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Commentary: Sustainable Development — Teleology and Ambiguity

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A particular merit of H.J. Schellnhuber’s discourse is the development of a proto-analytic formalism and its introduction to the systematic foundation of earth system analysis as geocybernetics (Schellnhuber, 1998 [8]). An essential part of this is Sect. 4, in which the role to be played by the expression sustainable development within the new scientific discipline is specified more precisely.

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  1. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), P.O. Box 60 12 03, D-14412, Potsdam, Germany

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Wenzel, V. (1998). Commentary: Sustainable Development — Teleology and Ambiguity. In: Schellnhuber, HJ., Wenzel, V. (eds) Earth System Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52354-0_4

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