William W. Behrens’s scientific contributions

... These narratives represent the complexity of the Anthropocene and project radically different futures where innovation becomes the linchpin of survival or collapse. In this context, new narratives need to be rethought to guide new processes of restoration and improvement of natural and social systems [62][63][64]. ...

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Anthropocene futures: Regeneration as a decarbonization strategy

... As long as transition narratives are dominated by actors with vested interests in continuity, climate governance risks becoming a technocratic enclosure -legible only to those with proprietary knowledge systems and access to the capital-intensive tools of measurement, verification, and deployment.This epistemic asymmetry raises fundamental democratic questions: Who defines the criteria for a "just" transition? Whose knowledge counts as authoritative?And to what extent can post-fossil futures be meaningfully negotiated if the very infrastructures of truth and feasibility are monopolized by legacy incumbents?21 ...

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Crude Epistemologies in Transition: From Petrostate Infrastructures to Knowledge Economies in a Decarbonizing World

... This research departed from the theories of stakeholders (Freeman, 1984), Resource-Based View (Barney, 1991), sustainability (Donella Meadows et al., 1972), and the triple bottom line (Elkington, 1997). It was a development of several studies (Cindiyasari et al., 2022;Djali et al., 2023;Nazir et al., 2021;Nurlaily & Rahmi, 2021) that discussed intellectual capital and CSP concerning corporate financial performance. ...

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BALANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFITABILITY: OPTIMIZING INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND ITS CHALLENGES IN INDONESIAN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES

... And therefore we still didn't now the laws of its short-term and longterm dynamics. Prof. D. Meadows with his colleagues has introduced the notion of the 'limits to growth' (Meadows at al., 1973(Meadows at al., , 1989. But the growth of what: of a global population, its productive forces, of consuming resources or of the arms races? ...

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The Ecological Wars: The Notion, Concept And Dynamics

... Más aun, cuando, este no fue diseñado para incluir contenidos relacionados con el desarrollo sostenible, en especial hacia el complimiento de los ODS 2030. En cambio, se evaluará la inclusión de contenidos que, a juicio del autor, aluden al discurso de sostenibilidad generada a partir de las contribuciones de Harold Hotelling (1933), Ronald H. Coase (1960), Rachel Carson (1962), Kenneth E. Boulding (1965) y Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971), los límites del crecimiento de Donella y Dennis Meadows (1972) y el Futuro que queremos del informe Brundtland (1987) y otras obras ya citadas. ...

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Sostenibilidad y enseñanza universitaria del diseño Arquitectura y Diseño Industrial, FES Aragón, UNAM

... We are aware that we are talking about a complex system where the development of a single element (in this case, real political will) would have a significant influence on the other components. 91 But even so, we believe that these additional elements (in our case, other aspects of the external organs) can and should be the object of research in their present state and under the present conditions. It is perceivable that an increase of the number of members, and in particular a steady increase in the number of permanent and ad hoc invitees, does not help the flow of information, interest identification and representation, or the development and deepening of dialogue. ...

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Public policy and society, the case of changing smoking behaviour in the USA