| 来源类型 | Reports and working papers |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| Dynamic Systems and the challenge of Sustainability. | |
| Scoones, Ian; Leach, Melissa; Smith, Adrian; Stagl, Sigrid; Stirling, Andy; Thompson, John | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-06-01 |
| 出版者 | Centre for Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS), |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one that encompasses an understanding of complex system dynamics and provides a useable guide to action. This paper is a first attempt by the STEPS Centre to address this challenge. To open, the paper reviews a range of different approaches to understanding dynamics, including complexity science, dynamic ecology, industrial socio-technical systems and policy and organisational responses, exploring opportunities, complementarities and gaps. Next, the paper examines how such approaches to understanding dynamic systems can illuminate and extend approaches to sustainable development, concluding that a new science for sustainability requires an integration of now well-elaborated non-equilibrium perspectives from the natural sciences with constructivist social science perspectives. Drawing on these diverse literatures and debates, the final section presents a heuristic framework for addressing dynamic contexts in debates about sustainable development. In conclusion, the paper highlights three things: the need to address diverse framings of both system structure and function, the need to assess trade-offs between system properties that underlie attempts to achieve sustainability and the need to be continuously reflexive about the diverse options implied. |
| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/27424/ |
| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/467350 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Scoones, Ian,Leach, Melissa,Smith, Adrian,et al. Dynamic Systems and the challenge of Sustainability.. 2007. |
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