6th Sustainable Development Symposium - Science for Sustainability: Part I
Joe Ravetz.
Granada, 2nd June 2016.
Granada, 2nd June 2016.
‘Sustainability’ in its early days seemed to be simple balance between economy, society and environment. Now it has grown into a jungle of ‘grand challenges’, ‘wicked problems’, ‘societal dilemmas’ and similar problematic issues. Examples include climate change, GMOs, the ‘war on drugs’, and urban poverty.
As for sustainability science: it’s now widely agreed that the disciplinary structure of academic science, with its house journals, curricula, peer communities etc, is not well qualified for such trans-disciplinary, messy, controversial issues. But the ways forward are not yet clear or accepted by the mainstream community: a research proposal or output which is high-risk, messy and controversial is less likely to get funding or publication.
In response, the concept of a next generation operating system, which is here framed as ‘Science 3.0’, has emerged through work on complex systems analysis and sustainability design thinking.
Speaker: Joe Ravetz, Co-Director of the Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology at the University of Manchester. Introduced by Alberto Matarán Ruiz, Prof. Dr., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada.
As for sustainability science: it’s now widely agreed that the disciplinary structure of academic science, with its house journals, curricula, peer communities etc, is not well qualified for such trans-disciplinary, messy, controversial issues. But the ways forward are not yet clear or accepted by the mainstream community: a research proposal or output which is high-risk, messy and controversial is less likely to get funding or publication.
In response, the concept of a next generation operating system, which is here framed as ‘Science 3.0’, has emerged through work on complex systems analysis and sustainability design thinking.
Speaker: Joe Ravetz, Co-Director of the Centre for Urban & Regional Ecology at the University of Manchester. Introduced by Alberto Matarán Ruiz, Prof. Dr., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada.