CRISP

CReating Innovative Sustainability Pathways

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The core objective of this proposal is to identify potential paths to engaging on an integrated effort to support the transition, to a sustainable, low carbon Europe. The call text places much emphasis of using a scenario and backcasting approach that explicitly discerns individuals, organisations and the collective (societal and economic organisation), addresses the interaction of agency and structure, and analyses from there how individuals and collectives can be engaged on sustainable paths, and how new policy mixes and co-operation mechanisms can overcome barriers to change. In response, this project will: • build upon theories that explicitly link individual and organizational agency with structure and pathways of change (most notably Transition theory, that builds upon structuration and innovation theories) (WP1). • analyse practical (past) cases of change with this framework (WP2 and WP3) to additional understanding on the role of agency and structure and related barriers, drivers and pathways of change (WP4). • apply novel participatory scenario techniques, most notably transition scenario and backcasting methodologies, to develop sustainability visions WP5) and transition paths (WP6). These allow for specific analysis of processes in transition paths and the factors that drive and hinder such transitions (WP7). • Finally, on the basis of the analysis of the theoretical basis and cases (WP4) and the results of the scenario/backcasting exercise (WP7), the core question of the call can be answered (WP8): what novel policy mixes and co-operation mechanisms can help to overcome barriers for individuals and collectives to engage on sustainable paths.

The project is completed by WPs on Management and Dissemination. The impact of the findings of the project is enhanced by its strong participatory approach and an elaborated dissemination program that includes a policy stakeholder panel.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Academic work alone cannot show the path towards a sustainable, low-carbon Europe in 2030. The most important contribution to creating viable futures and offering ways to get us there will come from those who will live in that future.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Climate change, water access, the depletion of non-renewable materials, the loss of biodiversity and many other issues are pressing us to develop different policies and practices. The most accurate prediction about the future is that it will look nothing like today. In fact, the past should not be used as a guide toward more sustainable lifestyles.

The objective of the EU-funded project 'Creating innovative sustainability pathways' (http://www.crisp-futures.eu/display/CRISPSITE/Welcome+to+CRISP! (CRISP)) was figuring out how potential future lifestyles may look and then creating innovative sustainability pathways for getting there. Its main tools were scenario development, backcasting and transition pathway development towards these futures.

Team members employed a bottom-up approach, including discussions, exchanges and deliberations on many different aspects with other stakeholders to develop viable transition pathways for the future. CRISP members hailed from several European countries: Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.

CRISP organised several workshops across all partner countries, gathering students to investigate their visions of low-carbon, sustainable futures. The visions and their underpinning ideas were then concatenated into three overarching end visions.

One Ethical World is a vision in which globalised supply chains are realised, global values are locally interpreted, and global health care and governance are foreseen. Fair trade displaces free trade and social equity is diffused within societies.

The Local Community vision features strong regional identity with well-established local production and consumption. Decentralisation, vegetarianism, social cohesion, individual responsibility and collaborative consumption are the main characteristics of a sustainable community.

In the i-Tech vision, technology and innovation are the main drivers. The world becomes a highly competitive place where risk is replaced by intelligent machinery. Functional food, renewable energy and efficient high-tech mobility dominate the scene.

These visions were advanced as the endpoints of a backcasting and transition pathway development process together with experts that focused on mobility, household energy and food. The final pathways were investigated for their viability and desirability by interviewing experts and administering questionnaires.