Three Horizons for Future Geoscience
Geoscience, along with other scientific disciplines, is being increasingly challenged on how it can best confront key global challenges, such as climate change, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, human conflict and migration, and persistent poverty. But its traditional association with exploitation...
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2023-12-01
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| author | Iain Stewart Maria Angela Capello Hassina Mouri Kombada Mhopjeni Munira Raji |
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| description | Geoscience, along with other scientific disciplines, is being increasingly challenged on how it can best confront key global challenges, such as climate change, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, human conflict and migration, and persistent poverty. But its traditional association with exploitation of the planet’s natural resources for energy and materials links it with contemporary concerns around unsustainable human practices, arguably fueling a growing disenchantment that is most evident in declining enrollment in university geoscience courses in many countries. Therefore, a fresh re-framing of the geoscience’s relationship to society would seem to be urgently needed. In response to this need, we introduce the “Three Horizons” concept for visualizing paradigm change in complex systems as a tool to explore how the future global geoscientific mission might be re-imagined. Using this conceptual framework, we consider three parallel pathways – “business as usual” (horizon 1), “entrepreneurial” (horizon 2) and “visionary” (horizon 3)—that offer alternative narrative trajectories for how geoscience and geoscientists might serve society’s grand challenges. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f932c6d605894e2fba2dbc78ca8deb372025-02-03T11:22:53ZengGeological Society of LondonEarth Science, Systems and Society2634-730X2023-12-013110.3389/esss.2023.10079Three Horizons for Future GeoscienceIain Stewart0Maria Angela Capello1Hassina Mouri2Kombada Mhopjeni3Munira Raji41Royal Scientific Society, Amman, Jordan3Red Tree Consulting LLC, Houston, TX, United States4Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa5United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Windhoek, Namibia2Sustainable Earth Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United KingdomGeoscience, along with other scientific disciplines, is being increasingly challenged on how it can best confront key global challenges, such as climate change, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, human conflict and migration, and persistent poverty. But its traditional association with exploitation of the planet’s natural resources for energy and materials links it with contemporary concerns around unsustainable human practices, arguably fueling a growing disenchantment that is most evident in declining enrollment in university geoscience courses in many countries. Therefore, a fresh re-framing of the geoscience’s relationship to society would seem to be urgently needed. In response to this need, we introduce the “Three Horizons” concept for visualizing paradigm change in complex systems as a tool to explore how the future global geoscientific mission might be re-imagined. Using this conceptual framework, we consider three parallel pathways – “business as usual” (horizon 1), “entrepreneurial” (horizon 2) and “visionary” (horizon 3)—that offer alternative narrative trajectories for how geoscience and geoscientists might serve society’s grand challenges.https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.3389/esss.2023.10079sustainabilitysustainable developmentwell-being economygeoscienceeducation |
| spellingShingle | Iain Stewart Maria Angela Capello Hassina Mouri Kombada Mhopjeni Munira Raji Three Horizons for Future Geoscience Earth Science, Systems and Society sustainability sustainable development well-being economy geoscience education |
| title | Three Horizons for Future Geoscience |
| title_full | Three Horizons for Future Geoscience |
| title_fullStr | Three Horizons for Future Geoscience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Three Horizons for Future Geoscience |
| title_short | Three Horizons for Future Geoscience |
| title_sort | three horizons for future geoscience |
| topic | sustainability sustainable development well-being economy geoscience education |
| url | https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.3389/esss.2023.10079 |
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