@Article{LahsenTurn:2021:HoNoNe,
               author = "Lahsen, Myanna Hvid and Turnhout, Esther",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Wageningen 
                         University}",
                title = "How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations 
                         towards sustainability",
              journal = "Environmental Research Letters",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "16",
               number = "2",
                pages = "e025008",
                month = "Feb.",
             abstract = "After decades of inadequate responses to scientists' warnings 
                         about global environmental threats, leading analysts of the 
                         science-policy interface are seeking an important shift of 
                         research focus. This switch is from continued modeling and 
                         diagnoses of biogeochemical conditions in favor of enhanced 
                         efforts to understand the many socio-political obstacles to 
                         achieving just transformations towards sustainability, and how to 
                         overcome them. We discuss why this shift continues to prove 
                         elusive. We argue that rarely analyzed mutually reinforcing power 
                         structures, interests, needs, and norms within the institutions of 
                         global environmental change science obstruct rethinking and 
                         reform. The blockage created by these countervailing forces are 
                         shielded from scrutiny and change through retreats behind shields 
                         of neutrality and objectivity, stoked and legitimated by fears of 
                         losing scientific authority. These responses are maladaptive, 
                         however, since transparency and reflexivity are essential for 
                         rethinking and reform, even in contexts marked by 
                         anti-environmentalism. We therefore urge greater openness, 
                         self-critique, and power-sharing across research communities, to 
                         create spaces and support for conversations, diverse knowledges, 
                         and decisions conducive to sustainability transformations.",
                  doi = "10.1088/1748-9326/abdcf0",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abdcf0",
                 issn = "1748-9326",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "lahsen_how.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "20 maio 2024"
}