Q0: What seems to be the problem?
A system's capacity to bounce back after disturbances by focusing on internal dynamics, potentially restoring problematic status quo arrangements.
What is Resilience
The network of steps and organizations involved in producing and delivering a product, from raw materials to the final customer.
What are Supply Chains
The concept means long-term exclusion of certain groups from power, resources, and recognition due to past injustices.
What is Historical Marginalisation
The archetype when a system experiences exponential growth of something, driving the system state to change.
What is Escalation
The term used to describe working between disciplines, distilling the important contributions and interventions that each discipline can offer as a way to improve shared understandings of problems.
What is Interdisciplinarity
Refers to impacts that build up over time through additive, synergistic, or antagonistic interactions, where marginal changes stack and fundamentally alter system dynamics.
What are Cumulative Impacts
Refers to the fairness in how benefits and burdens are shared among people or groups.
What is Distributional Justice
A process of first recognizing colonial systems, structures and
institutions and then continually working to unsettle and challenge them.
What is Decolonisation
The idea that our decisions are not entirely ‘internal’ rational processes but instead factors that aren’t constitutive of our
surroundings may also act as a ‘constraint’ on our decision-making.
What is Ecological Rationality
This means that economics does not simply describe realities,
as economists often proclaims it does, but rather it produces realities too.
What is the Performativity of Economics
A framework defining a safe and just operating space between an ecological ceiling (planetary boundaries) and social foundation (minimum wellbeing standards).
What is The 'Doughnut'
Can be used to describe the ability to prevent people from using a good or service if they don’t pay for it.
What is Excludability
Used to articulate how power is entrenched in social
systems in ways that systemically favours and prioritizes certain value systems and interests over others.
What are Systemic Power Dynamics
A collection of particular system structures that
have been documented as occurring in a wide variety of contexts.
What are System Archetypes
This term arose from the insight that, as a consequence of there being limits to growth, we need to figure out how socio-ecological systems not only can transition to a world without growth, but also thrive in a world without growth
What is Post Growth
Refers to system states where small additional perturbations trigger disproportionately large responses.
What are Tipping Points
Refers to the shared rules, behaviors, and expectations within a society or group that guide how people are supposed to act.
What are Socio-cultural Norms
Can be used to refer to a range of events or processes where some level of injustice has been inflicted on another party.
What are Conflicts
Activities, processes, and relations that are not necessarily targeted by policy though they are foundational to our everyday lives.
What are Invisible Economies
People’s necessities for achieving a good quality of life
What are Societal Needs
Refers to impacts that cross political or geographic borders, such as pollution or migration.
What are Transboundary Effects
The amount of materials, energy, or products that pass through a system in a given period of time.
What is Throughput
Refers to ways of knowing that have typically been excluded or marginalized from what might be termed conventional scientific knowledges.
What are Indigenous Local Knowledges
Can include physical ‘things’ (like populations of fish, or number of trees), but can also include abstract or intangible ‘things’ (like socio-cultural norms or policy drivers).
What are System Elements
Solutions to sustainability problems that are in some way based upon, inspired by, or even mimic complex features and processes of nature and ecosystems.
What are Nature-Based Solutions