Grand challenges in biogeoscience
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“The term ‘holistic’ refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things”. . . . “I see the solution to each problem as being detectable in the pattern and web of the whole. The connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose...”
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