Publication Date:
2012-07-25
Description:
The ideas of Pearson and Pearson (1) are pertinent to better analysis of historical change, as well as to test how past experiences may relate to current sustainability questions. Important issues would include the limitations of resilience theory, the interplay of transformation and collapse, and the importance of open societal networks for transformability. Research groupings may share ultimate goals, but, by following divergent legacies, use different assumptions and methods to address coupled systems. Successful societal transformation probably does involve centrifugal processes, yet what is logical in contemporary perspective may be unpredictable in the light of good field, archival, or other...
Keywords:
Letters, Sustainability Science
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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