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Sustainability

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Innovative Ideas For A Changing Geoscience: Moving Toward A Sustainable World By Attending To Its Complexity, Tim Lutz Mar 2022

Innovative Ideas For A Changing Geoscience: Moving Toward A Sustainable World By Attending To Its Complexity, Tim Lutz

Earth & Space Sciences Faculty Publications

Rapidly changing environmental and social conditions require thinking outside boxes and pioneering unconventional practices. But not just any innovative line of thought or novel practice will be a positive response to the major problems of our time; some might make things worse. How can we recognize unconventionality that orients us toward being more sustainable rather than less? One approach is to attend to complexity. Conventional thinking – that which is embedded throughout culture and is generally accepted – sees complexity as a characteristic of the world (earth systems are complex; society is complex) and as a problem to be simplified, …


Geoscience And Geoscience Education In A Sustainable World, Tim Lutz Jan 2013

Geoscience And Geoscience Education In A Sustainable World, Tim Lutz

Earth & Space Sciences Faculty Publications

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