Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

By D. Reider, P. Partner. 2012

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Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “Some research has pointed to the ability of influential leaders (146) or of institutional codification (116) as effective methods of disseminating alternative narratives.”
The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change (2010, unknown): “The conceptual approaches used in this work include actor-network theory (ANT; Latour 1987; Callon, 1998), innovation system theories (Tukker 2005; Andersen 2008), evolutionary economics (Nelson and Winter 1982; Mulder and van den Bergh 2001), and complex system theories (Meadows 1999; Kemp et al. 2”
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, background): “Meadows argues that changing goals is the second most powerful lever for changing complex systems [37].”
Is the 1.5°C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation (2018, background): “Importantly, Meadows [60] considers the very highest leverage point to be the power to transcend paradigms, or ‘to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that NO paradigm is “true”.”
The pace of governed energy transitions: Agency, international dynamics and the global Paris agreement accelerating decarbonisation processes? (2016, background): “Based on the historic Paris Agreement and early signs of national implementation, we argue that a new paradigm has been established which may fundamentally rearrange investment patterns in the global energy system (Meadows, 1999).”
Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework (2014, unknown): “A future version of the framework could highlight other areas of policy leverage (cf. Meadows, 1999), where interventions might be possible to increase wellbeing.”
Leverage Points for Governing Agricultural Soils: A Review of Empirical Studies of European Farmers’ Decision-Making (2018, background): “, areas for easy interventions that can result in potential significant changes [11,12]; however, ‘there is no precise assessment on how the existing policies have affected, and will further impact, the pressure on agricultural soils in Europe.”
A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “A leverage points perspective, inspired by systems theorist Donella Meadows, suggests that challenging and transcending paradigms is a means of initiating transformations towards sustainability (Meadows 1999; Abson et al. 2017).”
Systems informed positive psychology (2020, background): “…to understand and address the complexity of human life (see Williams & Hummelbrunner, 2009), identify leverage points (i.e., points in the system where small actions have the greatest impact or influence on the system; Meadows, 1999), and take actions to impact upon that system (M’Pherson, 1974).”