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p.5 The
problems facing experts are complex or, to use the term by Rittel and Webber (1973), ‘wicked’. The implication is how or who is to solve these problems?
– we are referring to sustainability-related problems and concerns. Current
professions do not inspire confidence due to their reductionist thinking and modes of problem solving and because they operate
within silos of interest and knowledge areas.
Sustainability is an emergent property, requiring a holistic perspective, which is in dynamic
equilibrium with natural systems (Pearce et al., 1989). It requires a co-created learning
systems (Laszlo, 2000) dynamic approach to address the unknown and emergent nature of the issues where the problem
boundaries (Cilliers, 2001) are permeable and dynamic.
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