Sustainable development: epistemological challenges to science and technology
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چکیده
The present condition of the planet seems to be characterized by massive and deep changes spanning the local to the global scales, in its human and ecological components: on the one hand, the world now is moving through a period of extraordinary turbulence reflecting the genesis and intensification of deep economic, social, political, and cultural changes associated to the current techno-economic revolution. In addition, the speed and magnitude of global change, the increasing connectedness of the social and natural systems at the planetary level, and the growing complexity of societies and of their impacts upon the ecosphere, result in a high level of uncertainty and unpredictability, presenting new threats (and also new opportunities) for humankind.
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