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Research into global environmental change in the United Kingdom, has sought to influence public policy. It has also served to refashion the social sciences themselves, forcing them to consider sustainability as a dimension of all social and economic behaviour. This paper describes the way in which the principle of enhanced sustainability might become a point of reference in social science research. It discusses, some of the lessons that have been learned from the Global Environmental Change Programme and then considers the relationship between this work and research on the environment undertaken within the natural sciences.
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This paper was presented as a keynote delivery at the Global Forum '94 Conference ‘Towards a sustainable Future: Promoting Sustainable Development’, Manchester, UK.
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Redclift, M.R. Global environmental change: the contribution of social science research to policy in the UK. Environmentalist 15, 240–245 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01902244
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01902244