Sustainable Development As Collective Surge
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2001
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Disaster Research Center
Abstract
The paper argues that the recent, sudden popularity of the use of
the concept of sustainable development in the sciences has the
characteristics of a collective surge or fad. The first part of the
paper examines the characteristics of fads and proposes a conceptual
framework for collective behavior that incorporates fads or collective
surges. The second part shows the applicability of this proposed
collective behavior framework to understand the surge of sustainable
development.
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Fad, Collective surges