Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap
New broader, adaptable and accommodating sets of themes have been proposed to help to identify, understand and solve sustainability problems. However, how this knowledge will foster decisions that lead to more desirable outcomes and analyses necessary to transition to sustainability remains a critic...
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| author | Giovanni Zurlini Irene Petrosillo András Bozsik Jon Cloud Roberta Aretano Noa Kekuewa Lincoln |
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| description | New broader, adaptable and accommodating sets of themes have been proposed to help to identify, understand and solve sustainability problems. However, how this knowledge will foster decisions that lead to more desirable outcomes and analyses necessary to transition to sustainability remains a critical theoretical and empirical question for basic and applied research. We argue that we are still underestimating the tendency to lock into certain patterns that come at the cost of the ability to adjust to new situations. This rigidity limits the ability of persons, groups, and companies to respond to new problems, and can make it hard to learn new facts because we pre-select facts as important, or not, in line with our established values. Changing circumstances demand to reappraise values like in the case of Pirsig's monkey and its rice. There is an urgent need to go beyond such local, static and short-term conceptions, where landscape sustainability has been incorrectly envisioned as a durable, stable condition that, once achieved, could persist for generations. We argue that to manage a global transition toward more environmentally efficient and, therefore, more sustainable land-use we have to reappraise societal values at the root of overregulation and rigidity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dcc5dd1dc6d340579ae5b6904664a1eb2022-12-22T03:33:32ZengInternational Association for Landscape Ecology, Chapter GermanyLandscape Online1865-15422015-03-014011910.3097/LO.20154040Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trapGiovanni Zurlini0Irene Petrosillo1András Bozsik2Jon Cloud3Roberta Aretano4Noa Kekuewa Lincoln5Landscape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Salento, Lecce, ItalyLandscape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Salento, Lecce, ItalyUniversity of Debrecen, Department of Plant Protection, Debrecen, HungaryCloud Holding Inc., 342 Indian Road Cres Toronto, CanadaLandscape Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technology, University of Salento, Lecce, ItalyEmmett Interdisciplinary Program in the Environment and Resources, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesNew broader, adaptable and accommodating sets of themes have been proposed to help to identify, understand and solve sustainability problems. However, how this knowledge will foster decisions that lead to more desirable outcomes and analyses necessary to transition to sustainability remains a critical theoretical and empirical question for basic and applied research. We argue that we are still underestimating the tendency to lock into certain patterns that come at the cost of the ability to adjust to new situations. This rigidity limits the ability of persons, groups, and companies to respond to new problems, and can make it hard to learn new facts because we pre-select facts as important, or not, in line with our established values. Changing circumstances demand to reappraise values like in the case of Pirsig's monkey and its rice. There is an urgent need to go beyond such local, static and short-term conceptions, where landscape sustainability has been incorrectly envisioned as a durable, stable condition that, once achieved, could persist for generations. We argue that to manage a global transition toward more environmentally efficient and, therefore, more sustainable land-use we have to reappraise societal values at the root of overregulation and rigidity.https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/40Landscape sustainabilityRigidity trapsSocietal valuesValue rigidity |
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| title | Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap |
| title_full | Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap |
| title_short | Sustainable landscape development and value rigidity: the Pirsig‘s monkey trap |
| title_sort | sustainable landscape development and value rigidity the pirsig s monkey trap |
| topic | Landscape sustainability Rigidity traps Societal values Value rigidity |
| url | https://www.landscape-online.org/index.php/lo/article/view/40 |
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