Linking foresight and sustainability: An integral approach |
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Authors: | Joshua Floyd Kipling Zubevich |
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Affiliation: | Strategic Foresight Program and National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia |
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Abstract: | This paper looks at the growing confluence between sustainability thinking and futures thinking. Drawing on developments based on Integral Theory, it then looks at how an emerging Integral Sustainability (IS) promises to enhance theory and practice in the sustainability field. In particular, the paper looks at how IS makes sense of sustainability challenges from an ontological position based on perspectives in place of objects (and their systems). A framework is outlined for understanding how various sustainability perspectives are constructed. This framework is then used to analyse a range of general perspectives the authors have identified that relate to nuclear power as a response to climate change. The strength of the IS approach is considered in the context of ongoing debate in Australia over the appropriateness of developing a local nuclear power industry as a response to climate change. |
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