Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F19%3A73595793" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/19:73595793 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/19:00111513

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss2/art26/" target="_blank" >https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss2/art26/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-10747-240226" target="_blank" >10.5751/ES-10747-240226</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Archetype analysis in sustainability research: meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making

Original language description

Archetypes are increasingly used as a methodological approach to understand recurrent patterns in variables and processes that shape the sustainability of social-ecological systems. The rapid growth and diversification of archetype analyses has generated variations, inconsistencies, and confusion about the meanings, potential, and limitations of archetypes. Based on a systematic review, a survey, and a workshop series, we provide a consolidated perspective on the core features and diverse meanings of archetype analysis in sustainability research, the motivations behind it, and its policy relevance. We identify three core features of archetype analysis: recurrent patterns, multiple models, and intermediate abstraction. Two gradients help to apprehend the variety of meanings of archetype analysis that sustainability researchers have developed: (1) understanding archetypes as building blocks or as case typologies and (2) using archetypes for pattern recognition, diagnosis, or scenario development. We demonstrate how archetype analysis has been used to synthesize results from case studies, bridge the gap between global narratives and local realities, foster methodological interplay, and transfer knowledge about sustainability strategies across cases. We also critically examine the potential and limitations of archetype analysis in supporting evidence-based policy making through context-sensitive generalizations with case-level empirical validity. Finally, we identify future priorities, with a view to leveraging the full potential of archetype analysis for supporting sustainable development.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

ISSN

1708-3087

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CA - CANADA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

"26-1"-"26-19"

UT code for WoS article

000482712400008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85070838129