Maja Göpel's research while affiliated with Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and other places
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Publications (9)
By tying pioneer practice back to the scientific basis of Chaps. 2 and 3, we see how essential the role of worldviews or mind-sets are in the formation of individual identity, collective vision and strategies for systemic change that have a mobilizing effect.
Long before I discovered Polanyi, my decision to study political economy was a key turning point in my quest to find an answer to the question of why we, collectively, do not create the sustainable world that we, as individuals, wish for. While finishing a degree in media and communications, (surely, I thought, “we just need to get the information...
So, if the changes envisioned by the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda are supposed to be transformational in quality, how do we work toward this quality? This chapter provides the analytical perspective of a system-thinking, environmentally aware political economist with a sober appreciation of technological innovation. It defines two concepts a...
Transformation research is close to innovation research and practice in its emphasis on experimentation and the role that pioneers play when it comes to testing new solutions. Many corporations have similar prototype programs or cross-finance one unit to explore different practices. In recent years in particular, this has also been about making thi...
In the middle of the twentieth century, we saw our planet from space for the first time. Historians may eventually find that this vision had a greater impact on thought than did the Copernican revolution of the sixteenth century, which upset the human self-image by revealing that the Earth is not the centre of the universe. From space, we see a sma...
Sustainable development is the 21st Century’s wicked problem. After 40 years into this agenda have reversed only few unsustainable trends we hear the call for aparadigm shift, transformation, radical change or system innovations in order to finally change course. But what does this actually mean? And how do we put it into practice?
This book descr...
Nachhaltigkeit scheitert nicht wirklich an der Erkenntnis. Seit den siebziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts werden die auf lange Sicht negativen Auswirkungen kurzfristiger Wohlstandsgewinne weltweit problematisiert, besonders in Bezug auf unsere Umwelt. Heute werden zunehmend auch die sozialen, kulturellen und individuellen Schäden unserer aktuellen...
Der oft nur begriffliche Rückgriff auf Karl Polanyis Analyse der ,,Großen Transforma tion“ greift zu kurz. Ein konsequenterer Blick darauf kann der Trans formationsforschung neue Impulse geben.
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... Rund 70 Jahre später wurde sein Werk Ideen-und Namensgeber für die "große Transformation" der Industriegesellschaft Richtung Nachhaltigkeit(vgl. WBGU 2011;Göpel 2014 Göpel , 2016Schneidewind 2018).234 Granovetter (1985, S. 51) zitiert Polanyi 1944 sowie Polanyi, Arensberg & Pearson 1957 (s. ...
... These represent different levels of technical connectedness and types of organizations (Parag & Sovacool, 2016). Giotitsas et al. (2022) aimed to fruitfully connect engineering and social sciences through commons and, similarly to Göpel (2016), critique the inappropriateness of mainstream economic tools for radical transformations. ...
... However, these approaches often neglect the deeper structures of social-ecological systems and normative directionalities (Weber et al., 2020). In particular, more attention needs to be attributed to deep leverage points, hence points in the system where even small changes can have widespread effects Göpel, 2016;Meadows, 1999). Paradigms have been identified as the deepest leverage points for transformation. ...
... Moreover, little action has taken place addressing the root causes of the current unsustainable development trajectories (Abson et al., 2017;Göpel, 2016a). Much of the sustainability discourse has instead focused on technological fixes or adjusting parameters such as taxes, incentives and standards, which have a limited potential of inducing transformative change (Abson et al., 2017;Göpel, 2016a;Meadows, 1999). ...
... The multiplicity of decision theories presented in Chapter 3 can partially be explained in the light of different root disciplines, as well as of scientific and societal paradigms prevalent in their time of origin. In decision-making theories, one can currently observe a trend towards the dissociation from the dominant "homo oeconomicus" model, in which the human is defined as an agent making purely rational choices, seeking maximal benefit based on cost-benefit assessments (Göpel, 2016). The "homo oeconomicus" model can be understood as a "departure" in the sense that many subsequent theories constitute their identity based on how they differ from "homo oeconomicus" (Mullainathan & Thaler, 2000). ...
... Philosophers such as Birnbacher (1988) and Tremmel (2014) relay this quest for a futureregarding ethics. Meanwhile, German social scientists such as Göpel (2014) and go from ethics to implementation, promoting ways of institutionalizing future-oriented representation. Think tanks such as the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (in Stuttgart) and the World Future Council (headquartered in Hamburg) further this project. ...
... Polanyi's notion of a "great transformation" (Blyth, 2002;WBGU, 2011;Göpel and Remig, 2014;Göpel, 2016), or they use transformation rather than transition to emphasize sustainability aspects and planetary boundaries (Patterson et al., 2017;Raworth, 2017;Linnér and Wibeck, 2019) or the perspective of resilience (Olsson, Galaz and Boonstra, 2014). As Wittmayer and Hölscher (2017, p. 15) conclude: "[T]ransformation research is broader than transition research; the latter focuses on structural change in societal (e.g. ...
