or "smacking your (rule of) thumb with the hammer marked 'brain'". Narratives are great. They help you arrange (or even create) facts that fit in a nice orderly view of the world. If there is a graph to go along with the narrative, they're even more comforting. I mean, it's science, right? Sadly, no. So,... Continue Reading →
There's nowt as practical as a good theory, as we sometimes say up north. If true, this would make the University of Sussex one of the most practical places in the world about now. The sixth International Sustainability Transitions' (IST) conference (the main event of this network) is taking place over 3 and a half... Continue Reading →
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren't) 'resolved'. You can see an old video I made here, that stars its progenitors, Prof Frank Geels and Caetano... Continue Reading →
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