A new kind of science for Earth Stewardship in the Anthropocene

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Inaugural Article in the Inaugural Issue of the new ESA Journal “Earth Stewardship”: A heart model of Earth Stewardship: Shaking up science for positive futures.

How should we act in a complex system? We often think about how to make decisions to guide complex systems toward a desirable regime. But this is a view from outside the system looking in. What if we are acting from within the system when our actions change the dynamics of the system? More specifically, how should we do science within a complex system?

Marty Anderies
Marty Anderies
Professor

J. Marty Anderies is a professor of sustainability at Arizona State University.