caa a22 4500 469029803 CHVBK 20180323132740.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00407499 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00407499 New perspectives on sustainable development and barriers to relevant information [Elektronische Daten] [Henry Regier, Elizabeth Bronson] Sustainable development may mean different things to people with different worldviews. We sketch four worldviews, drawing on a schema developed by Bryan Norton. Of these four worldviews, i.e. exploitist, utilitist, integrist and inherentist, the third is the most consistent with the Brundtland Report (WCED 1987) and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA 1987). The integrist perspective combines analytic reductionistic study with comparative contextual study, with emphasis on the latter. This integrative approach moves from over-reliance on utilist information services such as impact assessment towards transactive study. Our own compromise emphasizes a stress-response approach to a partial understanding of complex cultural-natural interactions within ecosystems. Both cultural and natural attributes of ecosystems must be addressed. Currently the federal Canadian government tends toward an exploitist worldview; current government R&D funding and subsidies reflect this view. Old-fashioned scientists who rely on a monocular analytical vision of the world's minutiae may find contextual historical study offensive; these scientists hold sway on some advisory boards and hence research funding. Difficulty in finding funding for integrist information services should not be interpreted as a lack of need for this information; rather this difficulty results from resistance to a changing worldview. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Regier Henry Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, M5S 1A4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Bronson Elizabeth Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, M5S 1A4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 111-120 0167-6369 20:2-3<111 1992 20 10661 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407499 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00407499 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Regier Henry Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, M5S 1A4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bronson Elizabeth Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, M5S 1A4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Kluwer Academic Publishers 20/2-3(1992-03-01), 111-120 0167-6369 20:2-3<111 1992 20 10661 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer