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Lecturer in Environmental Policy @CrawfordREAD, Associate Research Fellow @sthlmresilience, and Adjunct Researcher @cdu_ni
Nov 2, 2020 14 tweets 11 min read
Can we build close, sustainable connections btw ‘humans’ & ‘nature’ when our basic concepts are based on their separation?

In this paper @JamilaHaider @SStlhammar @StephenWoroniec & I show how relational thinking is changing #sustainability science: bit.ly/2Jw3VoV

1/ Image Systems theorist Donella Meadows suggests that challenging dominant concepts + paradigms is one of the most powerful systemic #leveragepoints towards sustainability.

This extends even - perhaps especially - to the concepts we use in sustainability research

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