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Research and ecologically sustainable development: ‘How will we know what we want to know?’

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  • Adrian Deville
  • Tim Turpin

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The notion of sustainable development is an additional policy imperative in some government activity. It is clearly connected to creating and applying knowledge through national research efforts, but measures of sustainable development have not been explicitly or systematically incorporated into much research. Under Australia's National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD), public R&D funding and performing agencies must incorporate ESD into their missions. To bring research more into line with national strategies for ESD, the question arises of how to decide what research is relevant to ESD? This paper describes a model for determining the ESD-relatedness of research, and its integration with existing R&D classifications. It discusses the possibilities for, and implications of, using ESD-relatedness as a research funding criterion, and its role in national research policies, particularly in developing countries. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

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  • Adrian Deville & Tim Turpin, 1997. "Research and ecologically sustainable development: ‘How will we know what we want to know?’," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 24(2), pages 123-134, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:24:y:1997:i:2:p:123-134
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