Anita Lazurko
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Lazurko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Lazurko |
| SIGNATURE | LAZURKO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3313-4091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plurality in transformative change
The accelerating decline of biodiversity necessitates transformative change to protect nature and society, which requires innovative actions and governance strategies. This paper advances the conceptual understanding of transformative change by identifying patterns of change in three co‐created transformative pathways for a nature‐positive Europe, furthers participatory futuring methodologies and identifies patterns of change that can inform anti…
Which biodiversity futures? Towards coherent design choices for scenarios exploring policy‐relevant questions
Decision‐makers are under pressure to take transformative action to address the biodiversity crisis. Scenarios can inform these decisions by exploring alternative future states of the world influencing biodiversity loss and the outcomes of actions to address it. However, amid significant methodological diversity, there is limited guidance regarding the scope of scenario design choices available and their suitability for particular applications. T…
Envisioning nature-positive futures for Europe
Transformative change is required to secure a liveable future for people and nature. The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for supporting the creation of plural visions of nature-positive futures that build shared motivation for transformative change. Integrating nexus approaches with the NFF highlights the foundational role of biodiversity in supporting desirable outcomes across sectors (i.e. the biodiversity nexus). We bring th…
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action
Individual actors and actor groups are vital catalysts of transformative change as they are able to initiate interventions that nurture and protect biodiversity. This paper analyses biodiversity-focused practices across the civil, market and public spheres to identify the modes of intervention that actors in Europe utilise when they seek to fight biodiversity loss as part of their every-day work or voluntary activism. Studying how actors locate a…
Entanglements of knowledge and action in sustainability science
The trajectory of the current socio-ecological crises is not improving, motivating several researchers to suggest that sustainability scientists should engage more actively in the transformations our work demands of broader society. Possibilities for action range from placing pressure on powerful economic and political structures through individual advocacy or activism to adopting more reflexive, action-oriented and transdisciplinary approaches i…
Boundaries of the future
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01308-1
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
Towards participatory cross-impact balance analysis
This Perspective article presents a novel, participatory scenario development method for studying the energy transition. It shows how moving towards transdisciplinarity can inform formal scenario analysis and enhance modelling by engaging stakeholders and scientific communities to co-develop energy transition scenarios. The innovative approach combines participatory elements of morphological analysis with formal cross-impact balance analysis (CIB…
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change
Amid growing urgency behind the need to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into another crisis. Prominent conceptualizations of transformation suggest that crises like the pandemic may create windows of opportunity for transformative change, such as the scope and scale of systemic change required to address the climate crisis. Additionally, envisioning positive futures plays an important role in build…
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action
Individual actors and actor groups are vital catalysts of transformative change as they are able to initiate interventions that nurture and protect biodiversity. This paper analyses biodiversity-focused practices across the civil, market and public spheres to identify the modes of intervention that actors in Europe utilise when they seek to fight biodiversity loss as part of their every-day work or voluntary activism. Studying how actors locate a…
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01308-1
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change
Amid growing urgency behind the need to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into another crisis. Prominent conceptualizations of transformation suggest that crises like the pandemic may create windows of opportunity for transformative change, such as the scope and scale of systemic change required to address the climate crisis. Additionally, envisioning positive futures plays an important role in build…
Towards participatory cross-impact balance analysis
This Perspective article presents a novel, participatory scenario development method for studying the energy transition. It shows how moving towards transdisciplinarity can inform formal scenario analysis and enhance modelling by engaging stakeholders and scientific communities to co-develop energy transition scenarios. The innovative approach combines participatory elements of morphological analysis with formal cross-impact balance analysis (CIB…
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change
Amid growing urgency behind the need to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into another crisis. Prominent conceptualizations of transformation suggest that crises like the pandemic may create windows of opportunity for transformative change, such as the scope and scale of systemic change required to address the climate crisis. Additionally, envisioning positive futures plays an important role in build…
Boundaries of the future
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-023-01308-1
Operationalizing ambiguity in sustainability science
Ambiguity is often recognized as an intrinsic aspect of addressing complex sustainability challenges. Nevertheless, in the practice of transdisciplinary sustainability research, ambiguity is often an 'elephant in the room' to be either side-stepped or reduced rather than explicitly mobilized in pursuit of solutions. These responses threaten the salience and legitimacy of sustainability science by masking the pluralism of real-world sustainability…
Envisioning nature-positive futures for Europe
Transformative change is required to secure a liveable future for people and nature. The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for supporting the creation of plural visions of nature-positive futures that build shared motivation for transformative change. Integrating nexus approaches with the NFF highlights the foundational role of biodiversity in supporting desirable outcomes across sectors (i.e. the biodiversity nexus). We bring th…
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action
Individual actors and actor groups are vital catalysts of transformative change as they are able to initiate interventions that nurture and protect biodiversity. This paper analyses biodiversity-focused practices across the civil, market and public spheres to identify the modes of intervention that actors in Europe utilise when they seek to fight biodiversity loss as part of their every-day work or voluntary activism. Studying how actors locate a…
Entanglements of knowledge and action in sustainability science
The trajectory of the current socio-ecological crises is not improving, motivating several researchers to suggest that sustainability scientists should engage more actively in the transformations our work demands of broader society. Possibilities for action range from placing pressure on powerful economic and political structures through individual advocacy or activism to adopting more reflexive, action-oriented and transdisciplinary approaches i…
Plurality in transformative change
The accelerating decline of biodiversity necessitates transformative change to protect nature and society, which requires innovative actions and governance strategies. This paper advances the conceptual understanding of transformative change by identifying patterns of change in three co‐created transformative pathways for a nature‐positive Europe, furthers participatory futuring methodologies and identifies patterns of change that can inform anti…
Which biodiversity futures? Towards coherent design choices for scenarios exploring policy‐relevant questions
Decision‐makers are under pressure to take transformative action to address the biodiversity crisis. Scenarios can inform these decisions by exploring alternative future states of the world influencing biodiversity loss and the outcomes of actions to address it. However, amid significant methodological diversity, there is limited guidance regarding the scope of scenario design choices available and their suitability for particular applications. T…
Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Transformative learning (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Futures contract (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)