Learning to persist : a systemic view of development

Richard Bawden

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-0265-8_1

Learning to persist : a systemic view of development

Richard Bawden

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Sustainability is a concept which is entirely appropriate to the age which has spawned it. Being as ambiguous, complex, mystical and multi-faceted as it is, it represents a wonderful example of the confusion that comes with what has been termed reflexive modernity (Beck, 1992): This epoch where we must now face up to the "hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation" and concern ourselves "not just with making nature useful, or with releasing mankind from traditional constraints, but also essentially with problems resulting from techno-economic development itself".

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations, and Environments
Editors	Frank A. Stowell, Ray L. Ison, Rosalind Armson, Jacky Holloway, Sue Jackson, Steve McRobb
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	Springer
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781489902658
ISBN (Print)	9781489902672
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0265-8_1
Publication status	Published - 1997

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Keywords

sustainability
system theory
education, higher

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Learning to persist : a systemic view of development

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