Pragmatism and Pluralism: Creating Clumsy and Context-Specific Approaches to Sustainability Science

摘要: In the words of Tim O’Riordan, sustainable development is a ‘tough nut to crack’ because it does not fit easily with normal political model analysis and decision. The urgent need for evident, but concept vague, contradictory confusing. O’Riordan points out that there no agreement on what sustainability actually is, where we have go get it, would look like in multi-national world nine plus billion people demanding more from stripped stressed planet (O’Riordan 2008). right difficult pin down transitions will imply, reasons which include are dynamic, systemic, configuration dependent, indeterminate.