Nagatsu , M & Thorén , H 2021 , Sustainability Science as a Management Science : Beyond the Natural-Social Divide . in D Ludwig , I Koskinen , Z Mncube , L Poliseli & L Reyes-Garcia (eds) , Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science . History and Philosophy of Biology , Routledge , London , pp. 92-105 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027140
Title: | Sustainability Science as a Management Science : Beyond the Natural-Social Divide |
Author: | Nagatsu, Michiru; Thorén, Henrik |
Other contributor: |
Ludwig, David
Koskinen, Inkeri Mncube, Zinhle Poliseli, Luana Reyes-Garcia, Luis |
Contributor organization: | Practical Philosophy Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences Staff Services |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Date: | 2021-07-30 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 14 |
Belongs to series: | Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science |
Belongs to series: | History and Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN: | 978-0-367-46137-9 978-1-032-04263-3 978-1-003-02714-0 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027140 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/346524 |
Abstract: | In this chapter, we argue that in order to understand the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialectics in sustainability science, it is useful to see sustainability science as a kind of management science, and then to highlight the hard-soft distinction in systems thinking. First, we argue that the commonly made natural-social science dichotomy is relatively unimportant and unhelpful. We then outline the differences between soft and hard systems thinking as a more relevant and helpful distinction, mainly as a difference between perspectives in systemic modeling toward models. We also illustrate that the distinction is methodologically useful to advance sustainability science by enabling us (i) to suggest novel ways of using existing theoretical, experimental, and computational resources of the sciences for renewable resource management, and (ii) to disentangle disciplinary disagreements in climate science. |
Subject: | 611 Philosophy |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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