17(5), s. 519–541. doi: 10.1177/1742715021996486. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Vogel, Coleen & O'Brien, Karen (2021). Getting to the Heart of Transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01016-8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Veland, Siri; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Maggs, David & Lynch, Amanda H. (2021). Can the sustainable development goals harness the means and the manner of transformation? Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. s. 1–15. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-01032-8. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The 17 sustainable development goals and their 169 targets comprise a comprehensive list of prerequisites for human and planetary well-being, but they also implicitly invoke many of the very trade-offs, synergies, and parallelisms that drive global crises. Decision-makers are familiar with these internal conflicts, and there is no shortage of frameworks, blueprints, and roadmaps to accelerate sustainability. However, thus far, inevitable trade-offs among competing priorities for sustainability are not catalyzing the types of transformations called for, indeed, demanded, by the SDGs. Habitual technocratic approaches, which the SDG lend themselves to, will report on indicators and targets, but will not adequately represent the ambitions of the goals themselves. Addressing these habitual tendencies, this paper therefore considers the inner dimensions of transformation, including emotions and meaning-making. Music offers a rich source of metaphor to reimagine interconnections and communicates affectively the feelings and embodied dimensions of intellectual thought and creativity. We draw on Western musical composition and history to offer insights on an intellectual path-dependency leading up to the current disembodied indicator-based management and regulation of global environmental and societal crises, and on potential alternatives. As metaphors, we consider what the SDGs might ‘sound like’ as either 12-tone, contrapuntal, or improvisational expression. We suggest that for the SDGs to release their transformative potential, ‘sustainability improvisers’ with a handle on both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of transformation are needed: harnessed with deep understanding of SDG indicators and targets, but with an ability to listen deeply and invite others to co-create transformative pathways.

• Leichenko, Robin; Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin & O'Brien, Karen (2021). Teaching the “how” of transformation. Sustainability Science. ISSN 1862-4065. doi: 10.1007/s11625-021-00964-5.
• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Unearthing insights for climate change response in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Sustainability. ISSN 2059-4798. s. 1–10. doi: 10.1017/sus.2020.27. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In the first half of 2020, a dramatic, fast and widespread series of changes occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in behaviors, mindsets, culture, and systems. Yet, despite the intergovernmental calls for precisely this kind of fundamental, transformative change across society regarding global warming, public opinion on climate change is fractured and collective action is slow. More research is needed on the psychosocial dimensions of climate change, to better understand what the bottlenecks are for realizing transformative change. In this paper, I examine what occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic response that could be learned for the climate crisis. I focus on three psychological aspects that made the COVID-19 response accessible and actionable in a way that climate change is not: the mental demands for under-standing complex issues; psychological distance and its impacts on motivation and agency;and finite attentional resources that can render certain issues as non-salient. Lessons for climate engagement include: (1) the usefulness of concrete, simple, and personally-relatable messaging; (2) more diverse and democratized climate understandings and stories; (3) greater recognition about how psychological distance affects meaning-making and sense of agency;and (4) appreciation of attentional crowding and the need for sense-making strategies about complex issues.

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• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World. cCHANGE Press. ISBN 978-82-691819-5-1. 179 s.

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• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Transformations To Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! .
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Three Spheres of Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Scaling Transformations to Sustainability: You Matter More than You Think.
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Quantum Social Change For a Thriving World: You Matter More Than You Think!
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). What’s the Risk? Engaging with Deliberate Transformations in Response to Climate Change.
• O'Brien, Karen (2023). Climate Change and Transformations To Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Pathways for June 26, 2022: You Matter More Than You Think – Karen O’Brien. [Radio]. Pathways Radio by Paul O'Brien [Podcast].
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). 144. Karen O’Brien on Quantum Social Change & Mattering More Than We Think. [Internett]. The RegenNarration Podcast.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). #37 - Quantum Social Change, med Karen O'Brien. [Radio]. Dekodet [Podcast].
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Artivism: The art of creating social change.
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Photography, composition, and the activist city.
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2022). Prøvde å «ta» Munch: – Jeg ville ikke, men jeg måtte (by Torgeir Knutsen). [Internett]. https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/provde-a-ta-munch-jeg-v.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think! .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Importas más de lo que crees! .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Fractals of Change: The Role of Agency in Transformations to Sustainability.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Sustainability: You Matter More Than You Think!
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Taking the Urgency seriously: You matter more than you think.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformative Change: Integrating the practical, political, and personal spheres of transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability: What are they and how do we make them happen?
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). The Challenge of Global Change: How do we Transform? .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Vil vi klare å overholde Paris-avtalen? . Forskersonen.no.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Karen O’Brien skal lede utredning for FNs naturpanel. [Internett]. Universitet i Oslo.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). – Jeg tror det er et paradigmeskifte på vei. [Internett]. Forskerforum.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Karen O’Brien: – Det er ikke CO2-utslippene som er det største problemet. [Avis]. Aftenposten A Magasinet.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Quantum Social Change: You Matter More Than You Think! [Keynote].
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Hope for the Paris Agreement? You matter more than you think! .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Climate Change and Sustainability: Three Spheres of Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformative Change and Biodiversity: Integrating the Practical, Political, and Personal Spheres of Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Climate Change: It’s a Relationship Problem.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). The Human Dimensions: They matter more than you think!
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Quantum Social Change: You Matter More Than You Think .
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). Transformations to Sustainability.
• O'Brien, Karen (2022). En 30 dagers utfordring – for klima. [Internett]. NRK.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). Forska i Alaska: – Vi kan lære mykje av urfolk om omstilling til klimaendringar. [Internett]. Vestlandsforskning.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). The Scales of Transformation: Indigenous Relationality as a Source of Sustainable and Effective Responses to Global Crisis.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). DF #21for21 - #8 - Karen O'Brien. [Internett]. Digital Society School [Podcast].
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Conversations with Michael & Karen O'Brien ~Climate and Society: Transforming the Future. [Radio]. WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A ... [Podcast].
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Karen O'Brien ~You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change For A Thriving World. [Radio]. WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A ... [Podcast].
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: We Matter More Than We Think.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: It’s A Relationship Problem.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Climate Change: It’s A Relationship Problem.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Quantum social change.
• O'Brien, Karen; Bjordam, Tone; Cooper, Lisa & Skadal, Martin (2021). Book Launch: "You Matter More Than You Think".
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Verdenskjent klimaforsker: – Det er nesten så vi er trent til å si at det vi gjør, ikke betyr noe. [Internett]. Universitet i Oslo.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). – Jeg håper at vi alle kan forstå, enten vi er bussjåfører, leger, arkitekter, eller musikere, at det vi gjør, betyr noe. [Internett]. Forskning.no.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Transformative Change.
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). Coffee and Climate Change. [Internett]. Universitet i Oslo.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Møtereferat: En aften som skal snu opp-ned på tankemønstre. [Avis]. Morgenbladet.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Bentz, Julia & Schafenacker, Nicole (2021). 4 ways of co-creating right relations (Climate Creativity Blog Post).
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). How can transdisciplinarity support actors to effect transformative responses to climate change?
• Sanchez Laws, Ana Luisa; Broderstad, Else Grete; Nordahl Carlsen, Anna; Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa & Gross, Lena (2021). Civil disobedience, non-violence, democracy and climate change. Vis sammendrag

  Presentation and panel debate on civil disobedience, non-violence, democracy and climate change.

• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a World in Crisis.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Political Agency for Transformations: What does it take?
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). The Three Spheres of Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). From Problems to Solutions: Engaging People in Transformations to Sustainability.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Governing Transformations: It’s All About Relationships.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Transformation in Action.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Social and Cultural Values and Fractal Perspectives.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Education for Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). You Matter More Than You Think: Climate change, Social change, and The Humanities in the 21st Century.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Integrative Approaches to Transformations.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Accelerating Action on Climate Change: Engaging with the practical, political, and personal spheres of transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2021). Dekolonisering av paradigmer. I Ossavy, Nina & Kolbenstvedt, Marius (Red.), Naturtro. Om å dekolonisere naturen.. Iris forlag. ISSN 9788293359265. s. 67–68.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2021). Individual and collective leadership for deliberate transformation: Insights from Indigenous leadership.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’- a relational perspective on researching sustainability in the Arctic.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole & Bentz, Julia (2021). ‘Right relations’ approach to working with Indigenous Peoples.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin; Schafenacker, Nicole; Bentz, Julia; Skaara, Marte & Mimilaki, Theda (2021). Working to undo the colonial relations at the root of the climate crisis.
• Arnold, Emma Mary Louisa (2020). How fiction can persuade readers that climate change is real (by Anna Colivicchi). [Internett]. euronews.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Just Transformations: How can ideas of transformation be integrated into possible pathways and corridors to a safe and just future?
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). A springboard in the transition to a low emission society.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Paneldebatt: Hvordan lager vi en klimapolitikk som oppleves som rettferdig?
• Hochachka, Gail (2020). Integrating the four faces of adaptation: Toward transformative change in Guatemalan coffee communities. Vis sammendrag

  Despite the complexity of climate change, the dominant definition and practice of adaptation remains reactive, incremental, and focused primarily on biophysical and techno-managerial changes. Researchers suggest this is necessary but not sufficient, and increasingly note the importance of subjectivity, in both individuals and groups, in fostering comprehensive adaptation as well as for creating a more conscious, deliberate transformation. In this paper, I consider how to expand the scope and depth of ‘adaptation’ as it is currently defined and practiced, presenting an Integral analytical framework that weights more evenly the ‘interior’ forms of adaptation alongside a mainstream adaptation approach. Drawing on comparative case study research in Guatemalan coffee-growing communities, I explore how a more balanced integration of the subjective and objective adaptive capacities, in individuals and collectives, leads to four types of adaptation— personal, practical, critical-structural and co-generative. The research findings present: 1) two imaginaries for sustainable futures based on how the communities confronted entangled changes in their regions; 2) the interior adaptations (personal and co-generative) are less emphasized overall but can be integrated with dominant forms of adaptation practice; 3) critical-structural adaptations can particularly help disrupt status quo structural arrangements and to generate transformation, and 4) including a more comprehensive range of adaptations, and their associated adaptive capacities, may better position communities to engage in transformative change toward sustainability. My inquiry finds that the shift from adaptation to transformation, is not only possible but the latter might be closer at hand than expected.

• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2020). Klimaendringer eller systemendringer: Hvem bestemmer?
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). It’s a Relationship Problem: Addressing Biodiversity Loss, Climate Change, Inequality, and Global Pandemics.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2020). Why you matter for solving climate change.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). The Adaptive Challenge of Sustainable Development: Looking beyond a purely technical approach.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Education for Transformation: The significance of paradigms, politics, and practices.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Education for Transformation: Whose Values and Visions are Shaping the Future? .
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Transformational Leadership for Sustainability .
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). The Decade that Matters: Taking Transformations to Climate Change and Transformations to Sustainability Seriously.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Taking the Climate Crisis Seriously: Three Spheres of Transformation.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Transforming the Future.
• O'Brien, Karen (2020). Forskere mener vi ikke lenger kan stole på at teknologien skal redde klimaet. [Internett]. Forskning.no.
• Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin (2022). How Relations Come to Matter: A Study of the Role of Relations for Deliberate Transformations in an Alaska Native Community. University of Oslo. ISSN 1504-3991.
• Hochachka, Gail (2021). A Matter of Meaning: Integrating the Deeper Human Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation to Support Transformations to Sustainability in a Global Coffee Value Chain. Universitet i Oslo. ISSN 1504-3991.

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