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Understanding Industrial Transformation

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-4418-2

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a scientist can only come to a partial understanding of industrial transformation processes. This is so not only because of the vastness of the topic, but because of the inherent limitations of each scientific discipline. The common ground, which scientists of different disciplines may endeavour to find when approaching some problem, is often slight. A scientist entering such grounds runs the risk of getting lost, losing understanding and only catching the loose tail mentioned above. Secondly, sciences, to make a difference, must impress their importance upon the public and convince scientific and policy institutions in order to obtain the means to carry out their mission.


Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Global environmental change, Industrial transformation, Sustainable Consumption, Sustainable Development, System innovation, Transition management, development, environment