The challenge of achieving sustainable development means managing change on many fronts and on many levels.
Innovation is necessary to develop and explore new ideas which can lead to development of better tools and products, resulting in social, environmental and economic improvement.
Solving the environmental and developmental problems facing the world requires new innovative, interdisciplinary, trans cultural research, integrating the latest science into the traditional wisdom
Approaches that go beyond reductionism is necessary for understanding the dynamics of whole systems and this new science can be use to make the world a better place