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Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 27.106.64.254, on 18 Mar 2020 at 06:46:23, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 27.106.64.254, on 18 Mar 2020 at 06:46:23, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD Social Sustainability, Past and Future In this Open Access book, Sander van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socioeconomic dynamic that has generatedthe conundrumofsustainability. Combiningthe methods of social science and complex systems science, he explores how western, developednationshaveglobalizedtheirworldviewandhowthatview has led to the sustainability challenges we are now facing. Its central themeisthecoevolutionofcognition,demography,socialorganization, technology, and environmental impact. Beginning with the earliest human societies, van der Leeuw links the distant past with the present in order to demonstrate how the information and communications technology revolution is undermining many of the institutional pillars on which contemporary societies have been constructed. An original view of social evolution as the history of human information- processing,hisbookshowshowthepastoffersinsightintothepresent andcanhelpusdealwiththefuture. Sander van der Leeuw is Foundation Professor in the Schools of Sus- tainability and Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Trained as an archaeologist and historian, he specializes in long-term interactions between humans and their environments and pioneers the application of the complex adaptive systems approach to socioenvironmental challenges, technology, and innovation. Van der Leeuw is the author and editor of eighteen books. In 2012, he was awardedthe“ChampionoftheEarthforScienceandInnovation”prize bytheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgram. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 27.106.64.254, on 18 Mar 2020 at 06:46:23, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD NEWDIRECTIONSINSUSTAINABILITYANDSOCIETY SeriesEditors JONIADAMSON ArizonaStateUniversity SHAUNABURNSILVER ArizonaStateUniversity EditorialBoard CHRISTOPHERBOONE VERNONSCARBOROUGH ArizonaStateUniversity UniversityofCincinnati KATRINABROWN JULIESZE UniversityofExeter UniversityofCalifornia,Davis GIOVANNADICHIRO CHRISTINESZUTER SwarthmoreCollege AmerindFoundation WILLIAMA.GLEASON SANDERVANDERLEEUW PrincetonUniversity ArizonaStateUniversity DAVIDN.PELLOW KYLEPOWYSWHYTE UniversityofCalifornia, MichiganStateUniversity SantaBarbaba RICHARDWILK STEPHANIEPINCETI IndianaUniversity UniversityofCalifornia, NORMANYOFFEE LosAngeles UniversityofMichigan Published in conjunction with the School of Sustainability at Arizona State UniversityandTheAmerindMuseumandResearchCenterinDragoon,Arizona, New Directions in Sustainability and Society features a program of books that focusondesigningaresilientandsustainablefuturethrougharichunderstanding ofpastandpresentsocialandecologicaldynamics.Collectively,theydemonstrate that sustainability research requires engagement with a range of fields spanning the social and natural sciences, humanities, and applied sciences. Books in the seriesshowthatasuccessfultransitiontoasustainablefuturewilldependonthe abilitytoapplylessonsfrompastsocietiesandlinklocalactiontoglobalprocesses. Formoreinformationabouttheseries,pleasevisithttp://newdirections.asu.edu/. TitlesintheSeries Sustainability in the Global City edited by Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh, MelissaChecker. TheGiveandTakeofSustainabilityeditedbyMichelleHegmon. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 27.106.64.254, on 18 Mar 2020 at 06:46:23, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD Social Sustainability, Past and Future Undoing Unintended Consequences ’ for the Earth s Survival SANDER VAN DER LEEUW ArizonaStateUniversityandSantaFeInstitute Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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IP address: 27.106.64.254, on 18 Mar 2020 at 06:46:23, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD Contents Preface pagexiii part i 1 How ThisBook CameAbout, What ItIs, and WhatIt IsNot 3 Introduction 3 SteppingStones 7 TheBook:WhatItIsandWhatItIsNot 9 2 Defining the Challenge 15 Background 15 SixFundamentalPoints 25 3 Science and Society 30 Introduction 30 TheGreatWallofDualism 32 RationalismandEmpiricism 35 TheRoyalSocietyandtheAcademies 36 TheEmergenceoftheLifeSciencesandEcology 38 TheFoundingoftheModernUniversitiesandtheEmergenceof Disciplines 41 TheInstrumentalizationofScience 44 RegainingTrust 48 4 TransdisciplinaryFor and Against 50 Introduction 50 Interdisciplinarity 53 MultidisciplinarityResultsinaBee’sEyeView 54 Transdisciplinarity,IntellectualFusion,andLinkingScienceand Practice 57 vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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