Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future

In this paper we define the nature of the climate change problem and we analyze the task of getting human society to act quickly enough and appropriately to solve this global crisis. We show how our current citizen mental models keep us locked into fossil fuels and prevent us from acting. We demonst...

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Main Author: Garrity, Edward J
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
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Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/jmgs/vol10/iss2/3
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.jmgs-11632023-09-15T08:12:03Z Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future Garrity, Edward J In this paper we define the nature of the climate change problem and we analyze the task of getting human society to act quickly enough and appropriately to solve this global crisis. We show how our current citizen mental models keep us locked into fossil fuels and prevent us from acting. We demonstrate how simple system dynamics models provide the necessary insight, expand the boundaries of our mental models, and give us the understanding to redesign how our business and governing systems work. We suggest transforming business education using these insights as the key to appropriate climate change action and setting us on the road to a prosperous and sustainable future. 2022-08-30T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/jmgs/vol10/iss2/3 info:doi/10.13185/2244-6893.1163 https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/jmgs/article/1163/viewcontent/transforming_business_education_it_rsquo_s_about_time_a_systems_perspective_on_incorporating_climate_change_sustainability_and_the_care_for_our_common_future.pdf Journal of Management for Global Sustainability Archīum Ateneo Climate change sustainability system dynamics short-termism
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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topic Climate change
sustainability
system dynamics
short-termism
spellingShingle Climate change
sustainability
system dynamics
short-termism
Garrity, Edward J
Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
description In this paper we define the nature of the climate change problem and we analyze the task of getting human society to act quickly enough and appropriately to solve this global crisis. We show how our current citizen mental models keep us locked into fossil fuels and prevent us from acting. We demonstrate how simple system dynamics models provide the necessary insight, expand the boundaries of our mental models, and give us the understanding to redesign how our business and governing systems work. We suggest transforming business education using these insights as the key to appropriate climate change action and setting us on the road to a prosperous and sustainable future.
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author Garrity, Edward J
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author_sort Garrity, Edward J
title Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
title_short Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
title_full Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
title_fullStr Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
title_full_unstemmed Transforming Business Education: It’s about Time: a Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future
title_sort transforming business education: it’s about time: a systems perspective on incorporating climate change, sustainability, and the care for our common future
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2022
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/jmgs/vol10/iss2/3
https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/jmgs/article/1163/viewcontent/transforming_business_education_it_rsquo_s_about_time_a_systems_perspective_on_incorporating_climate_change_sustainability_and_the_care_for_our_common_future.pdf
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