The coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges

John-Oliver Engler; David Abson; Henrik Wehrden

doi:10.1007/s11625-020-00852-4

The coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges

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The current coronavirus outbreak may provide an illustrative analogy for sustainability challenges, exemplifying how challenges such as climate change may become wicked problems demanding novel and drastic solution attempts.

Original language	English
Journal	Sustainability Science
Volume	16
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	317-319
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1862-4065
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00852-4
Publication status	Published - 01.01.2021

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Research areas

Sustainability Science - pandemic, wicked problem, sustainability challenge, behavior change

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