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A Conceptual Architecture for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations

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This Chapter takes the emerging conceptual architecture for stewarding sustainability transformations to the next level. It suggests that collaboration literacy enhances transformation literacy, which is defined as the capability to steward sustainability transformations collectively, across the boundaries of institutions, nations, sectors, and cultures. The chapter proposes four shifts in thinking toward a new way of approaching large-system change that consider the Patterns of Aliveness Theory with its six aliveness-enhancing principles. It summarizes the insights from 50 semi-structured research interviews with scholars and practitioners in the global sustainability arena and links these insights to the currently most discussed intervention approaches to sustainability transformations. The integration with the aliveness principles and the dimensions of the Collective Leadership Compass leads to the final level of the conceptual architecture for stewarding sustainability transformations. How this can be applied to enhance systems aliveness is illustrated by an example from the circular economy approach.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Personal interview with Humberto Maturana, August 2016, in Santiago de Chile.

  2. 2.

    The term everyday theory is taken from the German term „“Alltagstheorie“ which describes a mental construction of how things are hang together and have come into being which creates a basis for the actions of a person in the world.

  3. 3.

    DIALogos: Unpublished fieldguide “Leadership for Collective Intelligence”; Course, 2001.

  4. 4.

    A list of relevant gatherings attended by the author as well as the summary of research inquiry conversations held can be found in Annex 2.

  5. 5.

    Source: Personal conversation with Hunter Lovins, President of Natural Capital Solutions (see also: https://natcapsolutions.org/an-economy-in-service-to-life/).

  6. 6.

    Source (Accessed on April 15, 2017): http://bteam.org/

  7. 7.

    Source (Accessed on April 3, 2017): http://unsdsn.org/

  8. 8.

    Source (Accessed on April 3, 2017): http://www.afi-global.org/

  9. 9.

    Source (Accessed on April 3, 2017): http://www.gwp.org/

  10. 10.

    Lekgotla is in South Africa sometimes referred to as “Dialogue of Leaders” and regularly used, for example, for cabinet reviews also (De Liefde 2003, p. 56).

  11. 11.

    A more detailed description of the Roadmap can be found in Sect. 7.3.2.

  12. 12.

    Source (Accessed on April 5, 2017): https://www.unglobalcompact.org

  13. 13.

    Quote retrieved on May 10, 2017, from http://www.oib-france.com/gross-domestic-product-in-1968-by-robert-f-kennedy/, the full quote retrieved is: Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product … if we should judge America by that – counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. (…)

    Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

  14. 14.

    For more details, see the following source (Accessed on May 3, 2017): http://www.grossnationalhappiness.com/nine-domains/

  15. 15.

    For more details see the following source (Accessed on May 3, 2017): http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi

  16. 16.

    For more details see the following source (Accessed on May 3, 2017): https://2030-watch.de/

  17. 17.

    See, for example (Accessed on May 6, 2017): http://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/

  18. 18.

    See, for example (Accessed on May 6, 2017): https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-sea-surface-temperature

  19. 19.

    See, for example (Accessed on May 6, 2017): https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions

  20. 20.

    See the information on the Planetary Boundaries Conference in Berlin April 2017: https://pb-conference2017.de/

  21. 21.

    Source (Accessed on April 3, 2017): https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/ocean-to-ozone-earths-nine-life-support-systems/

  22. 22.

    Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/choreography. Accessed June 4, 2017.

  23. 23.

    The Finnish Innovation Fund (SITRA) is an independent public foundation. It is directly supervised by the Finnish Parliament. Source (Accessed on April 3, 2017): https://www.sitra.fi/en/

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Kuenkel, P. (2019). A Conceptual Architecture for Stewarding Sustainability Transformations. In: Stewarding Sustainability Transformations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03691-1_7

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