Book contents
- Global Change and Future Earth
- Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Series
- Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Future Earth and Planetary Issues
- Part II Future Earth and Geodetic Issues
- Part III Future Earth and the Earth’s Fluid Environment
- Part IV Future Earth and Regions
- Part V Future Earth and Urban Environments
- Part VI Future Earth and Food Security
- Part VII Future Earth and Risk, Safety and Security
- Part VIII Climate Change and Global Change
- 28 Future Earth, Climate Change, and Global Change: Future Earth’s Ocean
- 29 Asia’s Sustainability Challenges and Future Earth
- 30 Looking Back to Move Forward: Institutional Capacity Required by Global Governance Changes
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
29 - Asia’s Sustainability Challenges and Future Earth
from Part VIII - Climate Change and Global Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2018
Book contents
- Global Change and Future Earth
- Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Series
- Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Future Earth and Planetary Issues
- Part II Future Earth and Geodetic Issues
- Part III Future Earth and the Earth’s Fluid Environment
- Part IV Future Earth and Regions
- Part V Future Earth and Urban Environments
- Part VI Future Earth and Food Security
- Part VII Future Earth and Risk, Safety and Security
- Part VIII Climate Change and Global Change
- 28 Future Earth, Climate Change, and Global Change: Future Earth’s Ocean
- 29 Asia’s Sustainability Challenges and Future Earth
- 30 Looking Back to Move Forward: Institutional Capacity Required by Global Governance Changes
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
Asia’s sustainability challenges range from greenhouse gas emissions to emerging infectious diseases and from biodiversity loss to societal ageing. These are all “wicked problems”: problems that defy close definition, have multiple causes and unforeseeable consequences, affect many stakeholders, and lack suitable governance structures. Research that addresses such problems therefore cannot remain confined to specific disciplines, but needs to adopt a trans-disciplinary approach that is interdisciplinary and integrates diverse research fields (across the natural and social sciences, humanities, health and engineering) around shared and synthetic research questions. There is a need to develop an Asian community of research, practice and policy that contributes to solving problems through co-designed and co-produced research to catalyze the creation of an “Asian environmental community” for the sustainable future of Asia.
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- Global Change and Future EarthThe Geoscience Perspective, pp. 388 - 397Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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