Stuart Burch
Biographic Data
| ID | 304710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Burch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Burch |
| SIGNATURE | BURCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4107-4984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation
In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiting warming to less than 2 ° C above pre-industrial averages (IPCC 2022a). Given that broader progress towards ambitious climate change and sustainability goals remains incremental, a whole-of-society approach, including transformative innovation in the private sector, is required to trigger the nece…
Sequencing sustainability and climate solutions
Transformative capacities for navigating system change
Building parliamentary capacities for advancing the disaster risk reduction agenda
Pluralizing Debates on the Anthropocene Requires Engaging with the Diversity of Existing Scholarship
A recent article in this journal (Jackson 2021 Jackson, M. 2021. On decolonizing the Anthropocene: Disobedience via plural constitutions. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111 (3):698–708. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1779645.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) validly emphasized that debates about the Anthropocene need to recognize a diverse range of perspectives, worldviews, and forms of knowledge. In…
Business models for the Anthropocene
The rapid pace and escalating severity of climate change impacts have made clear that current incremental approaches to pressing global socio-ecological challenges are insufficient to address the root causes of unsustainable development. This has spurred increasing interest in the dynamics of transformation: the actors, capacities and resources needed to fundamentally shift development paths. The private sector is at the core of essential transfo…
Bridging the governance divide
Political participation of businesses
Private sector actors both enable and inhibit sustainability-oriented policies at multiple scales. Yet, research on business sustainability predominantly emphasizes large corporations, while contributions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are downplayed. Consequently, there is a dearth of conceptual tools to explain how SMEs construct and advance collective sustainability goals. The aim of this paper is to identify how SMEs participat…
The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization
The social sciences have engaged since the late 1980s in international collaborative programmes to study questions of sustainability and global change. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the largest long-standing social-science network in this field: the Earth System Governance Project. Originating as a core project of the former International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the Earth System Governance Project …
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Transition Experiments
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship
(Mis)communicating climate change? Why online adaptation databases may fail to catalyze adaptation action
Over the last decade a plethora of action‐oriented research projects has been conducted in developing countries, exploring how to effectively adapt to the anticipated impacts of climate change. Many intergovernmental agencies and development organizations have chosen to disseminate their research results via online databases. It is unclear, however, whether these databases are useful in terms of actual adaptation planning and implementation. A sy…
Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life
Just before falling asleep, my two-year-old daughter locks eyes with me in the gloom and asks excitedly: ‘What’s happening on the beach, Daddy?’ There then begins a familiar ritual. On go our prete
Terrain Vague
Triggering transformative change
While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that …
National Museums
A Massive Open Online Course on climate change
Climate change is a pervasive and challenging phenomenon that takes on a variety of meanings and frames, each of which suggests different victims, villains, and solutions. New tools are emerging that may facilitate a reframing, or at least the collaborative coproduction, of the climate change conversation. Web‐based social media have provided a new level of connectedness and capacity to collaborate through a merging of the social and educational …
Accelerating the sustainability transition
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation
Landscapes, Identities and Development
Envisioning sustainability
Enacting Identities in the EU–Russia Borderland
Drawing on Rogers Brubaker’s theoretical analyses of “nationness” and nationalism in post-communist Europe, this article examines the dynamics of social identity within the nationally contested setting of the Estonian–Russian borderland. Since 1991, the city of Narva (96% Russophone by population) has customarily been defined (both politically and academically) in binary national terms as a “Russian enclave” within a unitary and “nationalizing” E…
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Accelerating the sustainability transition
Empty Spaces and the Value of Symbols
Taking as its point of departure the recent heightened discussion surrounding publicly sited monuments in Estonia, this article investigates the issue from the perspective of the country's eastern border city of Narva, focusing especially upon the restoration in 2000 of a ‘Swedish Lion’ monument to mark the 300th anniversary of Sweden's victory over Russia at the first Battle of Narva. This commemoration is characterised here as a successful loca…
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Sustainable development paths
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices that are characterized by deep inertia. By paying express attention to linkages among disciplines, this paper takes steps towards contributing a richer def…
Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship
Enacting Identities in the EU–Russia Borderland
Drawing on Rogers Brubaker’s theoretical analyses of “nationness” and nationalism in post-communist Europe, this article examines the dynamics of social identity within the nationally contested setting of the Estonian–Russian borderland. Since 1991, the city of Narva (96% Russophone by population) has customarily been defined (both politically and academically) in binary national terms as a “Russian enclave” within a unitary and “nationalizing” E…
Business models for the Anthropocene
The rapid pace and escalating severity of climate change impacts have made clear that current incremental approaches to pressing global socio-ecological challenges are insufficient to address the root causes of unsustainable development. This has spurred increasing interest in the dynamics of transformation: the actors, capacities and resources needed to fundamentally shift development paths. The private sector is at the core of essential transfo…
Transformative capacities for navigating system change
The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization
The social sciences have engaged since the late 1980s in international collaborative programmes to study questions of sustainability and global change. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the largest long-standing social-science network in this field: the Earth System Governance Project. Originating as a core project of the former International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the Earth System Governance Project …
Transition Experiments
Canada is embarking on a low-carbon energy transition that will involve the diffusion of innovations and the reconfiguration of energy systems. This article examines the potential contribution that transition experiments can make to this process. Transition experiments can be understood as deliberate interventions that test novel configurations of social and technical elements that could lead to substantial low-carbon change. The analysis suggest…
(Mis)communicating climate change? Why online adaptation databases may fail to catalyze adaptation action
Over the last decade a plethora of action‐oriented research projects has been conducted in developing countries, exploring how to effectively adapt to the anticipated impacts of climate change. Many intergovernmental agencies and development organizations have chosen to disseminate their research results via online databases. It is unclear, however, whether these databases are useful in terms of actual adaptation planning and implementation. A sy…
A Massive Open Online Course on climate change
Climate change is a pervasive and challenging phenomenon that takes on a variety of meanings and frames, each of which suggests different victims, villains, and solutions. New tools are emerging that may facilitate a reframing, or at least the collaborative coproduction, of the climate change conversation. Web‐based social media have provided a new level of connectedness and capacity to collaborate through a merging of the social and educational …
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation
TheTextureof Heritage
This paper employs Henri Lefebvre's term ‘texture’ as a means of analysing a series of events that took place in June 2002 to mark the 750th anniversary of Sweden's capital city. The resulting case study demonstrates that heritage is the present‐day use of the past and that selection and interpretation shift according to contemporary demands. The latter prompts a continuing series of ‘particular actions’ (Lefebvre) that require explaining and elu…
Political participation of businesses
Private sector actors both enable and inhibit sustainability-oriented policies at multiple scales. Yet, research on business sustainability predominantly emphasizes large corporations, while contributions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are downplayed. Consequently, there is a dearth of conceptual tools to explain how SMEs construct and advance collective sustainability goals. The aim of this paper is to identify how SMEs participat…
Terrain Vague
An Unfolding Signifier
In the summer of 2007 an unusual cargo arrived at Muuga and Paldiski harbors outside Tallinn. It consisted of nearly 50 containers holding over 1,000 tons of building material ranging from marble columns, staircases and fireplaces, to sculpted allegorical figures, wooden paneling and old-fashioned telephone booths. They were once part of the Baltic Exchange in the City of London. Soon they will become facets of the landscape of Tallinn. The follo…
Transcending Revolutions
Journal Article Transcending Revolutions: The Tsars, the Soviets and Deaf Culture Get access Susan Burch Susan Burch Gallaudet University, Department of HistoryWashington, DC 20002-3695 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 34, Issue 2, Winter 2000, Pages 393–401, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2000.0130 Published: 01 December 2000
Transcending Revolutions
Journal Article Transcending Revolutions: The Tsars, the Soviets and Deaf Culture Get access Susan Burch Susan Burch Gallaudet University, Department of HistoryWashington, DC 20002-3695 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 34, Issue 2, Winter 2000, Pages 393–401, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh.2000.0130 Published: 01 December 2000
The Lai De L’oiselet , the Proverbes Au Vilain and the Parable of the Sower
The Lai de l’oiselet is an expanded version of a tale from the Disciplina clericalis , in which the protagonists are a peasant and a bird. The lai differs from the Disciplina in interpreting the narrative as a contest between courtoisie and vilenie . The peasant is no longer a simple rusticus , but an embodiment of the coarseness and stupidity associated with the vilain . A particular thrust of the narrative attack on the vilain is connected with…
TheTextureof Heritage
This paper employs Henri Lefebvre's term ‘texture’ as a means of analysing a series of events that took place in June 2002 to mark the 750th anniversary of Sweden's capital city. The resulting case study demonstrates that heritage is the present‐day use of the past and that selection and interpretation shift according to contemporary demands. The latter prompts a continuing series of ‘particular actions’ (Lefebvre) that require explaining and elu…
Empty Spaces and the Value of Symbols
Taking as its point of departure the recent heightened discussion surrounding publicly sited monuments in Estonia, this article investigates the issue from the perspective of the country's eastern border city of Narva, focusing especially upon the restoration in 2000 of a ‘Swedish Lion’ monument to mark the 300th anniversary of Sweden's victory over Russia at the first Battle of Narva. This commemoration is characterised here as a successful loca…
An Unfolding Signifier
In the summer of 2007 an unusual cargo arrived at Muuga and Paldiski harbors outside Tallinn. It consisted of nearly 50 containers holding over 1,000 tons of building material ranging from marble columns, staircases and fireplaces, to sculpted allegorical figures, wooden paneling and old-fashioned telephone booths. They were once part of the Baltic Exchange in the City of London. Soon they will become facets of the landscape of Tallinn. The follo…
Sustainable development paths
As the implications of a changing climate come into focus, attention must shift to effectively stimulating action in response to this dramatically pervasive phenomenon. Responses to climate change, however, are embedded in institutional procedures, technological pathways and cultural practices that are characterized by deep inertia. By paying express attention to linkages among disciplines, this paper takes steps towards contributing a richer def…
Making local futures tangible—Synthesizing, downscaling, and visualizing climate change scenarios for participatory capacity building
Transforming barriers into enablers of action on climate change
(Extraordinary) Bodies of Knowledge
(Extraordinary) Bodies of Knowledge: Recent Scholarship in American Disability History Susan Burch Susan Burch associate professor of American Studies Middlebury College and directs its Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 23, Issue 3, July 2009, Pages 29–34, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/23.3.29 Published: 01 July 2009
Norden, Reframed
This paper calls for Norden to be understood as a metaframe. Related formulations like 'Nordic art' or 'Nordic welfare' function as mesoframes. These trigger multiple framing devices. A cache of related framing devices constitutes a framing archive. Framing devices work best when operating unobtrusively such that inclusions, exclusions and inconsistencies are condoned or naturalised. Their artifice, however, becomes apparent whenever a frame is q…
Envisioning sustainability
Enacting Identities in the EU–Russia Borderland
Drawing on Rogers Brubaker’s theoretical analyses of “nationness” and nationalism in post-communist Europe, this article examines the dynamics of social identity within the nationally contested setting of the Estonian–Russian borderland. Since 1991, the city of Narva (96% Russophone by population) has customarily been defined (both politically and academically) in binary national terms as a “Russian enclave” within a unitary and “nationalizing” E…
Place Reinvention
Embedding climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation
Landscapes, Identities and Development
Triggering transformative change
While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that …
National Museums
A Massive Open Online Course on climate change
Climate change is a pervasive and challenging phenomenon that takes on a variety of meanings and frames, each of which suggests different victims, villains, and solutions. New tools are emerging that may facilitate a reframing, or at least the collaborative coproduction, of the climate change conversation. Web‐based social media have provided a new level of connectedness and capacity to collaborate through a merging of the social and educational …
Accelerating the sustainability transition
Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life
Just before falling asleep, my two-year-old daughter locks eyes with me in the gloom and asks excitedly: ‘What’s happening on the beach, Daddy?’ There then begins a familiar ritual. On go our prete
Terrain Vague
Governing and accelerating transformative entrepreneurship
(Mis)communicating climate change? Why online adaptation databases may fail to catalyze adaptation action
Over the last decade a plethora of action‐oriented research projects has been conducted in developing countries, exploring how to effectively adapt to the anticipated impacts of climate change. Many intergovernmental agencies and development organizations have chosen to disseminate their research results via online databases. It is unclear, however, whether these databases are useful in terms of actual adaptation planning and implementation. A sy…
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
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