This is why more and more scientists do not only agree that humans are driving these changes but that the changes are so immense that since the middle of the last century we have entered a new era in Earth's hi
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 ...
However, there is often no explicit reflection on the role of agricultural innovation systems in food systems transformation and how they relate to transformative concepts and visions (e.g. agroecology, digital agriculture, Agriculture 4.0, AgTech and FoodTech, vertical agriculture, protein transitions...
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 ...
Thus, during the last four decades, the production of knowledge on coastal sediment dynamics has evolved considerably, and is in tune with the needs of society. This editorial aims at synthesizing the current revolution in the scientific research related to coastal and littoral hydrosedimentary ...
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....
Food poverty is just one example of a global challenge where the Arts and Humanities perspective risks being judged at worst to have no relevance at all, and at best to be included as no more than an accessible tool to facilitate public engagement and awareness-raising. How therefore can Arts...
These include the diagnosis that we live in the Anthropocene yet also encompass intensifying fights for justice in a changing climate—across the globe and between generations—that call for urgent transitions in post-fossil societies. 2. “Broken World Thinking”: Repair and Maintenance Practices of...