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Olive Shisana & Heide Hackmann
Montréal, 10 October 2013
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1. Introduction
2. Why a world social science report on
global environmental change?
3. Content of the report
4. Key messages
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Introduction:
Some report facts and figures
1. Achievements
2. Resources
3. Challenges and opportunities
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Resources
• International Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), chaired by the ISSC President
• Editorial Team, led by the ISSC Executive Director, incl. 2 External Senior Editorial Advisors
• 7 Sponsors, incl. ISSC members NWO, RCN and NRF
Content
• Global call for contributions and commissioned papers: 150+ authors (23 disciplines), incl. from ISSC members, sponsored programmes, UNESCO and OECD
• External peer review (40+ reviewers) and editing
• Introductions and conclusions by Editorial Team
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Production
• Copy editing, tagging and proofreading by the ISSC
• Design and production: UNESCO and OECD Publishing
• Publication formats: print, readable PDF, downloadable online
Outreach
• Launch: UNESCO General Conference, 14 November 2013
• ISSC General Assembly, World Science Forum, Future Earth Meetings, ISSC member/partner events, seminars, etc.
• Media presence and interactive blog
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Objectives
• Develop a social science framing of global environmental change
• Showcase unique social science contributions
• Assess capacity to link science with policy and action
• Influence research programming and funding
• Mobilise the wider social science community
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Audiences
• Social scientists
• Their colleagues in other
fields
• International scientific
organisations and
programmes
• Research funders
• Decision makers, policy
shapers, practitioners and
other users
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Why a World Social Science Report on
global environmental change?
1. Achievements
2. Resources
3. Challenges and opportunities
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On the ground, in the air, in the oceans, global warming is “unequivocal”
Climate change “threatens our planet, our only home”
Thomas Stocker,
IPCC Co-Chair,
27 September 2013
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Indispensable social science knowledge
• The inseparability of
environmental and social
problems
• The centrality of people
• The urgent need for
social transformation
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Global sustainability: a shared challenge
…requires concerted action to
protect the planet’s bounty and,
simultaneously, to safeguard social equity,
human dignity and well-being for all”
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ISSC – CIPSH Nagoya Declaration, “Changing Nature, Changing Science”, December 2010
ISSC Report on the Transformative Cornerstones of Social Science Research, 2012
“A domain par
excellence of our
disciplines”
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Content of the report
1. Achievements
2. Resources
3. Challenges and opportunities
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Part I: The complexity and urgency of global
environmental change and sustainability
Part II: Social science capacity in global environmental
change research
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Part III: The consequences of global environmental
change for society
Part IV: Conditions and visions for change and sense
making in a rapidly changing world
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Part V: The responsibilities and ethical challenges in
tackling global environmental change
Part VI: New approaches to governance and decision-
making
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Part VII: Contributions from ISSC members, programmes and partners
Annexes:
• Statistics on the production of social science research
• Bibliometric analysis of social science research on climate change and global environmental change
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Four key messages
1. Achievements
2. Resources
3. Challenges and opportunities
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A new social science for sustainability
• Bolder in reframing global environmental change as a social process
• Better at infusing social science knowledge into real-world problem-solving
• Bigger in terms of having more social scientists addressing the issue
• Different in terms of its thinking and practice
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Environmental change as social change
Frame the
change
Enable the change
Be the change
Build capacity
for change
• Developing social lenses
• Revealing the social,
economic, political and
cultural nature of the
challenge
• Highlighting the role of
people, behaviours,
practices, institutions
• Opening up spaces for social
innovation
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Solutions that work for people and the planet
Frame the change
Enable the
change
Be the change
Build capacity
for change
• Closing the gap between the
pace of global environmental
change and social responses
• Leading engagement with
decision makers
• Working with societies in
specific social-ecological
settings
• Building open knowledge
systems and networks of
mutual learning
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Meeting growing knowledge needs
Frame the change
Enable the change
Be the change
Build capacity
for change
• Increasing research
production: human capital and
institutional resources
• Building critical mass and
communities of practice
• Communicating effectively and
using what is already known
• Leading in integrated,
solutions-oriented research
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Transforming knowledge production and use
Frame the change
Enable the change
Be the change
Build capacity
for change
• Embracing interdisciplinarity
• Integrating across scales
• Building bridges across
different forms of knowledge
• Getting serious about the co-
design and co-production of
knowledge and action with
policy makers, practitioners,
civil society and private sector
actors
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The 2013 World Social Science Report
• A starting point for rallying further social science engagement
• A basis for discussion and the development of a strategy to
• Strengthen social science visibility
• Sharpen social science knowledge on global change and social transformation
• Support social science leadership in integrated research for sustainability
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Available as from
14 November 2013
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/