Engaging Science and Politics in a Post-2015 Framework
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2013-08-05Author
Leach, Melissa
Day, Julia
Ely, Adrian
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Abstract
Enduring poverty and social inequality, in the face of rapid environmental change,
have focused unprecedented attention on how social justice and environmental
challenges are interlinked, from local to global levels. The post-2015 framework
must address these challenges together, drawing on the natural and social sciences,
and creating opportunities for inclusive, democratic debate around appropriate
pathways to sustainability. Technical and social innovations have essential roles to
play, but a new politics of innovation is also required. The concepts of social and
planetary boundaries, integrated with a ‘3D agenda’ of direction, diversity and
distribution, provide a framework which can guide such politics. They can inform
deliberation and debate about the implications of different social, technological
and environmental pathways to sustainability, and strategies to pursue them.
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Day, J., Leach, L., and Ely, A (2013) 'Engaging Science and Politics in a Post-2015 Framework', IDS Policy Briefing 42, Brighton: IDSIs part of series
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