期刊
ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
卷 3, 期 4, 页码 275-284出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.02.001
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post-normal science; contradiction; characteristic contradiction; complexity; sustainability
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The theory of Post-Normal Science is now approaching obsolescence; it needs to be renewed and enriched. In historical perspective, PNS evolved from a criticism of Probabilistic Risk Analysis, and put the essentially political idea of Extended Peer Community at its core. Establishing the legitimacy of the EPC requires a review of the methodology of science in the policy process. The time is not ripe for a modification of PNS, and so the best move for-ward is to raise the issue of Sustainability. For that I sketch a theory of complex systems, with special attention to pathologies and failures. That provides the foundation for a use of 'contradiction' as a problem incapable of resolution in its own terms, and also of 'characteristic contradiction' that drives a system to a crisis. With those materials it is possible to state the characteristic contradiction of our modern industrial civilisation, and provide a diagrarri with heuristic power. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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