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From Duke University to Rio

• Prepared for presentation at the Open Meeting of
  the Meeting of the Global Environmental Change
  Research Community,
• Rio de Janeiro, 6-8 October, 2001
• by
• Professor Uno Svedin, Sweden
• Swedish Research Council for Environment,
  Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning,
  (Formas)
• and University of Linköping, Sweden

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More than a Geographical Journey

• 1995 Duke university, USA
• IIASA, Austria
• 1999 Shonan Village, Japan
• 2001 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Broadening in
• geographical scope
• cultures involved
• academic specialities
• actor space
• analytical points of view

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The Time Horizon including preparation 7-8 years
From Rio 1992 To Rio
2001 Pre Johanesburg 2002 Global Reach
AND regionalisation local impact
of globalisation complexification
diversification of power
Scale
Time
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What has happened

• Rio 1992 has penetrated large number of national
  policies (e.g. Agenda 21)
• Communities are more Sustainability oriented
• Major international conventions
• The interaction beteween MACRO and MICRO is
  not sufficiently approached and known
• The science-policy link is still incomplete
• No forceful transfer has happened yet of
  resources (econonmic, RaD capacities etc.) from
  North to South

What has not happened yet
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Integration The MACRO-MICRO connection The
perspectives of the developing world The
science-policy relation Moving ahead the time
dimension
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Integration

• Connecting still unconnected domains of
  knowledge
• Weaving disconnected perspectives together
• The link natural science social
  science/humanities
• New interest in systemic issues ( eg resilience)
• Revisited
• Facing the needs and the intellectual challenges
• the range multi-disciplinary to
  transdisciplinary
• facing more facets of complexity in orderly ways
• living up to holistic challenges accepting the
  need to act
• Swedish Research Council for Environment,
  Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (
  Formas)
• and University of Linköping, Sweden

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The MACRO-MICRO connection

• Facing globalisation in a world of local
  existence
• The move from global level aggregates only to
  regional understanding as the basis for
  modelling
• Governance as expressing a multilayed
  institutional and power reality
• The role of lifestyles of individuals in a world
  of market sensitivity

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The perspectives of the developing world

• The way how to pose the issues
• The challenge of the importance of practice
• The challenge of the western society ideal of
  knowledge production
• A new critical touch facing what was taken for
  granted
• A new sense of normative urge
  (Knowledge as tool for transformation)
• and
• We are all developing
  - in different
  ways

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The Science-Policy relation Bridging the gap

• there is a gap
• to understand the differences in the logic of
  the two sides
• to appreciate a common task
• to find practical means and institutional forms
  to face the challenges

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Moving Ahead The Time Dimension

• probing the historical past
• perceiving the waves of the megatrends
• understanding the role of technological dynamics
• facing the sphere of risks
• aknowledge the role of vision

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Seven challenges for human dimensions research

• to probe further the MACRO-MICRO links in a
  globalized world
• to find improved forms to integrate different
  sorts of knowledge
• to serve the creation of new goals by
  mobilisation of the critical capacity of
  science
• to learn how to live in partnership with the
  policy world without beeing absorbed
• to widen the connectivity between science and a
  broder realm of actors (eg the business
  community)
• to serve a democratic development by providing
  analytical perspectives of future choices
• to provide a frame for world dialogue
• Uno Svedin

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Dimensions The Analytical to probe
complexity The Historical to create a
perspective The Aestetic to find what
appeals The Normative signposts for the
future The Critical probing present
assumptions of power
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