Ecological reflexivity
Characterising an elusive virtue for governance in the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4772499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Pickering (0000-0002-1862-3623, University of Canberra, corresponding author), Jonathan Pickering (University of Canberra) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1145-1166 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2018.1487148 |
| OpenAlex | W2809091571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 57 |
Reflexivity – the capacity of an agent, structure or process to change in the light of reflection on its performance – has attracted widespread support among political theorists as a virtue for environmental governance. Dryzek argues that a distinctively ecological form of reflexivity becomes crucial for governing in the Anthropocene. But there remains a need to clarify the conceptual scope of ecological reflexivity and to ascertain whether it has distinctive analytical value. A new conceptual framework for ecological reflexivity is outlined, comprising three components: recognition, rethinking and response. Through a comparative analysis of reflexivity and four related concepts – adaptive and transformative governance, experimental governance, social learning and anticipatory governance – ecological reflexivity is shown to be especially well equipped to take account of political contestation over the nature and direction of change required to respond to ecological risks
Anthropocene · Biology · Corporate governance · Earth system science · Ecological systems theory · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Virtue · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology
Earth system law
New directions in earth system governance research
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
Ecosystems and Ordering
Judicial Response to Ecological Environment Risk in China—From the Perspective of Social Systems Theory
Living labs from a governance perspective
Rethinking the Environmental Virtue of Ecological Justice from the Interdependencies of Non-Human Capabilities and Synergetic Flourishing
Unpacking Authoritarian Environmental Governance
Enhancing the social acceptance of sustainability transitions
Knowledge governance for the Anthropocene
Does climate transparency enhance the reflexive capacity of state actors to improve mitigation performance? The case of Indonesia
Governance for Earth system tipping points – A research agenda
The valuation of a mine – values, facts and contested notions of sustainability in the prospecting for new mines
Four approaches to anticipatory climate governance
Exploring the links between climate transparency and mitigation policy through a reflexive capacity lens
From environmental policy consensus to socio-environmental policy controversy
Multi-level learning for systemic transformation
Political science and the Earth system
Reflexive Peacebuilding
Unpacking the agricultural innovation and diffusion for modernizing the smallholders in rural China
Governing agricultural innovation
Nuclear denial in Japan
Transformative capacities for navigating system change
Too much hope in us? A qualitative inquiry into the deficit of ecological reflexivity in UN sustainability discourses
Opportunities for and barriers to anticipatory governance of two lake social–ecological systems in Germany and Canada
Facing mass extinction, it is prudent to decolonise lands & laws
Making sense of ecomodernism
Deep-time organizations
The environmental state between pre-emption and inoperosity
The future of 'environmental' policy in the Anthropocene
Geoengineering, climate change and ecological security
The gaze from afar
Risk Society
Democratizing Global Climate Governance
Climate Governance at the Crossroads
Ignorance and Surprise
Contextualizing Reflexive Governance
Moving Outside or Inside? Objectification and Reflexivity in the Governance of Socio-Technical Systems
‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution
Anticipatory Governance
Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Geology of mankind
A Theory of Justice
Listening for Democracy
Risk Society
Defining Environmental Justice
Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development
Public uptake of science
Deliberation as a catalyst for reflexive environmental governance
Varieties of experimentalism
Societal transformation in response to global environmental change
Learning in International Organizations in Global Environmental Governance
Adaptive co-management and the paradox of learning
A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes
Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene
Maladaptation
Resilience thinking meets social theory
Anticipatory governance for social-ecological resilience
The Politics of the Anthropocene
Assembling an experimentalist regime
A Dilemma of Green Democracy
Global Experimentalist Governance
Institutions for the Anthropocene
Systematising Policy Learning
Global environmental change II
Understanding 'anticipatory governance
What is Social Learning
The Politics of Reflexive Governance
Are adaptations self-organized, autonomous, and harmonious? Assessing the social-ecological resilience literature
Ecological modernisation and institutional reflexivity
Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene
Resilience Thinking
Sustainability Learning in Natural Resource Use and Management
A decade of adaptive governance scholarship
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems
The trajectory of the Anthropocene
Reflexive Modernization
Anti-reflexivity
Against Reflexivity as an Academic Virtue and Source of Privileged Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |