Abstract
It is important to insert agricultural research in this paper by considering it as a strategic area for providing knowledge and a technological base for agricultural production, considering that this sector generates outcomes with respective impacts to rural zones, supply-chain, economy, society and environment, representing a key piece for reaching United Nations objectives of sustainable development to each country and to the planet. Aiming to analyze how agricultural research organizations (as for instance: INRA and CIRAD, from France and EMBRAPA, from Brazil) have driving sustainability impact assessment methodologies and their interaction with transdisciplinary and holistic principles, using as a base innovation concepts. This paper will display an overview on concepts and approaches about sustainability impact assessment, but looking from a transversal perspective, passing by an historical description on impact assessment and on concepts related to sustainable development and sustainability. We will search for unedited models of sustainability impact systems by converging holism, transdisciplinarity and sustainability. There are several methodologies but few demonstrate an integrated view with a transversal perspective. It is also imperceptible any concrete governance-managerial system for sustainability impact assessment, considering every stage of the process, from a strategic to an operational level, including, analyzing environment, economy and society dimensions as one unique perspective. Such as a complex and multidimensional sector of economy, agricultural research requires profiled sustainability impact assessment with an innovative and dynamic approach.
Highlights
From a general contextualization toward expectation and goalsThis paper aims to identify conceptual approaches, methodologies, advances and challenges as well as to discuss and make inferences on sustainability impacts assessment; accomplishing analysis with an integrated, holistic and transversality perspective, analyzing some types of existing methodologies, systems and indicating the best applicability for each one
This paper will display an overview on concepts and approaches about sustainability impact assessment, but looking from a transversal perspective, passing by an historical description on impact assessment and on concepts related to sustainable development and sustainability
Concepts and methodological approaches will be analyzed toward research and innovation institutions, especially those used in the agricultural sector
Summary
From a general contextualization toward expectation and goalsThis paper aims to identify conceptual approaches, methodologies, advances and challenges as well as to discuss and make inferences on sustainability impacts assessment; accomplishing analysis with an integrated, holistic and transversality perspective, analyzing some types of existing methodologies, systems and indicating the best applicability for each one. Concepts and methodological approaches will be analyzed toward research and innovation institutions, especially those used in the agricultural sector. In this scope, for evaluating sustainability impacts of any research organization it will be necessary to assess impacts of their products, technologies, processes and services. For evaluating sustainability impacts of any research organization it will be necessary to assess impacts of their products, technologies, processes and services This effort will demand reviewing some conceptual bases related to impact assessment and the dimensions related to the sustainability principle, followed by reviewing the real concept of holism and transversality of knowledge. We will make a reflection on future expectations of innovative impact appraisal processes
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