prepared for presentation at the open meeting of the meeting of the global environmental change...
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Prepared for presentation at the Open Meeting of the Meeting of the Global Environmental Change Research Community,Rio de Janeiro, 6-8 October, 2001
byProfessor Uno Svedin, Sweden
Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, (Formas)
and University of Linköping, Sweden
From Duke University to Rio
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1995 Duke university, USA
1997 IIASA, Austria
1999 Shonan Village, Japan
2001 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Broadening in:
geographical scope
cultures involved
academic specialities
actor space
analytical points of view
More than a Geographical Journey
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From Rio 1992
To Rio 2001
Pre: Johanesburg 2002
Global Reach – AND:
* regionalisation
* local impact of globalisation
* complexification
* diversification of power
The Time Horizon including preparation
7-8 years
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Sca
le
Time
Rio 1992 has penetrated large number of national policies (e.g. Agenda 21)
Communities are more ”Sustainability oriented”
Major international conventions
The interaction beteween MACRO and MICRO is not sufficiently approached and known
The science-policy link is still incomplete
No forceful transfer has happened yet of resources (econonmic, RaD capacities etc.) from North to
South
What has happened
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What has not happened yet
Integration
The MACRO-MICRO connection
The perspectives of the developing world
The science-policy relation
Moving ahead – the time dimension
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Connecting still unconnected domains of knowledge
Weaving disconnected perspectives together
The link natural science – social science/humanities
New interest in systemic issues ( eg resilience)
Revisited
Facing the needs and the intellectual challenges
the range: multi-disciplinary to transdisciplinary
facing more facets of complexity in orderly ways
living up to holistic challenges accepting the need to act
Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning ( Formas)
and University of Linköping, Sweden
Integration
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Facing globalisation in a world of local existence
The move from global level aggregates only – to
regional understanding as the basis for modelling
Governance as expressing a multilayed institutional
and power reality
The role of lifestyles of individuals in a world of
market sensitivity
The MACRO-MICRO connection
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The way how to pose the issues
The challenge of the importance of practice
The challenge of the ”western society” ideal of
knowledge production
A new critical touch facing what was taken for
granted
A new sense of normative urge
(”Knowledge as tool for transformation”)
and
We are all developing
- in different ways
The perspectives of the developing world
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there is a gap
to understand the differences in the logic of the two sides
to appreciate a common task
to find practical means and institutional forms to face the challenges
The Science-Policy relationBridging the gap
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probing the historical past
perceiving the waves of the megatrends
understanding the role of technological dynamics
facing the sphere of risks
aknowledge the role of vision
Moving Ahead – The Time Dimension
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to probe further the MACRO-MICRO links in a globalized world
to find improved forms to integrate different sorts of knowledge
to serve the creation of new goals by mobilisation of the critical capacity of science
to learn how to live in partnership with the policy world without beeing absorbed
to widen the connectivity between science and a broder realm of actors (eg the business community)
to serve a democratic development by providing analytical perspectives of future choices
to provide a frame for world dialogue
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Seven challenges for human dimensions research
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Dimensions
The Analytical to probe complexity
The Historical to create a perspective
The Aestetic to find what appeals
The Normative signposts for the future
The Critical probing present assumptions of power
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