BY: ROBERT KATES
Independent Scholar
WILLIAM CLARK
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
ET AL
(additional authors listed below)
Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:
http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=257359
Paper ID: KSG Working Paper No. 00-018
Date: December 2000
Contact: WILLIAM CLARK
Email: Mailto:William_Clark at harvard.edu
Postal: Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Co-Auth: ROBERT KATES
Email: not available
Postal: Independent Scholar
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Co-Auth: ET AL
Email: not available
Postal: (additional authors listed below)
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ABSTRACT:
The world's present development path is not sustainable. Efforts
to meet the needs of a growing population in an interconnected
but unequal and human-dominated world are undermining the
Earth's essential life-support systems. Meeting fundamental
human needs while preserving the life support systems of planet
Earth will require a world-wide acceleration of today's halting
progress in a transition toward sustainability. A significant
response to this challenge has begun to emerge as a new field of
sustainability science. This paper, written by a group of
leading natural scientists, social scientists, and policy
analysts from around the world, outlines the core questions of
the field, the extensions of existing research strategies that
will be required to address those questions successfully, and
the institutional innovations that will be needed to develop an
integrated system of research, assessment and decision support
adequate for the task at hand.
AUTHORS:
Robert Kates, William Clark, Robert Corell, J. Michael
Hall, Carlo C. Jaeger, Ian Lowe, James J. McCarthy, Hans-Joachim
Schellnhuber, Bert Bolin, Nancy M. Dickson, Sylvie Faucheux,
Gilberto C. Gallopin, Arnulf Gruebler, Brian Huntley, Jill
J”ger, Narpat S. Jodha, Roger E. Kasperson, Akin Mabogunje,
Pamela Matson, Harold Mooney, Berrien Moore III, Timothy
O'Riordan and Uno Svedin