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Sustainable Development: Epistemological Challenges to Science and Technology
13 October 2004 - 15 October 2004
Santiago, Chile

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Convened by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC. Sponsored by the Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS)

Event URL: http://sustsci.harvard.edu/ists/docs/gallopin_epistem0410_bgpaper.pdf

As part of the grant activities of the international Initiative on Science and Technology for Sustainability (ISTS), a meeting to discuss the epistemological challenges posed to science and technology by the problematique of sustainable development was convened by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Seven external experts from different disciplines met during three days to discuss the general epistemological challenges as well a set of ten specific ones: basic unit of analysis; integration of research; dealing with multiple scales; criteria of truth; dealing with uncertainty; incorporation of other knowledges; interparadigmatic dialogues; science-policy interface; stakeholder involvement; and inclusion of qualitative variables. Building on a background paper prepared before the meeting and additional material written during the workshop, a collective synthesis paper will be published by ECLAC.

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Gilberto C. Gallopín

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Sustainable development: epistemological challenges to science and technology (2005)
Gilberto C. Gallopín and Cecilie Modvar

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