The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda
The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.06.009
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发表时间：
2021-07-24
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Zipf, Alexander
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作者：
de Albuquerque, Joao Porto;Anderson, Liana;Zipf, Alexander
这篇文章调查了数字技术和数据创新，如大数据和公民生成的数据，在实现向可持续发展转型方面的作用。我们审查了这一领域的最新文献，并确定最普遍的工作假设与数据为决策提供信息和支持转型的能力有关。然而，对这种情况发生的具体途径缺乏批判性的调查。我们提出了一个框架，该框架确定了数据生成、流通和使用如何能够实现向可持续性转变的规模和潜在途径。这一框架扩大了关于数据的作用和功能的视角，并用它来勾勒未来工作的重要研究议程，其中充分考虑到数据可有效支持实现可持续发展的变革性途径的社会文化背景和做法。(C)2021年提交人(S)。爱思唯尔出版公司(Elsevier B.V.)
This article investigates the role of digital technologies and data innovations, such as big data and citizen-generated data, to enable transformations to sustainability. We reviewed recent literature in this area and identified that the most prevailing assumption of work is related to the capacity of data to inform decision-making and support transformations. However, there is a lack of critical investigation on the concrete pathways for this to happen. We present a framework that identifies scales and potential pathways on how data generation, circulation and usage can enable transformations to sustainability. This framework expands the perspective on the role and functions of data, and it is used to outline a critical research agenda for future work that fully considers the socio-cultural contexts and practices through which data may effectively support transformative pathways to sustainable development. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.