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8. Introduction

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Heinrichs, Harald, primary, Wiek, Arnim, additional, Martens, Pim, additional, and Michelsen, Gerd, additional

Published
2016
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23. Sustainability science in action: a review of the state of the field through case studies on disaster recovery, bioenergy, and precautionary purchasing

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Wiek, Arnim, primary, Harlow, John, additional, Melnick, Rob, additional, van der Leeuw, Sander, additional, Fukushi, Kensuke, additional, Takeuchi, Kazuhiko, additional, Farioli, Francesca, additional, Yamba, Francis, additional, Blake, Ann, additional, Geiger, Chris, additional, and Kutter, Robert, additional

Published
2014
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27. How much time do we have? Urgency and rhetoric in sustainability science.

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Leeuw, Sander, Wiek, Arnim, Harlow, John, and Buizer, James

Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY, MATERIALISM, ECONOMIC policy, UNIVERSITIES & colleges, PROFIT
Abstract

Sustainability challenges are multitudinous, urgent, and complex. They are beyond the capacities of our current institutions to address, caused by path-dependent behaviors, and require substantial change from systems with crippling inertia. These problems are born of large-scale industrial economic policy, the rise of materialism, and the supremacy of profit over sustainability. Currently, academia is poorly positioned to address sustainability problems because of anachronistic pedagogy, mismatched incentives, insufficient expertise, lack of personal commitment, and insular products and communication. What transformational methods for research and practice, which involve relevant communities throughout problem-solving processes in meaningful ways, does sustainability science offer? Though rhetoric outweighs real-world sustainability transitions so far, we argue that operationalizing the goals of the field, developing the necessary competencies, and seeking novel partnerships between society and the academy will position academic institutions to make a bigger impact on the transition to sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2012
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