Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines - Snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability

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dc.contributor.authorByrne, Edmond
dc.contributor.editorByrne, Edmond
dc.contributor.editorMullally, Gerard
dc.contributor.editorSage, Colin
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-04T13:29:01Z
dc.date.available2026-09-04T13:29:01Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-17
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores the informed and critical analysis of techno-optimism', informed by an explicitly transdisciplinary approach. It offers a precautionary analysis of the role of technology within the transition from unsustainability, through a focus on critically interrogating techno-optimism. The chapter also offers a middle path between a Luddite green rejection of technology and simplistic techno-optimism. A radical extension or ramping up of techno-optimism within the climate change energy nexus is the recent research on and growing support for geo-engineering solutions to climate change and non-renewable energy solutions to the transition to a low carbon energy future. As Michael Keary perceptively notes, technology is at its most powerful in environmental policy not when it harnesses what is, but when it harnesses what is possible'. In many respects a more political and ethical framework for understanding and making judgments and decisions about the place of technology in the transition from unsustainability is at the same time a more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidByrne, Edmond
dc.identifier.authororcidByrne, Edmond
dc.identifier.authororcidMullally, Gerard
dc.identifier.authororcidSage, Colin
dc.identifier.citationByrne, E 2016, Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines - Snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability. in E Byrne, G Mullally & C Sage (eds), Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability. Routledge.
dc.identifier.isbn9781315550206
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/19174
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofTransdisciplinary Perspectives on Transitions to Sustainability
dc.relation.urihttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315550206-6/paradigmatic-transformation-across-disciplines-edmond-byrne
dc.rights© 2017, the Author.
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dc.rights.licensenameAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectTechno-optimism
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subject[EngineeringArchitecture]
dc.titleParadigmatic transformation across the disciplines - Snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainabilityen
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