Resilience and Pluralism: Ecosystems and Society in a Great Transition
Organisation: Tellus Institute
Publish Date: 2006
Country: Global
Sector: Social Development
Method: Creative thinking
Theme: Social Transfers
Type: Report
Language: English
Tags: Transition, Twenty-first century, Ecosystems, Socio-ecological systems, Human development
The effective administration of territories is increasingly determined by social, economic, political, and ecological interconnections that transcend territorial boundaries. Global ecosystem change has effectively added a biophysical constraint to the political and economic conditions of development. The alteration of the material conditions for continued human development poses sharp questions about the viability of the traditional nation-state, raises the need for novel governance arrangements aligned with the cross-scale character of ecological challenges, and calls for a re- assessment of the basic paradigm of global development in the twenty-first century.
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