Elite vs. mass politics of sustainability transitions

Linking Complexity and Sustainability Theories: Implications for Modeling Sustainability Transitions

In this paper, we deploy a complexity theory as the foundation for integration of different theoretical approaches to sustainability and develop a rationale for a complexity-based framework for modeling transitions to sustainability. We propose a framework based on a comparison of complex systems’ properties that characterize the different theories that deal with transitions to sustainability. ...

Fisheries Management: Sustainability vs. Reality

Sustainability, Development, Social Justice: Towards a New Politics of Innovation

We live in a time of unprecedented advance in science and technology, with global annual spending on research and development (R&D) now exceeding a trillion dollars. Yet development challenges have also grown. For many people and places, poverty is deepening, and the environment is in crisis. Thousands of children die daily from waterborne diseases, and more than a billion people go hungry. Mee...

Amateur vs . Professionals : Politics , Citizenship and Science

Scientific and technological expertise is currently experiencing a crisis. The public shows a growing distrust in many aspects related to the techno-scientific development. The birth of that suspicion begins after World War II but has transformed in the past few decades. In this paper, the authors examine how that doubt has specific features in the present moment. Also, there is a reaction to p...

Weapons of Mass Destruction in Context; Investigating the Links between Militarization and Godlessness of Modern Politics

Modern brutality, which found its culmination in using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against humanity, is the dark side of the principal teachings of the Enlightenment. The great thinkers of the Enlightenment, blaming religion as the main source of violence, removed God from the center of Western political and social thought to replace it with human. Although they were not conscious of the ...