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Rethinking Paradigms in Global Climate Talks: Conceptualizing Equitable Access to Sustainable Development (EASD)

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One of the most challenging activities when identifying stumbling blocks (and finding ways to cope with them) is that these stumbling blocks are usually obscured by human subjectivity. Academic debates on principles such as equity, fairness and justice inevitable touch on experiential values, whereas attempts to quantify such values may produce further negative consequences that would delegitimize any “noble” goal. As national governments are represented by humans, policies are consequently determined through various individual cognitive processes, which follow specific experiential trajectories. Paradigms, as historical constructs, build “mental anchors” which continuously produce, maintain and enhance perceptions (see Cedarbaum 1983; Kuhn 1996). Perceptions, in turn, define preferences and expectations that subsequently frame actions.

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short” (Confucius)

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