28 months later: the coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges
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Authors
We combine the concepts of ‘black elephants’ and wicked problems with Roy Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science and frame the current state of the coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for impending sustainability challenges. We point out and illustrate that the interaction of different ontological levels of our world as it ‘is’ will likely remain a challenge in addressing the wicked problems of our time.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Sustainability Science |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 2499-2504 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISSN | 1862-4065 |
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Publication status | Published - 09.2023 |
Bibliographical note
Special Feature: Just and Sustainable Transitions in Net-Zero Asia
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- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Sustainable Development Goals
- Ecology
- Health(social science)
- Global and Planetary Change
- Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- Sociology and Political Science
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Black elephant, Critical realism, Pandemic, Predictable surprise, Risk, Sustainability
- Sustainability Science
- Sustainability Governance