BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development

BioOne Online Journals - Organizing Teaching and Research to Address the Grand Challenges of Sustainable Development: "Academic culture has not evolved sufficiently in its ability to mount adequate responses at scale and in real time to the progressively accelerating complexity that marks contemporary life. This lack of adaptive capacity is nowhere more evident than in the institutional posture of our research universities when they are confronted by the need to address grand challenges—one need only think of global climate change, air and water pollution, overpopulation, hunger and poverty, extinction of species, exhaustion of natural resources, and destruction of ecosystems"