Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate-Change World
It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting. Most people now recognise that we have to be
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Ray Ison
Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate-Change World
Ray Ison The Open University Milton Keynes United Kingdom First published in 2010 by Springer London in association with The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom
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ISBN 978-1-84996-124-0 e-ISBN 978-1-84996-125-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-84996-125-7 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926040 Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
Completion of this book would not have been possible without the support, intellectual contributions, encouragement and hard work of Pille Bunnell. I am immensely grateful. A book is but a reification at one moment in time of the product of much joint activity (participation) and the realisation of this makes a mockery, somewhat, of the
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