“The term Anthropocene … suggests that the Earth has now left its natural geological epoch, the present interglacial state called the Holocene. Human activities have become so pervasive and profound that they rival the great forces of Nature and are pushing the Earth into planetary terra incognit...
paradoxically, both in tension with and squarely within the parameters of the 1994 ICPD Programme of Action (PoA). The ICPD is widely considered a “watershed” event in the trajectory of global family planning, credited with ending the “population era” and ushering a new era of reproductive...
Management theory is a diverse field where multiple theoretical perspectives coexist and coevolve, leading to conceptual pluralism. While conceptual pluralism is useful for grasping different aspects of the complex reality we live in, it may limit the further development of knowledge on elemental concept...
Chapter 3 Why the Mainstream Economic Paradigm Cannot Inform Sustainability Transformations The theory they developed is known as neoclassical economics. Today it still forms the basis of orthodox theory, and makes up the core curriculum taught to future economists and business leaders in universities ...
Doing things better (i.e., improving the physical quality of a river in a more pragmatic manner) relies on the recognition that rivers are adjusting systems that follow trajectories; future conditions may not resemble past conditions, particularly within the short-term context of the Anthropocene....
the latter powerfully accentuated during the current Covid-19 pandemic. This discussion is thus also a reflection on the relationship between disciplinary and interdisciplinary working, with all of the latter’s challenges and possibilities. Research on interdisciplinarity has proliferated since the latter...