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SHORT DEFINITION/ ABSTRACT (200 words or less)
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---sample definition--- Sustainability Science is the integrated study of society-nature interdependencies and the quest to balance economic, equity and environmental objectives in urban, regional and global development trajectories. ---abstract would follow here---- ................

DISCOURSE DOMAIN (select one or more, all, or none)
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1. Ethics, Equity and Justice 2. Information-Communications Technology (ICT) and Collaborative Knowledge Systems 3. New Regionalism-Institutionalism and Globalization 4. Sustainability Science and Sustainable Development All of the avove None of the above

ILLUSTRATIVE QUOTE
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"The new quality of sustainability science makes explicit the character of social learning that was implicit in the scientific enterprise since its beginnings. (fn 25). In a world put at risk by the unintended consequences of scientific progress, social trust in scientific knowledge claims and institutions cannot be taken for granted. Participatory procedures involving scientists, stakeholders, advocates, active citizens and users of knowledge are needed to transform knowledge claims into trustworthy, socially-robust, usable knowledge about the realities which matter in social and environmental change and in the transition to sustainability.26 In addition, scientists will need to be increasingly sensitive to shifts in patterns of governance that could assist their endeavors." Source: http://sustsci.harvard.edu/keydocs/fulltext/2000-33.pdf

ESSAY/ DISCUSSION (500-2000 words)
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REFERENCES
Enter the references cited in your essay National Research Council (U.S.). Policy Division. Board on Sustainable Development (2000). Our common journey : a transition toward sustainability. Washington, D.C., National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/books/0309067839/html/

LINKS
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relevant to the term/concept in question. Forum on Science and Technology for Sustainability http://sustsci.harvard.edu/keydocs.htm Sustainable Development Gateway http://sdgateway.net/ Global System for Sustainable Development http://gssd.mit.edu/