Using exploratory modeling to challenge narratives of risk governance in Mexico City.

ABSTRACT: Achieving more sustainable adaptation to social-environmental change demands the transformation of the narratives that provide the rationale for risk governance. These narratives often reflect long-standing beliefs about social and political relationships, ascribe actions and responsibilities, and specify solutions to risk. When such solutions are implemented through material investments in landscapes, these narratives become embedded in physical infrastructure with long legacies. Dominant narratives can mask a range of divergent problem framings. By masking alternatives, narratives can contribute to the persistence of unsustainable governance trajectories. Decision-support tools have begun to represent narratives as drivers of system dynamics; making narratives visible can reveal opportun

SUBMITTER: Eakin H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388382 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature