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Patrick Degeorges on the importance of human-centered approaches & consensus in sustainability science

Patrick Degeorges, Director of The École normale supérieure de Lyon’s Anthropocene Curriculum, flags up the importance of not allowing ourselves to get sidetracked by semantic hair-splitting (e.g. in marking differences between humanities-led and human-centered approaches to sustainability) during visioning discussions at the BRIDGES establishment workshop, UNESCO headquarters, Paris, 11-12 June 2019.

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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