%0 Journal Article
%T The global sustainability transition: it is more than changing light bulbs
%A Michael P. Weinstein
%A R. Eugene Turner
%A Carles Ib¨¢£¿ez
%J Sustainability : Science, Practice and Policy
%D 2012
%I CSA, NBII
%X Current policies and norms to reconcile human demands for resources with the Earth¡¯s ability to supply them have resulted in practices that mainly treat the symptoms of unsustainability rather than their underlying causes. Moreover, the increase in our knowledge about humankind¡¯s role in ecosystems is not keeping pace with our understanding of the consequences of our actions, resulting in a deepening inability to address sustainability issues. The extreme complexity and intricate workings of the world require the expansion of our mental models in a systems-thinking framework if we are to realize a sustainable place for humans in it. The challenge of the emerging transdiscipline of sustainability science lies in developing specific tools and processes, including curriculum development and a new generation of systems models, to help us better understand complexity¡ªuncertainty and surprise, scale, hierarchy, and feedback loops¡ªand to educate a new generation of sustainability scientists to design better policies, to facilitate social learning, and to catalyze the technical, economic, social, political, and personal changes needed to create a sustainable world.
%K sustainable development
%K rights of future generations
%K interdisciplinary research
%K technology
%K education
%K public policy
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