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How will Future Earth affect the international funding landscape?
As immense a programme as Future Earth threatens to be immensely expensive. In this video, stakeholders and funders explain what they are doing to ensure that the programme can move forward. |Read more
How will Future Earth respond directly to the needs of people?
Future Earth calls for the co-design and co-production of research. Meaning that knowledge-users will be engaged in the process of choosing and framing research questions, in the process of developing knowledge, and in the reassessment of findings and re-framing of further research. This video explains their vision, we want to know your experiences with co-creation? What might this level of engagement work on the ground? What experiences have you had? What has worked? What didn't? Share your ideas in the comments. |Read more
Why do we need Future Earth?
Humanity is ballooning. The size of our population, our knowledge and technological capabilities, and our impact on our environment are all unprecedentedly great. And we are coming to realize that something isn't working anymore - in society and science. The diversity of voices in this video explain the shortcomings Future Earth aims to address, and the critical need for its creation.
5 December 2012 | Read more
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