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The Commons as an Engine for Innovation
The most innovative thing we can do is to step out of the market paradigm and begin to develop different ways of relating to each other and to the Earth.
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The Porter Hypothesis and Regional Innovation Clusters
Competitiveness is enhanced by differentiation in social or ecological assets or circumstances.
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Valerie Brown: Wicked Problems and Transdisciplinarity
Science-as-usual will not solve complex problems.
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Peeling the Onion of Resilience Thinking
Taking the onion as a metaphor, what might we say about the act of peeling?
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Reading and Remembering Jonathan Rowe
Reading Jon Rowe: stories of human relationships, the value of mutual customs and shared spaces, and the intellectual history of rules and practices that fostered social well-being or failed to do so.
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Daly and Farley: Six General Policy Design Principles
Policies must recognize that we always start from historically given initial conditions.
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Rosemary Randall: Climate Change and Loss
Restoring the processes of loss and mourning to public narratives would help release energy for realistic programmes of change.
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Fair Sharing of Our Common Heritage
What does it mean to say that the environment is our “common heritage”?
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Boulding's Spaceship Earth
The image that man has of himself and his environment is in a process of transition.
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The Preanalytic Vision of Herman Daly
In order to be able to posit ourselves any problems at all, we should first have to visualize a distinct set of coherent phenomena as a worthwhile object of our analytical efforts.
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Wrapping Up Issue #2
Thanks for joining P&P in this look at social, ethical and psychological understandings of a changing climate.
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Pragmatism in the Age of Social-Ecological Truths
The trail of the human serpent is over everything.
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Webler and Renn: Conflicting Rationalities
Environmental decision making is aggravated by differences between the social rationality of lay people and the bounded rationality of experts.
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Participatory Technology Assessment
What innovations in learning tools and methods might help foster social-ecological resilience?
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Brian Wynne: Climate Scientism and Public Policy
Scientism is the ingrained assumption that scientific evidence is the only authority that can justify policy action.
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Talking about Design for Resilience
Design is an idealistic enterprise. Design is concerned with how things ought to be.
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Sheila Jasanoff: Public Faith in Climate Science
The IPCC has demonstrated that it can learn and change. That ingenuity should be directed toward building relationships of trust and respect with global citizens.
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Collins and Evans: Expertise in the Age of Amateurs
The problem of extension means setting boundaries around the legitimate contribution of the general public to the technical part of technical debates.
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Climate
What we talk about when we talk about climate is the story of social-ecological relationships, with all their uncertainties and fact-value entanglements.
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Seeking Climate Reconciliation
Under business-as-usual climate projections, many of today’s children would grow up to become both perpetrators and victims.
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Climate Change as a Perfect Moral Storm
Climate change brings together global and intergenerational challenges to our ability to behave ethically.
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Notebook 2009: The Summer of Our Climate Politics
The science of greenhouse gases dominated climate debates for many years. More and more, climate will become a social phenomenon as well.
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Climate Change and Subsistence
For Arctic communities, climate change is not a hypothetical event.
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A Right to Development
Emissions after all are a means, not an end; the end is what we have come to call “development."
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The Story of the Trillion Tons of Carbon
A new target for carbon emissions reveals fresh insights.
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The Work of a Writer in a World of Wounds
To know what are our responsibilities, we must ask, what are our gifts?
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The Ethics of Geoengineering
At least three important ethical considerations come to bear: the importance of democratic decision-making, the prohibition against irreversible changes, and the significance of learning to live with nature.
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Thinking about “The Green Mind”
How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?
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Stuart Kauffman: The Open Universe and the Sacred
I’m going to talk about a sense of God that I think is sharable.
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