The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change: How Do We Make a Quantum Leap to Sustainability?

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2014-04-08

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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies

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Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien will discuss climate change in the context of globalization and its implications for equity and human security, including the types of responses that can lead to an equitable and sustainable future. Drawing on recent IPCC reports, they argue that "bending the curves" calls for more than technical solutions -- it calls for challenging some key assumptions about social change. The adaptive challenge of climate change may, in fact, call for the transformation of science itself, including the role that the social sciences play in integrated global change research.

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Climate change, globalization, sustainability

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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/70895

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