How can science support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? Four tasks to tackle the normative dimension of sustainability
How can science support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? Four tasks to tackle the normative dimension of sustainability
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10.1007/s11625-019-00675-y
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
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6
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Messerli, Peter
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作者：
Schneider, Flurina;Klay, Andreas;Messerli, Peter
《联合国2030年可持续发展议程》强调科学在实现国际社会认可的17项可持续发展目标中应发挥的基础作用。但是，研究人员应该如何回应这种社会对科学的需求呢？我们认为，回答这个问题需要系统地参与2030年议程和科学界的基本规范层面，以及这些层面对研究和实践的影响。我们认为，生产相关的可持续发展的知识需要通过四个任务的规范和价值观的分析参与。首先，要解开和批判性地反思涉及可持续发展的伦理价值观，价值观应该越来越多地成为可持续发展研究的经验和理论对象。其次，为了确保社会生态系统的研究与可持续性价值观相关，研究人员应该反思并阐明哪些可持续性价值观指导他们的研究，同时考虑到可能的相互依赖性，协同作用和权衡。第三，为了就可持续性在具体情况下的含义找到共同点，科学家应与社会行为体一起参与审议性学习进程，以期共同反思现有的发展愿景，并创造新的、符合具体情况的愿景。第四，这意味着研究人员和科学学科必须澄清自己的伦理和认识价值，因为这定义了问责制，并形成了问题，研究问题和结果的识别。我们认为，忽视这些任务，无论是支持还是批评2030年议程，都将损害科学对可持续发展贡献的可信度和相关性。
The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development stresses the fundamental role science should play in implementing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals endorsed by the global community. But how can and should researchers respond to this societal demand on science? We argue that answering this question requires systematic engagement with the fundamental normative dimensions of the 2030 Agenda and those of the scientific community-and with the implications these dimensions have for research and practice. We suggest that the production of knowledge relevant to sustainable development entails analytic engagement with norms and values through four tasks. First, to unravel and critically reflect on the ethical values involved in sustainability, values should increasingly become an empirical and theoretical object of sustainability research. Second, to ensure that research on social-ecological systems is related to sustainability values, researchers should reflect on and spell out what sustainability values guide their research, taking into account possible interdependencies, synergies, and trade-offs. Third, to find common ground on what sustainability means for specific situations, scientists should engage in deliberative learning processes with societal actors, with a view to jointly reflecting on existing development visions and creating new, contextualized ones. Fourth, this implies that researchers and scientific disciplines must clarify their own ethical and epistemic values, as this defines accountability and shapes identification of problems, research questions, and results. We believe that ignoring these tasks, whether one is in favor or critical of the 2030 Agenda, will undermine the credibility and relevance of scientific contributions for sustainable development.