Conclusion part 2

As noted in Chapter 1 of this volume, sustainability science can overcome the conditions that contribute to the breakdown of global, social and human systems and the links among them only if it can mobilize all relevant fields of study in the effort to identify the phenomena and solve the problems that threaten the sustainability of these systems. To accomplish this crucial task, it is not enough simply to compile the fruits of research conducted under the old model of mutually isolated, compartmentalized academic disciplines seeking specific solutions to specific problems. A practical approach to integrating the sciences and the humanities must also be devised if such “integration” is not to remain an empty slogan.

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