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Essays
These essays are meant to foster discussion regarding the Core Questions. The Core Questions form the basis for the Core Themes used as the organizational basis for the Forum.
Essay: Long-Term Trends and Transitions
2002 Robert Kates Some long-term trends in nature and society serve as currents along which we can navigate directions towards a 21st century sustainability transition. This transition is seen as one where a stabilizing world population meets its needs, reduces hunger and poverty, (more)...
Essay: Models and Conceptualizations of Sustainability
2002 Gilberto Gallopin
Current unsustainable trends1 arise from dynamic interactions between coupled nature-society systems.Therefore, the adequate incorporation of these interactions into existing and emerging conceptual and mathematical models is of critical importance for advancing our understanding of the causal structure of unsustainability, and (more)...
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