(1) Developing the knowledge-based new technologies that will make it possible
to adapt all sorts of crop plants for efficient production under different conditions and generate food plants to adapt and grow sustainably under local
conditions in changing environments. In the long run, it is then possible to
feed people around the world with abundant, healthful food, adapted to grow
efficiently in many different and ever changing local environments.
(2) Integrating the knowledge base of ecology with those of organismal biology,
evolutionary and comparative biology, climatology, hydrology, soil science,
and environmental, civil and systems engineering, through the unifying languages of mathematics, modelling and computational science, so that it is
possible to monitor ecosystem function, identify ecosystems at risk, and
develop effective interventions to protect and restore ecosystem function,
minimizing harmful impacts of human activities and climate change.
(3) Making efficient use of plant materials—biomass—to make bio fuels and
optimizing both the plant system that serves as the source of cellulose and the
industrial process that turns the cellulose into a useful product.
(4) Accelerating the fundamental understanding of the web of interacting networks of staggering complexity between an individual’s genome sequence and
the endpoint of that individual’s health, so as to develop the tools and technologies that will in turn lead to more efficient approaches to developing
therapeutics and enabling individualized, predictive medicine.
Going a step beyond convergence, the knowledge resources dynamics accelerates error elimination in science by trying to falsify scientific theories by means of
experimentation (the CERN-LHC 2012 being the latest example from physics and
astronomy), though this is more restricted to the natural sciences. As a methodological framework, knowledge resources dynamics may be described as strategic
multidisciplinary research and interface-building within a knowledge environment,
as the ultimate endless frontier in service of humanity. Knowledge resources
dynamics acknowledges the ambivalence of scientific discovery. It acknowledges
the dangers of justifying the arrogance of scientific practice and of public policy and
decision-making in terms of this ambivalence. Often, science has gone astray and
failed to fully recognize the complexity and universal interconnectedness across
nature’s fragile ecosystems (Pandit 2012b, 2016). The good news is that, being part
of the global problems that humanity is confronted with today, science seeks
convergence to repair itself. Science is now in a state of self-repair and self-healing,
if I may so formulate it. If you prefer, we may simply call it convergence or the
third revolution on the life sciences horizon. Knowledge resources dynamics
qualitatively improves on this state of self-healing undertaken by science itself,
allowing a dynamic role to ethics and wisdom inquiry. In this sense, knowledge
resources dynamics supports convergence while taking humanity far beyond it.
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to adapt all sorts of crop plants for efficient production under different conditions and generate food plants to adapt and grow sustainably under local
conditions in changing environments. In the long run, it is then possible to
feed people around the world with abundant, healthful food, adapted to grow
efficiently in many different and ever changing local environments.
(2) Integrating the knowledge base of ecology with those of organismal biology,
evolutionary and comparative biology, climatology, hydrology, soil science,
and environmental, civil and systems engineering, through the unifying languages of mathematics, modelling and computational science, so that it is
possible to monitor ecosystem function, identify ecosystems at risk, and
develop effective interventions to protect and restore ecosystem function,
minimizing harmful impacts of human activities and climate change.
(3) Making efficient use of plant materials—biomass—to make bio fuels and
optimizing both the plant system that serves as the source of cellulose and the
industrial process that turns the cellulose into a useful product.
(4) Accelerating the fundamental understanding of the web of interacting networks of staggering complexity between an individual’s genome sequence and
the endpoint of that individual’s health, so as to develop the tools and technologies that will in turn lead to more efficient approaches to developing
therapeutics and enabling individualized, predictive medicine.
Going a step beyond convergence, the knowledge resources dynamics accelerates error elimination in science by trying to falsify scientific theories by means of
experimentation (the CERN-LHC 2012 being the latest example from physics and
astronomy), though this is more restricted to the natural sciences. As a methodological framework, knowledge resources dynamics may be described as strategic
multidisciplinary research and interface-building within a knowledge environment,
as the ultimate endless frontier in service of humanity. Knowledge resources
dynamics acknowledges the ambivalence of scientific discovery. It acknowledges
the dangers of justifying the arrogance of scientific practice and of public policy and
decision-making in terms of this ambivalence. Often, science has gone astray and
failed to fully recognize the complexity and universal interconnectedness across
nature’s fragile ecosystems (Pandit 2012b, 2016). The good news is that, being part
of the global problems that humanity is confronted with today, science seeks
convergence to repair itself. Science is now in a state of self-repair and self-healing,
if I may so formulate it. If you prefer, we may simply call it convergence or the
third revolution on the life sciences horizon. Knowledge resources dynamics
qualitatively improves on this state of self-healing undertaken by science itself,
allowing a dynamic role to ethics and wisdom inquiry. In this sense, knowledge
resources dynamics supports convergence while taking humanity far beyond it.
Knowledge-Based Climate Economy …
153