Schmid, Patricia; Lamotte, Léa; Curran, Michael and Bieri, Sabin (2024) Creating pathways to just and sustainable food systems with citizen assemblies. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, online, pp. 1-19.
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Food systems affect and are affected by the interrelated crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion and health, amongst others. Transforming to sustainable approaches is vital, yet entangled with uncertainties, complexity and a great value diversion with stakeholders. Deliberative processes such as citizen assemblies offer a valuable contribution to such a transformation, since the crises and their responses affect everyday life, and therefore inviting individual and collective action. Still, who is included and whose knowledge counts affects outcomes. Theoretically anchored in concepts of environmental justice, our study analyses three nation-wide citizens' assemblies on climate change and food systems from Western Europe. It assesses (a) how citizens' assemblies can incorporate a broad set of viewpoints and design more substantive political answers to current crises, and (b) whether citizens' assemblies include environmental justice aspects to facilitate social change. The paper argues that systematic and methodologically reflected inclusion of various positionalities can inspire decision-making processes in that they incorporate procedural, recognition, and distributional justice to address problems of climate change or modern food systems. It concludes with offering further approaches to include more than scientific knowledge in deliberative processes for a just transformation towards sustainability.
EPrint Type: | Journal paper |
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Keywords: | citizen assemblies, climate crisis, deliberation process, environmental justice, food systems, just transformation, DeliDiets, Abacus, FiBL35224 |
Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English food systems http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea5db85 English democracy http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_28855 English sustainability http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33560 English participation http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37602 English justice http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_c0956c50 English assemblies http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_50156 English climate change http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666 |
Subjects: | Knowledge management > Research methodology and philosophy > Systems research and participatory research Food systems > Policy environments and social economy |
Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Consumer information Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Sustainability > Climate Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Sustainable nutrition Switzerland > University of Bern |
ISSN: | 1351-1610 |
DOI: | 10.1080/13511610.2024.2309173 |
Related Links: | https://www.deliberative-diets.net/, https://www.fibl.org/en/themes/projectdatabase/projectitem/project/2034 |
Deposited By: | Curran, Dr. Michael |
ID Code: | 53041 |
Deposited On: | 28 Mar 2024 12:32 |
Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2024 12:32 |
Document Language: | English |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Peer-reviewed and accepted |
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