News for May, 2009
Measuring the Potential of On-Line Tools for Transdisciplinary Research Collaboration
Research in the area of community level sustainable development provides a series of challenges not always encountered in other areas of investigation. As ecological and social systems are interconnected, complex, and unpredictable, their study falls outside of the usual disciplinary structure. Research in this area also requires the participation of local knowledge experts as they understand the histories of the ecological and social systems under study.
The Failure of Economic Incentives to Encourage Sustainable Community Development (CRC Discussion Paper 4)
“Incentives, if they are to work, must be meaningful within the overall context of consumer budgets and/or industrial capital plans, otherwise they are nothing more than just a give-away.”
