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Guðmundur Hálfdanarson: Humanities must engage sustainability efforts & sustainability science must engage the humanities

Guðmundur Hálfdanarson (Dean of Humanities, University of Iceland) discusses the need at this pivotal point in history not only for the humanities to engage sustainability efforts but for sustainability science to engage the humanities, so that the human and cultural dimensions of our present environmental dilemmas can be addressed, as they must be.

Credit: Originally published by Bifrost. Materials were recorded by Lea Rekow in Paris 2019, and are published by courtesy of the BRIDGES coalition partners and licensed as CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0

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