Innovation and Repetition

Girard, René

doi:10.2307/3684663

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“…Girard (1990) describes how-over the last three centuries (the period of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution)-a western attitude that valued continuity and explained the present with reference to ''history'' was transformed into one in which ''innovation'' is prized and the new (and unknown) is preferred over the older (and known). During this time, we see a number of profound changes in the process of invention and innovation that correspond to major changes in our societies (Lane et al 2009).…”

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Westley

Olsson

Folke

et al. 2011

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This article explores the links between agency, institutions, and innovation in navigating shifts and largescale transformations toward global sustainability. Our central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in. Large-scale transformations in information technology, nano-and biotechnology, and new energy systems have the potential to significantly improve our lives; but if, in framing them, our globalized society fails to consider the capacity of the biosphere, there is a risk that unsustainable development pathways may be reinforced. Current institutional arrangements, including the lack of incentives for the private sector to innovate for sustainability, and the lags inherent in the path dependent nature of innovation, contribute to lock-in, as does our incapacity to easily grasp the interactions implicit in complex problems, referred to here as the ingenuity gap. Nonetheless, promising social and technical innovations with potential to change unsustainable trajectories need to be nurtured and connected to broad institutional resources and responses. In parallel, institutional entrepreneurs can work to reduce the resilience of dominant institutional systems and position viable shadow alternatives and niche regimes.

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Section: The Ingenuity Gapmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Westley

Olsson

Folke

et al. 2011

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“…Il écrit: « Thus in the medieval period, creativity was largely conceived as a participatory process, as opposed to the modern romantic individualistic perception » (356). Girard, 1990. Firstly the present paper examines the impact of some romantic ideas on copyright and authors' rights laws and then it proposes different regimes of intelectual property.…”

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Wordsworth, Girard et la question de la propriété intellectuelle

Rosa¹

2018

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“…This kind of (natural) history seems to have been the predominant explanatory paradigm, at least until the eighteenth century (cf. Girard 1990). It necessarily emphasized the explanation of extant phenomena in terms of chains of cause and effect and (much later) an emphasis on feedback loops, in both cases linking the progress of processes through time to their antecedent trajectory.…”

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Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

Leeuw¹,

Costanza

Aulenbach³

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Many contemporary societal challenges manifest themselves in the domain of human–environment interactions. There is a growing recognition that responses to these challenges formulated within current disciplinary boundaries, in isolation from their wider contexts, cannot adequately address them. Here, we outline the need for an integrated, transdisciplinary synthesis that allows for a holistic approach, and, above all, a much longer time perspective. We outline both the need for and the fundamental characteristics of what we call “integrated history.” This approach promises to yield new understandings of the relationship between the past, present, and possible futures of our integrated human–environment system. We recommend a unique new focus of our historical efforts on the future, rather than the past, concentrated on learning about future possibilities from history. A growing worldwide community of transdisciplinary scholars is forming around building this Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE). Building integrated models of past human societies and their interactions with their environments yields new insights into those interactions and can help to create a more sustainable and desirable future. The activity has become a major focus within the global change community

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Innovation and Repetition

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Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation

Wordsworth, Girard et la question de la propriété intellectuelle

Toward an Integrated History to Guide the Future

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