Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations

Innovations are central instruments of sustainability policies. They project future visions onto technological solutions and enable win-win framings of complex sustainability issues. Yet, they also create new problems by interconnecting different resources such as water, food, and energy, what is kn...

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Autores: Di Felice, L. J., Cabello, V., Ripa, M., Madrid-Lopez, C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:complexity
innovations
narratives
uncertainty
WEF nexus
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spelling Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus InnovationsDi Felice, L. J.Cabello, V.Ripa, M.Madrid-Lopez, C.complexityinnovationsnarrativesuncertaintyWEF nexusInnovations are central instruments of sustainability policies. They project future visions onto technological solutions and enable win-win framings of complex sustainability issues. Yet, they also create new problems by interconnecting different resources such as water, food, and energy, what is known as the â WEF nexus.â In this paper, we apply a new approach called Quantitative Storytelling (QST) to the assessment of four innovations with a strong nexus component in EU policy: biofuels, shale gas, electric vehicles, and alternative water resources. Recognizing irreducible pluralism and uncertainties, QST inspects the relationships between the narratives used to frame sustainability issues and the evidence on those issues. Our experiences outlined two rationales for implementing QST. First, QST can be used to question dominant narratives that promote certain innovations despite evidence against their effectiveness. Second, QST can offer avenues for pluralistic processes of co-creation of alternative narratives and imaginaries. We reflect on the implementation of QST and on the role played by different uncertainties throughout these processes. Our experiences suggest that while the role of nexus assessments using both numbers and narratives may not be instrumental in directly inducing policy change, they are valuable means to open discussions on innovations outside of dominant nexus imaginaries. © The Author(s) 2021.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research has been funded by the European Union’s H2020 project MAGIC: Moving towards Adaptive Governance in Complexity (MAGIC GA No. 689669); European Union’s FP7 project IANEX: Integrated Assessment of the Nexus: The Case of Hydraulic Fracturing, Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship GA No. 623593; and Spanish Ministry of Science’s Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (IJC2019-038847-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).Science Technology and Human ValuesEuropean Union’s FP7Spanish Ministry of ScienceEuropean Union’s H2020202320232021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/62272reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/689669https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01622439211053819info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/© 2021 The Authors.Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Españaoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/622722026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
title Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
spellingShingle Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
Di Felice, L. J.
complexity
innovations
narratives
uncertainty
WEF nexus
title_short Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
title_full Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
title_fullStr Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
title_full_unstemmed Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
title_sort Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Di Felice, L. J.
Cabello, V.
Ripa, M.
Madrid-Lopez, C.
author Di Felice, L. J.
author_facet Di Felice, L. J.
Cabello, V.
Ripa, M.
Madrid-Lopez, C.
author_role author
author2 Cabello, V.
Ripa, M.
Madrid-Lopez, C.
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv European Union’s FP7
Spanish Ministry of Science
European Union’s H2020
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv complexity
innovations
narratives
uncertainty
WEF nexus
topic complexity
innovations
narratives
uncertainty
WEF nexus
description Innovations are central instruments of sustainability policies. They project future visions onto technological solutions and enable win-win framings of complex sustainability issues. Yet, they also create new problems by interconnecting different resources such as water, food, and energy, what is known as the â WEF nexus.â In this paper, we apply a new approach called Quantitative Storytelling (QST) to the assessment of four innovations with a strong nexus component in EU policy: biofuels, shale gas, electric vehicles, and alternative water resources. Recognizing irreducible pluralism and uncertainties, QST inspects the relationships between the narratives used to frame sustainability issues and the evidence on those issues. Our experiences outlined two rationales for implementing QST. First, QST can be used to question dominant narratives that promote certain innovations despite evidence against their effectiveness. Second, QST can offer avenues for pluralistic processes of co-creation of alternative narratives and imaginaries. We reflect on the implementation of QST and on the role played by different uncertainties throughout these processes. Our experiences suggest that while the role of nexus assessments using both numbers and narratives may not be instrumental in directly inducing policy change, they are valuable means to open discussions on innovations outside of dominant nexus imaginaries. © The Author(s) 2021.
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