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Environmental policy is increasingly engaging digital simulation models to scope out policy pathways towards desired futures and/or to examine the implications of policy decisions on climate change. Drawing from empirical research with the North American think-tank Climate Interactive and their ‘En-Roads’ digital simulation model, this chapter examines the difficulties of working with holistic sustainability concerns within digital modelling practices. While digital simulation modelling is well-suited to modelling quantifiable, globalised relations with carbon, it is less adaptable to modelling local holistic sustainability benefits – concerns that the organisation terms ‘multi-solving’. The chapter traces the story of an organisational fracture between Climate Interactive with its focus on digital modelling and the Multi-solving Institute – a newly formed spin off organisation that broke away from Climate Interactive. This story is as much about fractures in data and digital storytelling as the organisational structures themselves. Using the concept of fracture as a generative metaphor, the chapter engages with broader questions around the limits to data-based knowledges and the politics of sustainability planning through digital models.
Author(s): Machen R
Editor(s): Iapaolo F; Certoma C; Martellozzo F;
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Digital Technologies for Sustainable Futures: Promises and Pitfalls
Year: 2024
Online publication date: 01/08/2024
Acceptance date: 28/02/2024
Series Title: Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Place Published: London
URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003441311-8/digital-fractures-ruth-machen
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ISBN: 9781032578514
