World’s challenges demand science changes – and fast [View all]

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http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2015/worlds-challenges-demand-science-changes-and-fast/

Published: Feb. 25, 2015
[font face=Serif][font size=5]World’s challenges demand science changes – and fast[/font]

[font size=3]The world has little use – and precious little time – for detached experts.

A group of scientists makes a compelling case in this week’s Science Magazine that the growing global challenges has rendered sharply segregated expertise obsolete.

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Many studies on sustainability have focused on one place, but the world is increasingly “telecoupled” – a term which embraces socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances, sometimes several thousand miles away.

Effective policies and management for global sustainability need the human and the natural systems to be more integrated across multiple spatial and temporal and the authors think it is essential to quantify human-nature feedbacks and spillover systems. Science has largely ignored these, but they can have profound impacts on sustainability and human well-being.

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