Wie entfalten Reallabore Wirkung für die Transformation? Eine embedded-agency perspective zur Analyse von Wirkmechanismen in Reallaboren
- Author(s)
- Karoline Augenstein, Paula Maria Bögel, Meike Levin-Keitel, Helena Trenks
- Abstract
The central concern of real-world lab research is the inter- and transdisciplinary generation of socially robust transformation knowledge. Despite the fact that real-world labs explore and study fundamental mechanisms of change, there are few approaches that deal with this question from a systematic, theoretical and methodological perspective. Concrete real-world lab projects should be able to live up to their claim as a central research mode, supporting sustainability transformations. Thus, approaches are required that foster a broader understanding of mechanisms of change in real-world labs. We find promising approaches that describe mechanisms of change along discipline-specific analytical and empirical scales. Key challenges are to develop analytical frameworks that integrate such approaches from different disciplines, and to identify mechanisms of change in a systematic and comprehensive way. In this article we present an embedded-agency perspective for analysing mechanisms of change in real-world labs and discuss the methodological implications. With the help of this analytical framework, real-world lab processes can be designed in such a way that relevant data is collected and transformative impacts can be assessed.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Universität Vechta, Technische Universität Dortmund, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
- Journal
- GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
- Volume
- 31
- Pages
- 207-214
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0940-5550
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.31.4.4
- Publication date
- 2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507012 Spatial structure
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7203b18d-4239-4188-bcb3-42218dd982ef