SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Autor(es)

Pinsky, Vanessa C. ^[1] ; Kruglianskas, Isak ^[2] ; Gomes, Clandia Maffini ^[3] ; Rezaee, Amir ^[4]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Fac FIA Adm & Negocios, Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brazil

^[3] Univ Fed Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS - Brazil

^[4] ISG Int Business Sch, Paris - France

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: REVISTA DE GESTAO AMBIENTAL E SUSTENTABILIDADE-GEAS; v. 8, n. 3, p. 468-488, SEP-DEC 2019.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

Climate change is a complex and uncertain global problem because it is driven by human behavior, with long-term climate-related risks for natural and human systems. Changes in human behavior, financing flow, policy instruments, and multilevel governance are needed for mitigating and managing major climate risks. Understanding the social dimensions of climate change is, quite literally, a hottopic to be studied. Most of the scientific literature in the field is focused on the `hard science'. Different methods of theory building are used in applied social sciences. However, the use of the grounded theory approach in sustainability research, specially on `soft science' in the field of climate change, is scarce. The intent of this paper is to discussion the use of the grounded theory method in an emergent research field that combines governance and climate change. The article presents substantive results of an emerging theoretical framework that explain the governance process of REDD+ in Brazil, an United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate finance mechanism focused on mitigating forest-related emissions in developing countries. Instead of discussing best procedures and techniques to build grounded theory, which are largely accessed through several peer-reviewed publications, our focus is to provide a practical guide and discuss lessons learned from the field to integrate the `REDD+ Governance Theoretical Framework'. Thus, scholars and graduate students are encourage to test and validate (or not) the emerging theoretical framework. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 14/21877-0 - Contribuição das políticas públicas para o fomento de inovações orientadas para a sustentabilidade: uma análise comparativa entre os estados da Califórnia (EUA) e de São Paulo
• Beneficiário: Vanessa Cuzziol Pinsky
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Doutorado Direto
• Processo FAPESP: 14/11950-2 - Condicionantes do desempenho de projetos de inovação sustentável e o papel das políticas públicas
• Beneficiário: Vanessa Cuzziol Pinsky
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado Direto