Global political context

As a final note, Caroline BaiUie provides an example of the socio-political context constraints that the Basuto people face given the issues of globalization and the challenges of increasing the numbers of people who have been historically underrepresented in engineering and science ... 

In forced migration, systems thinkers view refirgee movements in the broader context of global political, economic, and social interdependencies and the resulting disturbances. They do so based on the belief that most social planning problems are wicked problems (Rittel 1973), Le. problems where the dynamic and behavioural complexities are high, where stakeholders hold different assumptiorrs, values, and beliefs, and where component problems carmot be solved in isolation from one another. 

A place dimension. At what scale are the considerations being addressed local, national, global Where in the world are we considering sustainability issues and what is the socioeconomic, political, and physical context What part of the whole system are we considering the process, facility, corporation, value chain How do the elements of the system roll up ... 

The rapid shift to a global gas market is not a certainty. It depends enormously on creating the context in which investors will have confidence to deploy vast sums of financial and intellectual capital it requires finding solutions to the adverse social and political consequences of developing natural resources in countries where governance is weak and it assumes a continued pull from the growing world electricity sector. 

We find that linking has three distinct political implications an ambivalent effect on the international climate policy agenda, facilitating the acceptance of climate policy at the domestic level, and, third, it can work as a signalling mechanism in the context of global burden-sharing. 

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